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On Sat. Oct 3, we are putting together a special event to celebrate our 50th year of racing at Mac-O-Chee. Details will be coming. We are putting together exhibition races for trophies for Deco/open classes based on vintage formats. We are also beginning a MOC Hall of Fame and will be inducting some of the founding members of MOC. We are extending an open invitation for anyone who would like to display vintage quarter midget memorabilia (cars, parts, equipment, etc.). These exhibition races will be open to anyone.  This is in conjunction with our Friday Night Shootout Series on October 2 and weekly points races on Saturday and Sunday.  Keep an eye on the forum and at www.macochee.org for further details.

Thanks!

Tina McPherson

MOC Secretary

Updates for Saturday, October 3

6:00pm - Opening Ceremonies & Hall of Fame Inductions
7:00pm - Beauty Bowl Memorial Begins

Practice & Sign-in's - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Fish Fry 4:30 - 7:00pm by the Lion's Club

Memorial Stickers, Dash Plaques for feature winners, Trophies and more for participants.

Stay tuned for information on our vintage formats!

Tina McPherson
MOC Secretary

also people that have parts to sale bring your tables for a swapmeet.

The flyer will be posted on our website shortly but here are the details.

$5 cost per car
All are welcome
No  Spec  Tire (No Tire Treatment)
Deco & Open classes (open – Honda, Briggs, Animal, Other) – Classes formed by number of participants and may be combined
Sign-in’s & Controlled 3 minutes practice rounds by classes – 4:00pm – 6:00pm.
All participants will receive a special participant award and memorial sticker
Trophies for top 3 & special award for feature winner
Vintage Racing Formats (each class will participate in a different format)
o   100 lap features
o   Hot Dog Races
o   Pit stop races
o   Full field inversions
o   Dashes
o   Cup races
o   And much more - still sifting through piles of information!
Swap Meet – Bring your stuff!
T-shirts designed on site by OHATCO
Discount at Lion’s Club Fish Fry if you tell them you are a quarter midget racer – 4:30 – 7:00pm
Enjoy sharing stories with our Hall of Fame Families (Yoder; Plank; Hostetler; Peterson; Stewart; Flora; Black; Smith)

Our Hall of Fame families are very touched that we are recognizing them and are excited to meet everyone and watch the kids race. You will certainly enjoy their stories about racing. They have brought us photos and newspaper articles from 1959 which we will have on display at the track and will be working to have an archive section on our website so share these with everyone. Don't forget if you have some vintage photos, articles, cars, equipment, etc., to bring them along to display as we take some time to look back at the history of quarter midget racing.

Everyone is welcome to join us for the weekend with your "lilliputian creations" (as was the description in the newspapers in 1959). Here is a recap of times:

Friday Night - Friday Night Shootout - Sign-in's 6:00pm; Racing 7:00pm

Saturday - Weekly points race - sign-in's 8:00 am; Racing 9:30 am
Track closed 2:00 - 4:00 pm for Test drive of the track car by community members
Beauty Bowl Memorial Sign-in's 4:00 - 6:00pm - Controlled practice by classes during this time
West Libery Lion's Fish Fry - 4:30 - 7:00pm (Fish was delicious at our 4th of July race)
Opening Ceremonies & Hall of Fame inductions - 6:00pm  (All drivers will need to be in their suits for the ceremony and will be a part of it)
BEAUTY BOWL MEMORIAL RACING - 7:00pm

Sunday - Weekly Points Race - sign-in's 12:00pm ; racing 1:00pm

It should be a fun weekend of racing for the children and the entire family. Hope to see you there!

Thanks,
Tina McPherson
MOC Secretary

i think people that are bringing swap meet parts and stuff should price them like 1959 also. anyone agree on this?  lol

We want to invite everyone to join us this weekend for our final races of the 2009 season. The Friday Night Shootout series is a really neat race format. Saturday is our big day of racing that will include a arrive and drive for any child from the age 5 to 16 and then our Memorial event that afternoon. There are drivers and cars coming from South Carolina, Tennesse and family from Arizonia along with the induction of 19 founders and drivers of 1959. Sunday will wrap up our season so come join us for a 4 race weekend.

Thank You,
Andy Myers
MOCQMRA
President.

What a grand opportunity to put aside the sanctioning issue and come together to support the history of Quarter Midget Racing!

This is shaping up to be spectacular!  Race open to all, run any tire, buy/sell QM stuff, lots of food, and good friends.

Thanks Mac-o-Chee for putting together this opportunity to see and be part of history!

hey smoke - how many of the parts you have for sale were actually AVAILABLE in 1959??

This is going to be a great event.

Kudos to the MOC club for putting together such a wonderful race.  I hope all families who are around this weekend support this historic weekend.

