Lucas Oil Speedway Spotlight: B-Mod veteran Robbe Ewing finds quick success in Late Model

 

WHEATLAND, MO. (July 24, 2025) – Robbe Ewing of Stockton didn’t have expectations entering his first season behind the wheel of the EKJ Motorsports Capital Late Model. Having driven a B-Mod exclusively in a racing career that began in 2014, Ewing was open-minded and eager to see what happened.

“I’ve always wanted to do something else, but the B-Mod deal is what we can afford and we enjoy it,” Ewing said. “The stars aligned. We couldn’t have done it any other way. I’m just the lucky guy who gets to drive both cars.”

One of the surprise stories of the 2025 Lucas Oil Speedway season has been Ewing’s success in the Late Model. While he’s yet to win a feature – he’s been closed with four second-place finishes – Ewing holds a two-point lead in the season points chase over JC Morton, another B-Mod driver who’s doubling up in the Hermitage Lumber Late Model division.

This Saturday night will be a particularly busy one for those two. Fan Appreciation Night will find twin 20-lap features for the Clear Creek Golf Cars USRA B-Mods with the Late Models, Hickamo Super Stocks and Arctic Food Equipment USRA Modifieds also in action. The Show-Me Vintage Racers are a special guest class.

Ewing, 33, said EKJ Motorsports, one of the sponsors on the B-Mod, came to him after last season to discuss him driving their Late Model. It’s a 2020 Capital that Larry Ferris had success in over the last few years at Lucas Oil Speedway. Brian Larimore of Dirt Track Specialist in Nevada maintains the car and oversees it in the pits. Robbe’s dad, Brian Ewing, is crew chief for the B-Mod and pitches in on the Late Model when needed.

“We go and get it on Saturday morning and drag it to the track,” Ewing said. “I kind of knew what to expect from the B-Mod stuff, but didn’t have a lot or expectations with the Late Model. Of course, I wish we had a win or two. But if we keep putting it up front, wins will come.

“Brian Larimore takes all the pressure off on the Late Model part of it. My dad is right there in the middle of the B-Mod stuff and helping Brian on the Late Model stuff on whatever he needs.”

A former multi-sport standout at Stockton High School and college baseball player, Ewing is a three-time track champion at Dallas County Speedway and also a past champ at Bolivar Speedway, there are challenges in going back and forth between two cars.

“They drive completely different and I expected that,” Ewing said. “We’re six races into this Late Model deal and we have a long ways to go, but getting out of one into the other they drive totally different. You have a small tire and little horsepower (B-Mod) to lots of horsepower with big tires (Late Model). It’s just a different world getting out of one into the other.

“It’s been an adjustment, but a fun challenge.”

Ewing said whatever happens the rest of the season, it’s been fun on and off the track. He’s getting to race just as much as past season, but only doing it one night a week which is important for family balance. He and wife Kelsey have a four-year-old daughter, Macyn.

Meanwhile, winning a race in the Late Model outweighs a desire to win a track championship.

“Both would be great, but we didn’t go into the year saying we were going to run for points or anything like that,” Ewing said. “We’re not really trying to do that any more. Lucas keeps the schedule pretty spaced out and it works out good for what we want to do.

“At the end of the year, if we’re up there we’ll definitely try to win it. If we can’t, we’ll hang our hats on a pretty good year in our first season in a Late Model. We just want to stay consistent and keep it up front and if we do, the wins will come.”

Sponsors for the Late Model and B-Mod, in addition to EKJ Motorsports and Dirt Track Specialist include Allen Autosports Race Cars, Ewing Ready Mix, Harryman Harvesting, Kustom Auto, GLJ Trucking, Johnson’s Paint & Body, Spurgeon Yachts, Loehr Campground and Resort and KBN Signs and Graphics.

Grandstands open at 4 p.m. with hot laps at 6:30 and racing to follow. As usual for the Pitts Homes and Realty Weekly Series, general admission is just $5 (ages 6-and-up) with 5-and-under free. Pit passes are $35.

“Beat the Heat” Suite Special: With the region under a heat advisory all week, race fans have a cool option to consider for Saturday’s action. A “Beat the Heat” Suite Special is being offered with tickets just $25 for fans to get a ticket offering access to one of the air-conditioned suites that have seats both inside and outside to view the racing action.

Suites have a hostess to help the guests with food and drink orders from a full menu service, with a television in each suite. The audio feed from track announcers can be heard via volume control. Stairs are on both ends of the grandstands, along with an elevator in the middle, to transport guests to the suite levels.

The ticket price does not include a pit pass, though that can be added for a $15 upgrade. Suite tickets, while available, are by pre-sale only by calling Admissions Director Nichole McMillan at 417-295-6043

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