Austin Motley Racing #37

06/10/2026

We have 40 shirts for sale! We’re still waiting on some other colors to come in, but for now we have these 4 available for purchase!

Size Small —> XL are $20
Size XXL —> ###L are $25

Comment below, or message me privately if you’re interested in some! We can ship to you as well!

If you share this post, I will have a “raffle” on JUNE 17th for a FREE T-SHIRT of whatever size & color you want! To enter, all you need to do is share this post! I will post a video of the giveaway during the evening if the 17th on this page & tag the winner!

We’re excited to get to Jacksonville Speedway THIS FRIDAY, June 12th for the first time this year! Hoping that this rain stays away and humidity keeps going down so we can have a great night of racing!

I’d love to see some people representing our race team & partners Friday night!

06/08/2026

🏁 WHERE WILL AUSTIN MOTLEY RACING BE IN JUNE? 🏁

📸 : Brendon Bauman BBP

We’ve had a lot of people asking where they’ll be able to catch the #37 Sprint Car this month, and we’ve got some exciting news!

📅 We currently have 3 scheduled races at 2 different tracks during the month of June!

🔥 Friday, June 12th
We’ll make our first appearance of the season at Jacksonville Speedway in Jacksonville, Illinois! We’ve been looking forward to getting back to Jacksonville all year long and are excited to finally hit the track there in 2026.

🔥 Friday, June 19th
We’re headed right back to Jacksonville Speedway for another night of racing and another opportunity to chase our first victory of the season!

🔥 Saturday, June 27th
To wrap up the month, we’ll load up and head north to 34 Raceway in West Burlington, Iowa. We’ve shown speed there this year but haven’t had the results to match. We’re hoping June is the month we finally put together a complete night and bring home a strong finish!

As always, we’ll continue posting updates on the race car, behind-the-scenes content, and progress throughout the month.

👕 MERCHANDISE UPDATE 👕

Our newest order of Austin Motley Racing merchandise is expected to be completed around June 10th!

If you’re planning to attend any of these races, be sure to reach out and grab a shirt before they’re gone! Every shirt sold helps support our race team and keeps us on the track throughout the season.

👇 FAN CHECK-IN 👇

Let us know in the comments:

🏁 Which race will you be attending this month?
🏁 Jacksonville Speedway on June 12th?
🏁 Jacksonville Speedway on June 19th?
🏁 34 Raceway on June 27th?

We’d love to see who will be cheering us on from the grandstands!

A huge THANK YOU goes out to all of our incredible 2026 partners who help make this possible:

▪️ J&J Disposal, LLC
▪️ Smoke Signals
▪️ Brendon Bauman Photos
▪️ MidState Insurance Agency, Inc.
▪️ Ryan Baker Family Attorney
▪️ Douglas Automotive & Tire
▪️ CNA Home Services LLC
▪️ Crockett Masonry
▪️ Eagle Valley Farms
▪️ Saukee Car & Pet Wash
▪️ Walker Electric
▪️ Expert Lawn Care LLC
▪️ Velocity Race Designs

Your support means the world to our team. Let’s make June a great month of racing! 💪🏁

06/05/2026

If you need your vehicle / pets cleaned up, there’s no better place to go to than Saukee Car & Pet Wash here in Pittsfield! Plenty of room for anything you have that needs clean and is always kept clean with all kinds of different equipment to use! Very thankful for their partnership this race season and look forward to representing the whole team at Tri State Car Wash Solutions LLC on race days!

Follow their page for all kinds of updates and upgrades they make to ALL their different locations!

We’re excited to shine the spotlight on another driver we’re proud to sponsor! From their passion for racing to their dedication behind the wheel, we’re honored to support their journey. 🙌

Meet Austin Motley! 🏎️

Hometown : Pittsfield, IL
Age : 27
Division / Car : 305 Sprint
Car # : 37

About me :
“My racing career started the day I was born, with my parents owning a micro sprint track here in Pittsfield until 20010. I started racing at the age of 5, starting out great with a win in my first race in a quarter midget with CCQMA in Taylorville IL. From there I went onto win the national championship for CCQMA in 2006 in the novice division. We’d move up into micro sprints in 2007 where I raced restricted micros for 2 years. In 2009 we bought a JR sprint and raced in sweet springs MO every weekend.
Took a break from racing until 2022, raced an LO206 asphalt kart until now! We bought the car last year and this will be our first year racing a sprint car, and first year racing dirt since 2009!
We have a Maxim Chassis
Small block chevy engine
Will be racing in Quincy, Jacksonville, Lincoln & 34 Raceway!”

We wish you the best of luck Austin!

06/05/2026

Our latest order of Austin Motley Racing merchandise has arrived and is ready for sale!
We have 7 different color combinations available, along with youth sizes, and toddler sizes available upon request!

Available Items:
✔️ T-Shirts
✔️ Long Sleeve T-Shirts
✔️ Cut-Off T-Shirts
✔️ Hoodies

📏 Sizes Available:
Youth: Small • Medium • Large
Adult: Small • Medium • Large • XL • XXL • ###L+

💰 Pricing:
LISTED IN PHOTOS
Every purchase helps support our 2026 racing season and keeps us on the track each week. We truly appreciate every person who supports our team!

