Christian wins TOMS opener, Day wins night two

March 31, 2026 Brant Thurmond Leave a comment

ARDMORE, OK- The Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) kicked off its 2026 season with two nights of racing March 20 and 21, at Southern Oklahoma Speedway, in Ardmore, Oklahoma.

There were 44 cars checked to races with the TOMS on night one of the double-header.

Gary Christian (Broken Bow, Oklahoma) and his No. 58X car started on the pole and led all 25 laps to claim the win on the opening night.

Gary Christian (Broken Bow, Oklahoma) was the feature winner of the TOMS season-opener March 20, 2026, at Southern Oklahoma Speedway.
*(Photo by Brant Thurmond/Double T Media)*

The 25-lap feature race had two cautions (lap two and lap five) as Troy Taylor (Midlothian, Texas) and Dillion Pike (Waxahachie, Texas) got together in the middle of turns 3 and 4 as both cars spun and came to a rest on the track.

Three laps later, Wesley Veal (Princeton, Texas) and Matthew Day spun in turn 4, drawing the caution flag.

The race went green for the next 20 laps as Christian was able to stretch his lead while navigating lap traffic and ended up winning by 7.82 seconds.

Christian’s fastest lap was on lap six with a time of 18.659 seconds according to My Race Pass timing.

“It felt pretty good. I didn’t really know where to be at,” Christian said standing in victory lane. “I kind of just kept looking out of the corner of my eye for someone’s nose. I just tried to get through lap traffic the best I could.”

“It takes a lot of pressure off when you can win one early in the year,” he said. “You can just have a lot more fun with it.”

Bo Day (Greenville, Texas) was the second-place finisher, while Matthew Day (Farmersville, Texas) was third. Dean Abbey (Boyd, Texas) finished fourth and Kale Westover (Altus, Oklahoma) rounded out the top five.

Abbey was the biggest mover, up 13 spots from his 17^th starting spot, while M. Day moved up nine spots from 12^th.

Earlier in the night the TOMS raced two B-Mains, which were won by Shane Hartline (Ivanhoe, Texas) and Taylor.

Heat race winners for night one included:

Heat 1- Colby Smith- Greenville, Texas

Heat 2- Rodney Sanders- Happy, Texas

Heat 3- Gary Christian- Broken Bow, Oklahoma

Heat 4- Bo Day- Greenville, Texas

Heat 5- Jeff Taylor- Locust Grove, Arkansas

Full results can be found at the following link.

https://www.myracepass.com/events/603399/media-results

Night two at Southern Oklahoma Speedway saw Matthew Day win his first career TOMS feature race.

The first 10 laps of Saturday’s feature race went green with Ryan Veal (Princeton, Texas) leading the first seven laps. Christian gained the top spot on lap nine before a caution from a Jason Sartain (Royce City, Texas) spin in turn 4 brought out the caution.

Matthew Day (Farmersville, Texas) picked up his first career TOMS win on night two at Southern Oklahoma Speedway.
*(Photo by Brant Thurmond/Double T Media)*

Day took the lead with 12 laps remaining before a spin by Rusty Trevathan (Wylie, Texas) brought out a caution with two laps remaining.

With an impending green-white-checker finish coming, Day was able to jump out to the lead and claim the win.

“I’ve had a couple outlaw wins, but nothing with the TOMS,” Day said on his first win with the series. “It’s definitely a cool deal to get and especially against the talent level that we had here. 44 cars at this level and probably 12 guys could win it any given night, and we drove up through the field. I wish Gary (Christian) wouldn’t have broken. I’d like to see if I had anything for him, but sometimes that’s the way it goes.”

Abbey was the second place finisher behind Day, while Hartline finished third. Chris Henigan (Marshall, Texas) was fourth and Colby Smith rounded out the top five.

Hartline was the biggest mover driving his car up 15 spots to third, Henigan and Jeff Taylor each moved up 15 spots as well for a fourth and seventh place finish, respectively.

Christian had the fastest lap of the race on lap seven with a lap time of 18.474 seconds before something malfunction on his racecar on lap 18 and he had to pull to the infield.

B Feature 1 winner- Colby Smith

B Feature 2 winner- Matthew Day

Heat 1- Mitchell Clement (Bonham, Texas)

Heat 2- Jason Sartain (Royce City, Texas)

Heat 3- Jason Langford (Palestine, Texas)

Heat 4- Kale Westover (Altus, Oklahoma)

Heat 5- Ryan Veal (Princeton, Texas)

Full results from the second night can be found at the following link.

https://www.myracepass.com/events/603402/media-results

The TOMS series will be back in action Saturday, April 4, at RPM Speedway, in Crandall, Texas, weather permitting.

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Hartline wins 2025 Touring Outlaw Modified Series Championship

November 10, 2025 Brant Thurmond Leave a comment

Shane Hartline from Ivanhoe, Texas takes the checkered flag during the Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) race at Southern Oklahoma Speedway held Aug. 2, 2025. The win was Hartline’s second of the year.
*(Photo by Brant Thurmond/Double T Media)*

The Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) points battle for the 2025 championship has officially concluded.

Shane Hartline from Ivanhoe, Texas, is the official series Champion with a total of 1,256 points. Dean Abbey, (Boyd, Texas) finished 51 points behind Hartline in second place with 1,205 points.

Jason Ingalls (Longview, Texas) finished the 2025 season with 1,133 points and 123 points behind Hartline for third place overall, while Jake Huckaby (Texarkana, Texas) was fourth overall with 1,047 points (-209 from Hartline;) and Chase Hatton (De Berry, Texas) rounded out the top five with 1,019 points and 237 points away from Hartline.

Shane Hartline (25) takes the checkered flag first over Mitchell Clement (32) in a last lap pass win during the Touring Outlaw Modified Series race held at Rocket Raceway Park May 31, 2025. The win was Hartline’s first win of 2025. He went on to win three more races en route to the series championship. *(Photo by Brant Thurmond/Double T Media)*

The 2025 season was the first full season Hartline ran with the TOMS, and he had a dominant first season, picking up a series-leading four wins, 10 top 5’s and 13 top 10’s in 14 feature races.

Hartline had raced with the series prior to 2025, mostly at Grayson County Speedway, Southern Oklahoma Speedway and Hunt County Speedway, with one win at SOS in 2021.

