Two boys with a passion. That's how you can describe the whole roots of our program. Cole Trudeau and Marty Cmejla were just students at Kaukauna High School when their paths crossed in an Entrepreneurship class.

In a first-week assignment, which was an 'All About Me' presentation, both showed their hobby and passion for motorsports and NASCAR racing. Inevitably, the two started talking and a friendship was born.

Marty Cmejla told Cole that he should get an iRacing subscription so they could race together on the most realistic racing simulator in the world. Cole had been a racer on NASCAR Heat games, but never truly got behind a wheel-style simulator game like iRacing. Eventually, in August of 2024, Cole got an iRacing subscription.

This enhanced the boys' friendship as they were able to race and call both online. Even in Entrepreneurship class, they talked about their dreams of owning successful businesses and becoming NASCAR drivers. Living only a few minutes away from Wisconsin International Raceway, opportunities were right in front of them.

The first problem was money. No matter what class, while some much cheaper than others, it is going to cost a lot of money. You need a lot of connections, resources, and friendships to get a crew together to participate in a season. The topic of racing at their local track ended up fading out. Little plans. Little opportunities. Too many questions... how do we get a car? How can we adapt the car to the rulebook? Too little answers, and no hope.

It was then when Marty Cmejla was in his senior year, and Cole Trudeau was graduated when Cole and Marty got more involved in iRacing competition. Cole became a part time driver for MC Motorsports in the Rebel Valley Sim Club, a hosted iRacing series. With this, Cole was on the hunt for a 4-cylinder race car (the cheapest form of racing). It was then in the middle of April when Cole found a GREAT deal for a 4-cylinder race car.

The car was owned by former Fox River Racing Club Sizzlin' 4s driver Jerry Konrad. Jerry had the car for a great deal, and in "race-ready" condition. The car still needed a lot of work. Cole, Marty, and crew member Mason Hoelzel went to Jerry's place and checked out the car. A deal was made on the spot.

Just like that, there would be racing. Marty Cmejla and Cole Trudeau agreed to split the costs of the car and other miscellaneous-based costs 50/50. With this, the plan was that Marty Cmejla and Cole Trudeau would split the season schedule 50/50 as well, and would team drive for their rookie season.

The first race was already exactly 1 month away. 1 month to get the car ready to go. All the problems with the car needed to be fixed. A new seat and belts had to be put in. Prior stickers needed to be peeled off, and new ones needed to be put on. Additionally, the boys needed to buy racing suits, helmets, gloves, transmitters, raceivers, and all the items you need, all in 1 month!

The work began, and thanks to the help of our crew members showed above, the process was done much easier. The boys attended their first practice session, and were humbled quickly. Right away there was no place to park in the crowded garage area, and the straps on the car dolly they had at the time wouldn't work to release the car. 

I was little all I wanted to do was just to run a singular lap on Wisconsin International Raceway, whether it was the 1/4-mile track or the 1/2-mile track. I was tearing up in the car."

The boys had solid speed but knew work had to be done. Some water leaks and oil leaks were the biggest primary problems. The hunt became the search for sponsors. Companies like Fox Valley Mosquito & Tick Control, Warner Commercial Roofing LLC., and Outdoor Independence LLC. (to name a few) went ahead and helped the boys out.

Work began to scrap stickers and then we had a default car. The second practice was a rented one for the boys. It was just them on the track. The Tyler Veldman crew was there was well and helped the team out. The boys ran tons of laps and problems were hardly there for the car anymore. It was only two weeks before racing.

Finally, the day of the first race, Cole Trudeau and Grayson Kelly took the car to get stickered early in the morning from No Limits Graphics. Just like that, the season was underway.

In the end, the boys had a passion and their paths crossed. They found a car and took action and put the work in to get on the track. They had a very successful season and they are excited to see what the future holds!

The Cmejla Family have been fans of NASCAR and motorsports as of many generations ago. Hell, even Marty Cmejla is a distant relative of Al Unser and Al Unser, Jr! Brad Cmejla even went to the same high school as long-time Hendrick Motorsports crew chief, Greg Ives. Greg was just a few grades younger and even went to Brad's childhood home for his Brad's younger brother's birthday parties.

