May 2, 2026 | By Lyndal Scranton

Beat, Henderson win as Champ Off Road Show-Me Shootout opens; Ewing takes Lucas Oil Speedway Late Model thriller

WHEATLAND, MO.—The Amsoil Championship Off Road Series' Show-Me Shootout at Lucas Oil Speedway on Saturday saw Ryan Beat and Jimmy Henderson prevail in the premier Pro 2 and Pro 4 divisions.

Action was held in seven pro divisions and 13 sportsman classes, with another round of action set to begin at 8:45 a.m. Sunday on the road course.

Meanwhile, the Slick Mist Shootout/Vietti Marketing Night at the Races on the dirt oval saw Robbe Ewing pick up the Late Model victory by a narrow margin. J.T. Carroll prevailed in the Clear Creek Golf Cars USRA B-Mods and William Garner won the O'Reilly Auto Parts USRA Stock Cars main event.

Beat rolls in Pro 2: It was all Ryan Beat, of Lincolnton, N.C., in the Pro 2 division. Beat led all the way to beat reigning Pro 2 champ Keegan Kincaid by nearly five seconds for the victory in a wild affair.

Beat was able to check out early and keep the mayhem behind him.

“This was like racing on pavement with water own top of it,” Beat said. “My spotter was keeping me in the loop with what was going on behind me and I knew Keegan (Kincaid) was coming. Sometimes it’s not always about being the fastest but doing the smart thing and not throwing it away.”

Beat blazed to a two-second lead over Jacob Rosales as drivers scrambled for position on lap one. Beat remained in command as the halfway flags waved with his lead at 3.3 seconds over Rosales with Travis Milhausen Jr. another 8.5 seconds behind in the third spot.

The challenge for Beat came on the restart with his margin’s wiped out for the second half of the race. Defending series champ Kincaid, fourth at halfway, blazed into second after the restart, putting himself into contention - but slipped up with two laps to go and fell back to fourth.

That was all Beat needed to make it a comfortable drive, finishing 4.79 seconds clear of Kincaid as the checkers flew. Ricky Gutierrez was third with Rosales fourth.

“This track was brutal, but it was challenging and fun,” Kincaid said. “It’s hard to recap but this truck is fast. It feels good.”

Henderson prevails in Pro 4: Jimmy Henderson of Conyers, Ga., pulled away over the final laps to pick up the Pro 4 victory in the finale of Day One of the Show-Me Shootout.

After most every starter find trouble on the opening lap, Henderson emerged as the leader by 4.8 seconds over Kyle Greaves after one circuit.

Just before the halfway point, Kyle Greaves, driving for his injured cousin C.J. Graves, pulled to the bumper of Henderson with Johnny Graves, Kyle’s uncle, right behind the top two.

Kyle Graves took the lead, but Henderson quickly regained the top spot with three minutes to go. Henderson was able to steadily pull away from there and beat Kyle Greaves by 5.3 seconds.

“Man, that was a great race,” Henderson said. “Lucas Oil Speedway is pretty awesome and what Champ does for us. All the great partners we have, I’m just proud of the team we’re building. To be able to win the first race, I guess that means we have the points lead - for now.”

Johnny Greaves was third and Adrian Cenni fourth.

The 13 Off Road Sportsman divisions and seven Pro divisions are in action again on Sunday with Sportsman opening ceremonies at 8:45 a.m.

Mittag rallies for Pro Lite win: Drake Mittag, driving for Connor Barry as Barry recovers from a knee injury, earned the Pro Lites feature victory by 5.11 seconds over runner-up Travis Milhausen Jr.

"Kind of mind blowing, to be honest," said Mittag, running a Champ Series race for the first time in a couple of years. "Connor had a little oopsy in the offseason and I'm happy to be able to fill in for Connor and the Barrys."

Michael Funk of Oconomowoc, Wis., grabbed the lead just after the second half of the Pro Lites feature began and appeared on his way to a win - but opened the door for Mittag soon after.

Milhausen had set a blazing pace, opening a 2.28-second lead over Funk just two laps into the event. Milhausen’s lead was down to just under one second as the race hit the midpoint.

