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Strickler takes command late for USMTS Show-Me Shootout Night 2 win at Lucas Oil Speedway

WHEATLAND, MO. (Aug. 2, 2025) - After struggling to 25th place in Friday's opener, Kyle Strickler turned it around in a big way Saturday night at the 16th annual USMTS Slick Mist Show-Me Shootout Presented by Foley Equipment.

Strickler, the veteran from Mooresville, N.C., captured the finale of the weekend doubleheader at Lucas Oil Speedway. Starting eighth, Strickler took the lead from Tanner Mullens on lap 41 and went on to prevail in the 50-lap main event over Jim Chisholm for a $5,000 pay day.

Other feature winners on Saturday night night were Trevor Drake (Clear Creek Golf Cars USRA B-Mods), Tyler Wolff (Hermitage Lumber Late Models) and Mason Beck (O'Reilly Auto Parts USRA Stock Cars).

Strickler, who's driven Late Models in the past including a podium finish at the Show-Me 100 at Lucas Oil Speedway in 2020, was ecstatic about his rebound from a night earlier.

"This is just awesome," Strickler said in victory lane. "I've run second in the Show-Me (100) and to win a USMTS race here is awesome. This is a beautiful facility. Everybody said the race track is hard to get ahold of here, I just had to start with the complete wrong set-up on the thing.

"Tomorrow's my birthday. This will make the long trip home a lot easier. Man, there ain't nothing like a win to turn things around. I'm getting old. I turn 42 tomorrow. I was really trying to manage my tires and I think I did a really good job of being patient on the starts and not put myself in a bad position."

The race had a rough beginning that required patience from the contenders as there were two cautions before two official laps could be completed. Reece Solander was credited with leading the first lap with Kyle Brown in second.

Mullens, looking for a weekend sweep, moved into second on lap five as the race began to get some rhythm under green, but was 1.5 seconds behind Solander when the event’s third caution stopped the momentum again.

The restart saw Mullens roar to the lead, going past Solander on the outside coming off turn two. Mullens extended his margin to one second by lap 15 with Solander in front of eighth-starting Kyle Strickler and Brown.

The leaders caught lapped traffic by lap 19 just as the fourth caution came out as Mullens led Solander and Strickler. Seven cars piled up in turn one on the restart, spinning due to fluid laid down by the car of sixth-running Sean Gaddis.

Following the lengthy delay to clean up the fluid, Mullens and Strickler broke away after the green to lead the field by about 10 car lengths. Mullens’ advantage over Strickler was 1.1 seconds by lap 30 with Solander another 2.4 seconds behind in third. By lap 35, the leaders were dealing with slower traffic and Mullens was maintaining his advantage as the laps clicked away.

But suddenly Strickler came to life, cutting the gap to one-half second by lap 38 with Chisholm having moved into third to make it a three-car battle.

Strickler wrestled the lead away with a slider coming out of turn four on lap 41. Chisholm took second away from Mullens on lap 43, but was a half-second behind Strickler with six to go and couldn't make up any ground.

Strickler held on from there, beating Chisholm by .895 seconds with USMTS season championship leader Rodney Sanders third after starting 23rd. Mullens settled for fourth with Tyler Wolff fifth.

Chisholm, who swept the Show-Me Shootout a year ago en route to the series championship, was pleased with finishes of third and second on back-to-back nights.

"A really good weekend for us as a team. We can't complain at all," Chisholm said. "Congratulations to Kyle. He drove around us early and drove away with it. We probably took it a little too easy, early. We fell back a few spots, but it's all about not getting over your head. I'm super proud of my whole team."

Sanders, who was unable to complete his heat race due to a flat tire, salvaged a podium finish after the rough start to his night.

"We struggle early in the night here," Sanders said. "We were so bad in the heat and the B-Main. I just have to thank all my guys. It would be so easy to get down and take your confidence away. We were thrashing, just trying to get something going. It was a good team effort and a good rebound."