It started when NASCAR was growing in popularity in the 1970s and 1980s. Brad Cmejla and family would tune in every Sunday to watch the NASCAR Cup Series. This early watching of NASCAR would lead to go to Brad's future kid, Marty Cmejla.

Marty Cmejla thought NASCAR was boring when he was only 5 years old, but it was always on the TV, so there was interest. But, he would move on to doing whatever a 5-year old did back in the day.

It was when one race in 2012, Matt Kenseth took a spin in his #17 Best Buy Ford at an unknown track. "This is my first memory of NASCAR in my life," Cmejla said. After just a spin, Cmejla was more invested into NASCAR, mainly watching for the crashes.

The race that changed his trajectory as a fan and got him hooked for good was the 2012 Good Sam Road Assistance 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. This is the famous race where Tony Stewart nearly flipped in front of everyone in one of the largest wrecks in NASCAR history. As a 6-year old child at the time, Cmejla was invested in this race. The high speeds, the 4-wide racing, and finally, the massive wreck at the end, is one of Cmejla's most early prominent memories of NASCAR racing. After this race, Cmejla watched every NASCAR Cup Series race with his Dad following.

While mainly watching for the crashes for the first few years of fandom, over time, Cmejla learned personalities and drivers and his fanfare in the sport increased. Cmejla even had diecast toy cars at home he would play with and even make his own series out of. Cmejla began to memorize drivers, watch crash compilations on YouTube, and increase his knowledge on the sport.

Finally, life-altering moments take place. An uneducated young mind searches on YouTube - "NASCAR video game", and is seen with hundreds of videos of creators playing random video games of NASCAR. Cmejla, thinks he is actually playing the game when he is just watching a video. "Look Dad! I'm playing this game," he shows Brad Cmejla on his iPod Touch.

This sparks a great idea from Brad Cmejla. Brad proceeds to whip out the 'ole NR2003, at the time the most well-known simulator game for NASCAR, and setup his Logitech steering wheel and got it all working. He showed Marty how to play a real NASCAR game, and this is when Marty's virtual racing with a wheel began, all at the age of 6 years old.

Cmejla played NR2003 sporadically for about 8 years. His only online races were ones against his Dad with AI drivers. It was all when COVID-19 pandemic started. NASCAR racing was put on a hiatus, and to fill the void, FOX broadcasted iRacing races featuring NASCAR drivers and other star people in the NASCAR industry. This gave light to Cmejla about iRacing. iRacing is NR2003, but fully centered around online racing.

Cmejla didn't really have too much interest in iRacing at first, mainly because of the costs. "I'll admit, I thought EVERYTHING on the service was money, I had no idea there was free content." So when asked if he wanted iRacing, the answer was "Yes, I do. But, it's too expensive right now, and I'm content with my NR2003 racing."

Well, this was his answer until he stumbled upon a clip of early NR Night in America, a hosted series owned by Jonathan Ramos. NR Night in America featured 40 drivers at various tracks with various cars, and it was streamed on YouTube live in front of hundreds. Cmejla was instantly hooked and wanted to get on the action.

Cmejla proceeded to put iRacing on his Christmas list, and certainly enough, in December of 2021, Cmejla received an iRacing subscription. At the time, NR Night in America had strict participation limits. A C Class oval license and 1500 iRating minimum were required. Cmejla was in no rush to race NR Night in America. He just raced random iRacing races. Cmejla quickly adapted to iRacing as he raced nearly a decade of NR2003 prior.

Cmejla then got the required licenses to race in NR Night in America. Cmejla was ready for his first night of racing in NR Night in America. He figured out how to register, and BOOM... session was full. With hundreds trying to register at once to race, it was going to be tough to race at the same time. Eventually, Cmejla figured out that if you register from the no-longer-existing iRacing membersite, you could get in way faster than using the iRacing UI.

With this, Cmejla got into his first race a week later. It was the NASCAR O'Reilly cars at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Cmejla initially planned on his number to be #88. Cmejla's favorite number growing up was #88 because his favorite driver was Dale Earnhardt, Jr. Then, Cmejla after missing his first few sessions realized #88 was common in NR Night in America. He wanted to create his own identity. He proceeded to use the #09. This number though was used as well. He then numbered his car #92. His Atlanta ride was going to be #92, but this was taken already. iRacing gave him a randomized number of #39. #39 would be Cmejla's number in NR Night in America.