Funk surged to the lead after the restart with Milhausen dropped to third as Mittag took over second. Mittag took advantage of of Funk’s spin a lap later to take a lead that he would not surrender.

AMSOIL Pro SxS: Jeb Bootle of Yemassee, S.C., got around early leader Nathan Wolff on lap three and those two ran 1-2 the rest of the way in the Pro SxS feature. Bootle took the win by 4.1 seconds.

Wolff held a narrow lead over Bootle after one lap. Those two continued to battle it out until Bootle took the lead on lap three and held a 2.25-second lead at the mid point. It was nearly six seconds back to third-place Kolton Krajicek.

That’s how it ended as Wolff, of Brighton, Illinois, scored a career-best finish.

"I'm super proud in Round One to come out swinging. I don't think I've ever had a good Round One at all in Champ," Bootle said. "To come out and get a win means a lot to our team. Once I got around around Nathan I just kind of held my line."

Kirchmeier earns Pro Stock SxS win: Cross Kirchmeier of Ennis, Texas, scored his first Pro Stock SxS career victory, taking the lead just after the mid-race restart from Brody Sanders for the feature win.

“I feel this track favors the Honda platform, just the way it handles and the quirks it has," Kirchmeier said. "It doesn’t have a lot of high-speed straightaways so I think it works really well.”

Sands, of Leavenworth, Kansas, opened a one-second one-second lead over David Gay one lap into the race. Cross Kirchmeier got around Gay on lap two and chopped a two-second deficit to just three-tenths of a second in just one lap when the halfway flags waved.

Kirchmeier took the lead with two laps remaining, diving to the inside of turn two. He held on from there and prevailed over Sands by .370 seconds. Gay came home in third.

Szymik pulls away in Pro Spec: Draxton Szymik of Abrams, Wis., took the lead in the early going and rolled to a win of more than two seconds over Nick Visser in the Pro Spec for his first career pro division victory.

Avery Hemmer held a narrow lead over Szymik, Van Den Elzen and Wyatt Miller in the early going, but slipped to fourth on lap two. Szymik assumed the lead and had a nearly two-second gap over Miller by lap three with Van Den Elzen third and that’s how it stayed until halfway.

Trying to pass for the lead after the second-half restart, Miller caught a rough spot and rolled his truck on its side to take him out of contention. Szymik went on to lead Nick Visser by 2.29 seconds as the lap was completed.

Szymik, 14, dominated the rest of the way, beating Visser by 2.22 seconds with Hunter Vanzile in third.

"My dad (Zach) has been helping me keeping it smooth," Szymik said. "The only reason I can do this is my dad. He's been prepping this truck all offseason and he's by biggest hero."

Pro buggy win to Buth: Billy Buth of Stacy, Minn., grabbed the lead on the opening lap and held it all the way to beat Tony Keepers by 2.6 seconds for the Pro Buggy feature win.

Pole starter Michael Meister fell out of the race in the opening turn after the green, rolling to a stop on the infield with mechanical issues. Billy Buth inherited the lead to set the early pace and led Tony Keepers by 1.26 seconds at the halfway mark.

Buth controlled the rest of the race to finish comfortably ahead of Keeprs with Jaden Uribe finishing third.

“Man, it’s a bummer to see Michael fall out like that but it feels good to start the season like that,” Buth said. “We found some things we were missing last year that we kind of knew, but didn’t have time to fix. Took the winter and got it done. It feels good to start the season this way.”

Sportsman winners were Sam Phillips (SxS), Evan Hockers (1600 Light Buggy), Connor Schulz (1600 Single Buggy), Colt Wierzba (Stock Truck), Nick Byng (Super Stock Truck), Lincoln Mandsager (Mod Kart), Ryker Smith (Short Course Kart), Jojo Pakenham (170 SxS), Gaborik Geyen (200 SxS), William Holtger (570 SxS) and William Holtger (Youth SxS).

Ewing hangs on for Late Model oval win: Robbe Ewing of Stockson saw a late caution flag turn his comfortable lead into an exciting finish that resulted in his first Hermitage Lumber Late Model feature win of the season. He beat JC Morton by a few feet at the finish line.

