WHEATLAND, MO. (Oct. 10, 2026) - Saturday night saw a pair of area racing veterans take home big feature victories at Lucas Oil Speedway as the Big Buck 50 and Late Model Fall Nationals concluded.
Wheatland's Mike Striegel took the long road to the biggest victory of his lengthy racing career. The 56-year-old charged from 19th to victory lane in the 10th annual Hickamo Super Stocks Big Buck 50 Presented by Whitetail Trophy Hunt, holding off William Garner by less than one second.
Meanwhile, 60-year-old Terry Phillips turned back the clock to capture the $10,000 first prize in the Late Model Fall Nationals MARS DIRTcar 50-lapper.
Both wins proved popular as fans cheered the visits by the long-time Ozarks-area racers to victory lane.
"Can you believe that? How 'bout that butt whipping," Striegel shouted after claiming the $25,000 first prize plus $500 as the hard charger award winer, presented by James and Donna Ray with Oak Ridge Ranch.
Striegel had to emerge from the B Feature to have a shot at the Big Buck 50 win, which also earned him a spot in the prestigious mid-Missouri Whitetail Trophy Hunt.
"This car is a 2009, believe it or not. Josh Franklin built this car back in 2009," Striegel said. "It's a bad mamba jamba."
Front-row starters Johnny Fennewald and Richie Tosh ran 1-2 from the start. Defending race champion Fennewald had a 2.3-second lead over Tosh when caution flew on lap eight as 24th-running Kyle Davis rolled to a half in turn two.
Taylor passed Tosh for second on the restart before four more cautions by lap 17 as Fennewald had a one-car-length lead over Peyton Taylor with Tosh further behind in third. As action resumed, Taylor took to the bottom groove to try and edge past Fennewald as 19th-starting Striegel charged to third by the midpoint on lap 25.
Striegel's march took him to the front on lap 27 as he emerged from a three-wide battle entering turn three with the lead as Fennewald backslid all the way to fourth. Striegel opened a 1.1-second lead by lap 30 as the race continued a lengthy green-flag run.
Then came caution No. 6, on lap 33, with Taylor trailing Striegel by just under one second as Tosh was third, Garner fourth and Fennewald fifth. Tosh used the restart to pass Taylor as Terry Schultz joined the top five.
Striegel continued to cruise up front, opening a race-best 2.3-second before the seventh caution slowed the action on lap 43 as 12th-running J.T. Carroll spun in turn two.
Garner, the two-time USRA Stock Cars track champion from Lebanon, passed Tosh for second on the restart and set his sights on Striegel. He was within a car length when one more caution waved to set up a three-lap shootout for the win.
Striegel held off Garner at the finish by .747 seconds or about three car lengths for the biggest-paying victory of his career.
"I thought I had a bad shock and the shock ended up not being bad," Striegel said. "That's not why I sucked until tonight. In the B Feature we lost a shock the second lap into it and we ran without a right-rear shock.
"I just appreciate everybody who helps me all year. I have an awesome tire guy down there by West Plains and he told me to run this right-rear tire and damned if it didn't work out."
Tosh was third, Schultz fourth and Taylor rounded out the top five.
Big Buck 50 winners:
2026 - Mike Striegel, Wheatland
2025 - Johnny Fennewald, Appleton City
2024 - Peyton Taylor, Batesville, Ark.
2021-2023 - No race
2020 - Peyton Taylor, Batesville, Ark.
2019 - Peyton Taylor, Batesville, Ark.
2018 - Rained out
2017 - Tony Anglin, Walnut Ridge, Ark.
2016 - Tim Brown, Stoutland
2015 - Jeremy Russell, Jonesboro, Ark.
2014 - Terry Schultz, Sedalia
Phillips wins MARS Late Model feature: A blast from the past returned to MARS DIRTcar victory lane as Terry Phillips took the lead on lap 20 and held it the rest of the, beating Chris Simpson for his 95th career MARS victory - and first since 2017.
The seventh-starting Phillips supplanted Dallon Murty, who had led the first 18 circuits. He withstood two restarts the rest of the way with nobody able to pull alongside the 60-year-old as the laps ticked down.
