Dillon McCowan won the USRA Modified main event.

One new track champion was crowned with three others adding to their Lucas Oil Speedway title resumes Saturday night.

Dillon McCowan nailed down his first Cedar Creek Beef Jerky USRA Modified crown on Rempfer Memorial Season Championship Night Presented by Bill Roberts Chevrolet-Buick.

McCowan, a 17-year-old from Urbana, not only won the season title but also captured the feature with a late pass for third feature victory of season in the Big Adventure RV Weekly Racing Series.

Meanwhile, Kris Jackson celebrated his sixth Ozark Golf Cars USRA B-Mod championship, Cole Henson repeated his ULMA Late Model points title and David Hendrix earned the O'Reilly Auto Parts USRA Stock Cars title.

Other feature winners on Saturday night were Andy Bryant (Ozark Golf Cars USRA B-Mods), Larry Ferris (ULMA Late Models) and Scotty Allen (O'Reilly Auto Parts USRA Stock Cars).

McCowan doubles up with title, feature win: McCowan won the championship in style, passing Jason Pursley for the lead with four laps remaining and going on to celebrate his third feature victory of the season in addition to the points title.

“It hasn't sunk in just yet. It's a lot bigger than just me," McCowan said in victory lane. "It's everybody behind the scenes who helped me get here. It's been fun this year."

The ultra-consistent McCowan had 13 top-five finishes in his first full season of driving a USRA Modified.

Pursley started on the front row and grabbed the lead at the drop of the green with Kyle Thompson moving into second on lap two. But on a lap-13 restart, Thompson’s car seemed to stall and McCowan sailed past him and into second.

Three laps later, McCowan made the pass for the lead, using the low line out of turn four. He never looked back from there, going on to win by 2.1 seconds over Pursley - who also finished runner-up in the points chase, unofficially 65 behind.

"It was an awesome race," McCowan said. "We kept getting stuck on the bottom on those restarts and I didn't know if it was going to work out. Then they went single-file and I thought 'man, I don't know if I can get it done.

"I don't know what happened to Kyle. It looked like he may have lost power, but we started gaining on Jason and it worked out in our favor tonight."

Lucas Gibbs finished third with Kevin Blackburn fourth and Thompson was fifth.

Bryant wins B-Mod feature, Jackson earns championship: Andy Bryant grabbed an early lead and checked out on the field en route to the Ozark Golf Cars USRA B-Mod feature victory. Meanwhile, Lebanon's Kris Jackson clinched his sixth season championship without even making it into the feature starting field.

Bryant, of Fort Scott, Kansas, beat Ryan Gillmore by 1.2 seconds for his second feature victory of the season.

Bryant took the lead on lap three and opened a five-second command before a lap-15 caution bunched the field, setting up a five-lap sprint to the finish. Just one lap was completed before another caution, but in that time Gillmore moved around John Potter and into second.

Despite challenges by Gillmore from the inside groove, Bryant was able to hold on for the win. Shawn Whitman was third with JC Morton fourth and Potter coming home in fifth.

"Those restarts, I was getting pretty tired of them," Bryant said. "The long green-flag run we had, I knew I had a pretty good distance. We got the car home in one piece and the track was pretty good tonight for the most part, from what I could see."

Jackson took an unconventional final-night road to his sixth track championship. After struggling in his heat race, Jackson had to run a B Main and his car was wounded in two separate accidents, not of his making, before a single lap could be completed.

Jackson pulled into the pits, returned a lap down and wound up ninth, leaving him out of the feature field. Fortunately for Jackson, his 77-point lead at the beginning of the night gave him enough of a cushion to hold on for another championship. He also won titles in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2019 and 2020.

"Luckily, we had a strong enough year that tonight didn't matter," said Jackson, who had seven feature wins during the season. "It's one of those things. This is racing. This is our form of gambling and it didn't go very well for me tonight. If it could go wrong, it went wrong.