"Last year we had so many second-place finishes before we got a win, this one was almost identical to when Tucker Cox passed us on the white flag last year at about the same time," Ewing said. "This one would have been almost identical heart break and I'd have had three or four weeks to think about it."

Ewing beat Morton, who started alongside on the front row, to the lead into turn one and those two ran 1-2 nearly the entire way. Ewing had a 2.7-second lead by the halfway point on lap 10 with Alan Westling another two seconds behind Morton.

Morton cut the lead to 1.6 seconds by lap 15 and a caution at that point took that margin away. It set up a five-lap shootout between Ewing, the defending track champion, Morton and hard-charging Kaeden Cornell.

"We had a two and a half or three second lead when that caution came out," Ewing said. "I was kind of rolling the middle, keeping it straight. I didn't want that caution. The tires sealed up and it hurt us pretty bad."

Cornell third after starting ninth. Dayton Pursley was fourth and Westling fifth.

Carroll prevails in USRA B-Mods: J.T. Carroll of Camdenton charged from ninth to take the lead on lap 12, then held on to win the Clear Creek Golf Cars USRA B-Mod feature on a night with 34 entries in the class.

Cayden Stacye started from the pole and opened a two-second lead by lap eight over Waylon Dimmitt with Carroll in third. Carroll moved into second on lap 11, when the race’s second caution appeared.

Carroll took the lead after the restart, then had to deal with a hard-charging Ryan Gillmore, who started 10th with Jon Sheets in third. But Carroll was able to withstand the challenges and held off Gillmore by one-half second for his first win of the season.

Stacye finished fourth and Schultz wound up in fifth.

USRA Stock Cars win to Garner: William Garner of Lebanon led all 20 laps and beat Mason Beck by 1.2 seconds for the O’Reilly Auto Parts USRA Stock Cars feature.

Garner rolled to the early lead and had a two-second lead over White by lap five. Sixth-starting Grayson McKiney got around White two laps later and a caution flag wiped out Garner’s 2.7-second lead at that time.

Shuffling continued behind Garner after the restart, with Mason Beck taking over second ahead of White and McKiney. Garner had a 1.1 second lead by lap 15 over Beck and maintained it the rest of the way.

McKinley finished third with Darrell Hurt fourth and Justin Custer fifth.


LUCAS OIL SPEEDWAY UNOFFICIAL RESULTS (May 2, 2026)
AMSOIL CHAMP OFF ROAD SHOW-ME SHOOTOUT

Pro Buggy

Feature - 1, Billy Buth. 2, Tony Keepers. 3, Jaden Uribe. 4, Cole Bernloehr. 5, Zachary Drapkin. 6, Logan Christensen. 7, Chase Gerer. 8, Kai Graff. 9, Ryan Schwalbe. 10, Beau Ambos. 11, Jaden Lemke. 12, Jordan Bernloehr. 13, Michael Meister.


Pro Spec

Feature - 1, Draxton Szymik. 2, Nick Visser. 3, Hunter Vanzile. 4, Dyland Parsons. 5, Ronald Kosciesza. 6, Avery Hemmer. 7, Chris Van Den Elzen. 8, Braden Beauchamp. 9, Wyatt Miller.


Pro Stock SxS

Feature - 1, Cross Kirchmeier. 2, Brody Sands. 3, David Gay. 4, Collin Truett. 5, TJ Siewers. 6, CJ Greaves. 7, Trent Quellette. 8, Jake Kosmecki. 9, Bottle. 10, Cody Jones. 11, Benjamin Heiting. 12, Brady Hendrix. 13, Tom Rutkowski. 14, Camerson Berg. 15, Lucas Houle. 16, Kolton Krajicek.


Pro Lite

Feature - 1, Drake Mittag. 2, Travis Milhausen Jr. 3, Michael Funk. 4, Sam Rasmussen. 5, Joey Maciosek.


Amsoil Pro SxS

Feature - 1, Jeb Bootle. 2, Nathan Wolff. 3, Kolton Krajicek. 4, CJ Greaves. 5, Chas Kempf. 6, Conner Maxwell. 7, Cash Lecroy. 8, Ariel Buyarski. 9, Erik Schwartz. 10, Luke Stubbs. 11, Brody Sands. 12, Brandon Groh. 13, Collin Truett.