“This year was one of the most challenging years that I have attempted in my racing career,” Hartline said. “I have raced very local up to this year. This winter my team and I set a goal to run for the TOMS Championship.

“I have won a few track championships in my racing career, but never attempted a touring series,” he said. “With the kind of talent that shows up to the TOMS shows, I didn’t really know what to expect, but I felt like we could be a player at most of the tracks.”

Having a few track championships under his belt, he felt a significant level accomplishment by winning the TOMS championship in his first full year of competition.

“This is the biggest accomplishment in my racing career so far,” Hartline said. “To race with the caliber of guys in this series says a lot about North Texas modified racing as a whole.”

Following a second-place finish in the season opener at Southern Oklahoma Speedway on March 21, Hartline followed that up with a third-place finish and the points lead the following night.

The consistency each night was evident throughout the season as Hartline led the points for the remainder of the season.

“Always bringing a well-prepared car, keeping my nose clean and being consistent,” Hartline said about the keys to success and not losing the points lead.

Hartline picked up his first win of the season at Rocket Raceway Park on May 31 on a last lap pass around Mitchell Clement.

Shane Hartline (25) exits turn 2 during the Touring Outlaw Modified Series heat race at Abilene Speedway.
*(Photo by Brant Thurmond/Double T Media)*

Second place points finisher Abbey was hot on Hartline’s trail for most of the season and closed Hartline’s points lead to four points after the race at Abilene Speedway on July 19.

“I had only raced Abilene once before and finished fourth this year,” Hartline said. “This was one of my wild card races in the points battle since I hadn’t been there much and salvaged a decent finish.”

A mental reset turned out to be a key turning point in the season after the Abilene race for Hartline.

“This is where my wife and I had a few nights to talk about the season and get a new mindset,” he said. “We decided not to look at the points anymore and just go race and have fun. Well, we definitely had fun after that.”

Hartline took advantage of a test session after the Abilene race and that is where he said he was able to fix some things.

“Rocket had a test and tune, and we went to play with the car and found a few things and fixed a few problems we had been fighting,” he said.

Hartline went on to win back-to-back races in the month of August, including the 11^th Annual Hella Shrine Classic at Hunt County Speedway.

“The Hella Shrine was a good one for me,” Hartline said. “I won the heat, dash and the feature. It’s pretty cool to win one of the crown jewels of the TOMS series.”

Hartline’s only finish of the season that was not in the top 10 came at Kennedale Speedway Park.

“Kennedale is a track I have only raced one time at, also, so we were just looking to get as best a finish as we could,” Hartline said. “I finally found how to race it about the last three or four laps and finished 11^th.”

Hartline picked up his fourth win of the season at Rocket Raceway Park at the Bryan Mize Memorial on a racing surface that had some “character” spots to it.

“The Bryan Mize race looked like weather would win night two, so it was all up to Friday night,” he said. “The track was ‘cowboys up’ with a not ideal track surface, but we hung in there and took advantage of a few mistakes and was able to win that one too. I will remember not wanting to get out of the car because I was worn out.”

Although it may have been Hartline’s first full season with the TOMS series, the success and consistency it took to win the championship will be talked about for years to come.

Sponsors, Family and Crew

Hartline had the following to say regarding his family and crew:

I would like to thank my wife, Chanda, for always supporting me in this adventure and allowing me to spend the hours in the shop that it takes to race; Jasen Loftice for everything that he has done for my racing career … I couldn’t do this without him; and, Don Tomlinson for all the hours in the shop and at the race track.

Sponsors –

J&G Services

Hartline Holdings

Collin County Fence Supply

Gold Star Finance

Alpha Transmission

Grayson County Diesel Service

Gary’s Corner Garage

Hair by Hartline

Muddbones

Skeeter’s Metal Art

Ain’t It Racing

Mom

Trevor Hartline

Seth Hartline

Jason & Amanda Hartline

Donald & Wendy Hopkins

Shannon & Sabrina Hartline

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Hartline picks up fourth TOMS win of 2025 season at Rocket Raceway Park

September 1, 2025 Brant Thurmond Leave a comment

Shane Hartline (Ivanhoe, Texas) picked up his fourth win of the Touring Outlaw Modified Series season Aug. 29, at Rocket Raceway Park. Hartline currently leads the points standings over Dean Abbey with just four races remaining.
**(Photo Courtesy of Mike Frieri/Photos by Mike)**

The Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) was at the Rocket Raceway Park for the 11^th Annual Bryan Mize Memorial race.

The event was originally scheduled as a two-night event, but Mother Nature was the winner on night two as the second night was canceled due to rain in the forecast.

The field was stacked with talent as 39 TOMS drivers checked in for the event.

In the A feature, Dean Abbey (Boyd, Texas) led the opening lap, but Jason Ingalls (Longview, Texas) led the next three laps before the field was slowed for a caution as Jack Sartain (Royse City, Texas) lost the handle on his No. 47 car and spun exiting turn two.

The field completed one lap under green before another caution came out as Steven Ashcraft (Forney, Texas) came to a stop at the top of turn four.

On the ensuing green flag, Gary Christian (Broken Bow, Oklahoma) made contact with Ingalls as he hit a “character spot” and slid up the track exiting turn four. The contact put Ingalls into the front stretch wall and ultimately ended his night. Ingalls was leading the race at the time of the incident.

Jake Huckaby (Texarkana, Texas) took over the race lead and went on to lead 11 laps before a caution for debris with 16 laps remaining slowed the drivers down and forced another restart.

Shane Hartline (Ivanhoe, Texas) took the lead from Huckaby with nine laps to go as Huckaby slipped up exiting turn two.

Hartline would go on to lead the remaining nine laps and capture his fourth TOMS victory of the 2025 season.

Hartline also stretched his points lead over Abbey to 51 points following Abbey’s fourth place finish.

Huckaby finished second, while Sartain was third. Abbey was fourth and Bryan Gunwall (Brookston, Texas) rounded out the top five.

Sartain recorded the fastest lap of the race with a time of 14.420 seconds on lap 17, according to My Race Pass timing.

The hard chargers of the night were Kale Murphey (Tullos, Louisiana) and Dale Carr (Sadler, Texas).

