Donald McIntosh announced that he and Coltman Farms Racing have split.

McIntosh shared in a post to Facebook, “Racing is a very demanding sport, it takes commitment and a team around you is like a family. Everyone around you needs to be on the same page, motivated and understand limits and goals. It takes faith and putting God first.”

“I’m not sure where my racing will go from here but Coltman farms racing and I have decided we’re best to go our separate ways. That being said I’m very much wanting to race give me a call or text 404-461-8489,” he added.

In a video posted to Facebook, Coltman Farms Racing owner Brett Coltman implied that the split came down to having different goals as well as costs.

He said, “For me, the win is not always the most important thing. To bring professional drivers into that kind of thought process is counterintuitive to what they’re doing, which is earning a living racing.”

“I think, for us, we built a team and everyone has their roles. We’re happy and we want to grow and I think this year with our development program, Luke [Morey] is amazing and appreciative and he will do anything to race, which is really want I want to see.”

From there he discussed the costs, “Unfortunately, today, a regional tour with a toter is $470,000 and that’s not all of it. That’s just to put the team on the road. To put a team on the tour more like $780,000. So it’s a lot of money. More than that, it’s time.”

After discussing his time with Tanner English and the World of Outlaws last year, he returned to what his vision for his team is, “We want to be professional in the same light we’re not a non-profit, but there is no profit. We want to give drivers the opportunity to build themselves into champions and do it with the right stuff and the right people so that they have an opportunity to do that. Our fields are fierce, and what used to be 2-3 tenths is now 1/1000 as far as going from 1st to fifth place. And it’s a challenge.”

“Because the professional driver who drives for a living that’s what he does period. And from our standpoint we want that experience, but we want to help build and shape it into being consistent with my message which is simply doing the right thing. It’s important to me when I give back and I try to give back as much as I can. It’s not just money, it’s my time. It’s the effort that goes into the nights looking at lap times. It’s not easy at all. But when you’re passionate about it and that’s what you want to do, it’s not about how hard you work. That doesn’t even come into play because you’re here doing something that you love.”

From there he reiterated that he really wants to help drivers grow and improve and sees professional drivers as already having reached that pinnacle and even passed it, “It just means you’ve reached the level of knowing that you can go out and get a job and make money at this pretty much anywhere because you can drive that well. Again, I totally appreciate it’s just that not the most important thing to me. For me it’s about the drivers. The Coltman Cup. We all learn. We have to learn.”

He then addressed the split with McIntosh, “Donald [McIntosh] and I have decided, and we’re still good friends, it’s just that I can’t give him the support like a professional like that. It’s just because my team’s not setup like that. And I understand there’s shortcomings everywhere. And the only way to get better is to have failure, really. So we take what’s happened and we look for ways to make it better for the next guy.”

“So now, I’ve found a driver that has a toter and has everything else and a crew because a crew is so crucial to success. I mean crucial. You really can’t do it without them on the national level. And really today, the regional level is the national level,” Coltman said.

Finally, he concluded, “We’re not stopping what we’re doing, but to put someone in a position that you know’s not going to work that doesn’t make sense because you’re both miserable. And who wants to be miserable? I’m certainly not going to be miserable because it’s a choice. I choose to be all-in. I want the people around me that live and breathe the same thing. It’s not about how long or how hard. It’s just about the results. And that’s what we need to strive for, just the results as clean as we can. Because every time something happens we shoot ourselves in the foot and go back another year. We’re about there. So we’re going to earn what we deserve to earn.”

McIntosh was announced as Zack Mitchell’s replacement back at the end of February at Coltman Farms Racing. The team had good speed to start this year with McIntosh making two of the three features during the DIRTcar Sunshine Nationals. He finished 13th and 14th respectively. He even set fast time in qualifying on Thursday night.

Coltman Farms Racing announced that Luke Morey was signed as a developmental driver at the end of January. The team shared in a post to Facebook that he would “race a regional Super Late Model schedule out of his family’s shop in Mooresville, North Carolina, with Coltman Farms Racing support beginning in 2026.”

Brett said as part of the announcement, “I’ve gotten to watch Luke grow as both a racer and a man for the last year. He’s wise beyond his years and embodies everything we at Coltman Farms Racing want in our drivers. We’re thrilled to have him as part of our team and I’m looking forward to watching him develop into a championship-caliber driver in the years to come.”

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