The 2025 Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) season will kick-off at 7 p.m. today March 21 at Southern Oklahoma Speedway, in Ardmore Oklahoma.
Tonight’s race will be night the first of two separate races this weekend at SOS. Both nights will have a hefty $1,500 to win purse and will pay $240 to start.
General admission to the track will be $20 and kids 6-12, military, and seniors will be $15. Pit passes will be $35.
For Blackwell native Fred “Fast Freddy” Wojtek the 2025 season opener will be a fresh start for him as he experienced a series of bad luck during the summer months of 2024.
Despite the bad luck, Wojtek finished eighth in the points in his second year with the series. He closed out the 2024 season with a fifth-place finish on the second night of the TOMS Nationals held Oct. 25 and 26, at Grayson County Speedway.
Wojtek will look to put 2024 behind him as he starts his third season as he will be on a different chassis in 2025.
“We decided to go with our GRT,” Wojtek said. “That car has been a proven winner for us, and it’s a car that I’m real comfortable with. We had a body put on it and made it more of an outlaw car. We did some updates on the front end and made the body where it’s more of an outlaw style body.”
“We raced it at Grayson (during TOMS Nationals) and it was still pretty much set up IMCA,” Wojtek continued. “So, we updated some things on it, and we are going to go that route until we can get the MB (chassis) sold. We might try to buy something new or maybe not quite as old as what we have been running.”
For Wojtek, the GRT chassis has been a good car for him with success at the IMCA level.
“We have won a couple IMCA championships with the GRT,” he said. “Like I said, I’m real comfortable with the GRT and I know it really well. The GRT has been freshened up. Me and my dad tore it down to bare frame and then we put all new parts on it a couple years ago. So, everything that’s on it maybe has about six or seven nights on it with all the new parts on it.”
The 2025 season will have some different tracks on the schedule for Wojtek and the TOMS compared to the 2024 season with RPM, Rocket Raceway Park, Boothill Speedway and Ark-La-Tex Speedway.
Wojtek said he has experience at three of the four tracks with Boothill Speedway being the only one he has not raced at.
“I went to Ark-La-Tex a long time ago when I first started racing in 2006,” Wojtek said. “They had a $5000 to win stockcar race. I ran the heat race and got in a wreck and bent the frame and ended up loading up and going home. I think I’ve made about 15 laps on that track counting hot laps.
“We ran RPM in 2023 when they had a two-night show there,” Wojtek said. “The first night a piece of mud or something hit my kill switch, and we slipped back towards the back and then came back and got around 12th. The second night the track had some character to it. I think I ended up finishing second that night. So, I like RPM. It seems to fit my style well.”
Looking ahead to this weekend’s races at SOS, SOS has been a solid track for Wojtek in the past with an average finish of 8.8 with two top 5’s and four top 10’s.
Wojtek’s best finish at SOS in 2024 came on April 6 with a third-place finish in the feature race. On May 4, he finished eighth in the feature and on the final trip to SOS with the TOMS on July 6, he did not start the feature race after having issues in the heat race.
“I really like SOS. I’ve never won there, but I’ve always wanted to win at that track,” he said. “I like Oklahoma. It’s a little bit bigger than what we normally run on and I’m ready to win one there. Hopefully, this weekend we can get us a win there.”
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