Welcome to The Villages Motor Racing Fan Club website!

SHARING INTERESTS IN ALL FORMS OF MOTOR RACING

You are cordially invited to view the pages in our site, all of which have been designed to keep our members and interested parties up-to-speed (pun intended!) on who we are and what we do.

Our club is open to all Villages residents. Collectively, we are dedicated to providing a forum to share common interests in ALL forms of motor racing.

Besides many of us being NASCAR fans, we are equally interested in the local racing venues so prevalent here in Florida. The classes we watch range from Super Late Models to Go-Karts, NHRA dragsters, and motorcycles. The tracks we have been known to visit range from the 2.5-mile, high-banked asphalt Daytona International Speedway to the 1/4-mile, flat dirt Marion County Speedway.

There are several ways for you to stay in touch with us:
  

Our next meeting is on Wednesday, May 1 at Colony Cottage Recreation Center, going green at 7 p.m.

Our guest speakers will be club members Linda and Bill Samuels. We met Bill a year ago when he told us about his experiences on the crew of a Supermodified team in the Northeast, which eventually led to Bill and Linda teaming up to form their own Supermodified team.

We will first hear from Linda as she explains what she​ did to help start and support the team during its 10​-year history.

Bill will introduce us to the Supermodifieds and their radical, off-set, hand-built design. The simple description is that Supermodifieds are lightweight racing machines with big, powerful engines.

We will watch a DVD of the Supermodifeds race at Oswego (NY) Speedway in August 2009. This $10,000-to-win race will be exciting to watch and their car … wait, we don't want to give away the finish.

Meetings are open only to club members, but Villages residents can join at the door. If you are interested, Click Here for more information.

TALLADEGA -- This week we have four different drivers to cheer for so that one or maybe three of our predictors will notch up a winner prediction. Should be fun to watch.

 The top 3 predictors will advance to our Playoff Segment.

Talladega Predictions  

  1. Warren Reynolds  1 win, 274 points - Ryan Blaney - He was last year's champion, won the last race at Talladega; however, he has not won a race this year. He is due for a win.
  2. Gerry Greim  1 win, 197 points - Joey Logano - It seems Talladega is a Ford track so I am going with Joey.
  3. Donna Gross  0 wins, 330 points - Ryan Blaney - Although he didn't have a favorable finish in Texas, I feel he can take the checkered flag in Talladega, a track he runs well at.
  4. Mike Petix  0 wins, 309 points - Kyle Larson - Kyle is looking to recover from a poor showing last year, finishing 33rd. He has the car to do it.
  5. Shel Larsen  0 wins, 289 points - Ross Chastain - Ross won here in 2022 and has run strong so far this season. Free watermelon on Sunday.
  6. Rick Almeida  0 wins, 287 points - Ryan Blaney - Runs good on superspeedways.  It's anyone's race at this track but he knows how to set himself up in the last few laps.

     

Click on the PREDICTION ROW tab at the top of this page so you can keep up with the competition from race to race. Check the notes at the bottom for an explanation of scoring.

Club member Mike Stemen's dream to own a 1959 Buick Invicta finally came true. It took Mike almost six decades to buy an Invicta of his own.

Click Here to download the article that appeared in the April 13, 2024 edition of The Villages Daily Sun.

 

Hall of Fame member Ron Hedger was our guest speaker at a club meeting in 2023.

When Ron sent a column to National Speed Sport News, its publication launched a career spanning over 45 years. Along with Speed Sport, he was a contributing editor for Stock Car Racing and Open Wheel magazines and motorsports writer for the Schenectady, NY Daily Gazette.

Ron was featured in The Villages Daily Sun because his current neighbors and friends know him from the golf courses and the nightly town square entertainment. Motorsports journalism is his "backstory."

Click Here to download the full Daily Sun article.