Murphey moved up 15 spots from his 23^rd starting position for an eighth-place finish, while Carr moved up 12 spots from his 21^st starting position and finished behind Murphey in ninth place.

Click the following link for full race results.

https://www.myracepass.com/events/557622/media-results

B-Feature 1 winner- Chase Hatton (De Berry, Texas)

B Feature 2 winner- Sean Gaddis (Diana, Texas)

Heat 1 winner- Jake Huckaby (Texarkana, Texas)

Heat 2 winner- Kyle Slader (Muskogee, Texas)

Heat 3 winner- Dean Abbey (Boyd, Texas)

Heat 4 winner- Mitchell Clement (Bonham, Texas)

Current Points Standings-

(Top 10)

Shane Hartline- 1256
Dean Abbey- 1205 -51
Jason Ingalls- 1133 -123
Jake Huckaby- 1047 -209
Chase Hatton- 1019 -237
Wesley Veal- 991 -265
Troy Taylor- 927 -369
Sam Cox- 866 -390
Ryan Veal- 855 -401
Jason Webb- 749 -507

The series will be in action again Saturday, Sept. 6, at Grayson County Speedway in Bells, Texas. The TOMS Nationals will be held Oct. 24 and 25, at RPM Speedway in Crandall, Texas. The make up A feature from the July 12 race will also be held Oct. 24.

As always, if you cannot make it out to the track, you can stream all the action on Raceon.com.

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Abbey stays in TOMS Championship hunt with win at Kennedale Speedway Park

August 24, 2025 Brant Thurmond Leave a comment

Dean Abbey (center) picked up his second Touring Outlaw Modified Series win of the 2025 season Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025, at Kennedale Speedway Park. Abbey currently sits second in the points behind Shane Hartline.
***(Photo Courtesy of Mike Frieri /Photos by Mike)***

The Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) was in action Saturday evening under the lights at Kennedale Speedway Park, in Kennedale, Texas. The event was a make-up race from April 5 when it rained out.

With clear skies and warm summer temperatures, 30 drivers checked in for the event and the fans were not disappointed as the drivers displayed their talents in front of a packed crowd.

Saturday’s 25-lap feature race went caution free from start to finish, however there was some early drama during the parade laps as a car suddenly came to a stop on the front stretch during the series’ traditional four-wide salute to the fans. The mishap collected four other drivers in the process that were in line.

Once the drivers were able to take the green flag, the action on the track was exciting and fun to watch as Mason Day (Farmersville, Texas) and Chris Huckeba (Midlothian, Texas) swapped the lead back and forth on the opening four laps with Day leading lap one and three and Huckeba leading lap two and four.

As the drivers settled in and found their rhythm, Huckeba led eight laps until Justin McCoy (Grandview, Texas) took over the top spot with 12 laps remaining.

McCoy went on to lead four laps until Dean Abbey (Boyd, Texas) passed McCoy with eight laps remaining.

Abbey went on to pick up the win, his second TOMS win of the 2025 season, while McCoy finished in second place.

Huckeba finished third, while Chase Hatton (De Berry, Texas) and Matthew Day (Farmersville, Texas) rounded out the top five.

The win was particularly important for Abbey as he tries to chase day current points leader Shane Hartline.

Hartline had a 68-point lead prior to the Kennedale race, but Abbey was able to cut the deficit to 38 points following the win and an 11^th place finish in Saturday’s feature.

Abbey, who has seen a great deal of success at Kennedale Speedway Park was happy following the win.

“Man, it’s awesome to be back to victory lane,” Abbey said standing in victory lane. “Especially here. It seems like this place has been really good to us this year. We won when we were here on the tour, we sucked the one time we been here in the stockcar, and then the one time we bring the outlaw car, we were able to get it done.”

Huckeba recorded the fastest lap of the race with a time of 16.992 on lap two, according to My Race Pass timing. Abbey was right behind him with a fastest lap time of 17.051 seconds on lap 18.

The hard chargers of the night were Matthew Day and Kale Westover (Altus, Oklahoma). Day moved up nine spots from his 14^th starting position for a fifth-place finish, while Westover moved up six positions from 13^th to seventh place, respectively.

Click the following link for full race results.

https://www.myracepass.com/events/548751/media-results

B-Feature Winner- Kale Westover (Altus, Oklahoma)

Heat 1 winner- Justin McCoy (Grandview, Texas)

Heat 2 winner- Dean Abbey (Boyd, Texas)

Heat 3 winner- Chris Huckeba (Midlothian, Texas)

Current Points Standings-

(Top 10)

Shane Hartline- 1156
Dean Abbey- 1118-38
Jason Ingalls- 1065-91
Jake Huckaby- 952-204
Chase Hatton- 947-209
Wesley Veal- 913-243
Troy Taylor- 871-285
Sam Cox- 821-335
Ryan Veal- 801-355
Jason Webb- 704-452

The series will be in action again Aug. 29 and 30, at Rocket Raceway Park for the Brian Mize Memorial. As always, if you can not make it out to the track, you can stream all the action on Raceon.com.

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Hartline wins 11th Annual Hella Shrine Classic at Hunt County

August 13, 2025 Brant Thurmond Leave a comment

Shane Hartline (second from left) picked up his third Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) win of 2025 at the 11th Annual Hella Shrine Classic at Hunt County Raceway Aug. 9, 2025. Also shown is Hella Shrine members Tony Norton (left) TOMS flagman and Hella Shrine member Ricky Randall and Hella Shrine member Rick Troutte.
***(Photo Courtesy of Dalton Warren-Brierton/Pics by Dalton)***

The Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) was back in action Saturday, Aug. 9, at Hunt County Raceway for the 11^th Annual Hella Shrine Classic.

Adding to the excitement of the event was a bicycle giveaway for the kids in attendance. Several TOMS drivers contributed by bringing bicycles and they went above and beyond crushing a previous record of 56 bikes with a total of 112 bicycles to give away to the kids.

The event, which is dedicated to helping the Children’s Shriner’s Hospital, is a big race for the TOMS and all those involved.

“This is something the TOMS drivers look forward to every year,” said Ricky Randall, who originally started the Hella Shrine Classic in 2015. “We have raised over $200,000 since we started doing the event each year. The first year, we raised $3,000 and it has gone as high as $30,000.

