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Christian wins TOMS opener, Day wins night two

ARDMORE, OK- The Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) kicked off its 2026 season with two nights of racing March 20 and 21, at Southern Oklahoma Speedway, in Ardmore, Oklahoma.

There were 44 cars checked to races with the TOMS on night one of the double-header. 

Gary Christian (Broken Bow, Oklahoma) and his No. 58X car started on the pole and led all 25 laps to claim the win on the opening night. 

Gary Christian (Broken Bow, Oklahoma) was the feature winner of the TOMS season-opener March 20, 2026, at Southern Oklahoma Speedway.
(Photo by Brant Thurmond/Double T Media)

The 25-lap feature race had two cautions (lap two and lap five) as Troy Taylor (Midlothian, Texas) and Dillion Pike (Waxahachie, Texas) got together in the middle of turns 3 and 4 as both cars spun and came to a rest on the track. 

Three laps later, Wesley Veal (Princeton, Texas) and Matthew Day spun in turn 4, drawing the caution flag. 

The race went green for the next 20 laps as Christian was able to stretch his lead while navigating lap traffic and ended up winning by 7.82 seconds. 

Christian’s fastest lap was on lap six with a time of 18.659 seconds according to My Race Pass timing. 

“It felt pretty good. I didn’t really know where to be at,” Christian said standing in victory lane. “I kind of just kept looking out of the corner of my eye for someone’s nose. I just tried to get through lap traffic the best I could.”

“It takes a lot of pressure off when you can win one early in the year,” he said. “You can just have a lot more fun with it.”

Bo Day (Greenville, Texas) was the second-place finisher, while Matthew Day (Farmersville, Texas) was third. Dean Abbey (Boyd, Texas) finished fourth and Kale Westover (Altus, Oklahoma) rounded out the top five.  

Abbey was the biggest mover, up 13 spots from his 17th starting spot, while M. Day moved up nine spots from 12th

Earlier in the night the TOMS raced two B-Mains, which were won by Shane Hartline (Ivanhoe, Texas) and Taylor.

Heat race winners for night one included:

Heat 1- Colby Smith- Greenville, Texas

Heat 2- Rodney Sanders- Happy, Texas

Heat 3- Gary Christian- Broken Bow, Oklahoma

Heat 4- Bo Day- Greenville, Texas

Heat 5- Jeff Taylor- Locust Grove, Arkansas

Full results can be found at the following link.

https://www.myracepass.com/events/603399/media-results

Night two at Southern Oklahoma Speedway saw Matthew Day win his first career TOMS feature race. 

The first 10 laps of Saturday’s feature race went green with Ryan Veal (Princeton, Texas) leading the first seven laps. Christian gained the top spot on lap nine before a caution from a Jason Sartain (Royce City, Texas) spin in turn 4 brought out the caution. 

Matthew Day (Farmersville, Texas) picked up his first career TOMS win on night two at Southern Oklahoma Speedway.
(Photo by Brant Thurmond/Double T Media)

Day took the lead with 12 laps remaining before a spin by Rusty Trevathan (Wylie, Texas) brought out a caution with two laps remaining. 

With an impending green-white-checker finish coming, Day was able to jump out to the lead and claim the win. 

“I’ve had a couple outlaw wins, but nothing with the TOMS,” Day said on his first win with the series. “It’s definitely a cool deal to get and especially against the talent level that we had here. 44 cars at this level and probably 12 guys could win it any given night, and we drove up through the field. I wish Gary (Christian) wouldn’t have broken. I’d like to see if I had anything for him, but sometimes that’s the way it goes.” 

Abbey was the second place finisher behind Day, while Hartline finished third. Chris Henigan (Marshall, Texas) was fourth and Colby Smith rounded out the top five. 

Hartline was the biggest mover driving his car up 15 spots to third, Henigan and Jeff Taylor each moved up 15 spots as well for a fourth and seventh place finish, respectively. 