👇 LET'S HAVE SOME FUN 👇
Comment below and tell us which color combination is your favorite! We'd love to hear which design stands out the most to everyone.

📢 Please SHARE this post with your friends and family! The more people we can reach, the better.

🏁 We'll be racing locally at Jacksonville Speedway in Jacksonville, Illinois, on Friday, June 12th, and we'd love to see some of you in the stands representing Austin Motley Racing merchandise that night!

Thank you all for the continued support. We couldn't do this without our fans, sponsors, family, and friends.

05/31/2026

🎥🏁 34 Raceway Race Day Recap Video 🏁🎥

If you missed Saturday night's action at 34 Raceway, here's your chance to ride along with us from start to finish.

Heat race was messed up I thought I finished 4th but got 5th!

What a rollercoaster of a night.

After spending the last three weeks rebuilding, troubleshooting, and working countless late nights to get this car back on the track, we finally got the opportunity to see what our new engine combination could do. The results were promising.

We started on the pole of the feature after winning the redraw and found ourselves right in the middle of an incredible battle for the lead. The racing was intense, clean, and some of the most fun I've had behind the wheel in a long time.

For the first time this season, I truly felt like we belonged up front competing with the guys who race here every week.

Unfortunately, our night came to an early end on lap 15, but not before showing some serious speed and proving that this team is heading in the right direction.

The video includes:
🏁 Heat Race Highlights
🏁 Feature Race Action
🏁 Four-car battle for the lead
🏁 Onboard GoPro footage
🏁 The mechanical issue that ended our night
🏁 Some of the best laps we've put together all season

While the final result wasn't what we wanted, there are a lot of positives to take away from this race. We learned a ton, gained confidence, and most importantly proved that the speed is there.

Thank you to everyone who supports Austin Motley Racing, whether it's our sponsors, family, crew members, or the fans who follow along every week. We couldn't do this without you.

Now let's figure out what's wrong, get the car back in the shop, and get ready for June 12th for our first race of the season @ Jacksonville Speedway

Drop a comment and let me know what your favorite battle or moment from the video was! 👇

#37

05/31/2026

Well…..

34 Raceway race recap:

Heat race : 1-5
Feature : 1-DNF

Came up to Iowa again, hoping for some luck tonight. It seems we left that at home.
Hot laps were good, change the gear to drop the RPM’s/wheel spins. Went out for heat 1 starting 1st. Had a good battle for 2nd & 3rd until I lost power steering and fell back to 5th after a restart of lap 5 bunched us all up again. Car felt a little loose during the heat race so we made some more changes.
Changed LR, did some other things, and found out we won the redraw and we’d be starting in the pole for the 20 lap feature.

Feature was fantastic, car was set up immaculate for the bottom, which is what we wanted. 34 was a little slick tonight, but that’s to be expected with this heat. Nick & I had a good battle for the lead before he took over. I would get passed by fall back to 4th before battling with McCain, Nick, myself and another car and got myself set into 3rd place. The top 3 separated and lap traffic was coming up. I went to try the top in 3&4, came down and in 1&2 on lap 12/13 the car let go going into the corner. Engine heat was 220 and rising but pressure never faulted. Taco-meter was at 7600.

I was doing so good, stayed consistent on the bottom and was even catching the 2nd place car. I don’t really know how to feel about this tonight. We won the re draw and had a damn good chance at getting 3rd, and maybe even 2nd.

Congratulations to McCain Richard’s on your win tonight, and thanks to Nick Guernsey for racing me clean and leaving me room. It was really fun battling with 4 cars for the 1st position, I hope it looked as cool as it felt.

Gut wrenching night tonight, but we’ll get home and figure out what’s wrong. We think something is wrong with cooling the engine, but gotta get home to get a better look. I hate this for dad, Dalton, grandpa and mom, as well as all of our sponsors. Tonight was the first night we could have been up there with the guys that do it every week, and I guess that in itself is a win to me tonight.

Race cars are frustrating..

Full GoPro video of race day will be edited and posted TOMORROW! You’re gonna want to watch this one, a very entertaining race with a lot of technical driving. I’m pretty proud of how well I rolled the bottom tonight. We’ll see what’s wrong!

After some trouble shooting at the track before headed home, our water pump is fine, radiator was full and there’s no engine damage from what we can see. We think I may have stalled the engine. We’ll diagnose fully more this week, the good news is we have until June 12th to get this figured out!

Thank you to our incredible partners for the 2026 season!
J&J Disposal
Smoke Signals
Brendon Bauman Photos
Mid State Insurance
Ryan Baker Family Attorney
Douglas Automotive
CNA Home Services LLC
Crockett Masonry
Saukee Car Pet & Wash
Eagle Valley Farms
Walker Electric
Expert Lawn Maintenance LLC
Velocity Race Designs

05/30/2026

We’re here @ 34 Raceway ! T shirts available for purchase!

