The countdown has begun for the Inaugural "Texas Winter Challenge" O'Reilly USMTS Southern Series event at the Texana Raceway Park in Edna, Texas, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 20-22. Drivers will be racing for $1,000 to win on Thursday and $2,000 to win on Friday. Saturday's main event winner will pocket $3,000. …

This Friday, Oct. 31, the National Child Abuse Hotline (1-800-4-A-CHILD) will be mentioned on the Dr. Phil Show. The topic for the show is “Extreme Discipline” and Susan Schmidt, the Hotline Director, was in the audience for the show and took questions from Dr. Phil about Childhelp and the hotline. …

The Orange County Convention Center in Orlando will once again be packed with over 40,000 racing entrepreneurs from around the world, and over 1400 exhibiting companies, all there to profit from the extraordinary array of exhibits and special events scheduled to take place at the 21st annual Performance Racing Industry Trade Show. …

With thousands of active lobes and a variety of cores in their library, COMP Cams® leads the industry in custom street and race cam offerings for just about any engine you can imagine. …

The officials and staff of the United States Modified Touring Series congratulate Vaughn Gittin Jr. on his victory this past weekend at the Formula Drift season finale at the Irwindale Speedway. It was Gittin's first triumph in the world's premier drifting series. …

After a spectacular night of racing on Friday at the I-30 Speedway, Mother Nature must have decided she (and the rest of us) had enjoyed enough fun for one weekend. Heavy rainfall in the morning and early afternoon on Saturday forced officials to pull the plug on Saturday night's finale of the 10th Annual GRT Race Cars Topless Modified Nationals. …

Defending event champion Mike Bowers of North Little Rock, Ark. picked up where he left off last year with a victory on opening night for the 10th Annual GRT Race Cars Topless Modified Nationals at the I-30 Speedway. …

O'Reilly USMTS standout and fan favorite Al Hejna garnered some special coverage this week with a short feature in the lastest issue of <I>Speedway Ilustrated</I> magazine. The story details his journey with the series and his mission to compete at every track in the state of Iowa on the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Tour. …

The O’Reilly USMTS Southern Series will scream back into action this Friday and Saturday, Oct. 3-4 for the 10th Annual GRT Race Cars Topless Modified Nationals at the I-30 Speedway in Little Rock, Ark. with a possible $7,000 winner's share of the purse of for grabs. …

Alan Mondus was one of more than 700 drivers with the chance to qualify for one of 39 spots in the Casey's General Stores Hunt for the O'Reilly USMTS National Championship, where Mondus was seeded 13th going into the the final 14 races to determine the champion. …