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Welcome to the NEW Humphrey Racing.com. On this site we'll include the latest racing news, schedules, race updates and general news concerning our team and drivers Ronnie (dad) and Ryan (son) Humphrey. Ronnie is at the end of a 28 year driving career while Ryan is entering into his third full year of competition. Check back often for full reports on individual races and previews of upcoming events. You can also track the progress of Ryan as his learns and develops into the next generation racecar driver from the Humphrey family of Saline, Louisiana.

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LATEST NEWS ITEMS:
6/27/09 - GOOD NEW FOR A CHANGE!!!!
Wow it was great to finally have a night where the dirt modified drove and hooked up for a change thanks to the help from Scott Worn and Michael Hudson. The new spring and shock package made a huge difference along with the change from a J-bar to a short bar. The new steering box was a great addition as well. The track was very slick in the heat race which made passing all but impossible, however by feature time Ryan was able to run the car any where he wanted which resulted in a 9th place finish after starting 12th. The good news is not the 9th place finish, but rather how the car drove. We have also decided to convert the car back to alcohol from race gas to help close in on some carburetor issues that we are having. Pictures will be updated in a couple of days and we will be at the track for practice on Thursday night. 
6/21/09 - RACING REPORT 
After spending many hours over the past 2 weeks rebuilding the suspension on the dirt modified, it was time to head back to Boothill Speedway Saturday night to see if the hard work would pay off. After the hot lap session was over - it was clear that the hours spent installing new shocks, springs, j-bar, steering box, lead weight, etc. had made a huge difference in how the car performed and drove. For the first time this year Ryan looked and felt comfortable behind the wheel.
We were looking forward to the heat race only to have the ball joint break on the lower right front control arm on the first lap. Repairs were made in the pit area in order for Ryan to be able to start the feature, but those tempoary reparis could not handle the corner speeds of the fast 1/2 mile resulting in a 12th place finish on the night. As strange as it seems we were actually excited how the car performed and looked forward to next week as our luck has to turn around at some point. We thank God for a safe trip to and from the track plus keeping Ryan safe in the car.  
6/13/09 - RACING REPORT
After the showing at Boothill Speedway last week, the decision was made to take the dirt modified apart in order to look for the suspension problem which is hurting the performance. Many hours were put in this week changing to new shocks, new sliders, new springs, new ride heights, J-Bar mount along with the inspection of all rear suspension mounting brackets. Close inspection found that the right rear slider was contacting the lower bar on the right rear 4 link - this find could be the reason beind the car being so loose in the corner.  
Therefore with the dirt modified in several different pieces, we decided to load up the pavement modified and make the trip over to Monroe Motor Speedway. Since this would be the first time for Ryan to be on the fast 3/8 mile in several months plus the frist time behind the wheel of the Ellis - we decided it would be best for him to start on the rear of the field. It did not take long for his pavement experience to come back as he was tucked behing the field as the crossed the checkers in the heat race. However, not adjusting the car for the feature prooved to be costly as the car picked up a throttle push as the track temperatures dropped by feature time. Ryan did the best he could with a very ill handling car then to top things off the fuel pressure waring light came on to bring a short end to the night. We are not sure what caused the problem, but we either have a fuel pickup problem or a fuel pump going out. Even though the night was cut short, we thank God for a safe night both on on and off the track.
6/7/09 - RACING REPORT
A last minute change in plans sent us to Boothill Speedway and not Ark-La-Tex Speedway as was the original plan.
A field of 17 outlaw modifieds were on hand to attack the fast 1/2 mile speedway and Ryan looked very fast in the practice session, but usually that is a bad sign as the track starts taking rubber and the surface changes through the night.
