The 2019 racing season was also the third in a row for crowning a national champion in the USRA Tuner division and Seth Scholl of Holmen, Wis., was dominant throughout the year.
In his 30 starts, Scholl recorded 17 victories with 26 top-fives and a perfect 30 top-ten finishes. His nearest competitor in the top 10 standings had just three wins.
Fellow Wisconsin racer Justin Anderson took runner-up honors in the final standings with Brad Stahl, Justin Vargason and Katie Stahl winding up third, fourth and fifth.
The 2019 racing season marked the debut of the USRA Factor Stocks as part of the Summit USRA Weekly Racing Series and more than 200 drivers competed in USRA-sanctioned events at several tracks in the Lone Star State.
When all was said and done, Josh Landers stood alone at the top as the first ever USRA Factory Stock national champion while also picking up a track championship at the Monarch Motor Speedway in Wichita Falls, Texas.
Landers produced six wins in his 25 starts and the Princeton, Texas, resident recorded 14 top-five and 19 top-ten finishes along the way. The 47-year-old veteran racer will take home $1,000 for his efforts.
Brett Jensen, Dustin Choate, Tommy McKinley and Tommy Davis Jr. rounded out the top five.
In addition to his fifth-place effort in the USRA Factory Stocks, Tommy Davis Jr. pulled double-duty and claimed the 2019 USRA Limited Mod national championship as the class returned for a third season after being idle in 2018.
Davis, who hails from Wills Point, Texas, held off a strong battle for the top spot from Cory Williams who captured the track championship at the West Texas Raceway in Lubbock. For his part, Davis won track championships at the RPM Speedway in Crandall Texas, and Devil’s Bowl Speedway in Mesquite, Texas, en route to nipping Williams by 41 points in the final rankings.
Ryan Thomas held on for third ahead of Steven Ashcraft and fifth-place finisher Brayden Wyatt.
For the fifth straight year, Triston Dycus of Maypearl (formerly Waxahachie), Texas, claimed the title of champion in the Touring Outlaw Modified Series (TOMS) which staged USRA Modified points races throughout the Texas and Oklahoma during the 2019 campaign.
First launched as the Texas Outlaw Modified Series, Clyde Dunn Jr. claimed the first TOMS title in 2014 but ever since it has been Dycus standing at the top of the mountain at season’s end.
Dycus, who turned 43 at the end of November, added two wins to bring his career total to 20 in the 101 races staged by the series at 18 different racetracks in six seasons.
Troy Taylor followed in second with Charlie Smith, Colby Smith and Kenny Gaddis completing the top five in the final standings.
Derek Green of Granada, Minn., and Jared Boumeester of Waseca, Minn., emerged as the 2019 Arnold Motor Supply Iron Man Challenge champions.
This is Green’s second title in the American Racer USRA Stock Cars after winning it in 2017 also. With two wins in 13 starts, Green ran away and hid in the points battle. Dillon Anderson, Lynn Panos, Mitch Hovden and Kyle Falck completed the top five.
Racers competing in the Summit USRA Weekly Racing Series garnered regional points throughout the season based on their total accumulated track points within each region. The following drivers claimed regional championships in 2019:
CP-Carrillo Central Region presented by MVT – Paden Phillips, Chanute, Kan. (Modified); Jeff Dixon, Jamesport, Mo. (Stock Car); and Dillon McCowan, Urbana, Mo. (B-Mod).
MSD Performance Southern Region presented by MVT – Max Eddie Thomas, Quinlan, Texas (Modified).
PBM Performance Products Northern Region presented by MVT – Brandon Davis, Hayfield, Minn. (Modified); Mitch Hovden, Decorah, Iowa (Stock Car); Dan Hovden, Decorah, Iowa (B-Mod); Stock Dustin Gulbrandson, Sioux Falls, S.D. (Hobby Stock); and Seth Scholl, Holmen, Wis. (Tuner).
Summit USRA Weekly Racing Series competitors battled throughout 2019 as dozens of USRA-sanctioned racetracks produced 65 track champions in eight divisions along the way. The following drivers earned track championships during the 2019 season:
Caney Valley Speedway (Caney, Kan.) – Tyler Kidwell, Chanute, Kan. (B-Mod).
Cedar Lake Speedway (New Richmond, Wis.) – Dan Gullikson, Roberts, Wis. (Late Model).
Chateau Speedway (Lansing, Minn.) – Brandon Davis, Hayfield, Minn. (Modified), Noah Grinstead, Austin, Minn. (B-Mod).
Deer Creek Speedway (Spring Valley, Minn.) – Brandon Davis, Hayfield, Minn. (Modified), Jim Chisholm, Osage, Iowa (B-Mod).
Devil’s Bowl Speedway (Mesquite, Texas) – Max Eddie Thomas, Quinlan, Texas (Modified), Tommy McKinley, Kaufman, Texas (Factory Stock), Tommy Davis Jr., Wills Point, Texas (Limited Mod).
