Dillard takes command late for USMTS King of America XIV win at Lucas Oil Speedway

 

WHEATLAND, MO. (March 29, 2025) – Crown him. Cade Dillard took command when it mattered the most and the veteran Louisiana driver staked claim to the USMTS King of America XIV on Saturday night at Lucas Oil Speedway.

Dillard made the big move on a restart with 16 laps remaining, supplanting race-long leader Tanner Mullens, and went on to capture the $20,000 prize. It was the first King of America victory for Dillard, who said he’s chased it for a long time.

“This King of America is something I’ve always wanted to win,” Dillard said. “I’ve won a lot of big Late Model races, but I love coming back and getting to race in Mod races like this.”

Mullens led the opening lap from his pole position as the field started three-wide, but it took only a lap for the first caution flag came out. The leader wasted little time opening a gap, as Mullens was two seconds clear of Jim Chisholm by lap 10 with Terry Phillips advancing into third.

The impressive drive by Mullens continued as the green-flag laps clicked away with the margin swelling to 4.0 seconds when the race hit the one-third mark on lap 20.

Mullens caught lapped traffic at that point just as Phillips took second away from Chisholm with Alex Williamson taking fourth from Dillard. On lap 23, Mullens’ 3.6-second lead over Phillips was wiped away as Steve Lavasseur slowed on the track to bring out a caution.

Chisholm swooped around Phillips on the restart to claim second. As those two mixed it up, Mullens took advantage to start rebuilding his lead as he was quickly about 12 car lengths clear of Chisholm.

Dustin Sorensen was the big mover of the race, climbing to fourth by lap 30 after starting 12th. But it was all Mullens at the front as he led Chisholm by 2.5 seconds as the field marked lap 40, though the seventh-starting Dillard made it into second by that point.

With Mullens dealing with lapped traffic, Dillard cut the gap to under two seconds when a lap-44 caution bunched the field.

Mullens selected the inside line for the restart it did not work. Dillard grabbed the lead on lap 45 with Chisholm also rolling past the race-long leader as the trio briefly were three wide. Dillard quickly opened a one-second lead by Chisholm and Mullens slipped to fourth behind Bobby Williams with 10 remaining.

Dillard, with a clear race track ahead, pulled away down the stretch and held off Chisholm to take the victory.

Dillard said his background of lots of long races during his career, in both Modified and Late Model races, might have helped him as the race proceeded.

“Just fortunate to be able to race like I have, with a lot of long runs,” Dillard said. “We had a really good car and were able to maintain on the bottom. When we got to second and picked the pace up a little bit, when that caution came out I was able to hit my marks just right and got a good run.

“I know we went three-wide at one point and knew I had to shoot the gap at one point. I knew I could get out there and ride and keep it under me.”

Williams, moving up from USRA B-Mods this season, was third with Sorensen finishing fourth and Mullens settling for fifth after dominating the first 44 laps.

Twenty-six drivers started the 60-lap feature with eight rows going three-wide and the final one two deep with provisional starters Joe Duvall and Jake O’Neil.

Clancy earns B-Mod win: Chad Clancy of Polo, Mo., overtook J.C. Morton with 10 laps remaining and rolled to the $3,000 feature win for the Clear Creek Golf Cars USRA B-Mods.

“It’s been a brand new car, a J2 race car, and we made that switch this year. I think it’s gonna be a good year,” Clancy said. “We’ve been fast all week, just fighting some brake issues, and I’m just glad it all came together here. This race track all week has just been incredible.”

Morton started on the pole and led the early going, opening a .086-second lead over third-starting Clancy seven laps into the feature when caution came out for a multi-car pileup.

As green-flag action resumed, Clancy caught Morton and pulled alongside on lap 14 before taking over the lead coming off turn two on lap 15. It didn’t take long for Clancy to start pulling away, separating himself by two seconds over Morton by lap 19.

