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. …

The COMP Cams Engine Builder of the Year competition was too close to call throughout the course of the season, but when the dust settled on the final event it was Mullins Race Engines which claimed the coveted title for the USMTS Casey’s General Stores National Tour. …

Produced by Talk’n Dirt Productions, the Official 2010 Featherlite Fall Jamboree DVD Set includes the entire program of heat races, qualifiers and main events from all three exciting nights at this year’s instant classic. …

Terry Phillips scored his second Featherlite Fall Jamboree win of the weekend Sunday at the Deer Creek Speedway, besting a stellar field of USMTS Modifieds in the preliminary event which was postponed from Thursday due to rain and flooding in Southeastern Minnesota. …

One year ago Jason Hughes led only the last 100 feet in winning his second Featherlite Fall Jamboree to become the first repeat winner of the crown jewel of dirt Modified racing. On Saturday night at the Deer Creek Speedway, the 36-year-old chassis builder from Westville, Okla., made his move into the top spot 18 laps sooner, but the result was still the same. …