Clement wins TOMS opener at SOS; Hatton scores first career TOMS win on night two

Mitchell Clement shown with his family and TOMS official Ricky Randall in victory lane following the 25-lap feature race, at Southern Oklahoma Speedway, in Ardmore, Oklahoma. **(Photo by Brant Thurmond/Double T Media)**

The Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) kicked off its 2025 season with two nights of racing Friday and Saturday night, at Southern Oklahoma Speedway, in Ardmore.

Mitchell Clement (Bonham, Texas) moved his No. 32 car up seven spots from his eighth starting position to claim the win on the opening night.

The 25-lap feature race had one caution as Steven Ashcraft (Forney, Texas) came to a stop entering turn three on lap 10.

Shane Hartline (Ivanhoe, Texas) was the race leader at the time of caution and went on to lead an additional four laps as Clement worked his way up to the second position with 11 laps remaining.

Clement passed Hartline for the lead with seven laps remaining as the two would battle for the lead for an additional two laps.

Clement went on to lead the remaining laps and won over second place finisher Hartline by 1.601 seconds, according to My Race Pass timing.

“The car has been good all night and we just made some minimum changes there for the feature,” Clement said standing in victory lane after the race. “I was able to lean on that cushion a little bit, and it felt good up there.”

Mitchell Clement (32) races with Bo Day off of turn two during the feature race held Friday, March 21, at Southern Oklahoma Speedway, in Ardmore, Oklahoma.
**(Photo by Brant Thurmond/Double T Media)**

“The track definitely had some character to it,” Clement said. “I think it may take some time for him to get it worked after putting new dirt on it three days before we race on it. It is what it is. We all got to race on it.”

Jason Ingalls (Longview, Texas), Chris Henigan (Marshall, Texas) and Bo Day (Greenville, Texas) rounded out the top five finishers

Earlier in the night the TOMS raced two B-Mains, which were won by Jason Sartain (Royce City, Texas) and William Gould (Celera, Oklahoma).

Heat race winners for night one included:

●Heat 1- Mitchell Clement

●Heat 2- Jason Ingalls

●Heat 3- Chase Hatton (DeBerry, Texas)

●Heat 4- Shane Hartline

Full results can be found at the following link.

https://www.myracepass.com/events/557571/media-results

Hatton wins night two at SOS

Chase Hatton (second from right) picked up his first career TOMS win Saturday evening, at Southern Oklahoma Speedway, in Ardmore, Oklahoma.
**(Photo by Brant Thurmond/Double T Media)**

Night Two at Southern Oklahoma Speedway saw Chase Hatton win the A-Feature race.

For Hatton, it was his first TOMS win with the series.

The field started the race three wide as Hatton was in the middle between Michael Ables and Chris Henigan.

Chris Henigan (16) leads Mitchell Clement (32) and Chase Hatton (211) off turn four and down the front straight away during the early stages of the A-Main, Saturday, March 22, at Southern Oklahoma Speedway. Hatton ended up winning the race, while Henigan finished second and Clement fell back to 21st.
**(Photo by Brant Thurmond/Double T Media)**

Hennigan led the first lap and a half before Shawn Johnson (Marlow, Oklahoma) spun in the middle of turn three and four bringing out the caution.

On the restart, Henigan took the lead and set sail and lead the next 15 laps. However, as the field got strung out and lap traffic became a factor, Hatton decided to take the outside groove and Henigan stuck to the bottom as they passed a lap car with 13 laps remaining.

Hatton used the momentum from the high line and was able to use a lap car to put distance between himself and Hennigan.

Hatton went on to lead the remaining 13 laps en route to score his first career TOMS win and first in win 2025. The margin of victory was 4.419 seconds, according to My Race Pass timing.

“After last night’s mishap, we definitely had to work on the left rear of this thing and right front pretty hard all day today,” Hatton said after the race. “We came out in the heat race, and we were alright. We weren’t really good. The slick track kind of caught us off guard.

“We made some changes,” he said. “We didn’t get too aggressive with it. Whenever Henigan got out front and the 32 got by me, I was like, ‘Oh man. I’m running third tonight guys.’ We had that caution and then I was able go to the outside of the 32. Lap traffic really played a favor in tonight.”

Henigan finished behind Hatton in second, while Hartline finished third; Dean Abbey was fourth and Ingalls rounded out the top five in fifth.

Saturday’s heat race winners were:

•Heat 1- Clement

●Heat 2- Hartline

●Heat 3- Henigan

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

https://www.myracepass.com/events/557574/media-results

The TOMS series will be back in action Friday, April 4, at Heart O’ Texas, in Elm Mott, Texas and Saturday, April 5, at Kennedale Speedway Park, in Kennedale, Texas.

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