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USMTS opens their season with a 3-night Texas swing on Thursday, March 14-16


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USMTS set for rock 'em sock 'em 2019 slate

DALLAS, Texas (March 3)--The 2019 USMTS campaign begins with a three-night excursion through Texas in March with 48 events featuring 62 nights of racing at 39 race tracks in 13 states along the road to the crowning of the next USMTS National Champion during the first weekend of November back in the Lone Star State.

Along the grueling dirt road that has produced just seven different USMTS National Champions in the previous 20 seasons, fans and drivers will visit legendary facilities hosting long-time USMTS classics, new and exciting venues and some tracks returning to the schedule after a multi-year absence.

It all begins with three nights in Texas starting Thursday, March 14, at the 82 Speedway in Petty. The Kennedale Speedway Park hosts the USMTS touring titans on Friday, March 15, and the Superbowl Speedway in Greenville wraps things up for opening weekend on Saturday, March 16.

One week later, the King of America IX powered by Summit takes place at the Humboldt Speedway in Humboldt, Kan., along with the 5th Annual Battle at the Bullring featuring B-Mods. A top prize of $12,000 awaits the winner of the year's first crown jewel event.

The second crown jewel on the 2019 schedule happens April 11-13 with the 7th Annual Cajun Clash at Gene Boyter's Ark-La-Tex Speedway in Vivian, La., and then the USMTS masters of mayhem make their way west for the 2nd Annual Rancho Milagro Short Track Shootout at the all-new Vado Speedway Park in Vado, N.M., May 3-5.

Crown jewel number four happens June 13-15 at the Cedar Lake Speedway in New Richmond, Wis., for the 20th Annual Masters, and then it's on to the I-80 Speedway in Greenwood, Neb., for the 9th Annual Silver Dollar Nationals and the final event for the USMTS Mid-American Series and USMTS Northern Lights Series on Friday and Saturday, July 19-20, before kicking off this year's Casey's General Stores Hunt for the USMTS National Championship at the 81 Speedway in Wichita, Kan., on the first day in August.

This year's 'Hunt' series will feature 18 nights of racing from Aug. 1 to Sept. 1, and then wrapping up Sept. 19-21 for the sixth crown jewel of the season at the Deer Creek Speedway in Spring Valley, Minn., for the 21st Annual Featherlite Fall Jamboree.

But the 2019 USMTS National Champion won't be decided until the finale of the Summit USMTS Southern Series, Oct. 31 through Nov. 2, at the Kennedale Speedway Park for the 2nd Annual Summit USMTS Southern Nationals.

Besides returning to the 82 Speedway for the season opener, another track returns to the slate with a new name. Scheduled for May 23, the series visits the Spring Lake Speedway in Unity, Wis., where Kelly Shryock was the winner on June 16, 2011, when it was called Central Wisconsin Speedway.

Two dirt ovals are readying for the first-ever USMTS show. Rained out last year, April 7 is the date for the inaugural USMTS event at the Magnolia Motor Speedway in Columbus, Miss., and the USMTS will visit the historic Kansas State Fairgrounds in Hutchinson on April 26 for the first time. The May 3-5 events at the Vado Speedway Park will see the event move from the Southern New Mexico Speedway to the new state-of-the-art facility under the direction of Royal Jones and General Manager Rue Stone.

 

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