Christian had the fastest lap of the race on lap seven with a lap time of 18.474 seconds before something malfunction on his racecar on lap 18 and he had to pull to the infield. 

B Feature 1 winner- Colby Smith

B Feature 2 winner- Matthew Day

Heat 1- Mitchell Clement (Bonham, Texas)

Heat 2- Jason Sartain (Royce City, Texas)

Heat 3- Jason Langford (Palestine, Texas)

Heat 4- Kale Westover (Altus, Oklahoma)

Heat 5- Ryan Veal (Princeton, Texas)

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

https://www.myracepass.com/events/603402/media-results

The TOMS series will be back in action Saturday, April 4, at RPM Speedway, in Crandall, Texas, weather permitting. 

Hartline wins 2025 Touring Outlaw Modified Series Championship

Shane Hartline from Ivanhoe, Texas takes the checkered flag during the Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) race at Southern Oklahoma Speedway held Aug. 2, 2025. The win was Hartline’s second of the year.
(Photo by Brant Thurmond/Double T Media)

The Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) points battle for the 2025 championship has officially concluded.

Shane Hartline from Ivanhoe, Texas, is the official series Champion with a total of 1,256 points. Dean Abbey, (Boyd, Texas) finished 51 points behind Hartline in second place with 1,205 points.

Jason Ingalls (Longview, Texas) finished the 2025 season with 1,133 points and 123 points behind Hartline for third place overall, while Jake Huckaby (Texarkana, Texas) was fourth overall with 1,047 points (-209 from Hartline;) and Chase Hatton (De Berry, Texas) rounded out the top five with 1,019 points and 237 points away from Hartline.

Shane Hartline (25) takes the checkered flag first over Mitchell Clement (32) in a last lap pass win during the Touring Outlaw Modified Series race held at Rocket Raceway Park May 31, 2025. The win was Hartline’s first win of 2025. He went on to win three more races en route to the series championship. (Photo by Brant Thurmond/Double T Media)

The 2025 season was the first full season Hartline ran with the TOMS, and he had a dominant first season, picking up a series-leading four wins, 10 top 5’s and 13 top 10’s in 14 feature races.

Hartline had raced with the series prior to 2025, mostly at Grayson County Speedway, Southern Oklahoma Speedway and Hunt County Speedway, with one win at SOS in 2021.

“This year was one of the most challenging years that I have attempted in my racing career,” Hartline said. “I have raced very local up to this year. This winter my team and I set a goal to run for the TOMS Championship.

“I have won a few track championships in my racing career, but never attempted a touring series,” he said. “With the kind of talent that shows up to the TOMS shows, I didn’t really know what to expect, but I felt like we could be a player at most of the tracks.”

Having a few track championships under his belt, he felt a significant level accomplishment by winning the TOMS championship in his first full year of competition.

“This is the biggest accomplishment in my racing career so far,” Hartline said. “To race with the caliber of guys in this series says a lot about North Texas modified racing as a whole.”

Following a second-place finish in the season opener at Southern Oklahoma Speedway on March 21, Hartline followed that up with a third-place finish and the points lead the following night.

The consistency each night was evident throughout the season as Hartline led the points for the remainder of the season.

“Always bringing a well-prepared car, keeping my nose clean and being consistent,” Hartline said about the keys to success and not losing the points lead.

Hartline picked up his first win of the season at Rocket Raceway Park on May 31 on a last lap pass around Mitchell Clement.

Shane Hartline (25) exits turn 2 during the Touring Outlaw Modified Series heat race at Abilene Speedway.
(Photo by Brant Thurmond/Double T Media)

Second place points finisher Abbey was hot on Hartline’s trail for most of the season and closed Hartline’s points lead to four points after the race at Abilene Speedway on July 19.

“I had only raced Abilene once before and finished fourth this year,” Hartline said. “This was one of my wild card races in the points battle since I hadn’t been there much and salvaged a decent finish.”

