News

New 2 car team unvailed at
2012 Motorsports show @ Philadelphia Expo Center.

It's been a very busy off season for MCR Racing. The big news is that MCR will be a 2 car team in 2012! We will be fielding a 270 car for Matt and a 600 car for new team driver Todd Hoover. The team will run a full schedule at Trailways Speedway on Saturday nights and will pick and choose other Friday & Sunday races as our time permits. Tenative plans call for Todd to run the 600 Speedweek Series also. We are very excited to have Todd join the team and really expect great things for 2012. The team will stay with our RTS Chassis for the 270 car. Todd will be building our 270 engines for this season so we expect our engines problems will be a thing of the past.

The team will have a 2012 PMP chassis for the 600 car with '05 Kawaski 636 engines being built and maintained by LHS Race engines. We will utilize Guhl injection and Hoosier tires. The team has been very busy getting everything together with the 600 car. The team will be first class as usual with a complete new parts inventory and 2 completely built engines with 2 more on the shelf ready to go to the builder if needed.

The season gets started on March 17th for opening day at Trailways. We hope to see all Matt's & Todd's friends & fans at the track.

Look for a new fresh look to Matt's website in the near future and also visit Todd's new website at www.toddhoover19.com for all the news and action from the 2012 season.

Both cars will be on display at the Dirt Trackin show in York, PA from Jan. 27-29th. They will also be in the Susquhanna Valley Mall show in Selinsgrove, PA Feb.19-25th.

The team will have new T-shirts and Hoodies available in the next few weeks. They will be available at the team trailers and online at both Matt's & Todd's website for purchase. We have contracted with industry leader ASI Racewear for team appearel. www.asiwear.com

As always we thank all Matt's fans and family for their support !!!!!!!!!

Mother Nature gets the upper hand again. The early season rains claim another race as we were sitting at the track waiting to get started. Hopefully we'll get on the track this weekend. On a side note: What we have thought was carb jetting issue that was causing us to burn pistons turns out to be a cylinder problem. We have sent the cylinder back to the engine builder and will get it back at the end of the week. Hopefully we will get the DNF'S corrected and start competing for wins shortly. Hope to see everyone at the track.

With our home track off Matt & the team headed to Path Valley Speedway. What started out as a good night ended in dis-appointment. Matt had a great run in the heat race finishing 2nd. That gave him a 3rd starting spot in the feature. At the start of the race Matt moved into 2nd. At about the 1/2 way mark a poor decision by another competitor to try and get under Matt in turns 1-2 ended up with the competitor spinning out and Matt with a damaged race car. Matt's exhaust pipe was all but knocked off resulting in the car losing power. Matt continued to lose positions on the track and ended up 9th at the finish. Dis-appointing to say the least. Hopefully our Luck will change soon. Hope to see everyone next week at Trailways Speedway.

Matt had a great run going before for engine problems set in again and ended what was shaping up to be his best run of the season thus far. While running 2nd Matt burnt a piston coming off the 4th turn ending his day. There is no problem with the engine or builder but a learning curve for the team trying to figure out carb. jetting for different conditions. We'll keep digging until we get it right!! On a positive note, Matt debuted his traditional colors Saturday with many compliments from his competitors. Car looked awesome on the track. Thanks to Matt's fans for checking in on our season.