March 29, 2026 | By Lucas Oil Late Model Series PR

Tanner Mullens is King of America XV

WHEATLAND, MO.—Tanner Mullens took command just past the halfway mark and dominated the rest of the way to earn the crown at the United States Modified Touring Series King of America XV on Saturday night at Lucas Oil Speedway.

“I just can’t believe it, man,” Mullens said in victory lane after claiming the $15,000 victory in a race that eluded him a year ago - when he faded at about the same time he began to dominate this time.

Mullens, of Wichita, Kansas, beat Reece Solander by 2.5 seconds. Gabe Hodges, who like his teammate Solander won preliminary night features, finished third for a strong showing by the Hodges Brothers Racing team.

Mullens sailed around race-long leader Tyler Stevens on lap 35 and that was all she wrote. He was up to the challenge on multiple restarts the rest of the way, but wound up pulling away.

Mullens said he was motivated by his failure to close the King of America a year ago, when he pushed too hard in the first half of the race and his tires went away.

“That’s about all I thought about,” Mullens said of last year’s failure to close after leading 40 laps. “Tyler got out there and Reece set the pace. I tried to be as patient as I could. Once I got by Reece, I kind of maintained and then I knew it was about time to get going.”

The feature started with 10 rows, three wide and it was Stevens setting the early pace ahead of Solander with Tyler Davis third. Stevens was able to carve out a .696-second lead over Davis through 10 laps.

Tanner Mullens moved from ninth to fourth by lap 12 and the top four were separated by 1.5-seconds. Davis continued to ride the high side and maintained a lead of just under one second after 20 laps.

Caution on lap 24 eliminated Stevens’ 1.2-second lead over Davis with Mullens in third. Mullens took over second on the restart and wasted no time pressuring Stevens for the lead as the race approached the midpoint.

Just one lap past halfway, another caution flew, taking away a .901-second lead for Stevens. On the restart, Stevens staved off Mullens - but only briefly. Finally, on lap 35, Mullens went around Stevens on the outside in turn two for the first lead change.

Mullens took off from there and distanced himself from Stevens by a half-second by lap 40. Mullens’ lead stood at .801 seconds when a lap-45 caution bunched the field with 15 to go, but he had a terrific restart and extended the lead to one-second over Davis in just two laps.

One more caution, on lap 54, erased Mullens’ race-high 1.7-second lead. That gave Davis, Solander and Stevens, running second, third and fourth, one more shot at running down the leader.

Mullens quickly dashed their hopes. With a flawless restart, the 33-year-old dominated the rest of the way and prevailed by 2.5-seconds over Solander.

Mullens’ weekend didn’t start well as the team had to replace a motor after a poor practice session on Wednesday night.

“Practice was horrible and I don’t know what we had going on (Thursday night) but about 20 laps in it started cutting out and we didn’t finish,” Mullens said. “Last night it started again. We changed everything we could imagine.”

Six-time USMTS champ Rodney Sanders finished fourth and Brandon Davis was fifth.

Solander, of Emporia, Kan., said he just couldn’t keep up with Mullens while doing the best he could at conserving his tires for the final portion.

“I saved until the end and I tried to push there with 15 or 20 to go and my brake pedal went to the floor,” Solander said. “Tanner was really, really good tonight. Congrats to him and it was a good weekend.”

Former Lucas Oil Speedway track champion Bobby Williams of Hermitage picked up $1,000 with his win in the Non-Qualifiers special - a bonus event for those who did not qualify for the main event.

"We've had a miserable week. I'm glad we could pull the non-qualifier off because we couldn't do anything else," Williams said.

King captures USRA B-Mod feature: Cody King of Fanshawe, Okla., took the lead halfway through the 30-lap Clear Creek Golf Cars USRA B-Mod feature and held off Jon Sheets for the $3,000 win.

Sheets and King started on the front row and they ran 1-2 much of the race. King forged his way around Sheets out of turn four as the duo were mixed in with lapped traffic to complete lap 15.

King, who won Friday’s preliminary feature, stretched his lead to 1.2 seconds by lap 20. As the race continued its green-flag run, King picked his way through lapped cars to extend his margin to 1.5 seconds before a lap-23 caution flew.

