Moberly Motorsports Park Race Track in Moberly, Missouri, USA

Moberly Motorsports Park races B Modifieds, 4 Cylinders, Late Models, A Modified, Stock Cars, and Sprint Invaders. Formerly known as Randolph County Raceway.

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Email: info@moberlymotorsportspark.com
Phone: 660-833-3639
Surface: 4/10 mile high-banked clay oval

4081 US 24
Moberly, Missouri, 65270 USA
lat: 39.462174, lng: -92.365086
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HERZOG AIMING TO CONTINUE CLIMB TOWARDS THE TOP WITH LUCAS OIL MLRA
Wheatland, Missouri (March 15, 2024) - Jeff Herzog had high aspirations of following the full Lucas Oil MLRA tour one year ago. But as racing often goes, those plans were derailed in a single corner in early June, forced him to the sidelines for a trio of events. Now, with the season opener at the Tri-City Speedway just three weeks out, the driver from Festus, Missouri is locked and loaded and ready to give it another shot at a full tour run in 2024. Having already completed some pre-season testing, Herzog will get his MLRA season under way at a pair of familiar tracks, the Tri-City Speedway on April 5th - 6th, followed by the first of five weekend get-a-ways on the season to the Lucas Oil Speedway on April 12th - 13th. "It's a huge positive going somewhere that we've went almost every weekend the past several years," commented Herzog of Tri-City. "We have had some luck there and we've had some decent runs, but never got the win there yet, so it kind of eludes me." The driver of the Dan Althoff Trucking # 11 got his best career MLRA finish at the time at Tri-City during the MLRA season finale in 2021, a 6th place run after qualifying for the pole in the main event. "I have high hopes for this year. If everything starts out good, I'm gonna try for the championship, but it's a big hill to climb so we will just see what happens." Weekend number two also sets up nicely for Herzog, as he and the series return to the confines of the Lucas Oil Speedway, a track where he raced into the national spotlight during the 2023 "Show-Me 100", after setting overall quick time during the "Tribute to Don & Billie Gibson" qualifying night. He would go on to score the win in his respective heat race that night, but his results as a whole in 2023 at Lucas has him excited to get back to the "Diamond of Dirt Tracks." "What's weird about Wheatland is I went back there probably in 2015/16 or so, and the track was dry. No traction, no cushion to lean on, nothing. We went out there and slid off the racetrack going into the corner, and I backed it into the wall, and I was like man I hate this place. We never really went back until this past year, and now I love the place." After advancing twelve spots and finishing a very strong 16th in the Show-Me 100, the season took a nose-dive for Herzog just days later at Tri- City where he nosed into the turn three wall before rolling and destroying his Capital Chassis in a World of Outlaws event. However, thanks to a great relationship with Capital Race Cars, the 39-year-old was back up and running by mid-summer. "Capital jumped on top of it and got me a new one in pretty short order," he notes. "I just can't say enough about them guys with Charles (Swaney), Marshall (Green), and Shane (Clanton) and everybody there. They are great to work with, and you know everything just clicks being able to have that kind of a relationship with a chassis builder." He expects that relationship to continue to prove beneficial in 2024 with friend and fellow competitor Tony Jackson Jr. now piloting the Capital house car. "We're kinda teaming up with Tony on things and we are gonna try testing some things and try some new things coming up here shortly. After their Florida trip, I think we're seeing everybody (Capital) really jumping in now and wanting to push forward some more. I believe he's trying some new things to help make the Capital program better, which is good for everybody." Herzog is a three-time track champion at the Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55, claiming the top spot three out of four years from 2017 to 2020, making him no stranger to chasing championship hardware if he so chooses to in 2024. But as he explains, for the time being his days of running weekly for points are on the back burner with bigger aspirations. "Track