WHEATLAND, Mo. – Lucas Oil Speedway’s Big Adventure RV Weekly Racing Series schedule hit the midpoint on Saturday night and it was Mitch Keeter picking up win in the featured class of the evening.
Keeter took the lead before the halfway mark and went on to capture the $1,000-to-win Pitts Homes USRA Modified main event.
Also picking up feature victories as Bolivar Herald-Free Press along with KTTS Presented the Mid-Season Championship round of the Big Adventure RV Weekly Racing Series were: Reggie Jackson (O’Reilly Auto Parts Street Stocks), Dustin Walker (Warsaw Auto Marine & RV ULMA Late Models) and Eric Turner (Ozark Golf Cars USRA B-Mods).
J.T. Carroll eared the feature win in the Pure Stocks, a special guest class on Saturday.
In the night’s headline class, a 25-lap feature with $1,000 to the winner, Keeter slipped past Ryan Middaugh for the lead on lap nine.
A caution flag flew one lap later, but that did not keep Keeter from extending his lead once the race resumed. He paced the field by 1.1 seconds when another caution on lap 15 bunched the field, with one midseason champ Robbie Reed making his move.
Reed had advanced 14 spots since the start, into second, by lap 18 and was just 1.4 seconds behind Keeter with seven to go. Another caution came out with five laps remaining, but Reed was unable to pull off his third feature win. Instead, Keeter went to victory lane for the second time this season.
Chase Domer got around Reed on the white-flag lap to earn second with Reed earning his fifth top-three finish and sixth top-five of the season.
Using a last-lap pass, Walkerpicked up his second Warsaw Auto Marine & RV ULMA Late Model feature win of the season.
Walker finished .677 seconds in front of Justin Russell with Kaeden Cornell going from ninth to third and Larry Ferris fourth.
Cole Henson used a sixth-place finish to move into the points lead and claim the Midseason Championship over Ferris.
Dylan Hoover grabbed command early, passing Chad Richwine on lap two, but one lap later Walker took his first lead of the race. Fourth-starting Russell took his turn at the front on lap eight and had a nearly three-second lead with five laps to go.
A caution with two laps left produced a duel between Russell and Walker and it was Walker who pulled off his second win of the season.
Jackson started on the pole and led all the way to earn the O’Reilly Auto Parts Street Stocks feature win. It was Jackson’s first win of the season at Lucas Oil Speedway.
Jackson finished 1.76 seconds in front of Derek Brown, the season points leader who posted his third straight runner-up finish after winning the first three features of the season. Brown comfortably is the mid-season champ.
Brown moved past Jeff Douty and into second on lap eight, cutting Jackson’s lead to just under one second. But Jackson quickly was able to extend the lead to near two seconds by lap 11 and held on from there.
Douty finished a distant third, 5.4 seconds behind the winner. Toby Ott wound up fourth with Brian Brown fifth.
Turner advanced from a ninth-starting position and went on to win the Ozark Golf Cars USRA B-Mod feature, though Kris Jackson was able to hold on to the midseason points title.
Turner moved into fourth by lap 13 and, following a caution, took over the top spot one lap later. He held on from there and beat J.C. Morton, Mitchell Franklin and Robbe Ewing to the finish.
Jackson rallied from 16th to seventh over the final six laps to protect his standing atop the points list.
Carroll started on the front row and turned the Pure Stock feature into a runaway. It was the second feature win in three attempts at Lucas Oil Speedway for Carroll.
Carroll jumped out to two-second lead just four laps in, when the race’s first caution came out. He established a four-second command by lap 10 and continued to pull away from there, winding up nearly seven seconds in front of runner-up Jerry Wheeler. Jack Turner finished third and Conrad Kaufman was fourth.