Clancy took it home from there, finishing 2.3 seconds in front at the finish with Morton holding off Cody King for third. Kris Jackson started and finished fourth with Jon Sheets in fifth.

Schweizer earns Stock Cars triumph: Rodney Schweizer of Kansas City, Kan., grabbed the lead in the early going and held off some late charges and restarts following cautions for the O’Reilly Auto Parts USRA Stock Cars feature.

Schweizer started fourth but had the lead by lap three, though Blake Clark took over the top spot on lap seven. Then it was Schweizer taking it back the next time around.

Schweizer had a 1.3-second lead over Clark by lap 17 with a caution tightening the field as 13th-starting Jaylen Wettengel lurked in third. Schweizer had to endure three more cautions the rest of the way before he could take the checkers for the $3,000 victory.

“It took a lot to keep myself patient. I guess those yellows gave me a chance to breath a little bit,” Schweizer said.

Schweizer finished one second in front of Tyler Cadwallader fifth-starting Jeffrey Abbey third, Wettengel fourth and Myles Michehl fifth.

LUCAS OIL SPEEDWAY RESULTS (March 29, 2025)
USMTS KING OF AMERICAN XIV
Summit USMTS Modfieds
A Feature – 1. 97-Cade Dillard[7]; 2. 24C-Jim Chisholm[3]; 3. 1B-Bobby Williams[4]; 4. 19-Dustin Sorensen[12]; 5. 02-Tanner Mullens[1]; 6. 20-Rodney Sanders[10]; 7. 2S-Stormy Scott[6]; 8. 65X-Carlos Ahumada Jr[16]; 9. 25-Joe Chisholm[11]; 10. 75-Terry Phillips[5]; 11. 21-Jacob Bleess[20]; 12. 712-Trevor Hughes[19]; 13. 15WX-Kale Westover[13]; 14. 2SS-Mark Smith[8]; 15. 12-Jason Hughes[22]; 16. 15W-Alex Williamson[2]; 17. 65-Tyler Davis[21]; 18. 21K-Kyle Brown[24]; 19. 10B-Brandon Givens[17]; 20. 5-Reece Solander[18]; 21. 8-Kyle Strickler[15]; 22. 88-Chad Wheeler[14]; 23. 17-Henry Chambers; 24. 91-Joe Duvall[25]; 25. 0J-Jake O’Neil[26]; 26. 99L-Steve Lavasseur[23]; 27. 95-Keith Foss[9]

B Feature 1 – 1. 95-Keith Foss[2]; 2. 19-Dustin Sorensen[3]; 3. 8-Kyle Strickler[4]; 4. 5-Reece Solander[1]; 5. 65-Tyler Davis[8]; 6. 55H-AJ Hoff[9]; 7. 4TW-Tim Ward[6]; 8. 71-Chad Melton[10]; 9. 4W-Tyler Wolff[5]; 10. 32-Mitchell Clement[16]; 11. 56-Shadren Turner[14]; 12. 11X-Kyle Slader[11]; 13. 98C-Jeff Cutshaw[13]; 14. 33S-Ben Stockton[21]; 15. 51T-Joseph Thomas[17]; 16. G17-Fito Gallardo[18]; 17. 3B-Nic Bidinger[7]; 18. 29-Keith Hammett[20]; 19. 58X-Gary Christian[12]; 20. 0K-Chris Kratzer[15]; 21. 23-Darwin Karau[19]

B Feature 2 – 1. 20-Rodney Sanders[2]; 2. 15WX-Kale Westover[4]; 3. 65X-Carlos Ahumada Jr[12]; 4. 712-Trevor Hughes[7]; 5. 12-Jason Hughes[5]; 6. 22H-Dustin Hodges[6]; 7. 16-Austin Siebert[9]; 8. 90W-Ryan Wetzstein[8]; 9. 17-Henry Chambers[13]; 10. 29H-Joe Horgdal[11]; 11. 16B-Kaylin Lopez[10]; 12. 17B-Lee Beemer[14]; 13. 71S-Dustin Strand[3]; 14. E85-Jason Strand[16]; 15. 98M-Mitchel Madery[20]; 16. 99T-Dalton Teel[21]; 17. (DNF) 73B-Shad Badder[15]; 18. (DNF) 64-Casey Fowler[18]; 19. (DNF) 88S-Nathan Smith[1]; 20. (DNF) 0J-Jake O’Neil[17]; 21. (DNF) 18L-Chad Lyle[19]

