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 15th starting position to finish fifth. James McCreery (Midlothian, Texas) and Hoffman Jr. both moved up eight spots for a finish of 10th and 16th 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.
(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 18th 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.