"I don't know about having an advantage from being around here, because I suck here normally," Phillips said in victory lane. "That's why I'm so excited. I haven't won a Modified or Late Model race - especially a Late Model - here in a long time.
"We've been racing this Late Model a little bit more and kind of feeling it and I'm kind of getting into a rhythm about what we need to change. My crew chief Troy decided to make a call and it worked real well."
Phillips, 60, was driving a Longhorn chassis for Shawn Mann Motorsports out of Searcy, Ark. He's focused mostly on his Modified program in recent years, but the latest win for Mann was the team's third Late Model victory of the season.
"I'm going on a fun tour next year and racing whatever the hell I want," Phillips said.
Phillips won six MARS championships from 2000-2010 and his 95 career series feature wins are nearly triple the nearest competitor.
Murty started third and had the lead after the opening lap with Tony Jackson Jr. settling into second until lap nine when Terry Phillips got around Jackson. Four laps later, Jackson and Phillips swapped positions again.
That battle behind him allowed Murty to settle into a rhythm up front, leading by nearly one second 15 laps into the event. Phillips regained second on lap 18 and was using lapped traffic to cut into Murty's margin.
Sure enough, Phillips went to the inside of Murty on lap 20 for the first lead change. By the time the race hit the halfway mark on lap 25, Phillips had opened 1.9-second lead over Murty with Jackson in third.
The first caution flew on lap 28 as MARS points leader Ryan Unzicker, running 17th, tangled with 16th-place Blaze Burwell. Phillips' lead of nearly two seconds was erased ahead of the restart with 22 laps remaining.
Unzicker was able to make repairs under caution and continue, keeping his championship hopes alive.
Phillips had a solid restart and gradually rebuilt his lead over Murty to nearly two seconds by lap 36. His lead was 2.1 seconds when a lap-40 caution for Scott Crigler's spin in turn three.
Chris Simpson took over second on the restart with Chase Junghans also getting around Murty.
But Phillips would not be denied, beating Simpson by 1.5 seconds. It was his first MARS win since July 1, 2017 at Salina (Okla.) Highbanks Speedway and his first Late Model win at Wheatland since June 6, 2009 in an MLRA event.
Murty wound up third, Dennis Erb Jr. fourth and Junghans, who won on Friday, slipping late to fifth.
"We'll take it," Simpson said of second. "This last little stretch we've been consistent. I felt like we didn't need those cautions. We had harder tires on than they did and once I got rolling, I was good. It just took too long to come back to me. I got to second and just had to ride it out."
Unzicked meanwhile, finished 19th and that was good enough to hold off Jason Feger for his second series title.
Qualifying saw a track-record-matching lap by Dennis Erb Jr. of Carpentersville, Ill. Erb's lap of 14.443 seconds in Group A matched Garrett Alberson's track record of 14.443 set on May 24, 2024 with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series.
