USMTS Modified Series comes to Rice Lake Speedway

Rice Lake WI – The first special event of the 2014 racing season comes to the Rice Lake Speedway on Thursday, May 8th when the United States Modified Touring Series(USMTS) makes a stop at the Rice Lake Speedway.
This group of modified racers, who spend most of the year traveling around the country, will be making only one stop at Rice Lake this year after having lost a race at the local track last Spring due to a record May snowfall.
Featuring some of the top open wheel modified drivers in the country, they will be taking on the best of the local and regional drivers with a $2,000 check on the line to the winner of the Rice Lake main event.
This year the USMTS is divided into four regions plus the National Championship Series that comes at the end of the season. The Rice Lake event will be the first of the fifteen race series for the Farm Boy BBQ Northern Region and as such, it will be an important race for drivers wanting to do well in that region. Each region has a point fund as well as individual night earnings, and a certain number of drivers from each region’s points automatically qualify for the national championship series, thus making a strong start in any region imperative.
Among the national driving stars the local fans can expect to see are last year’s winner Stormy Scott and brother Johnny from New Mexico, Texas driver Rodney Sanders, Oklahoma drivers Dereck Ramirez and Bryan Rowland, Missouri’s Rick Beebe, Terry Phillips and Austin Siebert and Iowa drivers Daniel Hilsabeck, Kelly Shryock, Zack VanderBeek and Cory Dripps. Many other touring drivers run the series from time to time so there could be a number of other long distance travelers that night.
Set to take them on and defend the local territory are a strong contingent of area drivers that would include Lucas Schott, Jake Timm, Bill Byholm, Joey Jensen, Jason Gross, Clayton Wagamon, Doug Hillson, Craig Thatcher and Adam Hensel. Regular Saturday night racers Kevin Adams, Matt Leer, Mike Anderson and Scott Miller along with others will have their feet to the floorboards that night in an attempt the keep the big money at home.
Joining the USMTS on the race program May 8th will be the WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds and the Rice Lake Pure Stocks. Both classes will run full programs and for the Midwest Modifieds, it will be an opportunity for travelers to catch an additional point show in the early season.
The pit gates are expected to open at 4 p.m. on May 8th with the grandstand opening at 5 p.m. Hot laps are slated for 6:30 p.m. with racing to follow.
The Rice Lake Speedway is a third mile oval located one mile north of Rice Lake midway between state highway 48 and Barron county highway SS. The track phone number is 715-236-2002 and more information can be found by either logging on to the track website at www.ricelakespeedway.com, their face book page or by calling Dave Adams.

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