Andy,

It is looking like I will be able to have both of Daniels cars there. I plan to put 160's in both so that if any of the former drivers that would like to take a few laps can do so. With Daniel being 6' tall and not missing any meals, I think it will fit most of the adults there.

We look forward to being there.

Dale Hall

for those who have not seen this:

http://www.usacracing.com/quarter_midgets/news_qm/3107.html

you be suprised on my old clunkers!!

That's awesome Dale I talked to a couple of the guys last night and told them that we might be able to get a couple of car that they can drive and I believe that would make their evening and we might have a couple of the old cars for a coulpe lucky kids will get to try out. One of our Hall of Famers talked from the beginning of this he could still drive 50 years later. Thank again Dale from the Mac-O-Chee Club.

Andy Myers.

The Lion's Club fish fry on Saturday is $8.00 per meal for quarter midget families (versus $8.50 community). The money goes towards their community projects (eye glasses for children, etc.). They would appreciate a head count so that they make sure they have plenty of fish. The meal was very good at our 4th of July GNT race. If you could send a head count, it would be greatly appreciated. You can email me at secretary@macochee.org

Thanks!
Tina McPherson
MOC Secretary

The rain has cleared out of West Liberty so lets go racing boys and girls just tell mom and dad to set the GPS to the BULL RING and we will see ya there. We get this weekend started tonight with our Friday Night Shootout series and continues throughout the weekend. This is a reminder that Saturdays Beauty Bowl Memorial is a free non USAC member race so just bring a Birth Certificate to sign ins and pay your $5.00 entry fee per car and yes I said $5.00 and you can race a very fun filled event just wait until you see the formats!! All I have to say to the handlers, get some rest!

Thank You,
Andy Myers
MOCQMRA
President. 

The beauty bowl turned out to be a great success. lots of fun. thanks to everyone who helped. and a big thanks to dale hall for bringing the cars so the hall of famers could hit the track again after so long. and i must say they havnt lost much, i was very impressed.

That night was awesome. To listen to the stories from the old drivers was very neat. I also would like to thank Dale Hall for bringing his cars out. I would like to thank all of our club members that stepped up and helped make this possible.

Congrats to the Mac-O-Chee club for a wonderful Hall of Fame evening.  Ya'll did a great job - it was obvious how much effort went into the event.  It was so much fun watching some of the inductees who had raced each other as kids mixing it up on the track again. 

What a weekend!....I'm worn out and sleep deprived, but I've had this silly grin on my face just about all day.  Whether it was the tears in the eyes of the inductees as they recieved their awards or the lumps in our throats as we watched them hustle around the bullring once again-  Maybe it was the senior half race with a full field, watching my sons signal me about my line from behind the fence and rooting me on (if you handlers ever get a chance to race one of these you must ABSOLUTELY do it --Whole new perspective)  There was just something about this whole weekend that words won't do justice.

Dave McPherson

much agree. thats a weekend that wont be forgot.

Congrats everyone and great job by all.  What a historic event!

I cant wait for the pics, we will have them posted on the site ASAP.

We want to thank everybody who came to our Beauty Bowl Memorial and we would like to thank all of our new Hall of Fame Alumni. They started something that is very special to them and us, listening to their stories made me want to work harder to continue this tradition. I will agree with Dave, I don't think there was a dry eye among anybody.

Dale Hall
You are a very special guy to take the time to bring the memories of 50 years ago back to Curt Peterson and his son, Chris and Steve Yoder who showed they were still competitive, Nick Hostetler, Doug Plank and Larry Flora with your cars. I can't put into words what I felt to see these guys making laps around the Bull Ring. Thank You!!


I want to give a BIG THANKS to all the MOC members who put alot of long hours in to prepare for this weekend and a very long three day four race weekend. We also had a two hour arrive and drive where 18 potential Rookies tried and conquered the ferocious Bull Ring.


Thank You
Andy Myers

Andy and the rest of the Mac-O-Chee QMRA, I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the awesome weekend you had for the kids and also for the 50 year anniversary and Hall of Fame Race. I am so humbled to be inducted into the Hall of Fame along with my dad and the rest of the members who were the backbone of what quarter midget racing is today in West Liberty, Ohio. I just hope other clubs take this idea and run with it as it makes an old quarter midget racer feel young again. Seeing those kids running the race formats we did in 1959, hot dog race, tire change pitstops, and best of all, allowing us old guys the chance to get back in a quarter midget again after 50 years was something I'll never forget. Since my son, Ryan, race from 1984 to 1990, my grandson, Quinn just turned 3, it looks like a third generation driver is just around the corner, and I am really looking forward to it. Again, thank you, and looking forward to a new class of inductess in 2010. Keep up the good work. curt Peterson