JEFFERSON, S.D. -- The United States Modified Touring Series coming off its sixth straight rain-out after being scheduled to compete in Wisconsin this past weekend before Mother Nature put a stop to that with the more than eight inches of rain that fell in the Wisconsin area over the past five days.

USMTS was also rained out three straight nights in Oklahoma and Missouri the last weekend of April making it six straight rain-outs.

The last USMTS race held in April at the Memphis, MO racetrack saw Johnny Bone pick up his first win of the season passing Tony Fraise coming out of turn four for the checkered flag.

The United States Modified Touring Series has had fifteen races so far this season and Kelly Shryock has been on a roll picking up six wins and leading the USMTS national points at the early part of the season.

In north region action Tommy Myer has taken the point lead after the first six races.

The United States Modified Touring Series will make its only appearance of the season to the Park Jefferson Speedway this Thursday part of a five-day swing in the north region.

Last season the United States Modified Touring Series made a stop at the speedway and Kelly Shryock picked up the win, but the win did not come easy as Chris Spieker and Corey Dripps each took their cars to the front and looked to take the win.

Spieker ended up filling his wheel full of mud and picked up a vibration and Dripps had a very good race with Shryock before giving up the top spot after pushing high late in the race giving the top spot back to Shryock.

This year the race will be called the Harris All Star Challenge which should see several Harris Auto Racing Chassis modifieds on hand to challenge several of the touring drivers.

The USMTS has put together a great Memorial Weekend Tour that will start at the Jefferson, SD racetrack then move to the Slayton, MN track on Friday night and finish up with three stops in the South East part of Minnesota with a stop Saturday night at Deer Creek Speedway in Spring Valley, MN Sunday the series will make its first appearance at the Dodge County Speedway in Kasson, MN with the final stop being Monday Memorial Day at the Steele County Fairgrounds in Owatonna, MN.

Several drivers are expected to make the swing as five straight nights of $2000 to win racing action. Also running on Thursday night will be the local Charger class paying $250 to win with B-mods also running for $250 to win.

Gates will open at 5pm with Hot laps slated for 6:45 and racing to follow.

OK One Stop from Hospers, IA and Harris Auto Racing will be sponsoring the race.

Several of the top modified drivers will be on hand for this race some of the expected drivers include: Tommy Myer, Mark Noble, Reese Coffee, Jay Noteboom, John Logue, Kelly Shryock, John Tesch, Jason Krohn, Bruce Hanford, Al Hejna, Mike Hejna, Corey Dripps, Joe and Steve Kosiski, Johnny Bone, Jason Hughes, Willy Kraft, Johnny Saathoff, Craig Scott, Joe McBirnie, Dean Mahlstedt, Zack Vanderbeek, Dan Bohr, Mark Elliott, Denny Johnson, Mike Jensen, Rich Hesse, Mike Johnson plus many more.

For more information call the USMTS office at 515-832-7944.