With 55 top-flight Modified drivers on hand, rain accompanied by wind and lightning brought an early end to the O’Reilly USMTS Southern Series event on Friday, April 25, at the Champion Park Speedway in Minden, La. …

Ron and D'Arcy Ver Beek would like you to check out their new web site at www.VerBeekRacing.com. The site features news, information, merchandise and photos from the past to the present of the Oskloosa, Iowa, driver. …

With two events in the books and twenty-three to go, the 2008 O’Reilly USMTS Southern Series continues this weekend with a doubleheader blowout in the Bayou State. …

Zack VanderBeek and 33z Racing of New Sharon, Iowa, revealed the upcoming design on his Skyrocket Modified this week that he will campaign with the O’Reilly USMTS National Tour. …

It was a standing room only crowd at the Gator Motorplex Saturday night, as the O’Reilly USMTS Southern Series invaded the quarter-mile high-banked clay oval for the 2nd Annual Rinehart Trucking Texas Shootout. The main event was definitely a shootout, and even the fans who had a seat were standing from the drop of the green flag to the waving of the checkers as they witnessed nine lead changes among four drivers during the 40-lap nightcap. …

Howard Willis of Vidor, Texas, sat on the pole and never relinquished the lead Friday night as he paced all 30 laps of the O’Reilly USMTS Southern Series season-opening main event at the Golden Triangle Raceway Park in Beaumont, Texas. …

The O’Reilly USMTS Southern Series will kick off an exciting 25-race 2008 schedule this coming Friday and Saturday, April 18-19. The action starts on Friday at the Golden Triangle Raceway Park (formerly Motorama Speedway) in Beaumont, Texas, and continues on Saturday at the Gator Motorplex in Willis, Texas. …

The O’Reilly USMTS National Tour events that were rained out on April 12-13 at the LaSalle Speedway and Quad City Raceway have been rescheduled for May 31 and June 1, USMTS officials announced today. The event slated for June 1 at the Nobles County Speedway has been pushed ahead to Sunday, June 29. …

O’Reilly USMTS National Tour drivers got an early start to their Spring Break on Thursday when USMTS officials announced that all three events scheduled for this weekend have been postponed due to heavy rainfall in the Southeast Iowa and Northwest Illinois area. …

Steve Holzkamper of Gentry, Ark., had all the power he needed Saturday night to score his second career O’Reilly USMTS National Tour triumph, but his march to victory was delayed nearly two hours as the West Siloam Speedway did not have the power they needed. …