Cmejla's first race saw him run up front for the majority of it. It was then when he got wrecked AFTER the caution came out by someone who cut the apron and divebombed up the track. Cmejla was sent upside down. Cmejla already accidentally used his fast repair (rookie mistake), and would finish 21st.

Cmejla continued to race in NR Night in America, and created MC Motorsports alongside of it to log his races in the series. Cmejla would create his own identity by running basic schemes, with actual team sponsors (non-paying).

Cmejla ran NR Night in America for a long time. Cmejla was unfortunately known for having one of the most start amounts without a win. By the time of Cmejla's first NR Night in America win in November of 2023, Cmejla had over 20 2nd and 3rd place finishes.

In November of 2022, MC Motorsports saw Brad Cmejla make his NR Night in America debut. It was Trucks at Daytona. Brad ended up finishing outside of the Top 30 and wouldn't race NR Night in America again until February of 2024.

Marty Cmejla was looking for more drivers. In January of 2023 he added numerous rides that would last until May. These included the #30 of Connor W. Murphy, the #40 of Levi Lipe, the #59 of Jacob Quill, and the #65 of Justin Connor. These drivers did a decent job. Quill nearly got the team's first win two times with 2nd and 3rd place finishes. Cmejla refreshed the team in May of 2023, and the team was back to just him and Brad as the drivers.

It was then in August of 2023 where a new series was discovered. Cmejla was scrolling on TikTok when he found ASPHALT MEDIA, a hosted series very similar to NR Night in America owned by Robert Devore. Cmejla was eager to see how to enter this series, as it looked like an opportunity for MC Motorsports first additional hosted series. He joined and in his first race, in August of 2023, finished 2nd: Street Stock at Michigan. It was only in his 3rd career race where he gathered his first win, Next Gen at Chicagoland. This goes down as the first win for MC Motorsports in team history.

Now things were ramping up. Cmejla now had to manage the team in two series. Brad Cmejla even began to make some ASPHALT MEDIA starts starting in December of 2023. ASPHALT MEDIA had significantly less competition than NR Night in America. Cmejla racked up about 10 wins by the time 2023 was over, including his first NR Night in America win (ironically O'Reilly at Atlanta; where he had his first start).

Cmejla then proceeded to sign Patrick Connell to the team in NR Night in America in November of 2023. Patrick Connell was Cmejla's childhood best friend, and Connell had his NASCAR interest sole entirely from Cmejla's NASCAR interest. Connell saw iRacing and how Cmejla was racing in it and decided to get it for himself.

Connell would be on and off the team for all the months after. Cmejla also signed Emma Akin in ASPHALT MEDIA in December of 2023. A historic moment for the team was Patrick Connell's Pro 2 Lite Trucks win at Thompson in December of 2023. It marks the first MC Motorsports win not by Marty Cmejla.

2024 saw continued growth and in NR Night in America and ASPHALT MEDIA. Daniel Mosteller, NR Night in America's Greatest Driver of all Time, drove part-time for MC Motorsports in his famed #87. Mosteller took home the team's only win in 2024 - SRX @ Talladega.  Additionally, Mosteller would race FULL TIME for MC Motorsports up until May of 2024 in ASPHALT MEDIA, collecting tons of wins.

A thing to note is Cmejla drove #88 in ASPHALT MEDIA. A key moment we forgot to highlight is in September of 2023, Cmejla got Trading Paints Pro. The iconic Dale Jr. #88 My Puma font became the team's font. Cmejla stylized his #39 into the font, and ever since then the team has run this font on all schemes. Towards the end of 2024, Cmejla signed Zayden Cortinas full-time, and Brad Cmejla was racing more frequently. MC Motorsports saw about 4 cars on average entering each ASPHALT MEDIA race in July-August of 2024.