As expected the car lost corner speed in the heat race resulting in a 8 place finish so for the feature - adjustments were made to both sides of the J-Bar and 2 turns of wedge was put in the right front spring.
These adjustments made the car work better in the feature allowing Ryan to work his way up to 11th after starting 16th but the car was still too free on corner exit so he ended up 13th at the checkers.
We thank God no damage was done to the car or crew tonight and we made it home safe!!
6/3/09 It'S BACK TO DIRT THIS WEEK
After taking a week off to attend the $5000 to win modified show at Fast Tracks Speedway last Saturday, its back to the dirt at Ark-La-Tex Speedway this weekend. The original plan was to make the show at Monroe with the pavement Modified this weekend but Tim took the opportunity to make a family visit back to Michigan so we'll get the dirt car out this time. If you are at Vivian this weekend - be sure to drop by and say Hi!!!
6/2/09 AND THE WINNER IS.......
We are happy to announce that Elaine Pool of Shreveport, La. is the winner of a FREE Pizza Hut Pizza for the 6/1/09 drawing. Congratulations!!!!
5/23/09 REAL TIME TESTING RESULTS IN 6th PLACE FINISH
It was back to the pavement this week for Humphrey Racing for what actually the first pavment race of 2009 thanks to several rain outs. Late Model Champion and Michigan Motorsports Hall of Fame driver Tim Felver from Michigan did the job behind the wheel this week with Ronnie serving as Crew Chief and spotter. Since this was the first time out for 2009 we elected to start in the back and use the race as a testing session. What we found was a carbruetor that was acting up at high RPM, wrong final drive gear selection thanks to taller track tires and a car that was a little more than a handful to drive. However we made some changes at the track that allowed Tim to finish 6th. We will do more this week in the shop and return next week loaded!!!! We thank God for a safe night of racing!!  
5/16/09 CLOSE BUT NOT CLOSE ENOUGH
As we pulled into the pit area tonight at Ark-La-Tex Speedway we received the word that Champion Park Speedway and Boothill Speedway had both been rained out. What this meant was that there would be many additional cars heading towards Vivian La. When is was all said and done - there was a 30+ field of the fastest Outlaw Modifieds in the Ark-La-Tex area. Ryan started 6th out of 7 cars in his heat race and ended up in the same position he started in at the checkers. Since they only took the top three cars stright to the A-Feature, Ryan would have to run one of 2 Last Chance Qualifier races. He was scheduled to start 5th out of 8 cars and thanks to a light rain shower which put some moisture on the racing surface and caused the car to have a wicked push on corner entry, he was not able to crack the top 4 which would have moved him on to the A-Main. So we loaded up and got home early for a change. We thank God for a safe trip there and back plus keeping Ryan safe to race another night!  
5/15/09 BACK ON TRACK
If the weather holds out, the action this week will take place on the dirt at Gene Boyters' Ark-La-Tex Speedway in Vivian Louisiana. The car is almost finished and we hope to make it the second week in a row for a good finish. Come on out and say Hi if you can!
5/10/09 GOOD NEWS FOR A CHANGE!!!!
After two back to back DNF's, things finally changed for the positive tonight at Sabine Motor Speedway in Many Louisiana. A very fast field of Outlaw Modifieds were on hand and the action started in the heat race where Ryan ended up with a 5th place finish after starting 7th. From there, Ryan started 14th in the A Feature and by keeping his nose clean was able to drive to a final 5th place finish scoring the first top 5 of the 2009 racing season!!! We thank God for a safe and good night!! 
5/8/09 BACK AT IT!!!
After taking a couple of weeks off due to a rain out, the Pate Swap Meet at the Texas Motor Speedway and the 10 year anniversary of Ronnie and Janice Humphrey which sent the pair to the Bahamas.......it's back to the action this week at the Sabine Motor Speedway in Many, Louisiana this Saturday night. The original plans were to run the SUPR show at the Monroe Motor Speedway this weekend but some last minute details forced the switch back to the dirt modified. Hopefully the luck will change this weekend. Thanks for checking in.
  