LUCAS OIL SPEEDWAY UNOFFICIAL RESULTS (Oct. 10, 2026)
10th annual Hickamo Super Stocks Big Buck 50
Presented by Whitetail Trophy Hunt
A Feature - 1. 17S-Mike Striegel[19]; 2. 7-William Garner[5]; 3. 11T-Richie Tosh[2]; 4. 41-Terry Schultz[3]; 5. 01-Peyton Taylor[4]; 6. 04-Blaine Ewing[10]; 7. 10P-Brian Parker[21]; 8. 40-Taylor Carver[12]; 9. 44-James Nighswonger[22]; 10. G1-Tony Anglin[6]; 11. 27D-Derek Henson[11]; 12. 21-Johnny Fennewald[1]; 13. C5-CLAUDIE COOK[15]; 14. 59R-Jacob Rexing[28]; 15. 737-Roger Witt[14]; 16. 164-Michael Muskrat[18]; 17. 66-JACK MOORE[13]; 18. KEG1-Jeremy Russell[27]; 19. (DNF) 94C-JT Carroll[9]; 20. (DNF) 35-Johnny Coats[24]; 21. (DNF) 10K-Kyle Davis[20]; 22. (DNF) 21M-Mitchell Waters[26]; 23. (DNF) 88-Jason Winkle[25]; 24. (DNF) 68-Dean Wille[23]; 25. (DNF) 13-Aaron Poe[16]; 26. (DNF) B4-Brian Worley[17]; 27. (DNF) 327-Kyle Slader[7]; 28. (DNF) 26-Burl Woods[8]
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B Feature - 1. 17S-Mike Striegel[16]; 2. 10K-Kyle Davis[12]; 3. 10P-Brian Parker[1]; 4. 44-James Nighswonger[17]; 5. 68-Dean Wille[8]; 6. 35-Johnny Coats[2]; 7. 88-Jason Winkle[18]; 8. 21M-Mitchell Waters[3]; 9. 26M-Donnie Miller[4]; 10. 30C-Clayton Campbell[22]; 11. 22JR-Craig Wiggens[7]; 12. 86E-Mikey Bell[21]; 13. 166-Shane Gibbons[5]; 14. 94-Kenny Carroll[23]; 15. 57-James Redus[24]; 16. (DNF) 24-Blayne McMillin[20]; 17. (DNF) 1J-Josh Jones[14]; 18. (DNF) 32B-Barry Daniels[19]; 19. (DNF) 59R-Jacob Rexing[11]; 20. (DNF) 9W-Robert White[6]; 21. (DNF) 09-Jacob Davison[15]; 22. (DNF) 25M-Aaron Murry[10]; 23. (DNF) 21W-Ted Welschmeyer[13]; 24. (DNF) 11-Derek Brown[9]
C Feature - 1. 44-James Nighswonger[3]; 2. 88-Jason Winkle[6]; 3. 32B-Barry Daniels[1]; 4. 24-Blayne McMillin[7]; 5. 86E-Mikey Bell[15]; 6. 30C-Clayton Campbell[2]; 7. 94-Kenny Carroll[18]; 8. 57-James Redus[12]; 9. 44K-Robert Knowles[14]; 10. 25-Jared Lamke[5]; 11. 18B-Charles Brown[10]; 12. 16-Logan Thompson[17]; 13. 17-Jeremy Tharp[9]; 14. (DNF) 112-Kevin Brown[11]; 15. (DNF) 2X-Mike Keever[19]; 16. (DNF) 19-Chris Hawkins[13]; 17. (DNF) 52J-Payton McDowell[8]; 18. (DNF) 2-Colton Bourland[20]; 19. (DNF) 4G-Gary Clark[4]; 20. (DNF) 31-Toby Ott[16]
LCQ 1 - 1. 56-Mark Davis[1]; 2. 94-Kenny Carroll[5]; 3. 19-Chris Hawkins[11]; 4. 18K-Kyle Cotter[3]; 5. 53-Danny O'Neal[7]; 6. 69-Tony Bowman[6]; 7. 23R-Jeff Reid[8]; 8. 00-Cory Flamm[4]; 9. (DNF) 4-Jared Hays[10]; 10. (DNF) XL7-Colby Carter[2]; 11. (DNF) 8W-Shawn Whitman[9]