A mental reset turned out to be a key turning point in the season after the Abilene race for Hartline.

“This is where my wife and I had a few nights to talk about the season and get a new mindset,” he said. “We decided not to look at the points anymore and just go race and have fun. Well, we definitely had fun after that.”

Hartline took advantage of a test session after the Abilene race and that is where he said he was able to fix some things.

“Rocket had a test and tune, and we went to play with the car and found a few things and fixed a few problems we had been fighting,” he said.

Hartline went on to win back-to-back races in the month of August, including the 11th Annual Hella Shrine Classic at Hunt County Speedway.

“The Hella Shrine was a good one for me,” Hartline said. “I won the heat, dash and the feature. It’s pretty cool to win one of the crown jewels of the TOMS series.”

Hartline’s only finish of the season that was not in the top 10 came at Kennedale Speedway Park.

“Kennedale is a track I have only raced one time at, also, so we were just looking to get as best a finish as we could,” Hartline said. “I finally found how to race it about the last three or four laps and finished 11th.”

Hartline picked up his fourth win of the season at Rocket Raceway Park at the Bryan Mize Memorial on a racing surface that had some “character” spots to it.

“The Bryan Mize race looked like weather would win night two, so it was all up to Friday night,” he said. “The track was ‘cowboys up’ with a not ideal track surface, but we hung in there and took advantage of a few mistakes and was able to win that one too. I will remember not wanting to get out of the car because I was worn out.”

Although it may have been Hartline’s first full season with the TOMS series, the success and consistency it took to win the championship will be talked about for years to come.

Sponsors, Family and Crew

Hartline had the following to say regarding his family and crew:

I would like to thank my wife, Chanda, for always supporting me in this adventure and allowing me to spend the hours in the shop that it takes to race; Jasen Loftice for everything that he has done for my racing career … I couldn’t do this without him; and, Don Tomlinson for all the hours in the shop and at the race track.

Sponsors –

J&G Services

Hartline Holdings

Collin County Fence Supply

Gold Star Finance 

Alpha Transmission

Grayson County Diesel Service

Gary’s Corner Garage

Hair by Hartline

Muddbones

Skeeter’s Metal Art

Ain’t It Racing

Mom

Trevor Hartline

Seth Hartline

Jason & Amanda Hartline

Donald & Wendy Hopkins

Shannon & Sabrina Hartline

Huckaby wins TOMS feature at Abilene Speedway; Becomes first repeat winner in 2025

Jake Huckaby (Texarkana, Texas) celebrates following his TOMS feature win Saturday, July 19, 2025, at Abilene Speedway, in Abilene, Texas. Huckaby became the first driver to win back-to-back TOMS feature races in 2025.
(Photo by Brant Thurmond/Double T Media)

The Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) was back in action Saturday evening at Abilene Speedway, in Abilene, Texas.

Saturday’s race was the first time in two years that the TOMS had been to the track as the 2024 race being cancelled a year ago.

Fred Wojtek (Blackwell, Texas) won both trips the series made to Abilene Speedway in 2023 with wins coming on April 22 and Aug. 5.

Saturday’s race was also a first for the TOMS as Jake Huckaby became the first driver in 10 feature races to repeat as a TOMS feature winner.

Jake Huckaby (second from left) stands in victory lane with his check for $1,500 following his TOMS feature win Saturday, July 19, 2025, at Abilene Speedway.
(Photo by Brant Thurmond/Double T Media)

He was also the first back-to-back winner since Jack Sartain (Royse City, Texas) won back-to-back TOMS feature races at Hunt County Raceway on Sept. 7 and Oct. 9 during the 2024 season.

The young Texarkana, Texas native picked up his first career TOMS feature win a week prior at Heart O’ Texas Speedway on July 11.