King went on to beat Sheets by .657 seconds. Mike Striegel was third with Chad Clancy fourth and Waylon Dimmitt fifth.

"I thought I would have a chance and when we got into lapped traffic, it worked out," King said of overtaking Sheets, who won Thursday's feature.

USRA Stock Cars thriller goes to Bailey: Shayne Bailey of Kearney, Mo., passed race-long leader Johnny Fennewald on the final lap to grab the $3,000 prize in the O’Reilly Auto Parts USRA Stock Cars feature.

Fennewald had led the first 29 laps, but Bailey was breathing down his neck over the final laps. Bailey made the winning pass down the backstretch for the win, with Fennewald fading to fourth and Jeffrey Abbey capturing second.

Jaylen Wettengel rallied into third with Fennewald and Mason Martin rounding out the top five.

Bailey said with $3,000 on the line, he had to do what he could to win the duel on the last lap.

“It’s just stock car racing, man” Bailey said. “You’ve got to lean on ‘em every now and then.”


LUCAS OIL SPEEDWAY UNOFFICIAL RESULTS (March 28, 2026)
15th annual King of America Modified Nationals


Summit USMTS Modifieds

A Feature - 1. 02-Tanner Mullens[9]; 2. 5-Reece Solander[1]; 3. 7G-Gabe Hodges[4]; 4. 20-Rodney Sanders[10]; 5. 50III-Brandon Davis[5]; 6. 21K-Kyle Brown[16]; 7. 65-Tyler Davis[2]; 8. 87H-Harley Dais[20]; 9. 2SS-Mark Smith[27]; 10. 65X-Carlos Ahumada Jr[29]; 11. 24C-Jim Chisholm[11]; 12. 127-Paden Phillips[14]; 13. 33Z-Zack VanderBeek[28]; 14. 712-Trevor Hughes[17]; 15. 2S-Stormy Scott[7]; 16. 2-Tyler Stevens[3]; 17. 58X-Gary Christian[15]; 18. 56-Shadren Turner[19]; 19. 75-Terry Phillips[13]; 20. 10M-Talan Willis[6]; 21. 25C-Joe Chisholm[18]; 22. 87-Darron Fuqua[21]; 23. 16JR-Dustin Henigan[12]; 24. 91-Joe Duvall[25]; 25. 15W-Wyatt Gaggero[24]; 26. 17-Henry Chambers[22]; 27. 55H-AJ Hoff[26]; 28. G17-Fito Gallardo[23]; 29. 16H-Chris Henigan[8]

Last Chance 1 - 1. 17-Henry Chambers[2]; 2. 15W-Wyatt Gaggero[3]; 3. 22H-Dustin Hodges[4]; 4. 65X-Carlos Ahumada Jr[1]; 5. 99L-Steve Lavasseur[7]; 6. 24-Charles Steinberg[6]; 7. 33Z-Zack VanderBeek[10]; 8. 3B-Nic Bidinger[14]; 9. 85D-Mark Dotson[9]; 10. 211-Tim Eaton[19]; 11. 55H-AJ Hoff[11]; 12. 7-Al Hejna[12]; 13. 68-Dean Wille[5]; 14. 92-Tyler Grooms[15]; 15. (DNF) 5F-Drake Findley[8]; 16. (DNF) 06-Chad Taylor[17]; 17. (DNF) 29H-Joe Horgdal[13]; 18. (DNS) 29-Keith Hammett; 19. (DNS) 96-Chad Lyle; 20. (DNS) 24SR-Manuel Williams Sr

Last Chance 2 - 1. G17-Fito Gallardo[1]; 2. 91-Joe Duvall[2]; 3. 2SS-Mark Smith[4]; 4. 1B-Bobby Williams[5]; 5. 38C-Jason Pursley[3]; 6. J17-Jake Gallardo[8]; 7. 24M-Manuel Williams II[11]; 8. 18-Brad Johnson[7]; 9. 14W-Dustin Walker[13]; 10. 12-Hunter Sandy[9]; 11. 88-Sam Osman[6]; 12. 25-Kale Murphrey[12]; 13. 32-Ryan Murphy[14]; 14. 33-Ben Stockton[16]; 15. 17B-Lee Beemer[15]; 16. 17P-Peyton Gallardo[17]; 17. 15WX-Alex Williamson[10]; 18. 10B-Brandon Givens[19]; 19. 7D-Davis Givens[18]