Drake hangs on for USRA B-Mods win: Trevor Drake of Brighton led all 20 laps, but paced the final one by the narrowest of margins over his buddy Ryan Gillmore to capture the Clear Creek Golf Cars USRA B-Mod win, his first of the season at Lucas Oil Speedway.

"I kept hearing somebody on the outside, but they quit showing the video (jumbotron) with about 10 to go," Drake said. "I seen Gillmore and (Jon) Sheets going back and forth and I saw Gillmore on the board with like three to go. I live with him so I've got to live with the car all week and then to follow it every week here, I'm glad to finally beat it."

Drake started on the pole with Sheets to the outside and it was Drake who led in the early going with Sheets right behind. Drake gradually worked his lead to .706 seconds by the mid point on lap 10.

As action continued to run caution-free, Drake led by just under one second when he caught lapped traffic on lap 15. That’s when caution came out as one of the slower cars spun in turn four. By this point, 10th-starting Gillmore had advanced to third for the single-file restart.

As Gillmore battled past Sheets for second on lap 17, a caution came out for a spin in turn two. Drake was able to hold off Gillmore over the final three laps, prevailing by .029 seconds - or about a quarter-car-length - as Gillmore made a last-corner charge on the outside.

Andy Bryant was credited with third and JC Morton fourth after Sheets, who finished third at the checkers, was disqualified in post-race tech inspection.

Wolff finishes Late Model sweep: Tyler Wolff ran away from the field and won the Hermitage Lumber Late Model feature for the second night in a row. The Fayetteville, Ark., led all 20 laps and beat runner-up Robbe Ewing.

Wolff, fifth in the USMTS feature earlier, had a four-second lead when the race's long caution flew on lap 13 for debris. He didn't have any trouble after the restart, rolling to the final margin of 2.99 seconds over Ewing.

"This Late Model fits our style pretty good," Wolff said. "Man, the track was awesome. You could drive it about wherever you wanted to go and drive it pretty hard. What a weekend. That was awesome."

Tucker Cox wound up third with Alan Westling fourth and JC Morton fifth.

USRA Stock Cars win to Beck: Mason Beck of Urbana won a thriller to cap the program, battling past Jason Hughes with a winning pass with four laps remaining for the O'Reilly Auto Parts USRA Stock Cars feature win.

Beck led Rodney Schweizer by a half-second when caution slowed the action on lap seven. Hughes, the winner on Friday night, grabbed second on the restart and the two battled side-by-side over the next several laps. Hughes finally was able to power past Beck on the outside on lap 13 to take command.

But Beck battled back on the inside and regained the top spot on lap 16, coming out of turn four. Beck was able to hang on to earn his third win of the Lucas Oil Speedway season, beating Hughes by .381 seconds.

"He got past me last night. I was over-driving it pretty hard," Beck said. "I about gave another one away. As soon as he got around me I thought it was over. I remembered I just had to calm down and hit my marks."

Schweizer finished third with William Garner fourth and James McMillin fifth.

LUCAS OIL SPEEDWAY UNOFFICIAL RESULTS (Aug. 2, 2025)

16th annual USMTS Slick Mist Show-Me Shootout Presented by Foley Equipment

A Feature - 1. 8-Kyle Strickler[8]; 2. 24C-Jim Chisholm[7]; 3. 20-Rodney Sanders[23]; 4. 02-Tanner Mullens[4]; 5. 4W-Tyler Wolff[14]; 6. 5-Reece Solander[2]; 7. 21K-Kyle Brown[1]; 8. 58X-Gary Christian[26]; 9. 25-Joe Chisholm[24]; 10. 22C-Cole Campbell[13]; 11. 1B-Bobby Williams[20]; 12. 38C-Jason Pursley[9]; 13. 55H-AJ Hoff[22]; 14. 91-Joe Duvall[10]; 15. 10-Dayton Pursley[19]; 16. 2SS-Mark Smith[11]; 17. 33S-Ben Stockton[18]; 18. 15G-Geoff Lary[12]; 19. 2G-Troy Girolamo[27]; 20. 75-Terry Phillips[17]; 21. 10B-Brandon Givens[3]; 22. 87-Darron Fuqua[15]; 23. 22H-Dustin Hodges[5]; 24. 3B-Nic Bidinger[25]; 25. 7-Sean Gaddis[6]; 26. 712-Trevor Hughes[21]; 27. 71-Chad Melton[16]