With a field of some of the most talented modified drivers in the southern United States, Huckaby understood the significance of the achievement of winning back-to-back races while standing in victory lane Saturday evening in Abilene.

“Yeah, that means a lot,” he said. “You know, there’s a stout field of competitors that run up and down the road. Kudos to Dean (Abbey). He raced me clean, and it was good right there at the end.”

Huckaby said he had limited experience at HOT Speedway, and it was his first trip to Abilene Speedway, and he will have both wins stored as a memory for years to come.

“It’s pretty cool to win my second ever feature back-to-back, but I’ll never forget it for sure,” Huckaby said. “It was two tracks I really don’t race at a lot, and I come out here and was able to get it done again. So, it’s awesome and all glory to God for sure.”

With the TOMS not making as many trips to Abilene as some of the other tracks on the schedule, several drivers notepads on possible setups may have been stretch thin.

“I started watching Youtube videos of some in-car cams of the guys that run around here locally and just tried to get a feel for the track,” he said of his prep leading up to Saturday’s race. “First time here and it’s a cool track man. It was really racy there in the feature and the track prep was awesome, but yeah, this is real. This is cool.”

Huckaby credited his mom and dad and his faith for the recent success.

“I had a lot of down at the beginning of the season and then we turned it around and I just got to keep the faith in it,” he said. “I want to thank my mom and dad for sure. You know, this is just a blessing to be able to get to do any of this and it all came from God really.”

A total of 27 modifieds checked in for Saturday’s race in Abilene.

Wesley Veal (Princeton, Texas) started outside of Huckaby on the front row and led the opening lap, before Huckaby was able to power back and take the lead on lap 2.

The caution flag would wave as Dakoka Bechler (Sackets Harbor, New York) spun in the middle of turns three and four.

Two more laps were completed before the next caution came on lap four as Rickey Wilkerson (Gunter, Texas) came to a stop exiting turn two.

The field completed 10 more laps with Huckaby leading, but the caution flag waved again as Jaxon McGaha (Abilene, Texas) spun in the middle of turns three and four.

With 11 laps remaining, Huckaby led the next five laps before Abbey was able to roll the bottom line on both ends of the track and took the lead with six laps remaining.

Abbey continued to use the bottom groove as Huckaby worked the high side of the track and retook the lead with three laps remaining.

Huckaby would hold on to the lead for the remaining three laps with Abbey finishing in the runner-up spot and Veal rounding out the podium finishers in third place.

TOMS points leader Shane Hartline (Ivanhoe, Texas) got himself another top five finish by finishing in fourth place. John Neal Reid (Loving, New Mexico) rounded out the top five in fifth place.

Huckaby recorded the race’s fastest lap at 17.272 seconds (unofficially) coming on lap two according to My Race Pass timing.

 Josh McGaha (Abilene, Texas) was the hard charger of the race moving up 13 positions from 23rd to 10th.

Abbey moved up seven spots from his ninth place starting position. Hartline, Shane Priddy (Merkel, Texas) and J.D Davis (Merkel, Texas) each moved up four positions for finishes of fourth, 13th and 18th, respectively.

B Feature 1 winner- Sam Cox (Flower Mound, Texas)

Heat 1 winner- Steven Ashcraft (Forney, Texas)

Heat 2 winner-John Neal Reid (Loving, New Mexico)

Heat 3 winner-Jake Huckaby (Texarkana, Texas)

Full results for the event can be found at the following link-

https://www.myracepass.com/events/545616/media-results

Current Points Standings-

(Top 10)

  1. Shane Hartline- 866
  2. Dean Abbey- 882-4
  3. Jason Ingalls- 844-42
  4. Jake Huckaby- 760-126
  5. Chase Hatton- 700-186
  6. Wesley Veal- 693-193
  7. Troy Taylor- 669-217
  8. Sam Cox- 651-235
  9. Ryan Veal- 627-259
  10.  John Smelley- 540-346

The next TOMS event will be at Southern Oklahoma Speedway, Saturday, Aug. 2, in Ardmore, Oklahoma.