05/30/2026

🚨🏁 WAKE UP... IT'S RACE DAY! 🏁🚨

Tonight, we're headed back to 34 Raceway in West Burlington, Iowa!

After what feels like an eternity, the #37 Austin Motley Racing Sprint Car is ready to hit the track once again. Ever since our engine failure earlier this month, it's been a nonstop effort to get this thing back together and race-ready.

Over the last three weeks, there have been countless late nights, long days in the shop, and more troubleshooting than I can even begin to explain. There were moments when we weren't sure if we'd make it back this quickly, but thanks to an incredible group of people, we're loaded up and ready to race.

A special thank you goes out to Dalton and Dad, who have spent countless hours right alongside me turning wrenches, chasing parts, diagnosing issues, and refusing to give up until we got this thing figured out. None of this would be possible without the work those two have put in.

Thank you as well to Mom and Grandpa for all the support behind the scenes. Whether it's helping wherever needed, keeping things moving, or simply supporting this crazy racing dream, your efforts never go unnoticed.

Now it's time to see if all those hours pay off.

📍 34 Raceway
📍 West Burlington, Iowa

🎟 Adult General Admission - Just $10
👧 Kids 10 & Under - FREE
⏰ Hot Laps - 6:30 PM

We're excited to get back to one of our favorite racetracks and see what this new engine combination can do. Last night's test session gave us a lot of confidence, and now it's time to put it all together when it counts.

We'll be posting updates throughout the night, so stay tuned and follow along as the #37 team gets back in action!

Let's go racing! 💪🏁

#37

05/30/2026

🔧 Jacksonville Speedway Test Night Recap 🔧

What a night.

The day started around 4:00 PM when we rolled into the pits and immediately got to work. We began by making some changes to the magneto that was already in the car and headed out for engine heat. The engine would start, but it was still misfiring badly. We swapped wires around, adjusted the mag timing, and got a little closer, but something still wasn’t right.

After engine heat and no real progress, we decided it was time to switch over to our internal coil mag. That’s when we discovered one of our biggest problems — the cap was installed 180 degrees from where it should have been.

At that point, several people stepped in to help, and I can’t thank them enough.

A huge thank you to Randy Standridge, Ron Standridge, Will Armitage, the Haley family, and everyone else who lent a hand throughout the night. Without their help, we probably wouldn’t have figured this thing out. Randy was absolutely instrumental in getting us headed in the right direction, taking control of the mag setup and helping us get everything installed correctly. The Standridges helped us get the gap set properly, while Will and the Haleys helped retrace wiring and troubleshoot the entire system.

Once we got everything corrected, we changed the oil due to fuel contamination from all the previous starting attempts and started putting everything back together.

A huge thank you as well to Kenny Dobson and the entire Jacksonville Speedway crew for allowing us to get on the track and turn some laps after the races were over.

I think we ended up making about 6-8 laps, but wow… what an eye-opener.

The track had slicked off considerably after the night’s racing, and honestly, I wasn’t expecting the engine to be nearly as strong as it was. This thing is FAST. We finally got a glimpse of what we’ve got under the hood, and it’s safe to say we have a very strong race engine.

Now it’s up to me as the driver to learn how to maximize it and keep up with it.

I’m confident that won’t take long. The biggest thing is knowing we have a race car capable of competing. That’s all I’ve wanted since the engine setback earlier this month.

With that being said…

🏁 WE’RE HEADED TO 34 RACEWAY TOMORROW NIGHT! 🏁

We’ll be making the trip to West Burlington, Iowa on Saturday, May 30th. This will be our first trip back since the opening weekend of May when we suffered our engine failure.

We’ve got a few maintenance items to take care of before loading up, but after tonight, I’m more excited than ever to get back behind the wheel and see what this car can do.

See you all at the infamous 3/8-mile oval tomorrow night!

#37

05/29/2026

🔧 ENGINE UPDATE 🔧

Our fuel system finally arrived yesterday afternoon, so we headed over to Walker's shop in Pleasant Hill to continue working on getting the engine timed and ready to fire.

A huge thank you to Josh Walker, Terry Walker, Dalton, Dad, and everyone who put in the time last night. We spent about 4.5 hours in the shop troubleshooting and trying to get everything sorted out.

Along the way, we discovered a few issues. One of our magnetos is physically too large to fit, so we moved on to the other two we had available. We quickly found out that one magneto uses an internal coil while the other uses an external coil mounted on the cap, which led to some confusion while tracing wiring. We also discovered that one of our distributor caps—the same one that was on the engine when it blew earlier this month—was wired incorrectly.

Thankfully, with Josh and Terry's help, we were able to identify exactly what needed to be changed to make everything work correctly. Dad, Dalton, and I will be installing a fresh set of plug wires from Tommy Scott onto the corrected cap and magneto setup, and we're hopeful that will solve the remaining issues.

We did manage to get the engine fired up once, and it ran for about 3–5 minutes, but it was still misfiring pretty badly. The good news is that we're confident we've found the problem.

With the new wires and plugs installed correctly, we're hoping tonight is the night everything comes together. We'll find out soon! 🤞🏁