Real Racing Wheels B Feature 1 - 1. 22C-Cole Campbell[1]; 2. 87-Darron Fuqua[3]; 3. 75-Terry Phillips[4]; 4. 10-Dayton Pursley[7]; 5. 712-Trevor Hughes[8]; 6. 3B-Nic Bidinger[2]; 7. 16-Austin Siebert[6]; 8. 20-Rodney Sanders[10]; 9. 2G-Troy Girolamo[9]; 10. 03-Jason Sivils[11]; 11. 58X-Gary Christian[5]

Real Racing Wheels B Feature 2 - 1. 4W-Tyler Wolff[1]; 2. 71-Chad Melton[3]; 3. 33S-Ben Stockton[2]; 4. 1B-Bobby Williams[6]; 5. 55H-AJ Hoff[7]; 6. 23N-Kenny Nutter[4]; 7. 25-Joe Chisholm[8]; 8. 29-Keith Hammett[5]; 9. 68-Dean Wille[9]; 10. 21-Greg Scheffler[11]; 11. 97-Cole Anderson[10]

Simpson Performance Heat 1 - 1. 02-Tanner Mullens[2]; 2. 91-Joe Duvall[3]; 3. 22C-Cole Campbell[4]; 4. 15G-Geoff Lary[5]; 5. 4W-Tyler Wolff[6]; 6. 55H-AJ Hoff[1]; 7. 712-Trevor Hughes[8]; 8. 2G-Troy Girolamo[9]; 9. 03-Jason Sivils[7]

Fast Shafts Heat 2 - 1. 22H-Dustin Hodges[2]; 2. 24C-Jim Chisholm[4]; 3. 87-Darron Fuqua[1]; 4. 75-Terry Phillips[3]; 5. 3B-Nic Bidinger[6]; 6. 16-Austin Siebert[7]; 7. 1B-Bobby Williams[5]; 8. 68-Dean Wille[8]

Edelbrock Heat 3 - 1. 8-Kyle Strickler[4]; 2. 2SS-Mark Smith[3]; 3. 5-Reece Solander[6]; 4. 33S-Ben Stockton[7]; 5. 71-Chad Melton[8]; 6. 23N-Kenny Nutter[9]; 7. 10-Dayton Pursley[5]; 8. 97-Cole Anderson[1]; 9. 21-Greg Scheffler[2]

Wieland Metals Heat 4 - 1. 7-Sean Gaddis[1]; 2. 21K-Kyle Brown[4]; 3. 10B-Brandon Givens[5]; 4. 38C-Jason Pursley[6]; 5. 29-Keith Hammett[2]; 6. 58X-Gary Christian[8]; 7. 25-Joe Chisholm[7]; 8. 20-Rodney Sanders[3]

Qualifying Group 1 - 1. 4W-Tyler Wolff, 00:17.853[3]; 2. 3B-Nic Bidinger, 00:17.959[4]; 3. 15G-Geoff Lary, 00:18.128[17]; 4. 1B-Bobby Williams, 00:18.226[12]; 5. 22C-Cole Campbell, 00:18.373[5]; 6. 24C-Jim Chisholm, 00:18.400[14]; 7. 91-Joe Duvall, 00:18.403[10]; 8. 75-Terry Phillips, 00:18.570[9]; 9. 02-Tanner Mullens, 00:18.578[11]; 10. 22H-Dustin Hodges, 00:18.614[8]; 11. 55H-AJ Hoff, 00:18.781[1]; 12. 87-Darron Fuqua, 00:18.809[13]; 13. 03-Jason Sivils, 00:19.083[7]; 14. 16-Austin Siebert, 00:19.127[6]; 15. 712-Trevor Hughes, 00:19.154[2]; 16. 68-Dean Wille, 00:19.528[15]; 17. 2G-Troy Girolamo, 00:19.744[16]

