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 11th 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 23rd starting position for an eighth-place finish, while Carr moved up 12 spots from his 21st starting position and finished behind Murphey in ninth place.
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.
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 10th 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 17th to seventh.
Jason Hillard (Cache, Oklahoma) improved nine spots from 23rd to 14th and Jason Langford (Palestine, Texas) moved up six positions from 19th to 13th.
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)
Jason Webb (McKinney, Texas) was the feature winner of the Inaugural Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) at Ark-La-Tex Speedway, held June 21, 2025, in Vivian, Louisiana (Photo courtesy of Ark-La-Tex Speedway)
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 24th 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 23rd.
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 15th 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.
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.
(L to R) Jason Webb, Jack Sartain, Jason Sartain and Dean Abbey lead the TOMS drivers onto the front straightaway during the parade laps leading up to the feature race Saturday, May 31, 2025, at Rocket Raceway Park, in Petty, Texas. (Photo by Brant Thurmond/Double T Media)
Following a series of rainouts and cancellations, the Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) was finally able to get a full night of racing completed Saturday, May 31, at Rocket Raceway Park.
Saturday’s race was the first race attempted to complete in nearly two months, as the last time the series was in action was April 4 at Heart O’ Texas Speedway (HOT) in Waco.
The race on April 4 was called at the conclusion of the heat races as a rain shower moved in on the speedway. The race was later rescheduled for the next time the series would be at HOT on May 2.
Unfortunately, that race was also canceled due to rain.
It has been a tough start to the 2025 for the TOMS with the series seeing four rainouts in the first seven races, including four in a row (Kennedale April 4, HOT May 2, Hunt County May 3, and Grayson County May 17), so Saturday’s clear skies and temps in the mid 80s was a welcome sign for the series officials, drivers, fans and track promoters.
The action on the track was equally exciting as 35 drivers checked in to race in the Outlaw Modified class.
Shane Hartline (Ivanhoe, Texas) made a last lap pass going into turn 3 over leader Mitchell Clement (Bonham, Texas) to claim the feature win.
“That feels pretty good being a last lap deal,” Hartline said following the race. “I was just trying to buy my time and stay on the bottom, but that was pretty exhilarating.
“I worked the bottom down here in (turn) 1 and 2 the whole race because I kept seeing every caution there was a car that jumped the cushion,” he continued. “It was getting pretty treacherous up there (top line), so I figured it was better for me to minimize the mistakes I could make.”
Shane Hartline celebrates following his Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) win held May 31, 2025, at Rocket Raceway Park, in Petty, Texas. (Photo by Brant Thurmond/Double T Media)
Hartline finished runner-up to Clement in the TOMS opener at Southern Oklahoma on March 21 after Hartline led the first 14 laps of that race.
In Saturday’s race, Jack Sartain started on the pole and led six laps before the race’s first caution as Chase Hatton brought out the caution following a spin in turn 2.
A second spin by Hatton brought out another caution before a lap could be scored on the restart.
Sartain went on to lead the next five laps before Josh Cain’s car went for a spin in turn 2 on lap 11; however during the caution, Sartain would pull off the track and not finish the remaining 14 laps of the race.
Shane Hartline (25) takes the checkered flag as Mitchell Clement (32) follows in a close second. Hartline passed Clement in turn 3 and 4 coming to the finish line. (Photo by Brant Thurmond/Double T Media)
Two more laps were completed before Colby Smith spun on lap 13 off of turn 2 with Clement leading the race.
Clement went on to lead the next 11 laps and took the final lap leading the race, however, a slight slip up exiting turn 2 allowed Hartline to dive to the inside of him in turn three with the two battling to the finish line in an exciting finish.
Dean Abbey was the third-place finisher and the hard charger of the race, moving up 10 spots from his 13th start position. Jason Ingals and Jason Sartain rounded out the top five.
Mathew Day finished sixth, while Hatton finished in seventh place after bringing out the race’s first two cautions. Justin McCoy, Sam Cox and Troy Taylor rounded out the top 10 finishers.
B Feature winners:
B Feature 1 winner- Dean Abbey
B Feature 2 winner- Jason Webb
Heat Race winners:
Heat 1- Chase Hatton
Heat 2- Colby Smith
Heat 3- Sam Cox
Heat 4- Jack Sartain
Heat 5- Shane Hartline
A full and complete breakdown of the results can be found at the following link:
Fred Wojtek (44F) passes Justin McCoy (87) and sets his sights on Sam Cox (3) as the three exit turn 2 of the TOMS feature race held Saturday, May 31, 2025, at Rocket Raceway Park. (Photo by Brant Thurmond/Double T Media)
By Brant Thurmond
The Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) were back in action Saturday night at Rocket Raceway Park, in Petty, Texas.
Coming off an up and down season opener at Southern Oklahoma Speedway back on March 21 and 22, Blackwell native Fred “Fast Freddy” Wojtek was hoping to build off a strong rebound finish in the feature race.
However, with around 18 of the 25 laps completed, Wojtek’s motor blew and ended his night with a 17th place finish.
“We had a rod that is hanging outside the pan,” Wojtek said. “Another crappy night, but I guess it could be worse. It’s going to be a little bit before we are going to be able to race with the TOMS guys. We are going to have to get us a motor a built or fixed or see what we got here.”
Wojtek started 12th in the feature and moved up to ninth, before falling back to around 10th when the motor blew.
“It’s just more bad luck,” Wojtek said. “I hate to say that all the time. I had no warning that it was going to blow.”
Saturday’s night at Rocket Raceway Park started out pretty good for Wojtek, who finished second in his heat race behind Jack Sartain.
“We had a pretty decent heat race,” Wojtek said. “The car was a little tight in the heat race. We didn’t do anything to it for the feature.”
The race Saturday night was the series’ first full event since the opening weekend in March.
The race on April 4, was called after the heat races with a make up date set for May 2, however that race was rained out as well.
Mother Nature has been victorious in the last five of seven races for the TOMS.
Wojtek raced one race outside of the TOMS on May 10, at Abilene Speedway where he raced an IMCA Modified.
Wojtek started 13th in the feature race and moved up 10 spots to finish in third place.
Having been a few weeks since he last raced, Wojtek said it took him a few laps to find his rhythm and battled tight conditions most of the night.
“The car was tight on the throttle,” Wojtek said. “I was fighting it a lot. Every once and a while, I could find a good groove and pass a few cars but just couldn’t stay consistent. The track was a little different than what we normally run. I think this is the third time we have been on this track, so I don’t have a lot of notes for it. Hopefully, when we come back next time, we will be a little better.”
The next scheduled race for the TOMS is Saturday, June 14, at Southern Oklahoma Speedway, in Ardmore, Oklahoma.
At the time of this article, it is unclear if Wojtek will be competing at the next race.
