Comb. $10,000 2win USMTS weekend RELOADED for February 23rd, 24th & 25th in Houston!

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Rain on the way and a terrible forecast caused a one-week postponement of the event. Bright side? Speedweek Mods have another option next weekend now...


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Today is the best forecast yet since weather.com/Weather Channel had forecasts available for this year's USMTS Texas Spring Nationals on either last weekend's or this weekend's make-up dates!

Looks like just a 30% chance of r--- on Thursday morning between midnight & noon and that's it all the way from now through Sunday! With the paved pits helping of course, I got a feeling that the Spring Nats will go on as scheduled this week, practice and all!!! Let's hope it holds like that...

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Still looking good!

Might have a little problem Thursday night -- that'll depend on timing. Could be after the races, could be before. The good news is, it comes, then it goes quickly according to the forecast and even at that, it's pretty isolated. Better chance of getting missed than hit. The other days & nights, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and only if necessary, Sunday afternoon, ALL LOOK GOOD!

You may roll with confidence!...and it's about that time...


Should be a bunch of Modified teams in and around Texas the next 3 weeks. Counting practice, you can make laps at Royal Purple Raceway for 4 nights at the Texas Spring Nationals THIS WEDNESDAY thru SATURDAY for a combined $10,000 to win. The next week, March 1-4, you can move 15 miles along I-10 and do it 3 more nights at Battleground Speedway's Southern Chill, go up to Fort Worth for the Texas World Dirt Track Championship for 3 nights or go out to Las Cruces for 3 nights and a day and run for $10,000 to win at Southern New Mexico Speedway. Then on March 9th and 10th, race for $8000 more -- $4000 in Waco and $4000 in Kennedale!

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Last night, 62 Mods and 37 HotMods (Limited Mods)

That was a Casey's Cup qualifier last night. Tonight begins the National Championship! $4000 to win the race, $30,000 to win the points if they can get 25 of the 29 scheduled 2012 events completed. $20,000 for 2nd in points. Only your best 20 races count!

“A” MAIN (35 laps):
1. (2) 75 Terry Phillips, Springfield, Mo., GRT/Hatfield, 35, $2000.
2. (1) 20 Rodney Sanders, Happy, Texas, Hughes/Geddes, 35, $1500.
3. (4) 85d Mark Dotson, Cameron, Mo., GRT/KSE, 35, $1000.
4. (5) 2s Stormy Scott, Las Cruces, N.M., Shaw/Yeoman, 35, $800.
5. (16) 12 Jason Hughes, Watts, Okla., Hughes/Mullins, 35, $800.
6. (9) 19r Ryan Gustin, Marshalltown, Iowa, Hughes/Mullins, 35, $600.
7. (8) 1st Johnny Scott, Las Cruces, N.M., Hughes/ASI, 35, $500.
8. (3) 14 Jon Tesch, Watertown, S.D., GRT/Sput’s, 35, $450.
9. (10) J17 Jacob Gallardol (R), Las Cruces, N.M., GRC/ASI, 35, $400.
10. (17) 9 Shane Hebert, Lafayette, La., Pierce/ASI, 35, $350.
11. (19) 4r Dereck Ramirez, Woodward, Okla., Hughes/ProPower, 35, $320.
12. (23) 12c Corey Babbitt, Channelview, Texas, TRE/CAM, 35, $300.
13. (18) 3 Kelly Shryock, Fertile, Iowa, Skyrocket/ProPower, 35, $275.
14. (6) 51 Tracy Denby Jr., Vidor, Texas, Skyrocket/Harris, 35, $200.
15. (25) 5t Randy Timms, Wheatland, Okla., Hughes/Geddes, 35, $250.
16. (24) 16 Chris Henigan, Marshall, Texas, GRT/PTS, 35, $250.
17. (26) 22b Rick Beebe, Shawnee, Kan., GRT/Mullins, 35, $250.
18. (20) 89 Steven Whiteaker Jr., Corpus Christi, Texas, Hughes/Mullins, 35, $250.
19. (13) 18 Chase Junghans, Manhattan, Kan., GRT/Sput’s, 35, $250.
20. (22) 2 Grant Junghans, Manhattan, Kan., GRT/Sput’s, 35, $250.
21. (11) 5* Casey Penn (R), Shreveport, La., Hughes/Geddes, 34, $250.
22. (27) 20r Bryan Rowland, Woodward, Okla., Hughes/ProPower, 32, $80.
23. (15) 7k Jason Krohn, Slayton, Minn., Hughes/Sput’s, 23, $250.
24. (14) 2j John Anderson, Omaha, Neb., GRT/Sput’s, 23, $250.
25. (7) 8t Dustin Hyde, Texarkana, Texas, CAM/CMS, 20, $250.
26. (21) 12t Tyler Townsend, Longview, Texas, Hughes/PTS, 16, $250.
27. (12) 10 Mike Steensma, Luverne, Minn., Hughes/Sput’s, 13, $250.