Qualifying Group 2 - 1. 5-Reece Solander, 00:17.881[6]; 2. 38C-Jason Pursley, 00:17.937[7]; 3. 10-Dayton Pursley, 00:17.956[1]; 4. 10B-Brandon Givens, 00:18.023[13]; 5. 8-Kyle Strickler, 00:18.039[8]; 6. 21K-Kyle Brown, 00:18.054[11]; 7. 2SS-Mark Smith, 00:18.206[17]; 8. 20-Rodney Sanders, 00:18.266[9]; 9. 21-Greg Scheffler, 00:18.280[12]; 10. 29-Keith Hammett, 00:18.322[16]; 11. 97-Cole Anderson, 00:18.341[5]; 12. 7-Sean Gaddis, 00:18.418[14]; 13. 33S-Ben Stockton, 00:18.443[2]; 14. 25-Joe Chisholm, 00:18.520[4]; 15. 71-Chad Melton, 00:18.646[3]; 16. 58X-Gary Christian, 00:18.668[10]; 17. 23N-Kenny Nutter, 00:18.787[15]

Clear Creek Golf Cars USRA B-Mods

A Feature - 1. 7L-Trevor Drake[1]; 2. 66-Ryan Gillmore[10]; 3. 28-Andy Bryant[5]; 4. 18-JC Morton[12]; 5. 66E-Ethan Isaacs[6]; 6. 15R-Ryan Edde[4]; 7. 11-Waylon Dimmitt[3]; 8. 18B-Jace Boney[9]; 9. 6-Lucas Isaacs[8]; 10. 1-Kyle Henning[11]; 11. 181-Luke Nieman[13]; 12. 42J-Donnie Jackson[14]; 13. 88B-Colby Burge[15]; 14. 94C-JT Carroll[7]; 15. (DNF) 15-Nick Drew[17]; 16. (DNS) 23Y-Ethan Young; 17. (DQ) 8-Jon Sheets[2]

Heat 1 - 1. 11-Waylon Dimmitt[1]; 2. 7L-Trevor Drake[7]; 3. 28-Andy Bryant[4]; 4. 94C-JT Carroll[6]; 5. 18B-Jace Boney[9]; 6. 1-Kyle Henning[3]; 7. 42J-Donnie Jackson[5]; 8. (DNF) 23Y-Ethan Young[2]; 9. (DNF) 15-Nick Drew[8]

Heat 2 - 1. 8-Jon Sheets[2]; 2. 15R-Ryan Edde[1]; 3. 66E-Ethan Isaacs[4]; 4. 6-Lucas Isaacs[6]; 5. 66-Ryan Gillmore[8]; 6. 18-JC Morton[5]; 7. 181-Luke Nieman[3]; 8. 88B-Colby Burge[7]

Hermitage Lumber Late Models

A Feature - 1. 4W-Tyler Wolff[2]; 2. 32-Robbe Ewing[4]; 3. 1T-Tucker Cox[5]; 4. 20-Alan Westling[6]; 5. 72-JC Morton[1]; 6. 28-Jim Greenway[10]; 7. 1A-Bryon Allison[3]; 8. 26P-Glen Powell[14]; 9. 14-David Melloway[8]; 10. 15-John Aitken[9]; 11. 23-Chad Walter[7]; 12. (DNF) 41-Matt Menzie[13]; 13. (DNS) 99D-Dylan Hoover; 14. (DNS) 99-Larry Jones