"We're gonna take it. We're lucky enough to still win the points. I'm pretty proud of my whole team for this."

Jackson unofficially wound up 35 points in front of Morton.

Allen earns USRA Stock Car win, Hendrix championship: Scotty Allen picked up his fourth O’Reilly Auto Parts USRA Stock Cars feature win of the season and David Hendrix brought home the season championship.

Allen, of Urbana, took over the lead from Burl Woods on lap three, making a pass coming out of turn four. He held it the rest of the way, fighting off a mid-race challenge from Ed Griggs as the top two were side by side for several laps.

Allen was able to start building his lead, getting it to 1.5 seconds by lap 15 and extended it to a final margin of 2.9 seconds over Griggs. Robert White finished third with Woods fourth and Hendrix fifth.

"There's an awful lot of good Stock Cars coming now every week," Allen said. "It's an awesome class. I'm a life-long Modified guy. Everybody knows it. I don't if this is a retirement home for me or what, but I really like it. These guys are tough. It's a lot of fun."

Waynesville's Hendrix, meanwhile, celebrated the track championship in the division's initial season. Hendrix had won two previous track championships in the Street Stock class.

Hendrix won three early season features and used consistency to built an insurmountable points lead entering championship night.

"That's pretty cool," Hendrix said of becoming the first Stock Cars track champ. "We're having a blast in this class. We've been struggling a little bit the last half of the year. We've had the dirt gremlins after us I guess you'd say.

"We've had like 20 top-fives (overall). It's been an awesome year. I wish we'd have had more wins to go with, but we're having fun and that's what it's supposed to be about."

Big Labor Day Weekend ahead: Lucas Oil Speedway plays host to a big Labor Day Weekend of racing next with the 11th annual Diamond Drag Boat Nationals set for Friday through Sunday on Lake Lucas. Next door on the dirt track, the 2nd annual Lucas Oil MLRA Ron Jenkins Memorial is set for Saturday night with USRA Stock Cars and USRA B-Mods joining the Late Models.

For ticket information for any event during the 2021 Lucas Oil Speedway season, contact admissions director Nichole McMillan at (417) 282-5984 or via email at Nichole@lucasoilspeedway.com. Fans also can use the online ticketing system.

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OFFICIAL RESULTS
United States Racing Association
Summit USRA Weekly Racing Series
Lucas Oil Speedway, Wheatland, Mo.
Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021

Showing finishing position, starting position in parentheses, car number, driver and hometown.

USRA MODIFIEDS

Heat #1:
1. (2) 98 Jeff Cutshaw, Bolivar, Mo.
2. (4) 03 Chase Jones, El Dorado Springs, Mo.
3. (5) 51 Lucas Gibbs, Udall, Kan.
4. (6) 21TW Tracy Wolf, Buffalo, Mo.
5. (8) 6 Ryu Taggart, Jefferson City, Mo.
6. (7) 55 Tyler Brown, Richland, Mo.
7. (1) 23 Lucas Dobbs, El Dorado Springs, Mo.
8. (3) 25 Scotty Roberts, Columbia, Mo.

Heat #2:
1. (2) 38C Jason Pursley, Hermitage, Mo.
2. (4) 292 Kyle Thompson, Joplin, Mo.
3. (6) 8 Dillon McCowan, Urbana, Mo.
4. (7) 16S Kevin Blackburn, Fulton, Mo.
5. (3) 98D Paden Phillips, Chanute, Kan.
6. (5) 24D Donnie Fellers, Wheatland, Mo.
7. (1) 93D Josh Dugan, Fair Grove, Mo.

