King of
America XIII Starts Tonight in Humboldt
RacinDirt presents King of America XIII on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, April 4-6, at the Humboldt Speedway
in Humboldt, Kan., featuring the Summit USMTS National
Championship presented by RacinDirt.
USRA Stock
Cars and USRA B-Mods will join the Summit USMTS
Modifieds all three nights.
Thursday's opener
will mark the 62nd main event since the inaugural visit
to 'The Hummer' on June 28, 2000, when Johnny Bone Jr.
captured his first of two USMTS wins here. Only the Deer
Creek Speedway in Spring Valley, Minn., has hosted more
USMTS shows.
The winningest USMTS racer in
Humboldt history is Jason Hughes with 13 of his 158
career USMTS wins here. Stormy Scott is a six-time
winner while Kelly Shryock and Ryan Gustin each have
five wins and Rodney Sanders has four.
Each of
these four are also former King of America champions.
Gustin is the only driver to wear the crown twice.
With his opening night win in this event last year,
Terry Phillips has three triumphs to his credit.
Two-time winners include Bone, Jason Krohn, Johnny
Scott, Zack VanderBeek and Jake O'Neil.
Past USMTS winners at Humboldt Speedway: 13
- Jason Hughes 6 - Stormy Scott 5 - Kelly Shryock
and Ryan Gustin 4 - Rodney Sanders 3 - Terry
Phillips 2 - Johnny Bone Jr., Jason Krohn, Johnny
Scott, Zack VanderBeek and Jake O'Neil 1 - Tim
Donlinger, Jon Tesch, Steve Holzkamper, William Gould,
Jeremy Payne, Mitch Keeter, Kyle Strickler, Lucas
Schott, Ricky Thornton Jr., Tanner Mullens, Carlos
Ahumada Jr., Brooks Strength, Kale Westover, Dereck
Ramirez and Dan Ebert.
Gould, Keeter, Strickler,
Strength and Westover picked up their first and only
career USMTS wins at the Humboldt Speedway—all of them
happening during a King of America weekend. Strength was
the champion while the others topped preliminary
features.
Eleven different drivers have claimed
victory in the previous 12 King of America contests, and
the list is a who’s-who of dirt modified racing.
Ebert, hot off a win March 2 at the Rocket Raceway Park,
is the reigning King of America and comes into this
year’s mega-event sitting atop the points battle for the
Summit USMTS National Championship presented by
RacinDirt as well as the ARMI Contractors South Region
presented by Gene Nicholas, LLC.
O’Neil added the
King of America crown to his trophy case in 2022 while
Strength captured his first and only USMTS feature win
in 2021 to earn the biggest triumph of his career en
route to garnering the Grant Junghans USMTS Rookie of
the Year title.
Prior to an off-year for the
COVID-19 hysteria in 2020, Thornton captured the crown
in 2019 and Schott was the 2018 winner after Gustin won
in 2017 to become the first and only repeat winner of
this event.
VanderBeek captured the title in 2016
after a thrilling late-race battle with Sanders—the 2014
winner. Hughes was the 2015 winner; Stormy Scott topped
the 2012 event and Shryock claimed the inaugural crown
in 2011.
Past USMTS King of America
Champions: Oct. 22, 2011 – Kelly Shryock
March 31, 2012 – Stormy Scott March 30, 2013 – Ryan
Gustin March 29, 2014 – Rodney Sanders March 28,
2015 – Jason Hughes April 2, 2016 – Zack VanderBeek
March 25, 2017 - Ryan Gustin March 17, 2018 - Lucas
Schott March 23, 2019 - Ricky Thornton Jr. March
27, 2021 - Brooks Strength March 26, 2022 - Jake
O'Neil March 25, 2023 - Dan Ebert
The Humboldt
Speedway is located 0.1 mile west of US 169 at the
Humboldt exit, then 0.5 mile south, then 0.9 mile east
to 1663 Georgia Rd, Humboldt, KS 66748.
For more
information including history, payouts, rules, event
times and ticket prices, check out the
FAST FACTS for RacinDirt King of America XIII.
While the King’s crown and $12,000 winner’s share of
the prize money ($20,000 to sweep all three nights) are
the dangling carrots of this blockbuster, points will be
awarded in the Summit USMTS National Championship
presented by RacinDirt and the Mel Hambelton Racing
USMTS Central Region for the first time this season.
Mel Hambelton Racing USMTS Central Region:
April 4-6, Humboldt Speedway, Humboldt, Kan., RacinDirt
King of America XIII May 22, Hamilton County
Speedway, Webster City, Iowa, 14th Annual Spring Classic
June 18, Off Road Speedway, Norfolk, Neb., Inaugural
Event June 19, Beatrice Speedway, Beatrice, Neb.,
3rd Annual Battle on the Big Blue River June 20-22,
81 Speedway, Park City, Kan., 2nd Annual Ed Gressel
Memorial July 17, Park Jefferson Speedway,
Jefferson, S.D., 9th Annual River City Rumble Aug.
2-3, Lucas Oil Speedway, Wheatland, Mo., 14th Annual
Show-Me Shootout Aug. 8-9, Lakeside Speedway. Kansas
City, Kan., 7th & 8th Annual Grant Junghans Memorial
Oct. 25, Lakeside Speedway, Kansas City, Kan., 13th
Annual Jayhawk Classic Oct. 26, 81 Speedway, Park
City, Kan., 4th Annual Modified Spooktacular
One
driver could pocket more than $180,000 in post-season
earnings at the end of the season. This year’s USMTS
national champion will earn $50,000 and each of the
three regional champs get $10,000. If a driver wins all
three regions and the national points, a staggering
$100,000 bonus awaits as the cherry on top of the
$80,000.
Summit USMTS National
Championship presented by RacinDirt Top
10 as of April 3, 2024
1. 60 Dan Ebert, Lake Shore,
Minn., 337 2. 49 Jake Timm, Winona, Minn., 333 3.
12 Jason Hughes, Westville, Okla., 328 4. 65 Tyler
Davis, Haysville, Kan., 319 5. 02 Tanner Mullens,
Wichita, Kan., 317 6. 75 Terry Phillips, Springfield,
Mo., 305 7. 58X Gary Christian, Broken Bow, Okla.,
297 8. 4R Dereck Ramirez, Woodward, Okla., 296 9.
12H Mike Hansen, Dickinson, N.D., 290 10. 24C Jim
Chisholm, Osage, Iowa, 285
What’s more, the
RacinDirt TV Challenge is $30,000 which will be split
evenly between all drivers with perfect attendance in
2024. After March 2, there are 40 drivers remaining with
perfect attendance. That’s $750 each and it keeps going
up every time a driver misses a show.
In 2023,
the 25th Anniversary of the USMTS and most competitive
season in series history saw a record 18 different
winners claim victory utilizing a record 17 different
chassis manufacturers in the 34 races that were held.
What’s more, there were a record 17 competitors who
attended every event.
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including history, payouts, rules, event times and
ticket prices, check out the
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Contact Info:
Jeff Nun
Chief Communications Officer
United States Modified Touring Series, Inc. (USMTS)
1715 W 2nd St, PO Box 905
Webster City, IA 50595
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