Heat 1 - 1. 72-JC Morton[5]; 2. 1A-Bryon Allison[3]; 3. 1T-Tucker Cox[4]; 4. 23-Chad Walter[6]; 5. 15-John Aitken[1]; 6. (DNF) 99D-Dylan Hoover[2]; 7. (DNF) 26P-Glen Powell[7]

Heat 2 - 1. 4W-Tyler Wolff[2]; 2. 32-Robbe Ewing[3]; 3. 20-Alan Westling[4]; 4. 14-David Melloway[5]; 5. 28-Jim Greenway[1]; 6. (DNF) 41-Matt Menzie[6]

O'Reilly Auto Parts USRA Stock Cars

A Feature - 1. 0F-Mason Beck[3]; 2. 12-Jason Hughes[5]; 3. 74-Rodney Schweizer[1]; 4. 7-William Garner[2]; 5. 8M-James McMillin[12]; 6. 41-Bryan White[8]; 7. 22-Dawson Fennewald[17]; 8. 12S-Christopher Sawyer[4]; 9. 35-Johnny Coats[7]; 10. 35Z-Zach Zeugin[9]; 11. 54-Gage Test[14]; 12. 34-Blake Bolton[11]; 13. 39JR-Robert Southerland[10]; 14. 24-Blayne McMillin[6]; 15. L23-Allen Luttjohann[13]; 16. 83-Mathieu Ellis[15]; 17. (DNF) 111-Butch Bailey[16]

Heat 1 - 1. 74-Rodney Schweizer[4]; 2. 12S-Christopher Sawyer[2]; 3. 0F-Mason Beck[6]; 4. 41-Bryan White[1]; 5. 35Z-Zach Zeugin[3]; 6. 34-Blake Bolton[7]; 7. L23-Allen Luttjohann[5]; 8. 83-Mathieu Ellis[9]; 9. (DNF) 22-Dawson Fennewald[8]

Heat 2 - 1. 7-William Garner[3]; 2. 12-Jason Hughes[2]; 3. 35-Johnny Coats[1]; 4. 24-Blayne McMillin[8]; 5. 39JR-Robert Southerland[4]; 6. 8M-James McMillin[5]; 7. 54-Gage Test[6]; 8. 111-Butch Bailey[7]

Lucas Oil Speedway quiet next week: Lucas Oil Speedway will take a scheduled off weekend next week before roaring back to action Aug. 15-16 on both the dirt and off road track. Short-course action will take place on both days with dirt-track action on Aug. 16 featuring the 14th annual Impact Signs Awnings & Wraps Open Wheel Showdown. The POWRi 410 Wing Sprints, POWRi WAR Non-Wing Sprints and the POWRi 305 Wing Sprints will be in action.

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DLorton@lucasoilspeedway.com

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About Lucas Oil Speedway

Lucas Oil Speedway is considered by fans, drivers and industry insiders to be one of the top racing facilities in the nation. Located in Wheatland, Mo., approximately an hour from Springfield and just an hour and a half from the Kansas City metro area, the "Diamond of Dirt Tracks" lives up to its title.

Twenty-One VIP Luxury Suites, HD Jumbo-Tron Screen, Stadium Style Musco Sports Lighting, a Bose Sound System, Go-Kart Slick Track, The Diamond Bar, Track Treasures Gift Shop, the best track food in the country and paved pits are a few of the spectacular amenities setting the Diamond of Dirt apart. This year marks the 12th season for the Liquid Quarter Mile Drag Racing Lake, "Lake Lucas." New for 2017 was all-purpose built Off Road facility featuring a host of regional events.

Lucas Oil Speedway's dirt oval track plays host to some of the largest and most-popular events in the Midwest with national and regional touring series appearing frequently including: The Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, United States Modified Touring Series and the High Limit Sprint Racing Series, POWRi Sprint Cars and POWRi WAR Sprints.

In addition to the special events, the Lucas Oil Speedway Weekly Racing Series features the Late Models, USRA Modifieds, USRA Stock Cars, USRA B-Mods and Super Stocks.

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