As always, all the action of the TOMS race at SOS will be streamed on Raceon.com.

Huckaby wins first career TOMS feature at HOT Speedway; RPM race postponed

Jake Huckaby (center) from Texarkana, Texas, picked up his first Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) feature win Friday evening at Heart O’ Texas Speedway, in Elm Mott, Texas. (Photo Courtesy of Stacy Kolar/Southern Sass Photography)

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.

Jack Sartain (center) from Royse City, Texas, won the April 4 make up feature race Friday, July 11, 2025, at Heat O’ Texas Speedway, in Elm Mott, Texas.
(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)

  1. Shane Hartline- 799
  2. Dean Abbey- 787- 12
  3. Jason Ingalls- 768- 31
  4. Jake Huckaby- 660- 139
  5. Chase Hatton- 645- 154
  6. Wesley Veal- 602- 197
  7. Troy Taylor- 591- 208
  8. Sam Cox- 581- 218
  9. Ryan Veal- 577- 222
  10.  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.

Westover victorious at Southern Oklahoma Speedway

Kale Westover (center) was the winner of the Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) feature race Saturday, July 5, 2025, at Southern Oklahoma Speedway. Shown with Westover are Hudson Westover (left) and TOMS flagman Ricky Randall.
(Photo Courtesy of Mike Frieri/Photos by Mike)

Nothing says “America” like fireworks, dirt track racing and the some of the fastest and most talented modified drivers in the southern part of the United States on July 4th weekend.

Fans in attendance at Southern Oklahoma Speedway were treated to all the above and more Saturday, July 5, as the Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) drivers were on hand to display their talents. There was a season-high 41 entries for the event.

Saturday’s feature race had five cautions and two different leaders as Jason Webb (McKinney, Texas) and Kale Westover (Altus, Oklahoma) battled it out for the majority of the race.

The first caution of the race came on the first lap as Chase Hatton (De Berry, Texas) and points leader Shane Hartline (Ivanhoe, Texas) tangled up on the opening lap.

The field completed two laps before Wesley Veal (Princeton, Texas) spun exiting turn two and collected Sam Cox’s (Flower Mound, Texas) No. 3 car.

Webb led another two laps before Hatton spun in turn two, which brought out the third caution of the race.

Another caution with 8 of the 25 laps completed forced another restart for Webb. On the restart Jason Ingalls (Longview, Texas) spun in the middle of turns one and two to bring out another caution.

Webb went on to lead the next seven laps before Westover was able to dip to the low side while navigating around a lap car exiting turn four and took the lead with 10 laps remaining.

Westover stretched his lead out nearly a full straight-away and won the race with a 3.323 second margin according to My Race Pass timing.

Patience was key for Westover as he waited until Webb caught lap traffic to make his move.

“It was so hard to pass, and he (Webb) was in the fastest lane around the track,” Westover said standing in victory lane.  “So, I knew if just pace him enough and once we caught the lap traffic, I got on his tail just trying to figure out what he was going to do. I probably would have done the same thing he did in his situation. It just worked out for me that the lapper just kind of pushed up a little bit and I snugged her around the tires.

“Once I got cleared, I knew I had to jump up and get moving,” he added. “Jason’s stuff was really good. I was probably going to finish second behind him if it wasn’t for them lappers.”

Webb finished second. Mitchell Clement (Bonham, Texas) was third, while Colby Smith (Greenville, Texas) was fourth and Jake Huckaby (Texarkana, Texas) rounded out the top five finishers.

Ingalls was the hard chargers of the race, moving up 13 positions from his 20th starting spot to finish seventh. Justin McCoy (Grandview, Texas) moved up 10 spots from his 18th starting spot to finish behind Ingalls in eighth place.

Smith had the fast lap (unofficially) with a lap time of 17.310 seconds on lap eight.