“The money raised goes to the transportation fund at Hella,” Randall said. “We use the money to transport patients to and from the hospital for various appointments. We can also help the parents with lodging. Some of the rules have changed now to where the Temple can only keep so much of the money raised for the transportation fund, and the rest goes to the (Shriner’s) hospital. We do it all for the kids.”

The action on the track in the TOMS feature race was equally as exciting as seeing the smiles on all the young kids’ faces.

Colby Smith (Greenville, Texas) led the opening 10 laps before Shane Hartline took the lead with 15 laps remaining.

A caution slowed the field down with seven laps remaining as the 477 car of Tracy Adams (Rowlett, Texas) spun in turns three and four.

When the green flag was waved again, Hartline jumped out to a sizeable lead and would lead the remaining seven laps to claim his third win of the season.

With his win at Southern Oklahoma Speedway on Aug. 2, Hartline became just the second driver to win back-to-back races so far in the 2025 season.

Jake Huckaby (Texarkana, Texas) was the first to win back-to-back races with wins at Heart O’ Texas Speedway and Abilene Speedway on July 11 and July 19.

Hartline also extended his points lead over Dean Abbey (Boyd, Texas) who is now 68 points behind Hartline.

Smith was the second-place finisher at Hunt County, while Chris Henigan (Marshall, Texas) placed third. Jack Sartain (Royse City, Texas) finished fourth and James McCreery (Midlothian, Texas) was fifth.

Smith had the fastest lap of the race with a lap time of 16.441 seconds according to My Race Pass timing.

McCreery and Abbey were the hard chargers of the race with both drivers moving up seven spots. McCreery started 13^th and moved up to sixth place, while Abbey started a little deeper in the field in 20^th and moved up to 13^th, respectively.

Click the following link for full race results.

https://www.myracepass.com/events/557619/media-results

B Feature 1 winner- James McCreery (Midlothian, Texas)

B Feature 2 winner- Jamie Burford (Keatchie, Louisiana)

Heat 1 winner- Colby Smith (Greenville, Texas)

Heat 2 winner- Chris Henigan (Marshall, Texas)

Heat 3 winner- Jason Ingalls (Longview, Texas)

Heat 4 winner- Chase Hatton (De Berry, Texas)

Current Points Standings-

(Top 10)

Shane Hartline- 1086
Dean Abbey- 1018-68
Jason Ingalls- 991-95
Jake Huckaby- 892-194
Wesley Veal- 862-224
Chase Hatton- 860-226
Troy Taylor- 805-281
Sam Cox- 776-310
Ryan Veal- 743-343
Jason Webb- 704-382

Previous winners of the Hella Shrine Classic-

2015- Sean Jones

2016- Clyde Dunn

2017- Triston Dycus

2018- Triston Dycus

2019- Chris Henigan

2020- Bo Day

2021- Charlie Smith

2022- Troy Taylor

2023- James McCreery

2024- Triston Dycus

2025- Shane Hartline

Click here to learn more about Shriners and to donate to the Shriners Children’s Hospital.

https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/about

The next TOMS race will be held Saturday, Aug. 23, at Kennedale Speedway Park. The race was originally scheduled for April 5 but was rescheduled due to weather.

The series will race a two-day show at Rocket Raceway Park for the Brian Mize Memorial on Aug. 29 and 30.

One race will take place in September as the series travels to Grayson County on Sept. 9. The TOMS Nationals will be held Oct. 24 and 25, at RPM Speedway, in Crandall, Texas.

As always, if you can not make it out to the track, you can stream all the action on RaceOn.com.

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Hartline wins TOMS feature at Southern Oklahoma Speedway; extends points lead

August 7, 2025 Brant Thurmond Leave a comment

Shane Hartline (Ivanhoe, Texas) won his second Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) feature of the season Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025, at Southern Oklahoma Speedway. Hartline currently holds a 36-point over second place Dean Abbey.
***(Photo by Brant Thurmond/Double T Media)***

The Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) was in action once again Saturday, Aug. 2, at Southern Oklahoma Speedway.

It was the final trip to SOS for the series as 32 drivers checked in to chase the $1,500 prize money at the end of the night.

Austin Bonner (Elk City, Oklahoma) and Dean Abbey (Boyd, Texas) started on the front row of the 24-car A feature race.

Abbey led the opening lap and went on to lead the first 13 green flag laps of the 25-lap feature before the caution flag waved with 12 laps remaining.

Kale Westover took the top spot with 10 laps to go; however, the caution flag waved once again three laps later as Sam Cox (Flower Mound, Texas) spun in turns three and four.

The field completed one green flag lap before Jeff Taylor (Locust Grove, Arkansas) spun in turns one and two collecting Fred Wojtek (Blackwell, Texas) as he came to a sliding stop trying to avoid Taylor.

Leading with six laps remaining, Westover was forced to pull off the track during the caution after an issue on the rearend of his 15w car. Shane Hartline (Ivanhoe, Texas) inherited the lead.

Two laps were completed before Abbey spun in the middle of turns three and four. The restart didn’t go as planned for Abbey as him and Ryan Veal (Princeton, Texas) made slight contact enter turns one and two bringing out the caution once again with four laps remaining.

The race would stay green for the final four laps as Hartline cruised to the win.

The win was Hartline’s second TOMS win of the 2025 season, having won at Rocket Raceway Park on May 31.

Hartline, who has led the points for the majority of the 2025 season, increased his points lead significantly with the win.

Hartline entered Saturday’s race at SOS with a four-point lead over Abbey. He received the maximum number of points (100 points) with the win. Abbey’s 12^th place finish in the feature race helped him stretch the lead even further to 36 points of second place Abbey.

Shane Hartline, his crew and TOMS flagman Ricky Randall pose for a photo in victory lane following Hartline’s feature win Saturday at Southern Oklahoma Speedway.
***(Photo by Brant Thurmond/Double T Media)***

“It means the world to me right now (to win),” Hartline said in victory lane. “It was only four points between me and Dean. So, I saw him spin out in (turn) three so that really helped and it just took all the I don’t know nerves away. I just started trying to pick my lane and go.”

Being in the right place at the right time helped Hartline’s effort with Westover pulling off the track with 10 laps remaining.