championships are a little different than a series championship you know. People don't really tend to look at track championships anymore, it doesn't really pay the bills you know. It's just kind of another regular night payout basically to win a championship. It is a notch in your belt you can say, but I'm ready to go after bigger things these days, trying to keep putting our best foot forward and keep trying to get better and better." The Lucas Oil MLRA series champion is set to collect a $20,000 pay day at seasons end, something that would be huge for this single car, single engine, race team. "You gotta kinda take your licks on the chin and keep moving, but at the same time with these cars anymore man you've got to be on kill all night long. You've gotta take chances when they arise, but at the same time you can't go out and tear up your stuff either, so luck plays a huge role in everything." Despite missing three nights due to his misfortunes a year ago, Herzog was able to finish the year with three MLRA top tens and a 7th place finish in the overall standings, just 30 points out of the top five. He also matched his career best finish of 6th in the "Wiener Nationals" at the Moberly Motorsports Park, an event that ended up being the season finale for the MLRA. "Racing is a year-to-year deal, and you never know what's going to happen. You've got to start out every year with a positive attitude, and I'm kind of one of them guys where I feel you kinda make your own luck in a way," explained Herzog. "A lot of races are won at the shop, so we do our due diligence with trying to keep spare parts, make sure we nut and bolt check everything every week, and go through the car and try to do preventative maintenance more than anything, just to make sure that we don't have any parts failures or something stupid that puts us behind the eight ball." "At the end of the season we want to be able to say we were there and in contention you know. I have high hopes and expectations. If you go to the track thinking your gonna lose you might as well not even go, so I'm trying to stay positive and put the best foot forward." Jeff Herzog Racing/Marketing Partners: Dan Althoff Trucking, Bloomsdale Bank, Fixture Contracting, Painting Solutions, Lance Drury Law, National Electrical, Cashinyourguns.com, LiveWire Express, SMCI, P&A Drywall Supply, McCains Towing and Auto Body, Ste. Gen County Abstract, Presley's Glass, Bauman Oil, Tire Bargains, Lakenan Insurance, Arnold Farms, Phine Designs, Custom Service Crane, & Mulllins Race Engines. For all of the latest news and information, including the full 2024 schedule, fans are encouraged to visit the series website at www.MLRARacing.com. **2024 MLRA WINNERS CIRCLE PROGRAM** Once again in 2024 the MLRA will continue it's "Winners Circle Program" by awarding $200 in appearance money to the top (10) in points at each venue with perfect attendance, in addition to purse money earned. For full program details contact Series Director Ernie Leftwich. For all of the latest news and information fans are encouraged to visit the series website: Explore MLRARACING.COM Hit the Road the the Lucas Oil MLRA and stay up to date via our Social Media Accounts: Facebook X Instagram CONTACT: Ernie Leftwich Lucas Oil MLRA Series Director Mobile: (417) 309-3509 Email Ernie Leftwich 2024 Official Lucas Oil MLRA Marketing Partners Arizona Sport Shirts "The Official Merchandise Provider" of Lucas Oil MLRA Cedar Creek Beef Jerky "The Official Beef Jerky" of Lucas Oil MLRA General Tire "The Official Tire" of Lucas Oil MLRA Hoosier Race Tires "The Official Race Tire" of Lucas Oil MLRA Lucas Oil Products "The Official Oil" of Lucas Oil MLRA MAVTV Motorsports Network "The Official Television Network" of Lucas Oil MLRA MyRacePass "The Official Timing System" of Lucas Oil MLRA Rugged Radios "The Official Radio" of Lucas Oil MLRA Sunoco Race Fuels "The Official Fuel" of Lucas Oil MLRA 2024 MLRA Supporters Include: Arizona Sport Shirts, Behrents Performance Warehouse, Cedar Creek Beef Jerky, Dirt Car Lift, Earnhardt Technologies, Fast Shafts, Fast Track Photos, Fox Shocks, Hoosier Race Tires, Hooker Harness, Lucas Cattle Co., MD3, Midwest Sheet Metal, MSD Performance, MyRacePass, Outerwears, PEM, Performance Bodies, Protect The Harvest, Rugged Radios, Strange Oval, Sunoco Race Fuels, Swift Springs, Whelen, Xceldyne Lucas Oil MLRA 700 E. Highway 54, P.O. Box 8, Wheatland, MO 65779 +1 (417) 282-5984