B Main 1 - 1. 20-Rodney Sanders[2]; 2. 127-Paden Phillips[1]; 3. 25C-Joe Chisholm[5]; 4. 65X-Carlos Ahumada Jr[6]; 5. 15W-Wyatt Gaggero[4]; 6. 68-Dean Wille[8]; 7. 99L-Steve Lavasseur[7]; 8. 85D-Mark Dotson[3]; 9. 55H-AJ Hoff[13]; 10. 29H-Joe Horgdal[10]; 11. 92-Tyler Grooms[9]; 12. 06-Chad Taylor[12]; 13. (DNF) 211-Tim Eaton[11]

B Main 2 - 1. 24C-Jim Chisholm[2]; 2. 58X-Gary Christian[1]; 3. 56-Shadren Turner[4]; 4. G17-Fito Gallardo[6]; 5. 38C-Jason Pursley[3]; 6. 1B-Bobby Williams[8]; 7. J17-Jake Gallardo[10]; 8. 15WX-Alex Williamson[5]; 9. 25-Kale Murphrey[7]; 10. 32-Ryan Murphy[9]; 11. 33-Ben Stockton[11]; 12. 7D-Davis Givens[12]; 13. (DNF) 10B-Brandon Givens[13]

B Main 3 - 1. 16JR-Dustin Henigan[1]; 2. 21K-Kyle Brown[3]; 3. 87H-Harley Dais[2]; 4. 17-Henry Chambers[5]; 5. 22H-Dustin Hodges[7]; 6. 24-Charles Steinberg[10]; 7. 5F-Drake Findley[8]; 8. 33Z-Zack VanderBeek[11]; 9. 7-Al Hejna[6]; 10. 3B-Nic Bidinger[4]; 11. (DNF) 24SR-Manuel Williams Sr[13]; 12. (DNF) 29-Keith Hammett[9]; 13. (DNF) 96-Chad Lyle[12]

B Main 4 - 1. 75-Terry Phillips[1]; 2. 712-Trevor Hughes[3]; 3. 87-Darron Fuqua[6]; 4. 91-Joe Duvall[2]; 5. 2SS-Mark Smith[5]; 6. 18-Brad Johnson[10]; 7. 12-Hunter Sandy[7]; 8. 24M-Manuel Williams II[8]; 9. 14W-Dustin Walker[4]; 10. 17B-Lee Beemer[11]; 11. 17P-Peyton Gallardo[12]; 12. (DNF) 88-Sam Osman[9]

Non-Qualifiers Special - 1. 1B-Bobby Williams[2]; 2. 3B-Nic Bidinger[7]; 3. 38C-Jason Pursley[4]; 4. 22H-Dustin Hodges[1]; 5. J17-Jake Gallardo[6]; 6. 68-Dean Wille[15]; 7. 24M-Manuel Williams II[8]; 8. 88-Sam Osman[16]; 9. 29H-Joe Horgdal[23]; 10. 99L-Steve Lavasseur[3]; 11. 17B-Lee Beemer[24]; 12. 92-Tyler Grooms[17]; 13. 85D-Mark Dotson[9]; 14. 24-Charles Steinberg[5]; 15. 211-Tim Eaton[11]; 16. 7-Al Hejna[13]; 17. 14W-Dustin Walker[12]; 18. 06-Chad Taylor[21]; 19. 33-Ben Stockton[22]; 20. 25-Kale Murphrey[18]; 21. 18-Brad Johnson[10]; 22. (DNS) 5F-Drake Findley; 23. (DNS) 32-Ryan Murphy; 24. (DNS) 12-Hunter Sandy