“I stayed pace with him there after that one caution, but I don’t know,” Hartline said on catching Westover. “Maybe if the top would have went away in three and four, maybe. “I got there on the bottom, I used that most of the race, at least at the start of the race when it was two wide to get there.

“I worked the bottom in three and four and I found a grove trying to stay on the (infield tractor) tire, so I had to slow down a lot,” Hartline continued. “I felt like I managed their speed on the top, so I feel like that was the key to the race.”

Justin McCoy (Irving, Texas) finished in second place after winning B Feature 2 and starting f4th, while Wesley Veal (Princeton, Texas) rounded out the podium finishers in third place.

Jason Webb (McKinney, Texas) finished fourth and Chase Hatton (De Berry, Texas) rounded out the top five with a fifth-place finish.

Westover recorded the fastest lap of the feature race with a time of 18.481 seconds.

Hatton and Steven Ashcraft (Forney, Texas) were race’s hard chargers by moving up 15 spots each from their 20^th and 23^rd starting positions for a fifth and eighth place finish, respectively.

Wesley Veal moved up 13 spots from his 16^th starting position for a third-place finish. Troy Taylor (Midlothian, Texas) also moved up 13 spots to finish ninth after starting in 22^nd place.

Click the following link for full race results.

https://www.myracepass.com/events/557616/media-results

B Feature 1 winner- Fred Wojtek (Blackwell, Texas)

B Feature 2 winner- Justin McCoy (Irving, Texas)

Heat 1 winner- Mitchell Clement

Heat 2 winner- Kale Westover (Altus, Oklahoma)

Heat 3 winner- Matthew Day

Heat 4 winner- Billy Brierton

Current Points Standings-

(Top 10)

Shane Hartline- 986
Dean Abbey- 950-36
Jason Ingalls- 925-61
Jake Huckaby- 832-154
Chase Hatton- 784-202
Wesley Veal- 784-202
Troy Taylor- 743-243
Sam Cox- 704-282
Ryan Veal- 685-301
Jason Webb- 623-363

The TOMS will be back in action this Saturday, Aug. 9, at Hunt County Speedway, in Greenville, Texas for the 11^th Annual Hella Shrine race.

If you can not make it to the racetrack, you can stream the race on RACEON.com.

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Huckaby wins TOMS feature at Abilene Speedway; Becomes first repeat winner in 2025

July 22, 2025 Brant Thurmond Leave a comment

Jake Huckaby (Texarkana, Texas) celebrates following his TOMS feature win Saturday, July 19, 2025, at Abilene Speedway, in Abilene, Texas. Huckaby became the first driver to win back-to-back TOMS feature races in 2025.
***(Photo by Brant Thurmond/Double T Media)***

The Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) was back in action Saturday evening at Abilene Speedway, in Abilene, Texas.

Saturday’s race was the first time in two years that the TOMS had been to the track as the 2024 race being cancelled a year ago.

Fred Wojtek (Blackwell, Texas) won both trips the series made to Abilene Speedway in 2023 with wins coming on April 22 and Aug. 5.

Saturday’s race was also a first for the TOMS as Jake Huckaby became the first driver in 10 feature races to repeat as a TOMS feature winner.

Jake Huckaby (second from left) stands in victory lane with his check for $1,500 following his TOMS feature win Saturday, July 19, 2025, at Abilene Speedway.
***(Photo by Brant Thurmond/Double T Media)***

He was also the first back-to-back winner since Jack Sartain (Royse City, Texas) won back-to-back TOMS feature races at Hunt County Raceway on Sept. 7 and Oct. 9 during the 2024 season.

The young Texarkana, Texas native picked up his first career TOMS feature win a week prior at Heart O’ Texas Speedway on July 11.

With a field of some of the most talented modified drivers in the southern United States, Huckaby understood the significance of the achievement of winning back-to-back races while standing in victory lane Saturday evening in Abilene.

“Yeah, that means a lot,” he said. “You know, there’s a stout field of competitors that run up and down the road. Kudos to Dean (Abbey). He raced me clean, and it was good right there at the end.”

“It’s pretty cool to win my second ever feature back-to-back…All glory to God for sure.”
Jake Huckaby

Huckaby said he had limited experience at HOT Speedway, and it was his first trip to Abilene Speedway, and he will have both wins stored as a memory for years to come.

“It’s pretty cool to win my second ever feature back-to-back, but I’ll never forget it for sure,” Huckaby said. “It was two tracks I really don’t race at a lot, and I come out here and was able to get it done again. So, it’s awesome and all glory to God for sure.”

With the TOMS not making as many trips to Abilene as some of the other tracks on the schedule, several drivers notepads on possible setups may have been stretch thin.

“I started watching Youtube videos of some in-car cams of the guys that run around here locally and just tried to get a feel for the track,” he said of his prep leading up to Saturday’s race. “First time here and it’s a cool track man. It was really racy there in the feature and the track prep was awesome, but yeah, this is real. This is cool.”

Huckaby credited his mom and dad and his faith for the recent success.

“I had a lot of down at the beginning of the season and then we turned it around and I just got to keep the faith in it,” he said. “I want to thank my mom and dad for sure. You know, this is just a blessing to be able to get to do any of this and it all came from God really.”

A total of 27 modifieds checked in for Saturday’s race in Abilene.

Wesley Veal (Princeton, Texas) started outside of Huckaby on the front row and led the opening lap, before Huckaby was able to power back and take the lead on lap 2.

The caution flag would wave as Dakoka Bechler (Sackets Harbor, New York) spun in the middle of turns three and four.

Two more laps were completed before the next caution came on lap four as Rickey Wilkerson (Gunter, Texas) came to a stop exiting turn two.

The field completed 10 more laps with Huckaby leading, but the caution flag waved again as Jaxon McGaha (Abilene, Texas) spun in the middle of turns three and four.

With 11 laps remaining, Huckaby led the next five laps before Abbey was able to roll the bottom line on both ends of the track and took the lead with six laps remaining.

Abbey continued to use the bottom groove as Huckaby worked the high side of the track and retook the lead with three laps remaining.

Huckaby would hold on to the lead for the remaining three laps with Abbey finishing in the runner-up spot and Veal rounding out the podium finishers in third place.