LCQ 2 - 1. 44K-Robert Knowles[4]; 2. 89-Mark Mullins[1]; 3. 9-Kyle Downs[6]; 4. 15M-Michael Matthews[10]; 5. 21C-Shawn Clair[2]; 6. 7N-Jase Nelson[5]; 7. 3J-Jerett Evans[3]; 8. 30K-Cameron Kelly[9]; 9. (DNF) 10-Steve Beach[7]; 10. (DNF) 42-Bryce McMillin[8]
LCQ 3 - 1. 16-Logan Thompson[2]; 2. 2X-Mike Keever[5]; 3. 28K-Chris Kircher[8]; 4. 1M-Michael Maggard[3]; 5. KEG1-Jeremy Russell[10]; 6. 216-Brian Junkersfeld[4]; 7. 76-Travis Goodman[9]; 8. 3P-Tyler Perryman[7]; 9. (DNF) 12-Justin Jarrett[6]; 10. (DNF) 39-RILEY LEWIS[1]
LCQ 4 - 1. 31-Toby Ott[3]; 2. 2-Colton Bourland[5]; 3. 86E-Mikey Bell[10]; 4. 87C-John Clancy Jr[6]; 5. 1T-Bradley Tucker[9]; 6. 2K-Tim Pulley[4]; 7. 06-Morgan Campbell[7]; 8. 1C-Scotty Carter[1]; 9. (DNF) G0-Jimmy Ngo[11]; 10. (DNF) 14-Andrew Hancock[2]; 11. (DNF) 2B-Brian Cox[8]
MARS DIRTcar Late Models Fall Nationals:
A Feature - 1. 75P-Terry Phillips[7]; 2. 32-Chris Simpson[5]; 3. 13-Dallon Murty[3]; 4. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[1]; 5. 18-Chase Junghans[8]; 6. 56-Tony Jackson Jr[2]; 7. 25-Jason Feger[20]; 8. 24T-Dylan Thornton[4]; 9. 11G-Gordy Gundaker[18]; 10. 4G-Bob Gardner[22]; 11. 21-Billy Moyer Sr[10]; 12. 1X-Aaron Marrant[11]; 13. 33-Wil Herrington[19]; 14. 8-Matthew Larson[13]; 15. 12-Scott Crigler[6]; 16. 25S-Chad Simpson[16]; 17. 30-Mark Voigt[17]; 18. 75-Daniel Adam[12]; 19. 24-Ryan Unzicker[21]; 20. (DNF) 87-Darron Fuqua[15]; 21. (DNF) 44-Blaze Burwell[14]; 22. (DNF) 8L-Jeffrey Ledford[9]
B Feature 1 - 1. 30-Mark Voigt[3]; 2. 33-Wil Herrington[5]; 3. 10J-Jordan Bauer[1]; 4. 3J-Jake Nightingale[2]; 5. 25B-Chevy Boyer[4]; 6. 1/4J-Jaxon Ertel[8]; 7. 67-Jimmy Vanzandt[11]; 8. 17X-Matt Santel[9]; 9. 1T-Richard Kimberling[12]; 10. (DNF) 16W-Tony Wolf[7]; 11. (DNF) 62-Justin Zeitner[6]; 12. (DNS) 26M-Matt Menzie; 13. (DNS) 20-Alan Westling
B Feature 2 - 1. 11G-Gordy Gundaker[1]; 2. 25-Jason Feger[2]; 3. 24-Ryan Unzicker[4]; 4. 50-Kayden Clatt[6]; 5. 24B-Chris Bragg[5]; 6. 4G-Bob Gardner[7]; 7. 38J-Jake Little[10]; 8. 78S-Steve Stultz[8]; 9. 24C-Brandon Conkwright[12]; 10. 112-Tyler Smith[9]; 11. (DNF) 17A-Austin Howes[3]; 12. (DNS) 33F-Rickey Frankel; 13. (DNS) 26P-Glen Powell
Heat 1 - 1. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[1]; 2. 32-Chris Simpson[3]; 3. 8L-Jeffrey Ledford[4]; 4. 8-Matthew Larson[2]; 5. 10J-Jordan Bauer[7]; 6. 30-Mark Voigt[9]; 7. 33-Wil Herrington[8]; 8. 16W-Tony Wolf[5]; 9. 17X-Matt Santel[6]; 10. 67-Jimmy Vanzandt[11]; 11. (DNS) 20-Alan Westling
Heat 2 - 1. 56-Tony Jackson Jr[1]; 2. 75P-Terry Phillips[2]; 3. 1X-Aaron Marrant[3]; 4. 87-Darron Fuqua[6]; 5. 3J-Jake Nightingale[8]; 6. 25B-Chevy Boyer[5]; 7. 62-Justin Zeitner[7]; 8. 1/4J-Jaxon Ertel[4]; 9. 26M-Matt Menzie[9]; 10. 1T-Richard Kimberling[10]