NOW'S THE TIME: AARON MARRANT TO CHASE MLRA'S SUNOCO ROOKIE TITLE
Wheatland, Missouri (March 11, 2024) - Aaron Marrant will be the first to tell you that the 2023 race season was quite possibly the toughest in his near 20-year racing career. However, with the turn of the calendar the Richmond, Missouri driver is ready to flip the script in 2024, as he and his team embark on their journey to capture the Lucas Oil Midwest Late Model Racing Association (MLRA) Rookie Of The Year, presented by Sunoco Race Fuels. Marrant, along with team owners Michael and Misty Meise, have made their fair share of starts with the MLRA series in recent years, but with a transition to a Longhorn chassis and a move to Durham Ford horsepower in the offseason, he feels now is their best opportunity to commit full time to the series' 27 race schedule. "I work a 40-hour a week job, my car owner (Michael) owns a small business and works in that business. So, I mean it's just hard for us to make the whole schedule usually and it seemed like this year the schedule wasn't quite as bad on the midweek races and Thursday, Friday, Saturday shows and all that, so we're going to give it a shot," commented Marrant. The 38-year-old Marrant has been circling the dirt in and around the Kansas City area since 2005, racking up numerous victories and championships along the way in the modified ranks before hooking up with Meise nearly eight years ago. "They had somebody else driving for them and then they had other commitments or whatever, and they just called and asked if I wanted to drive their late model. I was like heck yeah I'll drive it," he recalls of his partnership with Meise. "I drove it a couple of nights at the end of the year I think back in 2015 I believe, and then Mike was like do you wanna do this and run for points at Lucas (Oil Speedway) and ULMA stuff, and again I was like yeah, we can do that." From the start of their late model ventures the team found early success, with Marrant winning track titles at Lucas Oil Speedway and numerous features at a collection of tracks in the central Missouri area in addition to ULMA (United Late Model Association) championships in 2017 and 2019. The 2020 season brought the driver of the Burlington Auto Repair entry his first real taste of super late model racing, as they ventured into the open motor world for the first time. Proving he knew his way around the Lucas Oil Speedway, Marrant collected his first ever "Fast Time Award" with the Lucas Oil MLRA that season at the Ron Jenkins Memorial, before going on to record a fifth place finish that night. Now, after four years of part time racing with the MLRA, he is confident they have the equipment and some experience to compete full time for rookie honors, while also knowing how challenging the task at hand will be. "We were really successful in ULMA and we even raced our ULMA car with the MLRA a couple times and run top ten and run decent. But I'm here to tell you there is a big difference in chassis going from 650 horsepower to 900 horsepower. Experience goes out the window, when you drive a 900-horsepower race car there's nothing that's going to prepare you for that." Marrant is hopeful the team can get in a couple of nights of racing on the new package in mid-March at Arrowhead Speedway and Springfield Raceway before the MLRA opener on April 5th - 6th at the Tri-City Speedway in Granite City, IL. "2023 was a huge struggle," he noted. "I started racing cars in 2005 and last year was by far the worst year of racing I've ever had. I mean we struggled, and it didn't matter what we did, it didn't help. That's why it prompted the whole change of the entire program-- motor, car, everything." With the plans on running the full MLRA schedule, Marrant also explains how important seat time will be when it comes to contending for top fives and victories. "Our struggles from last year were kind of part of the decision on trying to run the whole schedule. We need to race more, and I mean we're so far behind on experience and it's hard to gain experience when your racing 22 times a year and everybody you're racing against is racing 45 or 50 nights. We really don't have a comfort, so the new car is not going to be that different for us. We're just hoping that we can