REAL RACING WHEELS “B” MAIN #1 (12 laps, top 4 advance):
5. (5) 97 Cade Dillard (R), Robeline, La., Impressive/Dillard, $80.
6. (3) 25 Ron Keith, Shawnee, Kan., GRT/Mullins, $80.
7. (13) 73 Mickey Burrell, Fair Grove, Mo., TRE/Ruble, $80.
8. (7) 24 Sean Jones, Mansfield, Texas, PCR/Brooks, $80.
9. (11) 1 T.J. Herndon, Atwood, Tenn., GRT/KMF, $80.
10. (12) 22 Tracy Denby Sr., Vidor, Texas, $60.
11. (8) 5m Joe Mayhew, Highlands, Texas, Skyrocket/Houston, $60.
12. (16) 5 Wes Armstrong, Marshall, Texas, TRE/AMS, $60.
13. (15) 68 Danny Barringer, Lufkin, Texas, $80.
14. (14) 7g Mark Smith, Lufkin, Texas, Skyrocket/Craft, $80.
15. (9) 955 Robert Metz Jr., Lumberton, Texas, Pierce/CB, $60.
16. (10) 16 Austin Siebert, Grandview, Mo., GRT/Mullins, $80.
17. (17) 23 Brandon Davis, Castle Rock, Colo., Hughes/Geddes, $80.

REAL RACING WHEELS “B” MAIN #2 (12 laps, top 4 advance):
5. (4) 8 Chase Allen, Midlothian, Texas, CAM/Allard, $80.
6. (8) 60 Kurt Krauskopf (R), Decorah, Iowa, Harris/Sput’s, $80.
7. (12) 85 Thomas Tillison Jr. (R), Wellston, Okla., Hughes/Mullins, $80.
9. (7) 88t William Turner (R), Yukon, Okla., Hughes/Wells, $80.
10. (10) 91 Joe Duvall, Chelsea, Okla., Hughes/BMS, $80.
11. (14) 34dd Tim Boudreaux (R), Cleveland, Texas, $60.
12. (16) 7x Rory Jordan, Victoria, Texas, Hughes/Mullins, $80.
13. (9) 21 Troy Seidl, Magnolia, Texas, Skyrocket/CNC, $80.
14. (11) 715 Jeff Hoegh, New Caney, Texas, Skyrocket/AARE, $80.
15. (3) 5w John O Whittington, Vidor, Texas, Pierce/CB, $80.
16. (15) 11x Rich Loftus (R), Bloomer, Wis., Hughes/Tim’s, $80.

REAL RACING WHEELS “B” MAIN #3 (12 laps, top 4 advance):
5. (7) C22 Rob Litton (R), Alexandria, La., Skyrocket/Mullins, $80.
6. (9) 41 Jordan Foster (R), Henry, S.D., GRT/Sput’s, $60.
7. (15) 5c Chris Buhler (R), Baton Rouge, La., Pierce/RPM, $60.
8. (13) 44 Marcus Berndt (R), Katy, Texas, DirtWorks/Graham, $80.
9. (1) 186 Jeremy Payne, Springfield, Mo., GRT/Hatfield, $80.
10. (3) 88xxx Clyde Dunn Jr., Sunnyville, Texas, Hughes/Mullins, $80.
11. (5) G17 Fito Gallardo (R), Las Cruces, N.M., GRC/BMS, $80.
12. (8) A1 Phil Dixon, Crosby, Texas, Fast1/Jackson, $60.
13. (11) 127 Glen Hibbard, Euless, Texas, Allen/Stinson, $80.
14. (10) 23 Howard Willis, Dayton, Texas, Evolution/CB, $60.
15. (12) 00 Jay Marshall (R), Brooksville, Fla., $60.

They had the full HotMod results posted last night but unfortunately, they are not there this morning.

Ryan Gustin won. The top 5 were all A-Mod drivers with Randy Timms ($100 hardcharger - gained 10 spots), Kelly Shryock, Shane Hebert and Steve Whiteaker, Jr. making it up. Mike Martin was sixth and the first non-A Mod driver across the stripe for an extra $100. That goes up to $150 tonight and $200 on Saturday night. Hebert and Whiteaker got together on the last lap while running 2nd & 3rd and fell back a couple of spots. Had that not happened, Lout (missing first name) or Carencro, Louisiana's Kevin Dupont would have been in line for that $100 hardcharger award. They both gained 9 spots and finished in the top ten.

Here's the guys that started the HotMod A-main. May have been before the redraw: Whittington/Hebert, Kuhalenk/Hessong, Gustin/Whiteaker, Shryock/Timms, Wright/Weselka, Minten/Seals, Martin/Oakes, Cambron/Lout, Dupont/Collins, Doyon/Metz, Walling/Allgayer, Legg/Minten.