4/11/09 WEEK NUMBER 2 SAME STORY
After racing 16 straight weeks in 2008 without a single DNF - Friday night was the second straight night of the 2009 season that the Bear Creek Services Modified took some major hits. The action this week took place at Lonestar Speedway in Kilgore Texas where the Outlaw Modifieds shared the stage with the World of Outlaws Sprint Cars. There were 25 modifieds on hand to fight it out on the super fast half mile speedway. On the second lap of the hot lap session on a very slick track, Ryan pushed up in turn one making contact with the concrete wall with the right front wheel only then to get tagged by two other cars before the whole thing was over. The damage was very heavy and included right front bottom A-Frame, upper ball joint, lower ball joint right front wheel, left rear wheel, left rear tire, rear bumper, left rear birdcage, right front shock, etc. Thanks to the help from Gene Humphrey, Greg Heron, Bill Heron, Ronnie, Ryan, Amy and Alan Bargerstock the car was almost totally rebuilt on both ends and made the call for the Qualifying race and eventually the 22 car A-Feature. Ryan started scratch on the field (22nd) and ended up the night 14th in a car with no left rear suspesion, no left 1/4 panel, broke J-Bar mount, door held on with plastic tie straps, etc. The car was so bad off that he was only able to run around on the bottom and try to stay out of the way. We are thankful to God that we had a safe night and that damage was to metal only!!   
4/4/09 - ROUGH START TO 2009 
Well after going the complete 2008 racing season without a single DNF - we started out 2009 the other way. A very strong field of 19 modifieds was on hand tonight at Fast Tracks Speedway and a bad draw put Ryan starting last (6th) in his heat race. After finally finding a groove that the car worked the best in - he was able to pass 2 cars and come in a strong 4th. This put Ryan starting 11th in the A-Main which was as high as he would get before a crash and 3 car pile up in turn one caused the damage you see in the attached picture. What hurts is the right front tire was a brand new $100.00 tire, $50 front bumper, $70 wheel.........oh well as they say.....that's racing.
We do thank God for a safe night and give him the glory!!
03/31/09 - Back To School
It was back to class Friday as we took the dirt modified to the University Elementary School in Shreveport to join in their "Start Your Thinking Engines" LEAP test celebration. We were able to compare how you have to prepare for everything you do in life. We were able to speak to over 200 students and teachers al together.
03/22/09 - Testing Goes Good!!!
After church we headed up to Ark-La-Tex Speedway for a open practice this afternoon. The car performed well with the only adjustment made was air pressures and one 4-Link bar. We  do have a little heating issue to work on, but we hope that some cooling holes in the new nose piece along with a different style fan will help get some fresh air to the radiator. 
03/21/09 - FINISHED PRODUCT!!
Fast Designs and Graphics sent the graphics just in time for us to install them for the Bear Creek Open House and share holders meeting today at the Bear Creek Office. We will be able to take the car out to Ark-La-Tex Sunday after church for a shake down.
03/17/09 - IT'S OFFICIAL!!!
Bear Creek Services is now the official head line sponsor of the Hoffman Dirt Modified driven by Ryan Humphrey. Bear Creek Services owns and operates 2 Salt Water Disposal Wells and is a leading service provider offering a full line of fluid management trucking, drill/site engineering and environmental services to oil and gas companies in Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Humphrey Racing welcomes Bear Creek to the team and invites you to visit their web site at www.bearcreekservices.net
We hope to be in competition form this weekend and plan on testing Sunday afternoon (after church) at Ark-La Tex Speedway.
 
03/15/09
 Well, after working all last week, Mother Nature has taken her first of probably many wins this season. The car is scaled, and ready to go. We hope to be able to make a practice before racing to work any bugs out of the car, but nights/days of practice are slowly giving way to opening nights at local tracks. We will update later this week with concrete plans for this weekend. 

