The Evolution of a Winning car.

The Bates Motorsports #37 is driven & built by Todd Bates

Here are some of the customers that we have built cars for.

Brad Hoggatt 

formally of New Glarius WI, raced at I-70 Speedway. Brad was involved in a crash at I-70 where he hit the wall at 85 G's and took out 35ft of wall. he is still recovering from that wreck and is currently helping Todd with his car

Ryan Foster

Lowell AK, races in Florida in the FASCAR Series, Sunbelt Series, & Ocala Speedway. Ryan was also 2nd in Rookie points in ARCA in 2006

Ryan went through the Bates Motorsports developmental program

Ryck Sanders

Leewood KS, races in NASCAR Busch Series, NASCAR Craftsmen Truck Series, ARCA Series, and at I-70 Speedway

 Mikey VanNoy

Martin City Mo, will begin his rookie year at I-70 in the ASA late model class in 2007. he is currently going through the Bates Motorsports developmental program

Bates Motorsports is a complete race shop based out of Richmond, Missouri with 4000 sq ft of work area.

These are some of the services we offer:

Developmental Programs

Bates Motorsports offers programs for local tracks and national touring series. We have raced all over the country as a driver and/or crew chief from Wisconsin to Florida including the Snowball Derby, Nashville All-American 400, and Speedweeks at New Smyrna 

We have been involved with race teams from local late models, Nascar Touring Series, ASA Late Model Series, ASL Series, FASCAR Series, Southern All-Star Series, CRA Series, ARCA Series, and even Nextel Cup Series.

We have had a two time NASCAR champion drive our house car in 2003 at the World Cup 300 at I-70 and had Nextel Cup crew chiefs visit our shop.

Fabrication

We specialize in repairing and replacing front & rear stubs

We recommend Pathfinder Chassis however we can build or repair Lefthander, Port City, Howe, or any other chassis on the market.

We also build pit carts which you can view on our pit cart page.

Setup's

We have been to almost any kind of track in the U.S. We can help you with tuning your chassis to the track your going to. We recommend PRO Shocks however we've worked with other brands

We offer setting the car up,

At the track testing,

Crew chief services,

Consulting services.

 

Bodies

Bates Motorsports has personal relation's with some of the top body manufacture's in the country. We recommend Five Star bodies and we also have the record for the first Five Star ABC body to be ran on any track. This means we are one of the first shops to hang a body on the ABC program with Five Star and ARP bodies.

Purchase and hang bodies

We have all the tools to make sure your ABC body is legal. We have the Five Star roof mounting jig and a Referee at our disposal. 

Paint car's

Install vinyl on the car.

our new Five Star ABC body on our ASA car

Other Services

Weekly maintenance on your car,

Storage of your car,

Anything to do with a race car,

Spring & Shock testing,

Truck & Trailer prep.

To put it simple once we work on your car it never has to leave our shop only to go to the track.

Give us a call @ (816)-517-7477 9am to 5pm

or @ (816)-470-2006 evenings 

 

 

These manufactures we strongly recommend because this is what we use on our Bates Motorsports car and have had great success!!!!

 

   Give us a call or email for a quote.

Send e mail to: batesmotorsports@sbcglobal.net  with questions or comments about this web site.
Last modified: March 13, 2007