TOMS points leader Shane Hartline (Ivanhoe, Texas) got himself another top five finish by finishing in fourth place. John Neal Reid (Loving, New Mexico) rounded out the top five in fifth place.

Huckaby recorded the race’s fastest lap at 17.272 seconds (unofficially) coming on lap two according to My Race Pass timing.

Josh McGaha (Abilene, Texas) was the hard charger of the race moving up 13 positions from 23^rd to 10^th.

Abbey moved up seven spots from his ninth place starting position. Hartline, Shane Priddy (Merkel, Texas) and J.D Davis (Merkel, Texas) each moved up four positions for finishes of fourth, 13^th and 18^th, respectively.

B Feature 1 winner- Sam Cox (Flower Mound, Texas)

Heat 1 winner- Steven Ashcraft (Forney, Texas)

Heat 2 winner-John Neal Reid (Loving, New Mexico)

Heat 3 winner-Jake Huckaby (Texarkana, Texas)

Full results for the event can be found at the following link-

https://www.myracepass.com/events/545616/media-results

Current Points Standings-

(Top 10)

Shane Hartline- 866
Dean Abbey- 882-4
Jason Ingalls- 844-42
Jake Huckaby- 760-126
Chase Hatton- 700-186
Wesley Veal- 693-193
Troy Taylor- 669-217
Sam Cox- 651-235
Ryan Veal- 627-259
John Smelley- 540-346

The next TOMS event will be at Southern Oklahoma Speedway, Saturday, Aug. 2, in Ardmore, Oklahoma.

As always, all the action of the TOMS race at SOS will be streamed on Raceon.com.

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Huckaby wins first career TOMS feature at HOT Speedway; RPM race postponed

July 15, 2025 Brant Thurmond Leave a comment

Jake Huckaby (center) from Texarkana, Texas, picked up his first Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) feature win Friday evening at Heart O’ Texas Speedway, in Elm Mott, Texas. ***(Photo Courtesy of Stacy Kolar/Southern Sass Photography)***

The Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) was back in action with a double-header weekend at Heart O’ Texas Speedway and RPM Speedway.

Jake Huckaby (Texarkana, Texas) picked up his first career TOMS feature win Friday evening at HOT Speedway.

Huckaby led 24 of the 25 laps in a race that featured five cautions in the first 10 laps. Chase Hatton (De Berry, Texas) led took the lead with 12 laps remaining, but Huckaby would pass him back on the next lap.

A caution with 10 laps remaining set the stage for a restart and would lead to two more cautions on back-to-back laps as John Smelly (Longview, Texas) and James Hoffman Jr. (Lorena, Texas) both spun in turn two.

The field restarted with eight laps remaining and Huckaby was able to hold off a strong effort from Hatton for the win.

Hatton appeared to finish second, however, an issue during the mandatory post-race inspection erased his finish and resulted in a DQ.

Dean Abbey (Boyd, Texas) finished second officially behind Huckaby, while Wesley Veal (Princeton, Texas) finished in third place. Jason Ingalls (Longview, Texas) and Justin McCoy (Grandview, Texas) rounded out the top five finishers.

It was a dream come true for Huckaby as he talked about what it took to battle through all the early race cautions and recalled how he was able to pick up his first TOMS feature win.

“Man, I can’t believe it right now. I’ve dreamed of this day since I started racing,” Huckaby said standing in victory lane. “Hats off to these guys. Chase threw a couple sliders on me, and I wanted to run him as clean as possible, but I knew I had a chance at it. So, I fought as hard as I could back to him.

“All of them cautions, I was getting a little nervous and didn’t know what I needed to do, but I kept looking at my dad and he told me just to run my line and run my race,” Huckaby said. “That’s exactly what I did.”

Hatton had the fastest lap of the race with a lap time of 15.505 seconds on lap 5 according to My Race Pass timing.

Ingalls was the hard charger of the race by moving up 10 spots from his 15^th starting position to finish fifth. James McCreery (Midlothian, Texas) and Hoffman Jr. both moved up eight spots for a finish of 10^th and 16^th respectively.

B Feature 1 winner- Jack Sartain (Royse City, Texas)

B Feature 2 winner- Troy Taylor (Midlothian, Texas)

Heat 1 winner- Paul White (Waco, Texas)

Heat 2 winner-Ryan Veal (Princeton, Texas)

Heat 3 winner- Jake Huckaby (Texarkana, Texas)

Heat 4 winner- Jason Webb (McKinney, Texas)

Full results can be found at the following link:

https://www.myracepass.com/events/545100/media-results

Sartain Wins April 4 make up race

The series also held a make-up race on Friday evening for the April 4 event that was canceled right after the heat races due to rain.

Jack Sartain was the winner of the make-up feature after leading all of the 25 laps.

Sartain, who started on the outside of the front row, took the lead exiting turn two of the opening lap and never looked back.

The caution flag flew on lap three as Eric Tomlinson (Robinson, Texas) spun in turn one.

Jack Sartain (center) from Royse City, Texas, won the April 4 make up feature race Friday, July 11, 2025, at Heat O’ Texas Speedway, in Elm Mott, Texas.
***(Photo Courtesy of Stacy Kolar/Southern Sass Photography)***

The race would go caution free for the next 20 laps before Smelly came to a stop at the exit of turn four prior to Sartain taking the white flag.

The drivers would close the race out with a green-white-checker finish with Sartain hanging on for the win.

“The track kind of cleaned off real good in the middle, so I felt like I could probably win the thing,” Sartain said of the late race restart. “But you never know with a restart. You never know what’s going to happen.”

Veal finished in second place behind Sartain, while Ingalls was third; Troy Taylor (Midlothian, Texas) was fourth and Abbey rounded out the top five.

Veal had the fastest lap time of the feature race with a time of 16.147 seconds on lap 13 according to My Race Pass timing.

Robert McKinney was the hard charger of the race, improving 10 spots from his 18^th starting positions for an eighth-place finish.

Heat 1 winner- Shane Hartline (Ivanhoe, Texas)

Heat 2 winner- Steven Ashcraft (Forney, Texas)

Heat 3 winner- Jack Sartain (Royse City, Texas)

Full results can be found at the following link:

https://www.myracepass.com/events/544998/media-results

RPM Speedway 7-12-25

Mother Nature was the ultimate winner as the event was cancelled shortly after the conclusion of the B Feature races.

