MWRL coming to Cass County 4-H Fairgrounds

Mow-Wheelin’ Racing League is making its first trip to the historic Cass County Fairgrounds on Wednesday, July 13, 2011 with a 7 p.m. start time.

“We’re really excited to get into the Cass County Fair,” Club President Pascal Moon, of Twelve Mile, said. “We’ve wanted to get in there for a while, but we just lacked the club support until we met up with Mow-Wheelin’ guys.”

MWRL is based out of Roann, Ind., and races a summer circuit around the different fairs, as well as a maintaining its fundraising efforts at their home tracks of Roann and Converse.

“We have a pretty good group of guys that run pretty regularly,” Moon said. “From Cass County alone, we have probably 20 of the regular drivers. And since it’s a fair race, we’ll open it up so the modified drivers can come and run with us.”

Four classes will take center stage: IMOW, Briggs, Super Stock and the Modified.

The IMOW class is a cost-efficient class, running governed motors and an 8-to-1 final gear ratio. The Briggs Class must run a traditional lawnmower chassis and have a shiftable transmission. Super Stock mow-chines can be rail built, use horizontal shaft motors and run centrifugal clutches and torque converters.

The modified class can run four-wheeler motors, as well as a rail chassis and non-lawnmower tires.

“Even the IMOWs, our slowest class, still get upwards of 22 miles and hour,” Moon said. “These aren’t your every day grasscutters by any means.”

As a special fan treat, MWRL will have a pit party in which the crowd can come down, meet the drivers and look the machines over more closely.

Racing begins at 7 p.m.

For more information, log onto the club’s website at www.mow-wheelin.com or find them on facebook.