Koester Racing #53

06/13/2026

Unfortunately, there wont be any racing for us this week or next. We should have her up and ready after that.

Good luck to all our fellow racers tonight 🏁

06/08/2026

06/07/2026

🏁 Arlington recap 6/6 🏁

Not quite the outcome we hoped for but driver is okay!

After a few laps of the feature, coming into turn 2, one of the rear tires blew, the left rear shock decided to leave the chat and planted the rim into the dirt. With this perfect storm of events, Trav ended up rolling the car twice. He came down pretty hard so he's pretty sore but he is fine.

We are extremely thankful for Big Johnson Racing Chassis and B&B Racing Chassis for building such a solid car (main chassis is Big Johnson, B&B rebuilt the front end after last years Brainerd incident so we are lucky enough to run a hybrid) 😎 . The chassis did what it was supposed to do and kept our driver safe.

Damage appears to be mainly cosmetic with a few bumper, front end and body modifications needed. We will take this week and assess the full damage and see what we can do. Thanks to Grant Schroeder for announcing that our team will be back on the track soon. We happily accept the challenge 🤘

If you'd like to check out the stunt gone wrong, you can find it on IMCA Doom Scroll.

05/31/2026

05/10/2026

Tonight was a night to test the car out. After spending the day installing a new transmission and finishing 25 minutes before we needed to be at the track, we were just hoping for a finish.

Went out to hot lap and came in after a couple to find 2 plug wires not fully on.

Heat race, car was running extremely lean and we found a broken shock mount bolt. After changing jets, we went out for the feature and couldn't find the power. Heading back to the drawing board to find the missing piece now that we know what we're working with.

Huge thank you to our extra helpers at the track tonight!