The feature races will be made up during the TOMS Nationals held Oct. 24 and 25, at RPM Speedway.

The results for the heat races and B Feature races are as follows.

B Feature 1 winner- Jake Huckaby (Texarkana, Texas)

B Feature 2 winner- Bo Day (Greenville, Texas)

Heat 1 winner- Richard Brown Jr. (Gun Barrel, Texas)

Heat 2 winner- Troy Taylor (Midlothian, Texas)

Heat 3 winner- Carl Large Jr. (Ovilla, Texas)

Heat 4 winner- Kale Westover (Altus, Oklahoma)

Full results can be found at the following link:

https://www.myracepass.com/events/557613/media-results

Current Points Standings-

(Top 10)

Shane Hartline- 799
Dean Abbey- 787- 12
Jason Ingalls- 768- 31
Jake Huckaby- 660- 139
Chase Hatton- 645- 154
Wesley Veal- 602- 197
Troy Taylor- 591- 208
Sam Cox- 581- 218
Ryan Veal- 577- 222
Jason Webb- 536- 263

The TOMS next event will be held on Saturday, July 19, at Abilene Speedway, in Abilene, Texas. If you are unable to attend the race, catch all the action on Race On.

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Westover victorious at Southern Oklahoma Speedway

July 7, 2025 Brant Thurmond Leave a comment

Kale Westover (center) was the winner of the Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) feature race Saturday, July 5, 2025, at Southern Oklahoma Speedway. Shown with Westover are Hudson Westover (left) and TOMS flagman Ricky Randall.
**(Photo Courtesy of Mike Frieri/Photos by Mike)**

Nothing says “America” like fireworks, dirt track racing and the some of the fastest and most talented modified drivers in the southern part of the United States on July 4^th weekend.

Fans in attendance at Southern Oklahoma Speedway were treated to all the above and more Saturday, July 5, as the Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) drivers were on hand to display their talents. There was a season-high 41 entries for the event.

Saturday’s feature race had five cautions and two different leaders as Jason Webb (McKinney, Texas) and Kale Westover (Altus, Oklahoma) battled it out for the majority of the race.

The first caution of the race came on the first lap as Chase Hatton (De Berry, Texas) and points leader Shane Hartline (Ivanhoe, Texas) tangled up on the opening lap.

The field completed two laps before Wesley Veal (Princeton, Texas) spun exiting turn two and collected Sam Cox’s (Flower Mound, Texas) No. 3 car.

Webb led another two laps before Hatton spun in turn two, which brought out the third caution of the race.

Another caution with 8 of the 25 laps completed forced another restart for Webb. On the restart Jason Ingalls (Longview, Texas) spun in the middle of turns one and two to bring out another caution.

Webb went on to lead the next seven laps before Westover was able to dip to the low side while navigating around a lap car exiting turn four and took the lead with 10 laps remaining.

Westover stretched his lead out nearly a full straight-away and won the race with a 3.323 second margin according to My Race Pass timing.

Patience was key for Westover as he waited until Webb caught lap traffic to make his move.

“It was so hard to pass, and he (Webb) was in the fastest lane around the track,” Westover said standing in victory lane. “So, I knew if just pace him enough and once we caught the lap traffic, I got on his tail just trying to figure out what he was going to do. I probably would have done the same thing he did in his situation. It just worked out for me that the lapper just kind of pushed up a little bit and I snugged her around the tires.

“Once I got cleared, I knew I had to jump up and get moving,” he added. “Jason’s stuff was really good. I was probably going to finish second behind him if it wasn’t for them lappers.”

Webb finished second. Mitchell Clement (Bonham, Texas) was third, while Colby Smith (Greenville, Texas) was fourth and Jake Huckaby (Texarkana, Texas) rounded out the top five finishers.

Ingalls was the hard chargers of the race, moving up 13 positions from his 20^th starting spot to finish seventh. Justin McCoy (Grandview, Texas) moved up 10 spots from his 18^th starting spot to finish behind Ingalls in eighth place.

Smith had the fast lap (unofficially) with a lap time of 17.310 seconds on lap eight.

B Feature 1 winner- Geoff Larry (Minden, Louisiana)

B Feature 2 winner- Shane Hartline (Ivanhoe, Texas)

Heat 1 winner- Casey Fowler (Grand Saline, Texas)

Heat 2 winner- Jason Langford (Palestine, Texas)

Heat 3 winner- Dean Abbey (Boyd, Texas)

Heat 4 winner- Kale Westover (Altus, Oklahoma)

Heat 5 winner- Colby Smith (Greenville, Texas)

For full results of Saturday’s race, click the following link.

https://www.myracepass.com/events/557610/media-results

Current points Standings

(Top 10)

Shane Hartline- 637
Dean Abbey- 608 -29
Jason Ingalls- 590 – 47
Chase Hatton- 521-116
Jake Huckaby- 488-149
Sam Cox- 464 -173
Jason Webb- 458-179
Ryan Veal- 441-196
Troy Taylor- 434-203
Mitchell Clement- 426-211

The TOMS will be back in action this weekend for back-to-back races on Friday and Saturday, July 11 and 12. Friday’s race will be at Heart O’ Texas Speedway, in Waco, Texas, while Saturday’s race will be at RPM Speedway, in Crandall, Texas.

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Abbey picks up first career TOMS win at Rocket Raceway Park; Webb wins Inaugural Ark-La-Tex TOMS race

June 22, 2025 Brant Thurmond Leave a comment

Dean Abbey picked up his first Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) win Friday, June 20, 2025, at Rocket Raceway Park, in Petty, Texas.
*(Photo Courtesy of Mike Frieri /Photos by Mike)*

The Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) was back in action Friday and Saturday, June 20-21, evening for two nights of racing.

The series originally was originally scheduled to race at Boothill Speedway on Friday, June 20, however the series posted on its Facebook page on June 13, that the race at Boothill was canceled and the series would be racing at Rocket Raceway Park instead.

Friday’s action at Rocket Raceway Park featured a caution-free A Feature race that eventually led to a first time series winner in Dean Abbey.