Clear Creek Golf Cars USRA B-Mods

A Feature - 1. 510-Cody King[1]; 2. 8S-Jon Sheets[3]; 3. 17S-Mike Striegel[11]; 4. 57C-Chad Clancy[7]; 5. 11-Waylon Dimmitt[10]; 6. 12C-Stephen Clancy[4]; 7. 66-Ethan Isaacs[14]; 8. 90-Terry Schultz[9]; 9. 15S-Cayden Stacye[2]; 10. 94C-JT Carroll[8]; 11. 18-JC Morton[13]; 12. 32T-Taylor Skauge[15]; 13. 7J-Jake Richards[20]; 14. 57S-Darren Shaw[17]; 15. 54-Tyler Kidwell[16]; 16. 44T-Casey Thomas[19]; 17. 1KX-Kyle Henning[25]; 18. 1K-Tim Karrick[5]; 19. 11L-Logan Smith[21]; 20. 75-Randy Smith Jr[23]; 21. 9-kenny schrader[24]; 22. 48-Jordan Beard[18]; 23. 1-Doug McCollough[27]; 24. 28-Andy Bryant[6]; 25. 42B-Kaeden Bronner[22]; 26. 3J-Josh Cain[12]; 27. 10T-Trevor Fecht[26]; 28. 65-Kris Jackson[28]

Last Chance 1 - 1. 7J-Jake Richards[2]; 2. 42B-Kaeden Bronner[1]; 3. 9-Kenny Schrader[3]; 4. 22-Brian McGowen[4]; 5. 05-Jeremy Lile[5]; 6. X2-Cole Murphy[9]; 7. 55-Nathan Hagar[7]; 8. 27-Miken Iverson[11]; 9. 99-Jeremy Haddox[10]; 10. 4-Kenson Martin[12]; 11. 10T-Trevor Fecht[6]; 12. 2-Scott Splittstoesser[15]; 13. 17K-Klay Beemer[8]; 14. RED1-Dan Wheeler[14]; 15. 24D-Donnie Fellers[13]; 16. (DNS) 32-Lane New; 17. (DNS) 181-Luke Nieman

Last Chance 2 - 1. 11L-Logan Smith[1]; 2. 75-Randy Smith Jr[2]; 3. 1KX-Kyle Henning[5]; 4. 1-Doug McCollough[7]; 5. 17L-Chris Leathers[9]; 6. 11S-Scotty Bough[4]; 7. 20D-Dawson David[17]; 8. 214-Eric Spreer[12]; 9. 1R-Rylan Gibbs[8]; 10. 42J-Donnie Jackson[11]; 11. 15R-Oakley Ragland[10]; 12. 21P-Darren Phillips[14]; 13. 77X-Peyton Baker[16]; 14. 17X-Oliver Sackett[3]; 15. (DNF) 3-Masson Martin[6]; 16. (DNF) 4S-Isaac Shaw[13]; 17. (DNS) 88B-Colby Burge

B Main 1 - 1. 94C-JT Carroll[2]; 2. 3J-Josh Cain[1]; 3. 54-Tyler Kidwell[5]; 4. 42B-Kaeden Bronner[4]; 5. 9-kenny schrader[6]; 6. 05-Jeremy Lile[7]; 7. 55-Nathan Hagar[8]; 8. X2-Cole Murphy[3]; 9. 27-Miken Iverson[12]; 10. 24D-Donnie Fellers[10]; 11. 2-Scott Splittstoesser[9]; 12. 77X-Peyton Baker[11]

B Main 2 - 1. 90-Terry Schultz[2]; 2. 18-JC Morton[1]; 3. 57S-Darren Shaw[3]; 4. 11L-Logan Smith[5]; 5. 17X-Oliver Sackett[10]; 6. 1KX-Kyle Henning[6]; 7. 1-Doug McCollough[9]; 8. 17L-Chris Leathers[8]; 9. 42J-Donnie Jackson[7]; 10. 4S-Isaac Shaw[12]; 11. (DNF) 88B-Colby Burge[11]; 12. (DNF) 32-Lane New[4]