Pro 2

Feature - 1, Ryan Beat. 2, Keegan Kincaid. 3, Ricky Gutierrez. 4, Jacob Rosales. 5, Myan Spaccarelli. 6, Cory Winner. 7, Johnny Holtger. 8, Kyle Greaves. 9, Travis Milhausen Jr.


Pro 4

Feature - 1, Jimmy Henderson. 2, CJ Greaves. 3, Johnny Greaves. 4, Adrian Cenni. 5, Andrew Pate. 6, Ryan Beat. 7, Mickey Thomas.



SLICK MIST SHOOTOUT

Vietti Marketing Night at the Races

Clear Creek Golf Cars USRA B-Mods

A Feature - 1. 94C-JT Carroll[9]; 2. 66R-Ryan Gillmore[10]; 3. 8-Jon Sheets[4]; 4. 15S-Cayden Stacye[1]; 5. 90-Terry Schultz[2]; 6. 11-Waylon Dimmitt[3]; 7. 20D-Dawson David[6]; 8. 18-JC Morton[18]; 9. 18C-Carter Harrison[22]; 10. 7L-Trevor Drake[8]; 11. 45-Dan Culp[7]; 12. 55K-Colson Kirk[12]; 13. 65-Kris Jackson[17]; 14. 37-Wesley Long[20]; 15. 94-Tyler Potter[21]; 16. 30T-Trevor Wilson[11]; 17. 1-Kyle Henning[13]; 18. 214-Eric Spreer[16]; 19. 42J-Donnie Jackson[24]; 20. 41-Alex Schultz[14]; 21. 86-Jeff Albright[15]; 22. 65JR-Karter Jackson[23]; 23. (DNF) X2-Brian Bolin[19]; 24. (DNF) 1K-Tim Karrick[5]

B Feature 1 - 1. 65-Kris Jackson[1]; 2. X2-Brian Bolin[3]; 3. 94-Tyler Potter[7]; 4. 65JR-Karter Jackson[2]; 5. 24D-Donnie Fellers[6]; 6. 52-Brett Testerman[8]; 7. 23N-Kenny Nutter[5]; 8. 7C-Derek Cook[4]; 9. (DNF) 24-Noah Long[9]

B Feature 2 - 1. 18-JC Morton[2]; 2. 37-Wesley Long[3]; 3. 18C-Carter Harrison[6]; 4. 42J-Donnie Jackson[4]; 5. 91-Hoyt Miller[1]; 6. 2A-Scott Lunceford[5]; 7. 9-Sam
Petty[8]; 8. 55-Adriell Shepherd[7]; 9. (DNF) 86R-Trent Rogers[9]

Heat 1 - 1. 1K-Tim Karrick[1]; 2. 66R-Ryan Gillmore[3]; 3. 30T-Trevor Wilson[5]; 4. 214-Eric Spreer[4]; 5. 41-Alex Schultz[9]; 6. 37-Wesley Long[7]; 7. 24D-Donnie Fellers[2]; 8. 52-Brett Testerman[8]; 9. 9-Sam Petty[6]

Heat 2 - 1. 11-Waylon Dimmitt[2]; 2. 8-Jon Sheets[5]; 3. 7L-Trevor Drake[7]; 4. 86-Jeff Albright[1]; 5. 91-Hoyt Miller[6]; 6. 7C-Derek Cook[3]; 7. 23N-Kenny Nutter[9]; 8. 55-Adriell Shepherd[4]; 9. 24-Noah Long[8]

Heat 3 - 1. 15S-Cayden Stacye[6]; 2. 45-Dan Culp[4]; 3. 1-Kyle Henning[2]; 4. 55K-Colson Kirk[7]; 5. 65JR-Karter Jackson[5]; 6. 42J-Donnie Jackson[3]; 7. 2A-Scott Lunceford[8]; 8. (DNS) 86R-Trent Rogers