Feature:
1. (5) 8 Dillon McCowan, Urbana, Mo.
2. (2) 38C Jason Pursley, Hermitage, Mo.
3. (6) 51 Lucas Gibbs, Udall, Kan.
4. (7) 16S Kevin Blackburn, Fulton, Mo.
5. (4) 292 Kyle Thompson, Joplin, Mo.
6. (1) 98 Jeff Cutshaw, Bolivar, Mo.
7. (8) 21TW Tracy Wolf, Buffalo, Mo.
8. (12) 24D Donnie Fellers, Wheatland, Mo.
9. (3) 03 Chase Jones, El Dorado Springs, Mo.
10. (13) 23 Lucas Dobbs, El Dorado Springs, Mo.
11. (14) 93D Josh Dugan, Fair Grove, Mo.
12. (10) 98D Paden Phillips, Chanute, Kan.
13. (9) 6 Ryu Taggart, Jefferson City, Mo.
14. (11) 55 Tyler Brown, Richland, Mo.
DNS – 25 Scotty Roberts, Columbia, Mo.

MEDIEVAL USRA STOCK CARS

Heat #1:
1. (3) 26 Burl Woods, Republic, Mo.
2. (6) 5 Robert White, Lebanon, Mo.
3. (2) 54 David Hendrix, Waynesville, Mo.
4. (4) 25X Rodger Detherage, Windsor, Mo.
5. (1) 31T Tanner Calhoun, Hermitage, Mo.
6. (7) 28 Bryan White, Lebanon, Mo.
7. (5) 22X Chad Donaldson, Springfield, Mo.

Heat #2:
1. (6) 12 Scotty Allen, Urbana, Mo.
2. (4) 31 Ed Griggs, Pleasant Hill, Mo.
3. (1) 8M James McMillin, Warrensburg, Mo.
4. (2) 12S Christopher Sawyer, Buffalo, Mo.
5. (5) 21P Darren Phillips, Wheatland, Mo.
6. (3) 24W Craig Wright, Arma, Kan.

Feature:
1. (1) 12 Scotty Allen, Urbana, Mo.
2. (4) 31 Ed Griggs, Pleasant Hill, Mo.
3. (3) 5 Robert White, Lebanon, Mo.
4. (2) 26 Burl Woods, Republic, Mo.
5. (6) 54 David Hendrix, Waynesville, Mo.
6. (5) 8M James McMillin, Warrensburg, Mo.
7. (10) 21P Darren Phillips, Wheatland, Mo.
8. (9) 31T Tanner Calhoun, Hermitage, Mo.
9. (7) 12S Christopher Sawyer, Buffalo, Mo.
10. (11) 28 Bryan White, Lebanon, Mo.
11. (13) 22X Chad Donaldson, Springfield, Mo.
12. (8) 25X Rodger Detherage, Windsor, Mo.
13. (12) 24W Craig Wright, Arma, Kan.

USRA B-MODS

Heat #1:
1. (1) 28A Andy Bryant, Fort Scott, Kan.
2. (3) 14 Shawn Nations, Macks Creek, Mo.
3. (2) 10P Dayton Pursley, Hermitage, Mo.
4. (6) 83 J.C. Newell, Buffalo, Mo.
5. (7) 18 J.C. Morton, Springfield, Mo.
6. (8) 54 Shawn Whitman, Fair Grove, Mo.
7. (10) 14T Quentin Taylor, Wheatland, Mo.
8. (5) 28 Wesley Briggs, Lebanon, Mo.
9. (4) 28C Thomas Creech, Pittsburg, Mo.
10. (11) 39 Dwight Brown, Bolivar, Mo.
11. (9) 42J Donnie Jackson, Lebanon, Mo.
DNS – 99D Dalton Teel, Fulton, Mo.

Heat #2:
1. (2) 46 Brice Gotschall, Nevada, Mo.
2. (1) 414 Ryan Thomas, Fair Grove, Mo.
3. (8) 6P John Potter, Tulsa, Okla.
4. (9) 25 Galen Hassler, Columbia, Mo.
5. (6) 21 Jacob Potter, Imperial, Mo.
6. (7) 77 Koby Chadd, Nevada, Mo.
7. (5) 19R Cole Stillwell, Ulman, Mo.
8. (4) 24L Dakota Lowe, Prescott, Kan.
9. (3) 0K Tracy Killian, Lee Summit, Mo.
10. (10) 98 James Gates, Wheatland, Mo.
DNS – 08 Chad Neill, Dunnegan, Mo.