03/09/09 - 98% DONE
Currently, the plans are to finish the bottom body mounts, install the drvieshaft, seat belts, build some shifter rods Tuesday night and scale the car later in the week. We should be ready to go with no problems for the season opener Friday night at Fast Track Speedway. You can see all the progress on the Hoffman Build page above.
03/07/09 ANOTHER FULL DAY OF WORK
We spent the whole day in the shop and are much closer to a finished racecar. Uncle Gene delivered the motor at 6:30am and we and we finally got in a position to start installing at around 2pm. The motor roared to life at 5:30pm.  We elected not to make the season opener at Monroe in order to get more done on the dirt car.
2/27/09
TOGETHER AGAIN....
Was a famous old country song and that is exactly what's going on in currently in the shop. We finally got the Dirt Modified chassis back from the powder coater today and started immediately putting it back together. We hope to have it on the ground tomorrow so we can start on the body. Click on the Hoffman page above to track the progress.   
2/20/09
Wow what a day!!! Ronnie was able to spend Thursday at Texas Motor Speedway thanks to his company Bear Creek Services. TMS has been trying to get Bear Creek to rent a track suite for some time now and to help seal the deal, TMS invited Ronnie, his boss and the business development manager for a little time on the track. Did it work......I think it did. Thanks to the fine folks at Team Texas for allowing us to click off 30 laps at 155 mph!! It was a blast and we look forward to spending time at TMS during 2009!!! 
01/19/09
FIRST WIN FOR 2009 (kind of)
Well we did get a throphy and we won our class in the 2009 World of Wheels car show. We had many race fans come by and say HI. It was great getting to talk to everyone.
01/15/09
STOP #2 IN 2 WEEKS!!!!
For the first time ever, we will have a racecar on display at the World of Wheels Car Show in the Shreveport Convention center. Please come by and say hi - the show runs Friday night - Sunday!! See ya there!!!  
01/11/09
WHAT A GREAT TIME AT THE SHOW!!!
Thanks to all the local racers who came by and bought items or just said hi at the 2009 Ark-La-Tex Racers Auction and Trade Show. Hundreds of people came by the booth and it was great getting to see what was up with everyone and do some good bench racing. I must thank Janice Humphrey, Ryan Humphrey and Ashlin Humphrey for their hard work in addition to Scott Worn, Monroe Motor Speedway and Alan Bargerstock for all the help they provided this weekend. It has been a ton of work between setting up the booth Friday night to pulling everything down and loading up Sunday afternoon. Next weekend the modified will be on display at the annual World of Wheels car show in the Shreveport Civic Center where thousands of car fans are expected. More on that later in the week!!!  
01/01/09
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Well 1/1/2009 is here and we spent all day in the shop putting the final touches on the new body for the pavement modified. The plan is to build a new hood on Friday and Russ called from Atlanta, GA today and said that the decals will be in on Friday via UPS as well - so we could have a near completed car by Monday. The plan at this point is to have a booth in the Ark-La-Tex Racers Auction next weekend in Bossier. We will have safety and speed equipment for sale. Happy New Year!! 


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Hanging out in 102 degree weather!!!! Photo by Claude Price
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Making a few chassis adjustments at MMS
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5/16/09 Ark-La-Tex Speedway
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Gave up racing one week to celebrate 10 years in the Bahamas!!!!
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Gettting ready for Hot Laps at Ark-La-Tex
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Speaking at University Elementary School
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5/09 Ark-La-Tex Speedway
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Adjusting the 4 Link Bars on the left rear
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Ryan and Amy (His Girlfriend)
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The blasted 5600 MSD chip kept us at only 155 mph - shucks!!!!
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No that's not Jeff Burton. Ronnie living the dream at Texas Motor Speedway
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Ronnie on the gas at Texas Motor Speedway 2/19/09
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Ronnie and the 2012 President of the United States??

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Picking up the Hardware

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Happy Face!!!
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Loaded and ready to pull out to the track!!!