It was all fun and games until September of 2024 came about. Cmejla intentionally wrecked Elijah Parker in ASPHALT MEDIA Mini Stock at Charlotte and got disqualified. Following, Cmejla kept getting intentionally wrecked at South Boston Speedway, and his teammates Patrick Connell and Zayden Cortinas weren't helping as they were struggling that night as well.

After this Cmejla fully rehauled the team, switching from #39 to #0 in NR Night in America, releasing all drivers from the team besides Brad Cmejla, and pretty much refreshing. The #0 thing lasted only about a month or two until Cmejla switched from #0 to #88 in NR Night in America.

It was a 5-month repercussion. Marty Cmejla and Brad Cmejla were the only full-time drivers on MC Motorsports in all series for 5 months. Interestingly enough, this refresh was "one of the best things to happen to MC Motorsports," Cmejla said. "Things were getting out of hand. We had too many drivers and it was just a stressful time. We needed to cool it back a bit," Cmejla said.

The team was more structured and things were more enjoyable and easier for Cmejla. MC Motorsports prospered like never before through these teams, but a new year was coming and that was 2025. 2025 was a big year of big opportunity for Cmejla and MC Motorsports.

Right away, Cmejla added an All-Star Program. This featured the #80 Chevrolet, #81 Ford, #82 Toyota, and the #84 Global All-Star rides. These were part-time rides for ASPHALT MEDIA and NR Night in America. Finally, in February, MC Motorsports saw another change of scenery.

MC Motorsports signed Cameron Face full-time in the #85, which Cmejla remarks as "the best full-time signing in MC Motorsports history." Patrick Connell also returned to the team, driving the #10 in all series. The team was back to 4 full-time drivers, but this time it was manageable.

The team found a new hosted series on YouTube, FASCAR, which also contained SLOCAR. This series only lasted from January-April for the team before MC Motorsports stopped participating. The team dominated though, racking up nearly 10 wins across Patrick Connell and Marty Cmejla in both FASCAR and SLOCAR. Cmejla drove the #61 in this series for some reason.

MC Motorsports thrived in February and March, and even saw Cameron Face and Patrick Connell score some ASPHALT MEDIA wins. All was going well until Robbie Devore, owner of ASPHALT MEDIA, had enough. Robbie was frustrated with the culture of ASPHALT MEDIA and the toxicity. The poor racing and bad racecraft burnt Robbie out. Robbie took a break and shutdown ASPHALT MEDIA.

"We were left stunned. 2025 was supposed to be such a big year for the team," Cmejla said. Cmejla just landed his business teacher's business Fox Valley Mosquito & Tick Control as a virtual sponsor, and was looking towards the best moments of MC Motorsports on the iRacing side.

Additionally, how could we forget, Cmejla finally went back to victory lane in NR Night in America in 2025. January of 2025 saw Cmejla win in the Trucks at Talladega in controversial fashion, turning some trucks around to get it done at Talladega, with new sponsor Seymour Colostrum on board his #88 Silverado.

Additionally, Cmejla won another race at Talladega in February... well he got it taken away. Still believed in the wrong to this day Cmejla says, Cmejla started dead last and drove on the same set of tires all race in a COT at Talladega to get hit by an outside car, turning the outside car as he came down into him, which happened to wreck the pack of cars around. Cmejla survived, crossing the line 1st in his Vietvu Custom Diecast Shop Impala.

Due to the nature of his win in January, Jonathan Ramos took the win away. It was very controversial and dissappointing. But, Cmejla moved on to March which saw Cmejla run an ARCA race at Michigan International Speedway. Cmejla endured last-lap chaos to get his 3rd NR Night in America win.

Back to the shutdown, MC Motorsports was feeling the suffering. It was then when Robbie said ASPHALT MEDIA was returning, but under a rebrand. This rebrand is what we know the series now as Rebel Valley Sim Club. The series was literally just ASPHALT MEDIA with a new name. This change though disengaged a lot of drivers. But overtime, teams and drivers adapted, and it was like nothing ever happened.

April ended up being the team's best month in history. The detract of multiple drivers due to the change led to the least competitive fields since the earliest days of Rebel Valley Sim Club, and Cmejla picked up 7 wins during the month. Unfortunately, this rebrand though, was the beginning of the end.