get out there and race more, because you're not going to get experience from just staying home." "These cars have got so advanced and it's really hard on the super late model level to keep up with everything that's going on without an engineer or a crew chief or someone you know that's just in it all the time. I mean me and Michael, we just come home on Saturday night, he washes the car on Sunday and we go back to work on Monday and that makes it really hard for us. We just gotta race more, we need laps, so that's what were going to try to do this year with planning on running the whole schedule." In 2023 Marrant competed in only 12 MLRA events and logged just one top ten, that being an 8th place at the Moberly Motorsports Park in Moberly, MO. His best season came just one year prior when he logged a pair of MLRA top five runs including a 3rd place podium run in his back yard at the Lakeside Speedway. It's tracks like Lakeside and Lucas Oil Speedway that have him excited to get this seasons MLRA schedule underway. "It's a big help going to a track you're familiar with, because when you're traveling, you're trying to learn the car, trying to learn the set-up, and then you throw on top of it a new track that I've never been to, or I've been to once. I mean yeah, that makes it hard. It makes a huge difference when I'm already comfortable at the track that were going to and I already know the track. That makes it easier on us to just focus on learning the car and set-up and keeping up with the track, and I'm not having to learn the track as we go." With the 2023 season of struggles now behind them, Marrant is optimistic he can get the team back to their winning ways once again. "I mean its crazy to even say after last year, but we've had multiple top fives and a quick time, so I know we're capable of doing it if we can just put it all together. This year we're really trying to get it in victory lane and that's saying a lot, but I mean I don't see why we couldn't do it if we get the new car and motor figured out. And like I said, racing more isn't going to do anything but help us get faster." Aaron Marrant Racing/Marketing Partners: Burlington Auto Repair, Summit Heating & Cooling, Rickets Meise Properties, Mainstreet Auto Body, Mark & Doni Conarroe, Bob Morton Enterprises, AT Transportation. Car Owners: Michael and Misty Meise Special Thanks: Kurt Swenson & Scott "Big Riggs" Young For all of the latest news and information, including the full 2024 schedule, fans are encouraged to visit the series website at www.MLRARacing.com. **2024 MLRA WINNERS CIRCLE PROGRAM** Once again in 2024 the MLRA will continue it's "Winners Circle Program" by awarding $200 in appearance money to the top (10) in points at each venue with perfect attendance, in addition to purse money earned. For full program details contact Series Director Ernie Leftwich. For all of the latest news and information fans are encouraged to visit the series website: Explore MLRARACING.COM Hit the Road the the Lucas Oil MLRA and stay up to date via our Social Media Accounts: Facebook X Instagram CONTACT: Ernie Leftwich Lucas Oil MLRA Series Director Mobile: (417) 309-3509 Email Ernie Leftwich 2024 Official Lucas Oil MLRA Marketing Partners Arizona Sport Shirts "The Official Merchandise Provider" of Lucas Oil MLRA Cedar Creek Beef Jerky "The Official Beef Jerky" of Lucas Oil MLRA General Tire "The Official Tire" of Lucas Oil MLRA Hoosier Race Tires "The Official Race Tire" of Lucas Oil MLRA Lucas Oil Products "The Official Oil" of Lucas Oil MLRA MAVTV Motorsports Network "The Official Television Network" of Lucas Oil MLRA MyRacePass "The Official Timing System" of Lucas Oil MLRA Rugged Radios "The Official Radio" of Lucas Oil MLRA Sunoco Race Fuels "The Official Fuel" of Lucas Oil MLRA 2024 MLRA Supporters Include: Arizona Sport Shirts, Behrents Performance Warehouse, Cedar Creek Beef Jerky, Dirt Car Lift, Earnhardt Technologies, Fast Shafts, Fast Track Photos, Fox Shocks, Hoosier Race Tires, Hooker Harness, Lucas Cattle Co., MD3, Midwest Sheet Metal, MSD Performance, MyRacePass, Outerwears, PEM, Performance Bodies, Protect The Harvest, Rugged Radios, Strange Oval, Sunoco Race Fuels, Swift Springs, Whelen, Xceldyne Lucas Oil MLRA 700 E. Highway 54, P.O. Box 8, Wheatland, MO 65779 +1 (417) 282-5984

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