B Feature 3 – 1. 91-Joe Duvall[1]; 2. 25-Joe Chisholm[6]; 3. 88-Chad Wheeler[2]; 4. 10B-Brandon Givens[7]; 5. 21-Jacob Bleess[4]; 6. 99L-Steve Lavasseur[11]; 7. 21K-Kyle Brown[9]; 8. 127-Paden Phillips[8]; 9. 26-Shawn Fletcher[18]; 10. 38C-Jason Pursley[3]; 11. J17-Jacob Gallardo[15]; 12. 68-Dean Wille[16]; 13. 92-Tyler Grooms[10]; 14. 91M-Hoyt Miller[19]; 15. 0-Blake Wimmer[21]; 16. 15WG-Wyatt Gaggero[5]; 17. 98-Kenton Allen[12]; 18. 87-Darron Fuqua[14]; 19. 18-Brad Johnson[17]; 20. 2G-Troy Girolamo[20]; 21. 29S-Chris Spalding[13]

Non-Qualifiers Feature – 1. 22H-Dustin Hodges[2]; 2. 90W-Ryan Wetzstein[6]; 3. 16-Austin Siebert[4]; 4. 55H-AJ Hoff[1]; 5. 71-Chad Melton[5]; 6. 4TW-Tim Ward[3]; 7. 127-Paden Phillips[7]; 8. 38C-Jason Pursley[12]; 9. 29H-Joe Horgdal[11]; 10. 26-Shawn Fletcher[9]; 11. 56-Shadren Turner[13]; 12. 68-Dean Wille[18]; 13. 16B-Kaylin Lopez[14]; 14. 98C-Jeff Cutshaw[19]; 15. 17B-Lee Beemer[17]; 16. 71S-Dustin Strand[20]; 17. 92-Tyler Grooms[21]; 18. 91M-Hoyt Miller; 19. 11X-Kyle Slader[16]; 20. (DNS) 4W-Tyler Wolff; 21. (DNS) 32-Mitchell Clement; 22. (DNS) J17-Jacob Gallardo
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Clear Creek Golf Cars USRA B Mods
A Feature – 1. 57C-Chad Clancy[3]; 2. 18-JC Morton[1]; 3. 510-Cody King[9]; 4. 65-Kris Jackson[4]; 5. 8S-Jon Sheets[17]; 6. 24L-Chris Spalding[12]; 7. 16D-Dan Hovden[13]; 8. 15W-Dennis Cole[6]; 9. 66-Ryan Gillmore[20]; 10. 11-Waylon Dimmitt[2]; 11. 12C-Stephen Clancy[16]; 12. 7J-Jake Richards[18]; 13. 1K-Kyle Henning[7]; 14. 94C-JT Carroll[21]; 15. 11R-Landyn Randt[14]; 16. 54-Tyler Kidwell[23]; 17. 20D-Dawson David[10]; 18. 99-Jeremy Haddox[5]; 19. 6T-Michael Taylor III[22]; 20. 47B-Chet Buckley[8]; 21. B4-Brayden Skaggs[11]; 22. 85-Ben Moudry[24]; 23. X2-Brian Bolin[19]; 24. 22C-Cole Campbell[15]