B Feature 1 winner- Geoff Larry (Minden, Louisiana)

B Feature 2 winner- Shane Hartline (Ivanhoe, Texas)

Heat 1 winner- Casey Fowler (Grand Saline, Texas)

Heat 2 winner- Jason Langford (Palestine, Texas)

Heat 3 winner- Dean Abbey (Boyd, Texas)

Heat 4 winner- Kale Westover (Altus, Oklahoma)

Heat 5 winner- Colby Smith (Greenville, Texas)

For full results of Saturday’s race, click the following link.

https://www.myracepass.com/events/557610/media-results

Current points Standings

(Top 10)

  1. Shane Hartline- 637
  2. Dean Abbey- 608 -29
  3. Jason Ingalls- 590 – 47
  4. Chase Hatton- 521-116
  5. Jake Huckaby- 488-149
  6. Sam Cox- 464 -173
  7. Jason Webb- 458-179
  8. Ryan Veal- 441-196
  9. Troy Taylor- 434-203
  10. Mitchell Clement- 426-211

The TOMS will be back in action this weekend for back-to-back races on Friday and Saturday, July 11 and 12. Friday’s race will be at Heart O’ Texas Speedway, in Waco, Texas, while Saturday’s race will be at RPM Speedway, in Crandall, Texas.

Abbey picks up first career TOMS win at Rocket Raceway Park; Webb wins Inaugural Ark-La-Tex TOMS race

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)

Heat 1 winner- Jason Gamez

Heat 2 winner- Jason Webb

Heat 3 winner- Dean Abbey

Heat 4 winner- Sam Cox

Heat 5 winner- Billy Brierton

Full results can be found at the following link.

https://www.myracepass.com/events/563262/races

ARK-LA-TEX

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.

B Feature 1 winner- Sam Cox (Flower Mound, Texas

Heat 1 winner- Chris Hennigan

Heat 2 winner- Landon Rogers

Heat 3 winner- Drake Findley

Heat 4 winner- Dean Abbey

Full results can be found at the following link.

https://www.myracepass.com/events/557607/media-results

Current points Standings

(Top 10)

  1. Shane Ivanhoe- 563
  2. Dean Abbey- 527 -36
  3. Jason Ingalls- 512 – 51
  4. Chase Hatton- 449 -114
  5. Sam Cox- 413 -150
  6. Jake Huckaby- 404 -159
  7. Ryan Veal- 396 -167
  8. Troy Taylor- 368 -195
  9. Jason Webb – 363 -200
  10. Wesley Veal- 362 – 201

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.

Smith scores TOMS win at Southern Oklahoma Speedway

Colby Smith (Greenville, Texas) picked up the Touring Outlaw Modified Series feature win Saturday evening at Southern Oklahoma Speedway. Shown with Smith is Ricky Randall, flagman for the Touring Outlaw Modified Series. (Photo courtesy of Taylor Voyles/Taylor Made Images)

The Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) was back in action Saturday, June 14, at Southern Oklahoma Speedway, in Ardmore, Oklahoma.

A total of 37 TOMS drivers checked in to tackle the 3/8 semi-banked “D” oval.

This was the first time the series has made the trip to SOS since the season opener back on March 21 and 22.

Shane Hartline (Ivanhoe, Texas), the TOMS current points leader, started on the pole and led the first 12 laps of the feature race before he was passed by Colby Smith (Greenville, Texas) as the two navigated lap traffic.

Smith, who started on the outside of the front row, set sail with the lead and looked like he was going to run away with it, however a spin by David Tanner brought out a caution with nine laps remaining.

Smith timed the restart just right and would open a sizable lead and lead the final nine laps, while Hartline was unable to run him down for a late race pass for the lead.

Smith’s margin of victory was 1.366 seconds according to My Race Pass timing and was his first TOMS win of 2025. Smith placed 6th at SOS on March 21 and picked up a TOMS win at SOS on Aug. 3, 2024.

