Motorsports
Big Fathers Day weekend at Mosca Motorsports Park
Clint Adams figures about 2,000 fans can fit into the grandstands at Mosca Motorsports Park. He’s thinking about bringing in a set of portable stands to handle the overflow crowd that he’s expecting for Sunday’s big IMCA Father’s Day show in Mosca.
Adams and an army of good ol’ boys have spent the past four months getting the moth-balled track ready for racing. Now comes the IMCA Father’s Day event, with gates opening at 11 a.m. and races set to start at 3 p.m. in Mosca.
The International Motor Contest Association runs on a points system, where drivers in the various stock car categories compete in their respective states at certified IMCA tracks. The Colorado Alliance Tour is part of the circuit and all the leading drivers will be in Mosca on Father’s Day to race on the new track Adams has been building since he took over the track in March.
“We’ve put a lot of work in. We just put 600 yards of dirt on the track. We put gypsum on the track to hold the moisture. We’ve been working on it,” he said.
The points standings keep racing fans engaged and traveling the state circuits to see their favorite drivers, and it’s that experience that Adams expects to see when the refurbished Mosca Motorsports Park hosts its first IMCA show.
“A lot of good, fast competitive racing is what they’re going to see,” he said of the stock car and other racing fans will experience.
Adams was the 2023 IMCA Hobby Stock racing champion for Colorado. Now his 10-year-old son, Martin, is driving in the junior sport compact races and will be in a car on Sunday at his dad’s track.
Listen to this Valley Pod episode with Clint and Martin Adams on the Father’s Day event at Mosca Motorsports Park.
“We’re living the dream,” dad says of the summer months the Adams family travels to work the IMCA and BST Track circuit. Now he has a track of his own in the Mosca Motorsports Park, which has seen motorsports racing for over a decade.
On Tuesday, five days before the big show, Clint was watering the track and installing lights on the front stretch in case Sunday’s races extend into darkness.
The Mosca track is a ⅓ mile and is built with 600 yards of dirt brought in mixed with gypsum, clay and straw to help hold the moisture in the track. It’s the only ⅓ mile track on the Colorado Alliance Tour and will get tested by the best stock car drivers in the state.
The Colorado Alliance Tour races Modifieds, Stock Cars, Hobby Stocks, Northern SportMods, and Sport Compacts, including the Junior Sport Compacts that young Martin Adams will race in. Clint Adams has added to the lineup a Warriors class race which are speedy cars in between a hobby and a stock car; and he’s added a low-budget race for anyone with a car.
Admission to Sunday’s race is $15 adults; $10 military veterans and youth ages 13-17; $5 kids ages 6-12; and free for kids 5 and younger.