B Feature 1 – 1. 16D-Dan Hovden[1]; 2. 12C-Stephen Clancy[4]; 3. X2-Brian Bolin[2]; 4. 33-Anthony Ferrara[9]; 5. 6T-Michael Taylor III[10]; 6. 28-Andy Bryant[17]; 7. 1S-Scott Bintz[8]; 8. 7L-Trevor Drake[11]; 9. 44-Austin Hunter[6]; 10. 17-Klay Beemer[14]; 11. Z28-Randy Zimmerman[13]; 12. 15R-Ryan Smith[7]; 13. 47JR-Gavin Buckley[15]; 14. 92-Jeffrey Kaup[12]; 15. 1J-Peyton Johannesen[5]; 16. 10M-Talan Willis[3]; 17. 1-Jake Wranek[16]; 18. (DNS) 30-Rex Harris

B Feature 2 – 1. 11R-Landyn Randt[1]; 2. 8S-Jon Sheets[5]; 3. 66-Ryan Gillmore[2]; 4. 54-Tyler Kidwell[3]; 5. 32X-Taylor Skauge[4]; 6. 11L-Logan Smith[7]; 7. 457-Boone Evans[12]; 8. 98C-Christopher Watts[9]; 9. 181-Luke Nieman[8]; 10. 19D-Curt Drake[6]; 11. F1-Mitchell Franklin[13]; 12. 32-Lane New[15]; 13. RED1-Dan Wheeler[11]; 14. 80-TJ Yount[16]; 15. 21C-Clint Arthur[14]; 16. 18T-Tyler Werner[10]; 17. 94-Tyler Potter[17]

B Feature 3 – 1. 22C-Cole Campbell[4]; 2. 7J-Jake Richards[5]; 3. 94C-JT Carroll[1]; 4. 85-Ben Moudry[11]; 5. 19-Tracy Johnson[3]; 6. 1R-Rylan Gibbs[6]; 7. 37-Wesley Long[10]; 8. 17L-Chris Leathers[17]; 9. 17LM-Londen McClure[15]; 10. XL7-Colby Carter[9]; 11. D86-Donald McIntosh[13]; 12. 214-Eric Spreer[2]; 13. 197-Miah Christensen[14]; 14. (DNF) 1M-Doug McCollough[7]; 15. (DNS) 57M-Aaron Marrant; 16. (DQ) 54S-Jett Sorensen[16]; 17. (DQ) 15-Cayden Stacye[12]

Heat 1 – 1. 1K-Kyle Henning[1]; 2. 15W-Dennis Cole[11]; 3. 24L-Chris Spalding[6]; 4. 8S-Jon Sheets[4]; 5. 32X-Taylor Skauge[8]; 6. 11L-Logan Smith[9]; 7. XL7-Colby Carter[2]; 8. 457-Boone Evans[7]; 9. 17-Klay Beemer[5]; 10. 1-Jake Wranek[3]; 11. 54S-Jett Sorensen[10]

Heat 2 – 1. 11-Waylon Dimmitt[2]; 2. 11R-Landyn Randt[1]; 3. 16D-Dan Hovden[6]; 4. 10M-Talan Willis[7]; 5. 1M-Doug McCollough[3]; 6. 33-Anthony Ferrara[5]; 7. 181-Luke Nieman[11]; 8. 7L-Trevor Drake[10]; 9. 197-Miah Christensen[8]; 10. 47JR-Gavin Buckley[9]; 11. 28-Andy Bryant[4]

Heat 3 – 1. 47B-Chet Buckley[1]; 2. 94C-JT Carroll[2]; 3. 18-JC Morton[9]; 4. 54-Tyler Kidwell[6]; 5. 1S-Scott Bintz[3]; 6. 7J-Jake Richards[11]; 7. 37-Wesley Long[5]; 8. 85-Ben Moudry[4]; 9. 21C-Clint Arthur[7]; 10. 32-Lane New[10]; 11. 94-Tyler Potter[8]

