Monthly Archives: June 2012

June 2nd took the club over to the Flat Rock Speedway where the driver of the #82 Street Stock, Rob Moore was the recipient of the MARFC Helmet Bag and club member Susan Smith won the member raffle. The club was well represented at the membership table with Jeff Horan, Wild Bill Barnhart, Fran Russo, Tony Russo, Steve and Cory Russell, Rand Thompson, Laura Tucker, and Al Peltier.

The 2012 National Association of Auto Racing Fan Club’s 60TH Annual Convention was held on Saturday May 26, 2012 at the Clarion Waterfront Plaza Hotel located at 2930 Waterfront Parkway, Indianapolis, Indiana. We had a large presence at this event and our own Bill Walters was honored with the Lee Holst “Presidents Award”. Congratulations Bill, you have worked hard on this convention and attended for many years so this is an honor very well deserved. Guest speakers at this year’s convention were Former driver Tom Bigelow, USAC Drivers Darren Hagan and Kody Swanson, and Indy Car Official Tony Cotman. Charlie Patterson and Richard Hoffman were inducted into the Hall of Fame while Steve Sapp won the Tony Hulman award and the Late Dan Weldon was honored with the Arthur McHugh Memorial Award. Tony Cotman accepted on Susie Weldon’s behalf.Our own Eddie Sachs III was on hand to accept his Art McHugh Award from 2011. Eddie was not able to attend the breakfast in 2011 due to his responsibilities at the 100 year celebration over at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Friday May 18, 2012 took us to the “Track the Stars Call Home” Spartan Speedway for a great night of racing at the historic Mason oval. A good crowd was on hand with the MARFC Helmet Bag going to the driver of the #47 Pony Stock Wayne Beckner Jr. Wayne and his family have been supporters of the Spartan Speedway for years and was the 2009 Pony Stock Champion. Wayne went out and won the four car dash and his feature as well. Our MARFC member winner was Doug Jakeway and our table helpers were Dennis Trinklien, Rand Thompson, and Bob Wilkinson. Many thanks to our table helpers and to Jim Leasure and the staff at the Spartan Speedway for having the club out and to track P.A. Announcer “Big Ed” Inloes for his mentions of the club. We had many members in attendance and even some from Ohio that made the trek up to the Lansing area.