The last owner of the Mosca Motorsports Park looked to race horses down the dirt track. The new owner is returning it to its roots, a ⅓-mile dirt track for race cars and not just that, an official International Motor Contest Association or IMCA track.
“What’s really crucial about this track is it’s about the only ⅓-mile dirt track in Colorado and that’s a racer’s dream,” said Clint Adams, who took over the track with his wife, Caitlin, and brought in some of Colorado’s finest IMCA drivers to break it in on a recent weekend.
It’s been nearly 10 years since a full season of racing occurred at the Mosca raceway located about 4 miles west down Lane 5 North. Adams, who at one point raced on the dirt track and is a veteran of the ICMA circuit, had been looking for a track to call his own. His wife said he had been stewing around the family home in Trinidad when she told him to put the Mosca track back in shape and make it his own.
He did that.
Mosca Motorsports Park
IMCA-certified one-third mile race track; adjoining motocross track
Current schedule: May 10, Colorado mud truck race; June 15, IMCA Colorado Alliance Tour show.
Gate fee: $20 pit pass; $12 grandstands
Car driver fee: $50 per entry
Location: 4839 Lane 5 North, Mosca, CO
Now the Adams’ are planning a full season of racing at the Mosca Motorsports Park, starting with a Colorado mud trucks event on May 10, and then a big IMCA show on Father’s Day, June 15.
“It’s really pretty, I think it’s a nice track and I think it’s going to be fun,” said Nash Koehn, who was among the IMCA drivers who showed up in March to test the ⅓-mile track. Koehn was the IMCA Hobby Stock champion for Colorado in 2024. He’s expected to be among the racers who will participate in the IMCA show on Father’s Day.
“I believe there’s people in the Valley that’s starving for stuff to go do. You’re going to have the interest out here,” said Bill Eastman of Moffat. He was among the locals, along with James Cooley and others, who helped Clint Adams put the track back in shape.
When Adams took over the track in February, he said it had the look and feel of a place that had been shuttered for a decade – weeds consuming the land, frozen wells, bathroom floors you couldn’t see through the dust and debris.
Not to mention the former owners blew out the No. 1 and No. 4 corners of the circle track to try to race horses down it. Both of those corners had to be rebuilt before Adams’ could ask drivers to show up to test the new track.
“I need to know how to prep it for them to make the track the best I can for them,” Adams said on the day he had racers pull into the Valley to test the track. “Plus, this is a brand-new track. They need to know what gears to run, that’s what they’re doing, they’re there testing today, resetting the car and going back out and retesting again and seeing what works.”
It’s the IMCA Colorado Alliance Tour that will make its way to Mosca for the June show. IMCA runs a variety of race cars including modifieds, stock cars, hobby stocks, northern sportmods, and sport compacts. Adams said he also wants to add a motorcycle race event to this summer’s lineup, in addition to mud trucks and monster truck shows, but he has to work with the other tracks in Colorado to work out the full schedule.
The track will also be open to junior compact events for 7- to-13-year olds like Martin Adams, who was at the test and tune event with his brother and dad. It’s the junior compacts and introducing young racers to the sport and track that Clint Adams is also banking on to help grow the following for the Mosca Motorsports Park.
“With everything they have planned out here and want to do, they not only have the circle track but they’ve got the BMX track over here,” Eastman said. “They’ve got big plans for it, just got to start building it back.”