Heat 4- 1. 99-Jeremy Haddox[2]; 2. 20D-Dawson David[3]; 3. 57C-Chad Clancy[10]; 4. 12C-Stephen Clancy[5]; 5. 22C-Cole Campbell[8]; 6. 44-Austin Hunter[11]; 7. 6T-Michael Taylor III[4]; 8. RED1-Dan Wheeler[9]; 9. D86-Donald McIntosh[1]; 10. 80-TJ Yount[6]; 11. (DNF) 17L-Chris Leathers[7]
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Heat 5 – 1. 510-Cody King[1]; 2. B4-Brayden Skaggs[3]; 3. 66-Ryan Gillmore[5]; 4. 1J-Peyton Johannesen[2]; 5. 1R-Rylan Gibbs[6]; 6. 57M-Aaron Marrant[7]; 7. 18T-Tyler Werner[4]; 8. 15-Cayden Stacye[8]; 9. F1-Mitchell Franklin[9]; 10. 17LM-Londen McClure[10]

Heat 6 – 1. 65-Kris Jackson[3]; 2. X2-Brian Bolin[2]; 3. 214-Eric Spreer[4]; 4. 19-Tracy Johnson[6]; 5. 19D-Curt Drake[7]; 6. 15R-Ryan Smith[9]; 7. 98C-Christopher Watts[8]; 8. 92-Jeffrey Kaup[5]; 9. Z28-Randy Zimmerman[10]; 10. (DNS) 30-Rex Harris

O’Reilly USRA Stock Cars
A Feature – 1. 74-Rodney Schweizer[4]; 2. 69ER-Tyler Cadwallader[6]; 3. 137-Jeffrey Abbey[5]; 4. 91J-Jaylen Wettengel[13]; 5. 21-Myles Michehl[16]; 6. 32-Derek Green[23]; 7. 7-Doug Keller[24]; 8. 22-Johnny Fennewald[10]; 9. 56H-Brandon Hare[14]; 10. 11-Jesse Brown[17]; 11. 18K-Dylan Clinton[18]; 12. 16S-Chris Dishong[1]; 13. 0F-Mason Beck[11]; 14. 14W-Brady Williamson[22]; 15. L7-Ray Phipps[9]; 16. 85-Darrin Schmidt[19]; 17. 1G-Pat Graham[15]; 18. 8X-Josh Roney[12]; 19. 55H-Troy Hansmeier[21]; 20. 31-Mason Martin[20]; 21. 88C-Blake Clark[7]; 22. 95-Chance Larson[2]; 23. 34-Blake Bolton[3]; 24. 97-Lynn Panos[8]

B Feature 1 – 1. 91J-Jaylen Wettengel[2]; 2. 1G-Pat Graham[1]; 3. 11-Jesse Brown[11]; 4. 85-Darrin Schmidt[6]; 5. 55H-Troy Hansmeier[7]; 6. 23X-Brayden Gjere[9]; 7. 27-Jeff Tennant[3]; 8. 23-Paul Conrad[16]; 9. 7W-William Garner[15]; 10. 33X-Justin Custer[10]; 11. 8-Levi Vander Weide[5]; 12. 11W-Gerald Wahwahsuck[4]; 13. 88-Jim Chisholm[12]; 14. 83-James Ellis[13]; 15. 24-Blayne McMillin[8]; 16. (DNS) 4PLAY-Boone Evans; 17. (DNS) 22R-Todd Reitzler

B Feature 2 – 1. 56H-Brandon Hare[1]; 2. 21-Myles Michehl[3]; 3. 18K-Dylan Clinton[6]; 4. 31-Mason Martin[4]; 5. 14W-Brady Williamson[5]; 6. 37-Randy Foote[2]; 7. 14-Todd Staley[9]; 8. 32-Derek Green[14]; 9. 8M-James McMillin[10]; 10. 7-Doug Keller[15]; 11. 71K-Kevin Sustaire[7]; 12. 37C-Casey Colsch[12]; 13. 111-Jason Newman[8]; 14. 18-Kameron Stoddard[17]; 15. 6-Chanse Hollatz[11]; 16. 2J-Steve Jackson[13]; 17. (DNS) 070-Chris Hovden

