Key notes: Lucas Oil Speedway since 2010 has hosted the Show-Me 100, an event founded at the former West Plains (Mo.) Motor Speedway in 1993. … Lucas Oil Series competitors take to the track all three nights, starting with Thursday’s 45-lap, $10,000-to-win 13th annual Cowboy Classic preceding Friday’s 40-lap, $10,000-to-win Tribute to Don & Billie Gibson (the former West Plains track owners) before culminating with Saturday’s $75,000-to-win 34th annual Show-Me 100. … Bobby Pierce won last year’s $75,000 Show-Me finale after also topping the event in 2017, worth $30,000. … Jonathan Davenport swept April’s Spring Nationals event there and enters with two career Show-Me 100 triumphs (2015, ’24). In total, Davenport has topped 14 Wheatland specials since 2015, earning more than $217,000 over that span. … Ricky Thornton Jr. has three Lucas Oil Series wins at Wheatland, including a sweep of both 2024 Show-Me prelims. … Reigning series champ Devin Moran inherited 2023’s $50,000 Show-Me 100 finale after Thornton was DQ’d for a deck height violation in postrace tech. … Current points leader Hudson O’Neal topped four features last season at Wheatland after winning the 2021 Show-Me finale. … Super stocks are on Friday’s undercard with stock cars sharing the spotlight for Saturday’s finale. … Gates open at 4 p.m. with hot laps at 6:30 and racing at 7, nightly. … Watch live on FloRacing.
Who to watch: Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., chases his third Lucas Oil Speedway victory of the season.
Points chase: Before Wheatland Thursday: 1. Hudson O’Neal (2,945); 2. Devin Moran (2,855); 3. Brandon Sheppard (2,780); 4. Ricky Thornton Jr. (2,695); T5. Brandon Overton (2,650); T5. Max Blair (2,650); 7. Brian Shirley (2,410); 8. Garrett Alberson (2,405); 9. Kyle Bronson (2,325); 10. Josh Rice (2,300).
Expected entrants: Among drivers expected to join the top 10 in series standings: Bobby Pierce, Chris Simpson, Tony Jackson Jr., Gordy Gundaker, Carson Ferguson, Chad Simpson, Daniel Hilsabeck, Clay Harris, Dallon Murty, Dillon McCowan, Dan Ebert, Tyler Bruening, Scott Crigler, Justin Wells, Trevor Gundaker, Derrick Stewart, Brenden Smith, Sawyer Crigler, Ryan Johnson, Cole Wells, Cory Lawler and more.
Next series race: May 22, Lucas Oil Speedway (Wheatland, MO) $10,000
From staff reports
WHEATLAND, Mo. — Live updates from Thursday’s 34th annual Show-Me 100 first prelim at Lucas Oil Speedway, highlighted by a 45-lap, $10,000-to-win feature for Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series-sanctioned Super Late Models (results unofficial):
Thursday’s schedule
(All times local)
2:45 p.m. - Tech and registration opens
3:30 p.m. - Pits cleared and closed
4 p.m. - Gates open
5:45 p.m. - Tech and registration closes
6 p.m. - Drivers’ meeting
6:30 p.m. - On-track activity
- Late Model hot laps
- Late Model time trials (2 laps)
Opening ceremonies
- Late Model heats (8 laps)
Intermission/track prep
- Late Model consolations (10 laps)
Feature events
- Late Models (45 laps)