Fayette County Speedway (West Union, Iowa) – Kyle Falck, Decorah, Iowa (Stock Car), Dan Hovden, Decorah, Iowa (B-Mod), Joshua Ludeking, Decorah, Iowa (Hobby Stock), Justin Vargason, Waukon, Iowa (Tuner).
Elk City Motor Speedway (Elk City, Okla.) – Bobby Mayfield, Elk City, Okla. (Modified).
Hamilton County Speedway (Webster City, Iowa) – J.D. Auringer, Waterloo, Iowa (Modified), Reid Keller, Webster City, Iowa (Stock Car), Ty Griffith, Webster City, Iowa (B-Mod), Eric Stanton, Carlisle, Iowa (Hobby Stock), Oliver Monson, Clear Lake, Iowa (Tuner).
Humboldt Speedway (Humboldt, Kan.) – Tanner Mullens, Wichita, Kan. (Modified).
I-35 Speedway (Winston, Mo.) – Dennis Elliott, Mount. Ayr, Iowa (Modified), Jeff Dixon, Jamesport, Mo. (Stock Car), Chase Galvan, Bonner Springs, Kan. (B-Mod).
I-90 Speedway (Hartford, S.D.) – Brock Hess, Sioux Falls, S.D. (B-Mod), Dustin Gulbrandson, Sioux Falls, S.D. (Hobby Stock).
Lake Ozark Speedway (Eldon, Mo.) – Ryan Middaugh, Fulton, Mo. (Modified), Earl Pryor, Troy, Mo. (B-Mod).
Lawton Speedway (Lawton, Okla.) – Travis Bragg, Duncan, Okla. (Modified).
Legit Speedway Park (West Plains, Mo.) – Kaden Miller, Houston, Mo. (B-Mod).
Lucas Oil Speedway (Wheatland, Mo.) – Robbie Reed, Mexico, Mo. (Modified), Kris Jackson, Lebanon, Mo. (B-Mod).
Mississippi Thunder Speedway (Fountain City, Wis.) – Dustin Sorensen, Rochester, Minn. (Modified), Ryan Olson, Strum, Wis. (B-Mod), Triton Krause, Fountain City, Wis. (Hobby Stock), Lance Hofer, Cochrane, Wis. (Late Model).
Monarch Motor Speedway (Wichita Falls, Texas) – David Tanner, Wichita Falls, Texas (Modified), Josh Landers, Princeton, Texas (Factory Stock), Josh Cournoyer, Wichita Falls, Texas (Limited Mod).
Monett Motor Speedway (Monett, Mo.) – Jackie Dalton, Carthage, Mo. (B-Mod).
Nobles County Speedway (Worthington, Minn.) – Darrin Korthals, Rock Rapids, Iowa (Stock Car), Nicholas Peters, Le Mars, Iowa (B-Mod), Dan Strandberg, Worthington, Minn. (Hobby Stock), Scott Espey, Alpha, Minn. (Tuner).
Rapid Speedway (Rock Rapids, Iowa) – Darrin Korthals, Rock Rapids, Iowa (Stock Car), Tyler Tesch, Lennox, S.D. (B-Mod), Dustin Gulbrandson, Sioux Falls, S.D. (Hobby Stock).
Route 66 Motor Speedway (Amarillo, Texas) – Matt Newkirk, Amarillo, Texas (Modified), Kalvin King, Amarillo, Texas (Limited Mod).
RPM Speedway (Crandall, Texas) – Max Eddie Thomas, Quinlan, Texas (Modified), Chris Davis, Wills Point, Texas (Factory Stock), Tommy Davis Jr., Wills Point, Texas (Limited Mod).
Southern Oklahoma Speedway (Ardmore, Okla.) – Wesley Veal, Princeton, Texas (Modified).
Springfield Raceway (Springfield, Mo.) – Jackie Dalton, Carthage, Mo. (B-Mod).
Tri-State Speedway (Pocola, Okla.) – Trevor Latham, Rogers, Ark. (Modified), Hunter Byers, Rogers, Ark. (B-Mod).
Upper Iowa Speedway (Decorah, Iowa) – Mitch Hovden, Decorah, Iowa (Stock Car), Dan Hovden, Decorah, Iowa (B-Mod), Chris Hovden, Cresco, Iowa (Hobby Stock), Seth Scholl, Holmen, Wis. (Tuner).
Vado Speedway Park (Vado, N.M.) – Jake Gallardo, Las Cruces, N.M. (Modified), Bryan Bennett, Tularosa, N.M. (Stock Car), Nick Rivera, Las Cruces, N.M. (B-Mod).
West Texas Raceway (Lubbock, Texas) – Philip Houston, Odessa, Texas (Modified), Travis Graves, New Home, Texas (Stock Car), Cory Williams, Slaton, Texas (Limited Mod).