Special 1 – 1. 14-Todd Staley[4]; 2. 7W-William Garner[6]; 3. 23X-Brayden Gjere[1]; 4. 6-Chanse Hollatz[18]; 5. 33X-Justin Custer[8]; 6. 37-Randy Foote[2]; 7. 27-Jeff Tennant[3]; 8. 23-Paul Conrad[5]; 9. 71K-Kevin Sustaire[10]; 10. 2J-Steve Jackson[20]; 11. 111-Jason Newman[14]; 12. 8M-James McMillin[7]; 13. 83-James Ellis[15]; 14. 24-Blayne McMillin[17]; 15. 37C-Casey Colsch[12]; 16. (DNF) 8-Levi Vander Weide[9]; 17. (DNS) 88-Jim Chisholm; 18. (DNS) 4PLAY-Boone Evans; 19. (DNS) 070-Chris Hovden; 20. (DNS) 22R-Todd Reitzler; 21. (DNS) 18-Kameron Stoddard; 22. (DNS) 11W-Gerald Wahwahsuck
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Heat 1 – 1. 34-Blake Bolton[2]; 2. 97-Lynn Panos[1]; 3. 37-Randy Foote[3]; 4. 27-Jeff Tennant[6]; 5. 71K-Kevin Sustaire[5]; 6. 85-Darrin Schmidt[9]; 7. 33X-Justin Custer[8]; 8. 2J-Steve Jackson[7]; 9. 18-Kameron Stoddard[10]; 10. (DQ) 4PLAY-Boone Evans[4]

Heat 2 – 1. 74-Rodney Schweizer[4]; 2. L7-Ray Phipps[1]; 3. 16S-Chris Dishong[6]; 4. 8-Levi Vander Weide[3]; 5. 11W-Gerald Wahwahsuck[9]; 6. 14-Todd Staley[2]; 7. 8M-James McMillin[7]; 8. 22R-Todd Reitzler[8]; 9. (DNS) 070-Chris Hovden

Heat 3 – 1. 137-Jeffrey Abbey[5]; 2. 22-Johnny Fennewald[1]; 3. 91J-Jaylen Wettengel[2]; 4. 56H-Brandon Hare[7]; 5. 55H-Troy Hansmeier[4]; 6. 24-Blayne McMillin[8]; 7. 6-Chanse Hollatz[3]; 8. 37C-Casey Colsch[9]; 9. 23-Paul Conrad[6]

Heat 4 – 1. 69ER-Tyler Cadwallader[2]; 2. 0F-Mason Beck[1]; 3. 8X-Josh Roney[4]; 4. 21-Myles Michehl[6]; 5. 18K-Dylan Clinton[3]; 6. 111-Jason Newman[8]; 7. 88-Jim Chisholm[5]; 8. 83-James Ellis[9]; 9. 7W-William Garner[7

Heat 5 – 1. 95-Chance Larson[2]; 2. 88C-Blake Clark[9]; 3. 1G-Pat Graham[4]; 4. 31-Mason Martin[5]; 5. 14W-Brady Williamson[6]; 6. 23X-Brayden Gjere[1]; 7. 11-Jesse Brown[7]; 8. 32-Derek Green[8]; 9. 7-Doug Keller[3]

Weekly Series opens April 5th: Weekly racing in the Pitts Homes and Realty Weekly Racing Series at Lucas Oil Speedway will feature five divisions – Hermitage Lumber Late Models, Arctic Food Equipment USRA Modifieds, O’Reilly Auto Parts USRA Stock Cars, Clear Creek Golf Cars USRA B Mods and the new Hickamo Country Store Super Stocks. The Weekly opener is set for Saturday, April 5th.

For information on tickets or camping for any Lucas Oil Speedway event in 2025, contact Admissions Director Nichole McMillan at (417) 295-6043 or email her at nmcmillan@lucasoilspeedway.com for more information.

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