B Main 3 - 1. 11-Waylon Dimmitt[2]; 2. 66-Ethan Isaacs[4]; 3. 20D-Dawson David[1]; 4. 48-Jordan Beard[5]; 5. 7J-Jake Richards[3]; 6. 22-Brian McGowen[7]; 7. 10T-Trevor Fecht[6]; 8. 17K-Klay Beemer[8]; 9. 99-Jeremy Haddox[9]; 10. 4-Kenson Martin[10]; 11. RED1-Dan Wheeler[11]

B Main 4 - 1. 17S-Mike Striegel[2]; 2. 32T-Taylor Skauge[1]; 3. 44T-Casey Thomas[4]; 4. 75-Randy Smith Jr[6]; 5. 11S-Scotty Bough[10]; 6. 3-Masson Martin[11]; 7. 1R-Rylan Gibbs[5]; 8. 15R-Oakley Ragland[8]; 9. 214-Eric Spreer[3]; 10. 21P-Darren Phillips[9]; 11. (DNF) 181-Luke Nieman[7]

Non-Qualifiers Special - 1. 22-Brian McGowen[1]; 2. 20D-Dawson David[6]; 3. X2-Cole Murphy[5]; 4. 27-Miken Iverson[9]; 5. 11S-Scotty Bough[4]; 6. 17L-Chris Leathers[2]; 7. 214-Eric Spreer[8]; 8. 17X-Oliver Sackett[20]; 9. 42J-Donnie Jackson[12]; 10. 55-Nathan Hagar[7]; 11. 15R-Oakley Ragland[14]; 12. 77X-Peyton Baker[18]; 13. 2-Scott Splittstoesser[15]; 14. RED1-Dan Wheeler[19]; 15. 4-Kenson Martin[13]; 16. 3-Masson Martin[22]; 17. 4S-Isaac Shaw[24]; 18. 05-Jeremy Lile[3]; 19. 17K-Klay Beemer[17]; 20. 21P-Darren Phillips[16]; 21. 1R-Rylan Gibbs[10]; 22. 99-Jeremy Haddox[11]; 23. 24D-Donnie Fellers[21]; 24. 32-Lane New[23]


O'Reilly Auto Parts USRA Stock Cars

A Feature - 1. 7B-Shayne Bailey[4]; 2. 137-Jeffrey Abbey[2]; 3. 91J-Jaylen Wettengel[17]; 4. 21F-Johnny Fennewald[1]; 5. 31-Mason Martin[7]; 6. 69ER-Tyler Cadwallader[12]; 7. 32-Derek Green[8]; 8. 33X-Justin Custer[3]; 9. 87-Travis Shipman[25]; 10. 21-Myles Michehl[9]; 11. 31GP-Gene Parvin[23]; 12. 14-Todd Staley[27]; 13. 88-Jim Chisholm[20]; 14. 52W-Weston Koop[24]; 15. 11-Jesse Brown[13]; 16. 37-Randy Foote[26]; 17. 14W-Brady Williamson[11]; 18. 50B-Brock Badger[22]; 19. 7-Doug Keller[16]; 20. (DNF) 67-Kyle Falck[5]; 21. (DNF) 0F-Mason Beck[19]; 22. (DNF) 7W-William Garner[6]; 23. (DNF) 11W-Graci Williams; 24. (DNF) 9JR-Slade Sedgwick[10]; 25. (DNF) 35G-Gavin Grier[21]; 26. (DNF) 74-Rodney Schweizer[15]; 27. (DNF) 17K-Chris Theodore[18]; 28. (DNF) 55H-Troy Hansmeier[14]

Last Chance 1 - 1. 17K-Chris Theodore[4]; 2. 88-Jim Chisholm[7]; 3. 50B-Brock Badger[10]; 4. 52W-Weston Koop[8]; 5. 8-Coleman Browning[11]; 6. 10-Justin Ades[12]; 7. 12S-Christopher Sawyer[1]; 8. 95-Chance Larson[5]; 9. 7I-Andrew Inman[15]; 10. 23L-Allen Luttjohann[6]; 11. 05M-Milt David[14]; 12. (DNF) 11W-Graci Williams[9]; 13. (DNF) 14C-Caden Neisius[3]; 14. (DNF) 37-Randy Foote[2]; 15. (DNS) F5-Will David

