ARDMORE, Okla. (March 11) — Rodney Sanders reeled in his first win of the season with a dominating wire-to-wire effort on the final day of the 5th Annual Production Jars Sooner Showdown Saturday at the Southern Oklahoma Speedway. The 2012 and 2013 USMTS national champion had not led one of…
ARDMORE, Okla. (March 10) — Johnny Scott’s winning move at the Southern Oklahoma Speedway in Ardmore, Okla., Friday night likely came on the first lap of the race as he cruised to his second victory of the season on night two of the 5th Annual Sooner Showdown presented by Production…
ARDMORE, Okla. (March 9) — The USMTS rolled into the Southern Oklahoma Speedway Thursday for the opening night of the 5th Annual Sooner Showdown presented by Production Jars, and Ricky Thornton Jr. walked out with his third win of the season. The 26-year-old from Chandler, Ariz., garnered the Sybesma Pole…
VIVIAN, La. (March 4) — Cade Dillard cemented himself as the hottest dirt modified driver in the world Saturday night at the Ark-La-Tex Speedway with a wire-to-wire win on the final night of the 6th Annual USMTS Cajun Clash presented by Horseshoe Bossier City. Leading the field to the green…
VIVIAN, La. (March 3) — Another night of USMTS racing at the Ark-La-Tex Speedway. Another white-knuckle ride for the fans. And a fourth win for Cade Dillard. The second night of the 6th Annual Cajun Clash on Friday backed up the barn-burner on Thursday night with a 40-lap main event…
Searching for victory lane since last June, Johnny Scott used a late-race restart to get by Ryan Gustin and then survived a green-white-checkered finish to score his first USMTS win of the season Thursday night at the Ark-La-Tex Speedway for night one of the 6th Annual Cajun Clash presented by…
GREENVILLE, Miss. (Feb. 26) — Ricky Thornton Jr. may need some new tin on the right side of his USMTS modified after Sunday night’s main event at the Greenville Speedway, but he has a $3,000 winner’s paycheck to help with the cost. The fastest way around the “fastest track in…
MERIDIAN, Miss. (Feb. 25) — Saturday night at the Whynot Motorsports Park, Cade Dillard drove to his third straight Summit Racing USMTS Winter Speedweeks victory against a stout field of dirt modifieds at the semi-banked 3/10-mile dirt oval in Meridian, Miss. Driving the No. 97 S&S Fishing & Rental MB…
BYRAM, Miss. (Feb. 24) — Cade Dillard grabbed the lead from Trevor Egbert just short of the halfway mark, and then cruised to his second straight Summit Racing USMTS Winter Speedweeks victory Friday night at the Jackson Motor Speedway in Byram, Miss. Dillard, who captured last Saturday’s finale at the…
GOLIAD, Texas (Feb. 18) — The Shady Oaks Speedway saved the best for last with a barnburner 40-lap main event Saturday to close the curtain on the second of five Summit Racing USMTS Winter Speedweeks tripleheader weekends. Several drivers took their shots, but in the end it was Cade Dillard…
GOLIAD, Texas (Feb. 17) — Jason Hughes was in the right place at the right time, and a familiar place at the end of the 35-lap USMTS main event Friday night at the Shady Oaks Speedway. With fog thickening above the 3/8-mile dirt oval, Ricky Thornton Jr. jumped out to…
GOLIAD, Texas (Feb. 16) — The fourth race of the season for the USMTS produced a fourth different winner as Ricky Thornton Jr. rolled to a wire-to-wire victory at the Shady Oaks Speedway in Goliad, Texas. Starting from the outside of the second row, Thornton wasted no time getting to…
PAIGE, Texas (Feb. 11) — The USMTS capped off the inaugural visit to the Cotton Bowl Speedway on Saturday with a wild feature race and nail-biting finish that saw Chris Brown become the third different winner of the 2017 campaign. Polesitter Dereck Ramirez jumped out to the lead at the…
PAIGE, Texas (Feb. 10) — When Jason Hughes was asked last month at the USMTS awards banquet what the plans were for him and his new teammate, Ryan Gustin, his answer was “win every race.” So far, so good. After struggling to notch a top-ten finish in Thursday night’s Summit…
Marshalltown, Iowa’s Ryan Gustin picked up where le left off last November and notched his second straight USMTS victory with a wire-to-wire triumph in Thursday’s season opener at the Cotton Bowl Speedway. The inaugural event for the United States Modified Touring Series at the two-year-old speedplant in Paige, Texas, was…
PARK CITY, Kan.—Polesitter Rodney Sanders crossed the finish line first in Saturday’s main event, but it was Ryan Gustin who took home the $5,000 Chisholm Trail Showdown winner’s paycheck at the 81 Speedway. Sanders started on the pole and led all 50 laps of the feature race, but after rolling…
PARK CITY, Kan.—Following ten intense qualifying heat races on Friday night, Rodney Sanders and Ryan McAninch earned front-row starting spots for Saturday’s $5,000-to-win main event of the inaugural Chisholm Trail Showdown at the 81 Speedway. Sanders bested all drivers in combined points from his two qualifying heats, winning his first…
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—More than 8,000 family, friends and fans of the late Grant Junghans gathered at the Lakeside Speedway Friday for the inaugural Grant Junghans Memorial—the biggest one-day event in the history of dirt modified racing. And when the dust had settled shortly after midnight, there was one man—Lucas Schott—standing…
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—USMTS drivers converged on the Lakeside Speedway Thursday for the inaugural “Deuces Wild” event—a special prelude to Friday’s Grant Junghans Memorial. Ricky Thornton Jr. and Aaron Marrant both have USRA Modified wins on their résumé, but neither had ever won a USMTS main event prior to Thursday night….
SPRING VALLEY, Minn.—Nearly eight years after his last USMTS triumph, Tommy Weder Jr. made his way back to Widow Wax Victory Lane in a big way Saturday by winning the finale of the 18th Annual Featherlite Fall Jamboree at the Deer Creek Speedway. The 31-year-old from Woodward, Okla., has competed…
SPRING VALLEY, Minn.—Friday night shows have been very good for Lucas Schott when the United States Modified Touring Series comes to Southern Minnesota. Two years ago, at 18 years of age, Schott captured his first USMTS win during the 16th Annual Featherlite Fall Jamboree and he did again this year…
SPRING VALLEY, Minn.—It was a battle for the ages on opening night of the 18th Annual Featherlite Fall Jamboree as a season-long battle to become the 2016 USMTS national champion came down to the final turn on the final points night. Trailing defending champ Jason Hughes by 10 points coming…
CRESCO, Iowa—In a repeat of last year’s Labor Day Weekend clash at the Cresco Speedway, Rodney Sanders made a late-race pass of Jason Hughes to pick up the win and keep his title hopes alive with one event remaining in the Hunt for the USMTS Casey’s Cup powered by S&S…
SPRING VALLEY, Minn.—Rodney Sanders was the class of the 58-car field Saturday as the United States Modified Touring Series completed its first feature race of 2016 at the Deer Creek Speedway. With two rain-outs this season, it was nearly a year since the series last visited the popular high-banked 3/8-mile…
LANSING, Minn.—Zack VanderBeek led the first 40 of 42 laps during the United States Modified Touring Series main event at the Chateau Raceway, only to have a right rear tire explode and force him out of the race. That was Memorial Day Weekend. On Friday night, the Hunt for the…