“It was real crowed (with lap traffic),” Smith said standing in victory lane. “I was just trying to keep pace with Shane. He took off pretty quick there early on. Whenever we did catch them (lap traffic), they were everywhere. They were really thick.

“I just waited to see where he (Hartline) went and wherever he went, I was going to go the opposite and see what happened and it worked out,” he said.

Dean Abbey (Boyd, Texas) picked up his second straight top 5 finish with the TOMS after a third-place finish, while Michell Clement (Bonham, Texas) drove from his 10th place starting position to finish fourth.

Kale Westover (Altus, Oklahoma) rounded out the top five with a fifth-place finish after starting ninth.

Matthew Day, Jason Ingalls, Chad Melton, Jeff Taylor and Jake Huckaby rounded out the top 10 finishers.

Jason Gamez (Kaufmann, Texas) was the biggest mover of the race by moving up 13 positions to finish just outside the top 10 in 11th after starting 24th.

Jake Huckaby (Texarkana, Texas) improved 10 spots from his 20th starting position en route to a 10th place finish.

Smith recorded the feature race’s fastest lap with a lap time of 18.292 seconds on lap 18, according to My Race Pass timing.

B Feature winners:

B Feature 1 winner- David Tanner

B Feature 2 winner- Jimmie Williams

Heat Race winners:

Heat 1- Chase Hatton

Heat 2- Shane Hartline

Heat 3- Dean Abbey

Heat 4- Britton Weger

Heat 5- Kale Westover

A full and complete breakdown of the results can be found at the following link:

https://www.myracepass.com/events/557595/media-results

Points Standings-

(TOP 10)

Total Points-Points behind

  1. Shane Hartline 381
  2. Dean Abbey- 343 -38
  3. Jason Ingalls- 340 – 41
  4. Mitchell Clement- 335- 46
  5. Chase Hatton- 291- 50
  6. Sam Cox- 282-99
  7. Jake Huckaby- 272-109
  8. Ryan Veal-260-121
  9. Troy Taylor- 251-130
  10. Carl Large Jr. – 246-13

A full list of points standings can be found at the following link:

https://www.myracepass.com/series/1312/points/2025/28719/1016

Final lap pass leads to TOMS win for Hartline at Rocket Raceway Park

(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:

https://www.myracepass.com/events/557589/media-results

Rain shortens TOMS race at HOT Speedway; make up date set for May 2

The Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) race at Heart O’ Texas Speedway was cut short Friday evening, at Heart O’ Texas Speedway, in Elm Mott, Texas.

Mother Nature was the ultimate winner as track and series officials were forced to cancel for the night due to rain after the second B Main of the stock car division .

Shane Hartline (Ivanhoe, Texas) won the TOMS’ first heat race, Friday, April 4, at HOT Speedway. (Photo Courtesy of TOMS)

The TOMS were able to get all three of their heat races in and later said in a Facebook post on the series’ Facebook page that the series will make up the feature race on Friday, May 2, when the series plans to return to HOT Speedway.

“We will make up tonight’s A Feature for the 18 cars that were checked in tonight,” the Facebook post reads. “We will also run a full show as scheduled from tonight’s makeup A Feature. The feature lineup will remain the same as posted tonight.”

The rainy weather was the main concern all week as early forecasts showed rain in the area on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

The TOMS’ second show of the weekend at Kennedale Speedway Park scheduled for Saturday evening, in Kennedale, was cancelled early Friday and announced in a Facebook post on the track’s page.

“We want to give the fans and the racers a great experience for the TOMS race and the weather is just not going to allow for that,” the post reads. “We have looked at the forecast and it’s just not getting any better for tomorrow (Saturday) night’s race. With the rain, 15-20 mph winds and upper 40 temps at race time. So, we have decided to cancel the race for April 5th, however, we know the racers and fans want to see the TOMS race, so we will look at our schedule and try to find a date that works for KSP and the TOMS for a makeup date.”

