(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 11th 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 14th starting position for a fifth-place finish, while Westover moved up six positions from 13th 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.