Monthly Archives: August 2010

Merritt Speedway 8-7-2010 Another outstanding night of racing on the dirt at the Merritt Speedway! Great three wide racing all night long! Board member Bill Walters along with his brother Richard were on hand to present our MARFC Helmet Bag to UMP Late Model Driver # 7 Adam Erickson. Adam has had his share of Hard Luck this season with blown motors and still keeps coming back and is currently in 3^rd place in the points. Club member Candy Baschal won our MARFC members raffle for the evening.

Great to see many folks stop by the MARFC table and say Hi. Thanks to Larry & Kenny Letts for helping at the table for the evening. Again many thanks to Rod Ancel and the entire staff at Merritt for their continued support of the club! Also to Alan Lardie for a fantastic job talking the club up all night long! Looking forward to return to the speedway again for the 2011 season!

8-6-2010 Another fantastic night of racing was held at the Kinross Speedpark for our annual trip to the upper side of Michigan. Weather was great with a full field of modified cars in the pit area for the running of the Annual Randy Saddison Memorial race. Board member Jeff Moroni and his wife Donna were on hand to man the MARFC table and greet fans and members alike. Unfortunately our MARFC Helmet Bag presentation was delayed due to the fast pace of the nights events. Gerry Liscumb track general manager was a big help in the PR of the club all night and will present the bag at the next event and inform us of the winner as soon as possible. Many thanks to all who stopped by to chat and to all the Kinross staff members for the great hospitality! Glad to have the Speedpark as a MARFC member track and look forward to next season.

Mother Nature tried for most of the day to keep racers and fans from seeing some fantastic racing at the Springport Motor Speedway. New board member Chuck Horan and “Big Al” & Kyle Peltier were on hand to present our MARFC Helmet bag to track worker Dick Laprutt for his hard working behind the scences work at the speedway. Our MARFC raffle prize winner for the night was Denny Trinklein. Many thanks to Maurice Randall and his entire staff for having us back again this year and look forward to the 2011 racing season.

July 30th saw the club make the trip over to the west side of the state and the Winston Speedway in Rothbury for some great racing on the fast 1/3 mile clay oval. Denny Trinklien came over from Saginaw to help yours truly with the table. Bill May came by to say hi and to let us know that he came out to Winston this night because he knew the club was there. Bill was the helmet bag winner at Butler in in 2002 and still uses his bag today. He must have had things figured out as he won his heat and his feature race at Winston.