Heat 3 - 1. 24T-Dylan Thornton[4]; 2. 12-Scott Crigler[1]; 3. 21-Billy Moyer Sr[2]; 4. 44-Blaze Burwell[5]; 5. 11G-Gordy Gundaker[9]; 6. 17A-Austin Howes[3]; 7. 24B-Chris Bragg[7]; 8. 4G-Bob Gardner[10]; 9. 112-Tyler Smith[8]; 10. (DNF) 33F-Rickey Frankel[6]; 11. (DNF) 26P-Glen Powell[11]
Heat 4 - 1. 13-Dallon Murty[1]; 2. 18-Chase Junghans[2]; 3. 75-Daniel Adam[3]; 4. 25S-Chad Simpson[4]; 5. 25-Jason Feger[5]; 6. 24-Ryan Unzicker[6]; 7. 50-Kayden Clatt[7]; 8. 78S-Steve Stultz[8]; 9. 38J-Jake Little[9]; 10. (DNF) 24C-Brandon Conkwright[10]
Qualifying 1 - 1. 28-Dennis Erb Jr, 14.443[8]; 2. 56-Tony Jackson Jr, 14.620[18]; 3. 8-Matthew Larson, 14.637[6]; 4. 75P-Terry Phillips, 14.714[5]; 5. 32-Chris Simpson, 14.895[21]; 6. 1X-Aaron Marrant, 15.002[17]; 7. 8L-Jeffrey Ledford, 15.051[19]; 8. 1/4J-Jaxon Ertel, 15.059[9]; 9. 16W-Tony Wolf, 15.077[4]; 10. 25B-Chevy Boyer, 15.129[1]; 11. 17X-Matt Santel, 15.133[2]; 12. 87-Darron Fuqua, 15.189[12]; 13. 10J-Jordan Bauer, 15.207[14]; 14. 62-Justin Zeitner, 15.325[7]; 15. 33-Wil Herrington, 15.369[20]; 16. 3J-Jake Nightingale, 15.414[15]; 17. 30-Mark Voigt, 15.443[13]; 18. 26M-Matt Menzie, 15.896[3]; 19. 20-Alan Westling, 16.161[10]; 20. 1T-Richard Kimberling, 17.089[16]; 21. 67-Jimmy Vanzandt, 17.680[11]
Qualifying 2 - 1. 12-Scott Crigler, 14.843[1]; 2. 13-Dallon Murty, 14.920[8]; 3. 21-Billy Moyer Sr, 15.030[16]; 4. 18-Chase Junghans, 15.087[10]; 5. 17A-Austin Howes, 15.098[6]; 6. 75-Daniel Adam, 15.112[12]; 7. 24T-Dylan Thornton, 15.141[2]; 8. 25S-Chad Simpson, 15.190[5]; 9. 44-Blaze Burwell, 15.193[7]; 10. 25-Jason Feger, 15.238[13]; 11. 33F-Rickey Frankel, 15.264[19]; 12. 24-Ryan Unzicker, 15.300[21]; 13. 24B-Chris Bragg, 15.303[20]; 14. 50-Kayden Clatt, 15.311[11]; 15. 112-Tyler Smith, 15.324[3]; 16. 78S-Steve Stultz, 15.421[15]; 17. 11G-Gordy Gundaker, 15.451[9]; 18. 38J-Jake Little, 15.462[18]; 19. 4G-Bob Gardner, 15.573[4]; 20. 24C-Brandon Conkwright, 15.593[17]; 21. 26P-Glen Powell, 15.651[14]
Monster Trucks - Eve of Destruction next: The remaining dirt-track event on the 2026 Lucas Oil Speedway schedule is the O'Reilly Auto Parts Monster Truck Show - Eve of Destruction. Ten of the nation's top trucks will converge in Wheatland with youngsters encouraged to dress up the kids for the Party in the Pits, where drivers will be handing out candy and signing autographs.
Gates open at 2:30 p.m. with trick or treating and truck rides from 4:30-6:15. Advance discount tickets are available at all O'Reilly Auto Parts Stores or online
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