Monthly Archives: August 2018

Last week the racing world lost one of the best promoters of auto racing in the state of Michigan. Steve Martin promoted the Mid-West Classic Racers (aka MCR Dwarf Car Series) for over 24 years. He was a main stay in the racing community for all who had meet him. He will truly be miss by the many racers and friends that he made contact with over the years. Each time I had the privilege to speak to Steve he was always talking of how we needed to work together to keep the youngsters involved in our sport for as long as we can. For without them our future would disappear into extinction. He always had great things to say about racers and fans and I never heard him say anything negative about any part of racing. He truly loved out sport right up to the end. It was a great privilege to be able to present Steve the MARFC Promoter of the Year Award for 2017 back in January at our banquet. We hear at MARFC send out our deepest sympathies to his family and friends. Knowing that he is with his wife now and stands by the side of the Lord will help us continue and always remember them now and forever!
R.I.P. my Friend!

Our final event was an outstanding evening at the Corrigan Oil Speedway. Weather was fine and many members on hand to enjoy the nights racing events. Our MARFC Uniform/Helmet Bag was presented to driver # 37 Spartan Stock John Ward Jr. The winner for our MARFC Members raffle was Kathy Boyd. Special thanks for Jim Leasure and the staff at the speedway for rescheduling our event after the earlier season rain out. Table helpers for the night were John Jackson, Doug Jakeway, Al Peltier and Rand Thompson.(Photo Top: John Ward Jr. & John Jackson) (Photo Bottom: Al Peltier, Kathy Boyd & Doug Jakeway) 

Mother Nature finally moved on and we ventured over to the Merritt Speedway for our MARFC event for the season. Modified driver #15 Dave Baker received MARFC Uniform/Helmet Bag that evening. And Dick Roggow was the winner for our MARFC members raffle. Thanks to Mike & the staff of the speedway for allowing us to attend again this year. Special thanks to Barry Meschke for manning our MARFC table again. ( Photo: Barry Meschke & Dave Baker)

Well not a very good night as our MARFC event at the I-96 Speedway was cancelled due to Mother Nature’s no so love of racing! We would like to send out a very special thanks to the new owner of the speedway Jeff Dice for working to keep MARFC apart of the speedways schedule. Looking forward to working with Jeff again next season.