Heat #3:
1. (1) 66 Ryan Gillmore, Springfield, Mo.
2. (2) 114 todd Mauk, lebanon mo, Mo.
3. (5) 8X Scott Chism, Bolivar, Mo.
4. (7) 58M Jamie Mauk, Lebanon, Mo.
5. (3) 21G Greg Scheffler, Pittsburg, Mo.
6. (9) 11 Jimmy Willis, Macks Creek, Mo.
7. (11) 65 Kris Jackson, Lebanon, Mo.
8. (8) 30 Rex Harris, Macks Creek, Mo.
9. (10) 24 Jerry Ellis, Richland, Mo.
10. (6) 25G James Gish, El Dorado, Mo.
11. (4) 9R Cody Stillwell, Ulman, Mo.

"B" Feature:
1. (1) 21G Greg Scheffler, Pittsburg, Mo.
2. (8) 30 Rex Harris, Macks Creek, Mo.
3. (16) 42J Donnie Jackson, Lebanon, Mo.
4. (7) 28 Wesley Briggs, Lebanon, Mo.
5. (13) 98 James Gates, Wheatland, Mo.
6. (10) 0K Tracy Killian, Lee Summit, Mo.
7. (17) 08 Chad Neill, Dunnegan, Mo.
8. (11) 28C Thomas Creech, Pittsburg, Mo.
9. (3) 65 Kris Jackson, Lebanon, Mo.
10. (2) 14T Quentin Taylor, Wheatland, Mo.
11. (9) 24 Jerry Ellis, Richland, Mo.
12. (15) 9R Cody Stillwell, Ulman, Mo.
13. (4) 77 Koby Chadd, Nevada, Mo.
14. (12) 39 Dwight Brown, Bolivar, Mo.
15. (14) 25G James Gish, El Dorado, Mo.
DQ – (5) 19R Cole Stillwell, Ulman, Mo.
DQ – (6) 24L Dakota Lowe, Prescott, Kan.
DNS – 99D Dalton Teel, Fulton, Mo.

"A" Feature:
1. (3) 28A Andy Bryant, Fort Scott, Kan.
2. (4) 66 Ryan Gillmore, Springfield, Mo.
3. (15) 54 Shawn Whitman, Fair Grove, Mo.
4. (13) 18 J.C. Morton, Springfield, Mo.
5. (1) 6P John Potter, Tulsa, Okla.
6. (5) 25 Galen Hassler, Columbia, Mo.
7. (18) 30 Rex Harris, Macks Creek, Mo.
8. (21) 98 James Gates, Wheatland, Mo.
9. (10) 58M Jamie Mauk, Lebanon, Mo.
10. (16) 11 Jimmy Willis, Macks Creek, Mo.
11. (7) 414 Ryan Thomas, Fair Grove, Mo.
12. (20) 28 Wesley Briggs, Lebanon, Mo.
13. (22) 0K Tracy Killian, Lee Summit, Mo.
14. (24) 28C Thomas Creech, Pittsburg, Mo.
15. (9) 8X Scott Chism, Bolivar, Mo.
16. (19) 42J Donnie Jackson, Lebanon, Mo.
17. (23) 08 Chad Neill, Dunnegan, Mo.
18. (2) 46 Brice Gotschall, Nevada, Mo.
19. (6) 14 Shawn Nations, Macks Creek, Mo.
20. (12) 83 J.C. Newell, Buffalo, Mo.
21. (8) 114 todd Mauk, lebanon mo, Mo.
22. (11) 10P Dayton Pursley, Hermitage, Mo.
23. (17) 21G Greg Scheffler, Pittsburg, Mo.