Steven Ashcraft (Forney, Texas) won the second TOMS heat race Friday, April 4, at HOT Speedway.
(Photo Courtesy of TOMS)

The 2024 TOMS race at Kennedale Speedway Park was also rained out.

Friday’s action at HOT Speedway featured 18 cars and three heat races.

Shane Hartline (Ivanhoe, Texas) moved up two spots from his third starting position to pick up the opening heat race win. Hartline led all eight laps of the heat race according to My Race Pass timing.

Jason Ingalls (Longview, Texas) and Eric Tomlinson (Robinson, Texas) rounded out the top three finishers of the first heat race.

Steven Ashcraft, (Forney, Texas) was victorious in the second heat after he moved up one spot from his second starting position. Ashcraft led all eight laps of the second heat race according to My Race Pass timing.

Wesley Veal (Princeton, Texas) moved up three spots to finish second, while Troy Taylor (Midlothian, Texas) moved up one spot to finish third.

The third and final heat race was won by Jack Sartain (Royse City, Texas). Sartain started on the pole and led all eight laps.

Jack Sartain (Royse City, Texas) won the third TOMS heat race, Friday, April 4, at HOT Speedway. (Photo Courtesy of TOMS)

Ryan Veal (Princeton, Texas) moved up one spot to finish second and Chase Hatton (De Berry, Texas) advanced two spots to round out the top three.

Full heat race results were as follows:

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 25H-Shane Hartline [3]; 2. 12-Jason Ingalls [1]; 3. 45T-Eric Tomlinson [2]; 4. 33C-Carl Large Jr [5]; 5. 13S-John Smelley [6]; 6. (DNF) 19-Robert McKinney [4]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 56R-Steven Ashcraft [2]; 2. 11X-Wesley Veal [5]; 3. 56-Troy Taylor [4]; 4. 94-Chris Morris [6]; 5. 18J-Jake Huckaby [3]; 6. 5-Dwight East [1]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 47-Jack Sartain [1]; 2. 11R-Ryan Veal [3]; 3. 211-Chase Hatton [5]; 4. 14V-Dean Abbey [4]; 5. P1-Paul White [2]; 6. 716-Trey Votaw [6]

The makeup feature race on May 2, will see Ryan Veal start on the pole, while Jack Sartain will be to his outside, starting second for the 25 lap feature race.

The rest of the 18-car field will start in the following positions:

Row 2- Jason Ingalls (12); Chase Hatton (211)

Row 3- Troy Taylor (56); Steven Ashcraft (56R)

Row 4- Wesley Veal (11X); Shane Hartline (25H)

Row 5- Chris Morris (94); Eric Tomlinson (45T)

Row 6- Carl Large (33C); Dean Abbey (14V)

Row 7- John Smelley (13S); Jake Huckaby (18J)

Row 8- Paul White (P1); Trey Votaw (716)

Row 9- Dwight East (5); Robert McKinney (19)

Other classes competing with the TOMS Friday at HOT Speedway included IMCA Stock Cars, IMCA Southern Sportmods, Outlaw Street Stocks and Factory Stocks.

Results for each class can be found at the following link.

https://www.myracepass.com/events/544998/media-results

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.

TOMS Points

(Top 10)

  1. Shane Hartline – 186 pts
  2. Chris Henigan – 182 pts (-4)
  3. Jason Ingalls – 175 pts (-11)
  4. Dean Abbey – 161 pts (-25)
  5. Mitchell Clement – 153 pts (-33)
  6. Chase Hatton – 153 pts (-33)
  7. Michael Ables – 147 pts (-39)
  8. Sam Cox – 140 pts (-46)
  9. Ryan Veal – 134 pts (-52)
  10. Jake Huckaby – 132 pts (-54)