FERNLEY, NV (Oct. 16) — Well fall might be here and winter not too far away but at 95A Motorsports Complex things are humming along. In fact this weekend the revamped motocross track was open for practice on Saturday and Sunday.
Over the next few months and into next year both the motocross track and oval track are going through a rebirth. Heading the motocross effort is Tyler Enticknap.
“ I’m going to be the manager and kind of overseeing everything on the property as far as like equipment, maintenance and stuff like that,” he said. “I’ve been partnered up with Matt and Vuki and we’re just kind of figuring out the outdoor track, the motocross track now. And we have a few more tracks to build in the near future. There has been a lot of work done over the past few months.”
Asked about that he explained what has gone on and the plans for the future. “I didn’t make the original layout you see here today but I’ve been screening a lot of material with Matt. We’re trying to get that good topsoil to get rid of that rock situation that we had before,” he said. “Right now it’s our standard outdoor track so it’s going to be kind of a motocross track with a little bit on the expert side technical wise as far as riding a dirt bike goes.”
After that he added, “Then we have a vet track we’re going to build off to the right that’s going to be a little bit mellower. It’s going to be tabletops, going to be flat and I’m not going to rip it as deep. I’m also going to make a kid’s track as well for the super beginners like the XR50’s and kids that are just starting to learn.”
Of course the next question is about the practice schedule and what is planned over the winter. No matter what the plans are Mother Nature has to be considered.
“It’s going to be a week-to-week basis,” he said. “Right now we’ve checked the 10-dayforecast and everything looks good for the foreseeable future. As long as it’s above freezing I’m going to run on the weekends and maybe Thursdays as well. Right now the weekend times are from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. but in the colder months might change to 11 to 4 p.m. as that would be the warmest part of the day.”
Asked about Thursdays he said, “I’m still trying to figure that out. Don’t know if I want to cater to the people getting off work or the people that don’t have to work on Thursdays. Right now it’s probably going to be around 10 until 4 p.m.”
He mentioned that the best way to check on the schedule is to follow the track’s Face Book page and Instagram for Fernley Ninetyfivea Speedway. His Instagram handle is, tylerenticknap723.
So now riders in our local area don’t have to go over the hill to get practice time on their bikes. Once the other two tracks are made there will be something for every age and experience level.
• Next door, the oval track is also being reborn after being dark for the past year. Vuki Wilson and Matt Ramthun, both former racers, are making significant changes to this bullring.
Asked about the project Wilson said, “We’re going to do like we did before when we ran it. Matte’s going to handle all the personal like the pit part, not all of it but most of it. I let him, he runs with what he does best. Then I basically do the track stuff during the races even though he helps me during the week.”
Ramthun explained, “Grandstands, track staff, announcers, score keepers, everything. I take care of all of that and let Mr. Wilson handle the racetrack. Gina (Gonzalez) will be our score keeper although she’s going to be moving with the XR or whatever that thing she’s doing. So she’s probably going to be training us a new score keeper.”
Beside the operations there are big changes to the track itself.
Wilson said, “We’ve moved the bottom of the turns probably 40 to 50 feet in each corner. We’ve taken over six feet of banking out of it at both ends and we’ve made it wider and we’ve got some new clay in here. We’ve moved some of our old clay to a winrow right now and we’re going to screen all of it, get the rocks out of it, lay it back out and go racing.”
While the inside border of the track will be shorter the outside remains essentially the same even with the changes.
“The straightaways have probably moved in 20 to 25 feet so that’s how much wider they are and, like I said, the corners are down 40 to 50 feet more towards the center. So the track has actually gotten smaller buy you can still run the old outside if that’s what you choose to do.”
Then Ramthum added, “We just going to give them more room for the racers. So I mean if you want to go six or seven wide you can. But there’s always going to be that one guy that jumps to the top and passes everybody. It’s going to be more user friendly, more lines, more grooves to choose from and safer.”
Wilson explained the hope is to make it more racy and Ramthum said, “It’ll be easier to water as well.”
“But what ever becomes of this, if something needs to be changed, we’re open to changing anything,” Wilson said. “I mean we want to make this track for the racers. So it’s a racer’s track and that’s what we want to do.”
Besides the track itself both men have been making other improvements to the facility. They also are looking forward to improving the lighting as the races usually happen at night.
Wilson mentioned that track owner Sam Marson has promised to put in LED lighting for the track. Ramthun then said, “A lot of that is contingent on his guy, the electrician guy that was going to deal with him. But when we get them up here it’s going to be lit up.”
In addition to the track itself Wilson mentioned they’ve improved other areas as well.
“We’ve redone a building in the parking area,. Matt’s cleaned up a lot of stuff around here that the old owner had and it’s a lot better.”
Then Ramthum said, “Either way from grandstands, to track, to pits, to parking we’re going to make this place even more user friendly than it’s been. We’re going to try and make it comfortable for everyone.”
Of course with the year ending scheduling for next year is also important.
Remthun said, “We have a meeting coming up on the 23rd with all the other Northern Nevada tracks and maybe Jeff from Susanville. We’ll just lay out what we are going to do but we’ll definitely schedule ourselves with Rattlesnake and Susanville.”
To keep track of schedule and what’s happening at 95A Motorsports Complex please check the facility’s Face Book page at, Fernley Ninetyfivea Speedway.
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