Last Chance 2 - 1. 0F-Mason Beck[1]; 2. 35G-Gavin Grier[5]; 3. 31GP-Gene Parvin[6]; 4. 87-Travis Shipman[8]; 5. 27T-Jeff Tennant[4]; 6. 14-Todd Staley[7]; 7. 85JR-Tucker Sedgwick[10]; 8. 43-Calvin Lange[9]; 9. 27-David Oxford[12]; 10. (DNF) 15E-Eddy Noll[3]; 11. (DNF) 77-Josh Monthei[2]; 12. (DNF) 41-Bryan White[11]; 13. (DNF) 37C-Casey Colsch[13]; 14. (DNS) 26S-Steven Glenn

B Main 1 - 1. 21-Myles Michehl[2]; 2. 69ER-Tyler Cadwallader[3]; 3. 74-Rodney Schweizer[4]; 4. 12S-Christopher Sawyer[7]; 5. 77-Josh Monthei[11]; 6. 17K-Chris Theodore[5]; 7. 35G-Gavin Grier[9]; 8. 88-Jim Chisholm[1]; 9. (DNF) 87-Travis Shipman[13]; 10. (DNF) 50B-Brock Badger[10]; 11. (DNF) 41-Bryan White[6]; 12. (DNF) F5-Will David[12]; 13. (DNF) 26S-Steven Glenn[8]

B Main 2 - 1. 9JR-Slade Sedgwick[2]; 2. 11-Jesse Brown[4]; 3. 7-Doug Keller[6]; 4. 0F-Mason Beck[5]; 5. 14C-Caden Neisius[3]; 6. 27T-Jeff Tennant[7]; 7. 23L-Allen Luttjohann[11]; 8. 14-Todd Staley[9]; 9. 11W-Graci Williams[13]; 10. 85JR-Tucker Sedgwick[12]; 11. 10-Justin Ades[10]; 12. 37C-Casey Colsch[8]; 13. 7I-Andrew Inman[1]

B Main 3 - 1. 14W-Brady Williamson[3]; 2. 55H-Troy Hansmeier[1]; 3. 91J-Jaylen Wettengel[2]; 4. 37-Randy Foote[4]; 5. 15E-Eddy Noll[6]; 6. 95-Chance Larson[5]; 7. 31GP-Gene Parvin[8]; 8. 52W-Weston Koop[7]; 9. 43-Calvin Lange[11]; 10. 8-Coleman Browning[10]; 11. 27-David Oxford[12]; 12. (DNF) 05M-Milt David[9]

Non-Qualifiers Special - 1. 7I-Andrew Inman[9]; 2. 95-Chance Larson[7]; 3. 27T-Jeff Tennant[2]; 4. 43-Calvin Lange[6]; 5. 85JR-Tucker Sedgwick[4]; 6. 10-Justin Ades[3]; 7. 05M-Milt David[13]; 8. 8-Coleman Browning[1]; 9. 11W-Graci Williams[15]; 10. 23L-Allen Luttjohann[11]; 11. 27-David Oxford[8]; 12. (DNF) 12S-Christopher Sawyer[5]; 13. (DNF) 15E-Eddy Noll[10]; 14. (DNF) 37C-Casey Colsch[16]; 15. (DNF) F5-Will David[19]; 16. (DNF) 26S-Steven Glenn[18]; 17. (DNF) 77-Josh Monthei[12]; 18. (DNF) 14C-Caden Neisius[17]; 19. (DNF) 41-Bryan White[14]


MLRA Spring Nationals next: Lucas Oil Speedway returns to action with the 13th annual MLRA Spring Nationals for Late Models, April 10-11 with a big two-night program. The feature winner on Night One will earn $7,000 with $20,000 up for grabs for the Night Two winner. Hickamo Super Stocks and Legends will serve as support classes on the first night with Show-Me Vintage Racers joining the Super Stocks on April 11th.

For advance ticket info go online to Stub Wire.

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