Sixty-two drivers got a head start on the weekend Wednesday night during a three-hour practice session, and if the weatherman is to be believed then warm and dry weather is in store for all three days of this year’s installment. …

The final three Team WIX 100 Nights of Racing events of 2010 will be held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Houston Raceway Park for the 4th Annual Texas Winter Nationals featuring the USMTS Southern Series. …

Backyard Grillers has partnered with USMTS rookie driver Danny Booth, who will make his debut at this weekend's 4th Annual Texas Winter Nationals at the Houston Raceway Park, Nov. 18-20. …

Rodney Sanders talks about winning his second major event of 2010, Stormy Scott discusses his great season and Tommy Myer gives insight to his third-place run in this year's Hunt for the USMTS Casey's General Stores National Championship. …

The Lone Star State will be overflowing with stars next week as dirt Modified racing’s elite head for the Houston Raceway Park in Baytown, Texas, for the 4th Annual Texas Winter Nationals next Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 18-20. …

A debut race with the USMTS is a marquee achievement for any driver, but for Paris, Texas’ Danny Booth, next weekend’s 4th Annual Texas Winter Nationals at the Houston Raceway Park will be a memorable event that Booth hopes marks the prequel of a dream he’s had for several years. …

Officials from the USMTS announced Thursday that the Deer Creek Speedway will host the inaugural World Modified Dirt Track Championship, April 6-9, 2011. With a whopping $20,000 going to the winner and a minimum $1,500 to each of the 30 main event starters, the early-season blockbuster is expected to draw the biggest names in open wheel dirt modified racing to the Mecca of Modified racing. …

Rodney Sanders was forced to withstand a third and final caution with just six laps left, but was up to the challenge and raced to his second big-money event win of the season over Johnny Scott, who held off Tommy Weder Jr. at the line. …

Twenty-year-old hometown star Stormy Scott led every lap from the pole position to put his #2s on the outside of the front row for Sunday’s $10,000-to-win Mesilla Valley Transportation Fall National preliminary A-Main. …

Tommy Myer of Blooming Prairie, Minn., turned his first ever trip to the Southern New Mexico Speedway into a flag-to-flag victory in Friday night’s preliminary 20-lap A-Main. …