Event Preview: Josh Essary Memorial & Back to School Night

August 13, 2025

Josh Essary Memorial Super Stocks plus Back to School!
Super Stocks, Napa Auto Parts B-Mods, Monett Rental & Sales Midwest Mods, CKR Fabrication Pure Stocks, Ozark Sanitation Legends, Hot Wired Auto Sales/Mid America Rebuilders Bombers, Young Lion Legends & RaceON FWD’s

Times:
Pit Gates | 4:00pm
Grandstands | 6:00pm
Hot Laps | 7:30pm
Racing | 8:00pm

Grandstand Pricing:
Adults  $15
Seniors (62 & Older)  $10
Military & First Responders  $10
Students (13-17)  $10
Children (12 & Under) FREE

Are you 55 years old today? You get in FREE too!

Pit Pricing:
Adults (6 & Older) $35
Children (5 & Under) $10

Following a weekend where the Revival Super Dirt Series came to town, Monett Motor Speedway returns with the Josh Essary Memorial and Back to School night on Friday, August 15th, featuring a free backpack giveaway for the kids and Super Stocks racing for $1,504 to win and $124 to start.

Monett Motor Speedway is a newer addition to the list of weekly race tracks that RaceON carries, but the track carried a long history as the longest continually operating race track in the entire state of Missouri. Joining the Super Stocks on the card are the NAPA Auto Parts B-Mods, Monett Rental and Sale Midwest Mods, CKR Fabrication Pure Stocks, Ozark Mountain Sanitation INEX Legends, Hot Wire Auto Sales & Mid America Rebuilders Bombers, and RaceON FWD, and the Young Lions INEX Legends.

The card is full of divisions of all different statures, from Modifieds to Stock Cars to Legends, there’s something for everyone to enjoy as they bring the kids to get their free backpacks on August 15th.

Brian Brown is the defending winner of the Josh Essary Memorial after a phenomenal, door to door battle with Derek Brown. All eyes are on the Super Stocks this weekend as they are the headliner of the card on August 15th at Monett Motor Speedway.

What's considered a Super Stock: Rules for this weekend (Friday, August 15th) Josh Essary Memorial Race.
Lucas Super Stock, POWRi Super Stock, Salina Super Stock, USRA/IMCA Stock Car, Mid America Factory Stock, USRA Factory Stock, Arkansas Factory Stock cars welcome! Please state your rule package at tech no mixing and matching.

USRA/IMCA stock cars, factory stocks may run a 6" spoiler under their rule packages. Must match all other rules.
Lucas, POWRi, Salina Super Stocks.

All Super Stock cars can run a max 750 4 barrel carb. must race with no spoiler and 42" max deck height. Crate cars with 4 barrel may keep their spoiler. Interpretation of rules packages is at the soul discretion of the Monett Motor Speedway tech official. Please make sure you fit the rules you declare at tech with the changes listed above.

Everyone wants to make it to the track to watch the races, but if you can’t get to Monett Motor Speedway this Friday night, then www.raceon.com will have every single lap covered from start to finish. Visit the website or the mobile app and grab yourself a one month, three month, or yearly subscription, then sit back and enjoy all the action from the Josh Essary Memorial, plus the many other tracks, events, and series covered by RaceON.

[🎒] Back to School Night – This Friday, August 15th! [📚]
School’s almost here, but we’re sending summer out in style at Monett Motor Speedway!
[✅] Over 90 backpacks filled with school supplies FREE for the kids!
[✅] Fun NASCAR activities, including coloring sheets, word searches, and an I-Spy challenge
[✅] Build your own paper helmet to take home
[✅] High-speed racing action all night long!
[🏁] Bring the family, enjoy a night at the track, and let the kids head into the school year with everything they need.
[📅] Friday, August 15th
[📍] Monett Motor Speedway
Grandstands open at 6pm – backpacks are first-come, first-served. See you at the track!