Abbey (Boyd, Texas) started the race on the outside of the front row, and after Jason Ingalls (Longview, Texas) led the opening lap, Abbey passed Ingalls on lap two for the race lead.

Abbey went on to lead the next 15 laps, and as the field caught lap traffic, Chase Allen (Midlothian, Texas) was able to pass Abbey exiting turn 2.

Allen led the next five laps and looked to set sail with the lead, but Abbey didn’t want to be denied as he battled back with Allen and made slight contact as the field crossed the stripe with five laps remaining.

Allen would lead one more lap before being forced to pull to the infield as he exited turn two after what appeared to be some kind of malfunction with his No. 49 car.

Abbey regained the lead and would pick up the win.

Abbey, who filled in as a guest commentator for the Race On broadcast during the B feature races, joked about his time in the pressbox during his post-race interview with the track announcer.

Shown above are the top five finishers from the Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) race held Friday, June 20, 2025, at Rocket Raceway Park. Pictured is (l to r) Chase Hatton, Jason Webb, Shane Hartline, Dean Abbey and Jason Ingalls.
*(Photo by Mike Frieri/Photos by Mike)*

“Hey, maybe that’s the luck I needed,” Abbey said. “I got to sit up there for a minute and cool off and kind of watch the racing and look at the racetrack. It gave me a really good sense of where I wanted to be.”

As far as the race itself, Abbey said he was able to make an adjustment when Allen passed him for the lead and capitalized on a mistake later by Allen to help him win.

“I thought I gave it away for a minute when Chase (Allen) got by me and then I saw what he was doing,” he said. “The lapped traffic played into my favor a bit, but man, what a racecar we had. I knew I was giving up (time) down here (turn one and two). I was getting tight in those holes and then I’d be up there in the slick coming off. Then, I started searching and Chase made a mistake, and I was able to capitalize in lap traffic.”

Shane Hartline (Ivanhoe, Texas) finished in second place, while Ingalls was third, Jason Webb (McKinney, Texas) finished fourth and Chase Hatton (De Berry, Texas) improved five spots from his 10^th place starting position for a top five finish.

Abbey led 19 of the 25 laps, while Allen led five laps and Jason Ingalls led one lap.

Chris Henigan (Marshall, Texas) was the hard charger of the race, moving up 10 positions from 17^th to seventh.

Jason Hillard (Cache, Oklahoma) improved nine spots from 23^rd to 14^th and Jason Langford (Palestine, Texas) moved up six positions from 19^th to 13^th.

Allen had the fastest lap time with a time of 15.848 on lap five according to My Race Pass timing.

B Feature 1 winner- Richard Brown Jr (Gun Barrell, Texas)

B Feature 2 winner- Jake Huckaby (Texarkana, Texas)

Heat 1 winner- Jason Gamez

Heat 2 winner- Jason Webb

Heat 3 winner- Dean Abbey

Heat 4 winner- Sam Cox

Heat 5 winner- Billy Brierton

Full results can be found at the following link.

https://www.myracepass.com/events/563262/races

ARK-LA-TEX

It was an inaugural trip to the Ark-La-Tex Speedway Saturday evening, June 21, 2025, in Vivian, Louisiana, for the Touring Outlaw Modified Series.

Leading into the feature race, Chris Henigan was arguably the favorite to win the feature race after winning his heat race earlier in the night and being a regular at Ark-La-Tex Speedway and seeing a great deal of success.

Hennigan had five wins in the previous 10 trips he made to the track with the USRA Modifieds.

Unfortunately for Hennigan, his feature race did not go as he had hoped, as he had issues with his racecar before the drop of the green flag after being set to start on the pole of the feature.

Hennigan was able to make a few laps from the 24^th starting position before pulling off the track.

Abbey moved up from his original second place starting position to the pole and from the drop of the green flag, set his sights on back-to-back TOMS wins.

Abbey led the first 10 laps of the feature race before colliding with the infield tractor tire exiting turn two. The mishap would send him back to 23^rd.

Drake Findley (Bryant, Arkansas) inherited the race lead and led six laps before colliding with John Smelly (Longview, Texas) following a spin by Smelly in the middle of turns one and two.

Tanner Barnhart (North Little Rock, Arkansas) took over the lead with eight laps remaining and survived two more cautions (Lap 19 and 21).

Jason Webb (McKinney, Texas) took the lead with two laps remaining while exiting turn two and went on to become the sixth winner in six TOMS events.

“This track started to widen out there and just made for damn good racing,” Webb said standing in victory lane. “Before that last restart, I kind of got up there (turn three and four) and checked it out. It seemed like it had some grip. That was kind of the last choice and where I ended up.”

Barnhart finished second behind Webb, while Landon Rogers (Karnack, Texas) finished in third place; Hartline was fourth; and Abbey rounded out the top five after rebounding from his mishap earlier in the race.

Abbey led 10 laps. Findley led seven laps, while Barnhart led six laps and Webb led two laps.

Webb and Donnie Powers (Henderson, Texas) were the races’ hard chargers with both improving seven positions from their original starting spots. Webb started eighth and Powers started 15^th and finished eighth.

Abbey had the fastest lap of the race with a lap time of 15.255 seconds on lap five, according to My Race Pass timing.

B Feature 1 winner- Sam Cox (Flower Mound, Texas

Heat 1 winner- Chris Hennigan

Heat 2 winner- Landon Rogers

Heat 3 winner- Drake Findley

Heat 4 winner- Dean Abbey

Full results can be found at the following link.

https://www.myracepass.com/events/557607/media-results

Current points Standings

(Top 10)

Shane Ivanhoe- 563
Dean Abbey- 527 -36
Jason Ingalls- 512 – 51
Chase Hatton- 449 -114
Sam Cox- 413 -150
Jake Huckaby- 404 -159
Ryan Veal- 396 -167
Troy Taylor- 368 -195
Jason Webb – 363 -200
Wesley Veal- 362 – 201

The next TOMS event will be held Saturday, July 5, at Southern Oklahoma Speedway. The series will have three additional races in July- Heart O’ Texas Speedway (July11), RPM Speedway (July 12) and Abilene Speedway (July 19).

As always, the racing action will be streamed on Race On if you can’t make it to the track.

Brant Thurmond Sports Journalist/Sports Photographer