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New Promoter Takes Over At Montezuma County Fairgrounds Speedway
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Robert Reed, who has been associated with the three-eighths-mile clay oval at Cortez, Colorado, in one capacity or another since day one, has taken over as the new promoter at Montezuma County Fairgrounds Speedway.
Six Friday-Saturday doubleheaders are on the schedule this season for IMCA Modifieds, IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars, IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks and IMCA SportMods.
Complementing the schedule at Aztec Speedway in New Mexico are May 18-19, June 29-30, July 13-14, July 27-28, Aug. 24-25 and Sept. 14-15 dates at Cortez.
“We worked on this schedule so anybody in this area is going to be able to race four times a month,” said Reed. “The racing surface at Cortez has always been slick and we’ll prep the track the way it was done in the 1980s.”
A catwalk will be constructed between turns one and two, and work on spectator grandstands is planned before opening night.
Reed was runner-up in Colorado Stock Car state point standings last year and is a veteran of the Modified, Hobby and SportMod ranks as well, so he’s already very familiar with IMCA rules and procedures.
“I like that every class has its own set of rules in black and white. I’ve seen tracks get away from IMCA in the past and the first thing that goes is the cars. The cars are going to be there with IMCA,” he said. “I’m 100 percent IMCA and always have been. It’s structured and it’s proven.”
The first IMCA events were held at Montezuma County in 1991; Hobby Stocks were last sanctioned there in 2014.
Montezuma County Fairgrounds Speedway is part of IMCA’s Larry Shaw Race Cars Western Region, Stock Cars the EQ Cylinder Heads Southern Region and Hobby Stocks the Big Daddy Race Cars Southern Region.
Six Friday-Saturday doubleheaders are on the schedule this season for IMCA Modifieds, IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars, IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks and IMCA SportMods.
Complementing the schedule at Aztec Speedway in New Mexico are May 18-19, June 29-30, July 13-14, July 27-28, Aug. 24-25 and Sept. 14-15 dates at Cortez.
“We worked on this schedule so anybody in this area is going to be able to race four times a month,” said Reed. “The racing surface at Cortez has always been slick and we’ll prep the track the way it was done in the 1980s.”
A catwalk will be constructed between turns one and two, and work on spectator grandstands is planned before opening night.
Reed was runner-up in Colorado Stock Car state point standings last year and is a veteran of the Modified, Hobby and SportMod ranks as well, so he’s already very familiar with IMCA rules and procedures.
“I like that every class has its own set of rules in black and white. I’ve seen tracks get away from IMCA in the past and the first thing that goes is the cars. The cars are going to be there with IMCA,” he said. “I’m 100 percent IMCA and always have been. It’s structured and it’s proven.”
The first IMCA events were held at Montezuma County in 1991; Hobby Stocks were last sanctioned there in 2014.
Montezuma County Fairgrounds Speedway is part of IMCA’s Larry Shaw Race Cars Western Region, Stock Cars the EQ Cylinder Heads Southern Region and Hobby Stocks the Big Daddy Race Cars Southern Region.
