Rushville’s Tate Martz clinched his second MTQRL championship on Saturday night when the Midwest TQ Racing League™ presented by Vincennes University held their penultimate race of the season at the Twin Cities Raceway Park in Vernon, Indiana.

Martz took the lead on the opening lap of the feature and went on to lead all twenty laps taking the win over Jason Willis, Tim Lynch, Ronnie Combs and Chris Mann. Martz’s victory was the fifth of the season and his ninth in two seasons of MTQRL competition.

Caleb Faulkner was the highest finishing rookie and was named the Tony Stewart Racing Rookie of the Race. Additional contingency awards went to Mann (Ward’s Apparel Hard Charger) and Chris Guinn (Duane & Sonja Alexander Hard Luck Driver). A drawing was held at the drivers meeting and $50 gift certificates were awarded to Kyle Lux (Jackson Oil) and Craig Eaglin (Ward’s Apparel).

The next race on the MTQRL schedule will be Fan Appreciation Night on September 25th at the Rush County Fairgrounds in Rushville, Ind.

For more information please visit www.mtqrl.com.




MIDWEST TQ RACING LEAGUE™ presented by Vincennes University
September 18, 2010 – Vernon, Indiana – Twin Cities Raceway Park

Heat 1 – 1. 29M Kyle Lux, 2. 12 Rick Robinson, 3. 53 Becky Brown, 4. 57 Rob Walton, 5. 50 Ronnie Combs, 6. 24 Chris Mann, 7. 41H Brett Hankins, 8. 5G Chris Guinn.

Heat 2 – 1. 1 Tate Martz, 2. 25 Jason Willis, 3. 5 Chad Hankins, 4. 23 Tim Lynch, 5. 33 Craig Eaglin, 6. 83 Caleb Faulkner, 7. 9 Jeff Bruce.

Feature – 1. 1 Tate Martz, 2. 25 Jason Willis, 3. 23 Tim Lynch, 4. 50 Ronnie Combs, 5. 24 Chris Mann, 6. 29M Kyle Lux, 7. 83 Caleb Faulkner, 8. 12 Rick Robinson, 9. 53 Becky Brown, 10. 9 Jeff Bruce, 11. 41H Brett Hankins, 12. 33 Craig Eaglin, 13. 5 Chad Hankins, DNS 57 Rob Walton, DNS 5G Chris Guinn.

Lap Leaders – 1-20 1 Tate Martz.

Duane & Sonja Alexander Hard Luck Driver – Chris Guinn
Tony Stewart Racing Rookie of the Race – Caleb Faulkner
Ward’s Apparel Hard Charger – Chris Mann (+6)
Jackson Oil & Solvents $50 Gift Certificate – Kyle Lux
Ward’s Apparel $50 Gift Certificate – Craig Eaglin

Point Standings – 1. Tate Martz-2,159; 2. CJ Leary-1,821; 3. Jason Willis-1,767; 4. Chris Guinn-1,556; 5. Rick Robinson-1,318; 6. Nick Speidel-1,250; 7. Caleb Faulkner-1,192; 8. Chris Mann-1,150; 9. Kyle Lux-1,018; 10. Tim Lynch-960.

Next Race – September 25 – Rushville, Indiana – Rush County Fairgrounds

Great job Tate! Congratulations!!

Congratulations to Tate!

Great job by Tater and team Ramsey. Congrats to all of you. Thanks to all of our sponsors, Jen, Mark, Gary and everyone else involved. Thanks to all the owners, and competitors that show-up to make all of this possible. Folks would get tired of watching Tate run around by himself, LOL. C U at Rushville, should be another great show!!

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To all of my IOW friends. Our final MTQRL race will be this coming Saturday at the Rushville Fairgrounds. It is Fan Appreciation night, and we are trying to help out the food bank, so if you bring some canned goods, you can get in for only $5.00. There will be a parade and all sorts of things going on in Rushville all day on Saturday, and everything will end-up at the fairgrounds for our race. Even if YOU can't make the race, please help spread the word, as we try to raise the stock level at the food bank, and have lots of fun racing cars on the track that everyone enjoys seeing TQ action play out in a historic venue. But please remember the food bank. They have helped soooooo many people in the past. Heaven forbid that you or I might ever need their help, but there are many that do need their help every day. It would surely make you feel better to help them out a little if you can. This will be our final race of the 2010 season, and every driver and owner wants to end the season on a good note, so believe me, even though the championship has been decided, there is still lots of incentive for the competitors. I really hope to see you there, and tell all of YOUR IOW friends about the great evening of racing we have planned. Thanks for your help.

Will there be a place at the track for the canned goods?

And congratulations to Tate and all the Ramsey gang on the 2010 championship.

There will be a truck there from the Rush County Food Pantry. We will collect canned goods from teams to race fans, rain or shine Saturday.

I can't believe we are at the end of the second season. These last two years have flown. Thank you to everyone who is a part of this great racing series.

congratulations tate,,great job as usual,,you have a great car and team and are always a tough competitor to beat..enjoyed racing against ya,,what little racing we got to do this year,,now if you just had a racin suit like mine,,you could really strut around ,,,mite even could wear it to the banquet!!!!!!!!good luck buddy..... don and teresa id motorsorts was down in la/ lower alabama

Great Job Tate Nice to know your still doing a great job.[/B]