Heat 4 - 1. 20D-Dawson David[1]; 2. 90-Terry Schultz[6]; 3. 94C-JT Carroll[7]; 4. 65-Kris Jackson[4]; 5. 18-JC Morton[5]; 6. X2-Brian Bolin[8]; 7. 18C-Carter Harrison[3]; 8. 94-Tyler Potter[2]


O'Reilly Auto Parts USRA Stock Cars

A Feature - 1. 7-William Garner[1]; 2. 0F-Mason Beck[4]; 3. 05G-Grayson McKiney[6]; 4. 50-Darrell Hurt[7]; 5. 33X-Justin Custer[5]; 6. 111-Butch Bailey[8]; 7. 12-Christopher Sawyer[9]; 8. 24W-Craig Wright[11]; 9. 34-Blake Bolton[10]; 10. 41-Bryan White[3]; 11. (DNF) 20J-Jayden Bears[2]; 12. (DNF) 5-Robert White[12]; 13. (DNF) 14-Aaron Johns[13]

Heat 1 - 1. 7-William Garner[1]; 2. 0F-Mason Beck[2]; 3. 05G-Grayson McKiney[4]; 4. 50-Darrell Hurt[3]; 5. 12-Christopher Sawyer[6]; 6. 24W-Craig Wright[7]; 7. 14-Aaron Johns[5]

Heat 2 - 1. 20J-Jayden Bears[1]; 2. 41-Bryan White[4]; 3. 33X-Justin Custer[5]; 4. 111-Butch Bailey[3]; 5. 34-Blake Bolton[2]; 6. 5-Robert White[6]


Hermitage Lumber Late Models

A Feature - 1. 32-Robbe Ewing[1]; 2. 72-JC Morton[2]; 3. 50-Kaeden Cornell[9]; 4. 10-Dayton Pursley[6]; 5. 20-Alan Westling[3]; 6. 28-Jim Greenway[7]; 7. 99-John Rowland[4]; 8. 7X-Todd McCoin[12]; 9. 99D-Dylan Hoover[11]; 10. 22-Tim Petty[5]; 11. 18-Scott Bergen[10]; 12. (DNF) 74-Kyle Bates[8]; 13. (DNS) 90-Joe Walkenhorst

Heat 1 - 1. 20-Alan Westling[1]; 2. 32-Robbe Ewing[7]; 3. 10-Dayton Pursley[3]; 4. 28-Jim Greenway[4]; 5. 50-Kaeden Cornell[6]; 6. 99D-Dylan Hoover[5]; 7. (DNF) 7X-Todd McCoin[2]

Heat 2 - 1. 72-JC Morton[2]; 2. 99-John Rowland[3]; 3. 22-Tim Petty[1]; 4. 74-Kyle Bates[4]; 5. 18-Scott Bergen[5]; 6. (DNS) 90-Joe Walkenhorst


Sunday Off Road Shootout Schedule

8:45 a.m. - Sportsman Opening Ceremonies
8:50 - Sportsman SxS race
9:20 - Pro Am Turbo SxS race
9:50 - Stock Truck race
10:20 - 570 SxS race
10:40 - 1600 Light Buddy race
10:45 - Youth SxS
11:05 - Short Course Kart race
11:45 - 170/200 SxS race
12:10 p.m. - 1600 Single Buggy race
12:35 - Super Stock Truck race
1:05 - Mod Kart race
1:30 - Pro Am SxS race
2:30 p.m. - Opening Ceremonies
2:45 - Pro Buggy race
3:15 - Pro Spec race
3:45 - Pro Stock SxS race
4:15 - Pro Lite race
4:45 - Amsoil Pro SxS race
5:15 - Pro 2 race
5:45 - Pro 4 race


Go to Stubwire for advance tickets online. The event schedule can be found online for the weekend.


Admission prices

Sunday Off Road
Adult (13 and over) $25 Cash ($27.50 card)
Seniors (62 and over)/Military $22 ($24.25 card)
Youth (6-12) - $10 ($12 card)

For further event information, including more info on tickets and camping for any event at Lucas Oil Speedway, contact Admissions Director Nichole McMillan at (417) 282-5984 or by email at Nmcmillan@lucasoilspeedway.com.