As Devore got opportunities in real life to commentate at local dirt tracks in Ohio, racing slowed down in RVSC. The same thing was happening with NR Night in America. NR Night in America had only a few streams a month now with Ramos commentating at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway.

Additionally, MC Motorsports would expand from virtual racing to real-life racing. The busyness of working on a real race car took time away from the simulator for Cmejla. May saw serious slow down from the team and hosted racing in general.

Cmejla even started to host sessions in RVSC as a partial owner of the series. He would stream RVSC races but wouldn't race in them. He commentated, and various MC Motorsports cars participated. June essentially saw the end of MC Motorsports' virtual program as we know it. Hosted racing became very infrequent. Cmejla was able to get a win, and Cameron Face picked up 2 wins.

July saw the END of the main years of MC Motorsports' virtual program. Marty Cmejla picked up his last RVSC-Devore era win, Next Gen at Talladega in his Warner Commercial Roofing #88 Camaro. After July, racing came to an end. Ryan Wayne took over RVSC and hosted only about 6 times a month.

August marked the official end of the first part of MC Motorsports' long virtual history. September began the Latter Portions Era of MC Motorsports virtual program. September, saw success. Cameron Face won 2 times in Rebel Valley, and Cmejla discovered a new hosted series called R2R SimStock owned by New Smyrna Speedway 4-Cylinder racer Zechariah Cartledge. Cmejla picked up a win in this series.

October of 2025 marked the first month since the team's conception where no races were ran. November, things picked up again with Cmejla hosting his last RVSC race, with Brad Cmejla racing in it finishing 14th. Cmejla made his first NR Night in America start since June, finishing 5th at Daytona.

Marty, Brad, and Cole Trudeau did an R2R SimStock race at Daytona as well. Finally, December of 2025 saw 2 races ran, both NR Night in America where Cmejla nearly won at Auto Club, but settled for 3rd after finishing 15th the race prior.

With that, 2026 was here. 2025 ended in depressing fashion. The excitement of the year, and everything just came to a halt. 2026 marked a new beginning for MC Motorsports on the virtual side. The team took a new focus towards the real-life racing side with Cole Trudeau purchasing an additional car - a 2006 Mazda Mazda3. Real-life racing was now the priority at MC Motorsports, with virtual racing put to the side.

Cmejla announced new plans for the year. He released all drivers besides himself, Brad, and Cole Trudeau. Cmejla changed from #88 to #8, Brad changed from his career-long #83 to #4, and Cole Trudeau remained in his #84. This is an effort to correlate to the real-life program. The main car for IRL racing is #84, driven by Cole.

The first races of the year saw great success, partially, from Cmejla, in NR Night in America. Cmejla finished 2nd in a duel race at Daytona. He started 3rd in the feature but got wrecked on the first lap, and nursed it home to a 22nd-place finish.

The next race Mazda at Daytona Road Course in the heavy rain. Cmejla qualified an astonishing 2nd, and even pulled away 3 seconds after some contact and led a lap. But, Cmejla self spun in a wet turn 1 and took himself out of contention for the win. He settled for a 5th.

A new era of virtual racing began with new news of an All-Star program for 2026. The #48 car would mark the Global All-Star ride for all series in 2026. Logan Boldt, Super Stock racer at Wisconsin International Raceway, would pilot the #48. With that, R2R SimStock returned in full force, with a 3-race schedule.

MC Motorsports entered 10 cars for these 3 races total. In 1 night of racing they had more cars than car totals for months since July. July they had 24 total cars. The night was extremely fun. Cmejla finished 2nd, 3rd, and 2nd, while Cole Trudeau and Logan Boldt had Top 5s and Top 10s. Brad Cmejla struggled with a 12th and 25th.

Bottom line is, the future is uncertain for MC Motorsports. A new website and overhaul of the team as we enter the Latter Portions Era of the virtual program. While virtually we slow down, the real-life program ramps up with now 2 owned cars for the MC Motorsports team.

MC Motorsports has a long vast history, shared from one boy who has NASCAR run deep in the roots of his life. From simulator racing at the age of 6 to owning the most well-known hosted session series team in iRacing history, Cmejla is proud of his accomplishments and is eager to see what the future holds!