Bloggin' is Racin': Rodney Sanders was a $4,000 USMTS Modifieds feature winner at RPM Speedway Friday night

Rodney Sanders was the USMTS Modifieds feature winner.

By Don Cook
Fort Worth Star-Telegram

RPM Speedway (Crandall)
March 15 (Saturday)

A capacity crowd was on hand to welcome the United States Modifieds Touring Series for the inaugural Honeycutt Sand & Gravel Modified Nationals at RPM Speedway Friday night. There were over fifty Modifieds in the pits that competed for the twenty-six starting positions in the Allgayer Inc. A-Main. "Rocket" Rodney Sanders, No. 20, fresh off a feature win at the Texas World Dirt Track Championships at Texas Motor Speedway a few weeks ago, drew the pole position. Rodney quickly jumped out to the lead in the 40-lap feature. There were a number of cautions and several cars managed to get close, but Rodney held them off to take the feature win. Rodney was one happy racer. He was the only one in the top eight to take the Big Dog Buy-in. For $100 the feature win would pay an extra $2,000 for a total of $4,000. Coming in a hard fought second, was Watts, Okla., Jason Hughes, No. 12, Tyler Townsend, No. 12t, was third, Kevin Sustaire, No. 71k, was fourth and current points leader Ryan Gustin, No. 19r, was fifth.

The USMTS Modifieds travel to Ark-La-Tex Speedway in Vivian, La., Saturday.

For more information, go to: www.usmts.com

Clyde Dunn Jr. had problems in his heat race.

A future racer in Jacie Hughes.

Both Jason Hughes and Ryan Gustin had strong showings.

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Tommy Davis Jr., No. 17, was the Limited Modified feature winner. Jason Gore, No. 021, was second, Michael Martin, No. 31, was third, Archie Whitt Jr., No. 76, was fourth and Dennis Smith, No. 96, was fifth.

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Chris Davis had a strong showing in the Street Stocks feature.

Tim Clonch, No. 25c, was the Street Stocks feature winner. Chris Davis, No. 98, was second, Tommy Davis Jr., No. 17, was third, Steve Byram, No. 2, was fourth and Jason Gore, No. 021, was fifth.

Bobby Morphis, No. 8b, was the Factory Stocks winner. Kevin Meyer, No.1, was second, Brian Marusak, No. XLV, was third, Tommy Crawford, No. 2, was fourth and Eric Sanderson, No. 163, was fifth. Another good field of Factory Stocks with close to forty cars in the pits.