HOLLY, Mich. – The Must See Racing Sprint Car Series will invade the state of Ohio for its one and only visit this season with the running of the second-annual Buckeye State Shootout at Midvale Speedway on Saturday.

The three-tenths-mile oval will play host to Must See Racing for the second time in tour history and the sixth race of the season, as Ohio native and three-time defending series champion Jimmy McCune looks to extend his slim points lead.

McCune, from Toledo, Ohio, carries a 12-point margin over Indiana’s Aaron Pierce. He has two wins already this season at Anderson (S.C.) Motor Speedway and Berlin Raceway and is the defending winner of the Buckeye State Shootout, having led 30 of 40 laps in last year’s running en route to the victory.

However, McCune’s fiercest challenge may come from his nephew Anthony, who ran second in last year’s Midvale Must See event and led the race before being passed by his uncle on lap 11.

Anthony McCune sits third in points entering the Buckeye State Shootout and would like for nothing more than to score his first-career Must See Racing victory in front of a home-state crowd.

“It would be really big,” noted the younger McCune of the prospect of scoring his first series win. “We’ve been close, but we just need a little luck and all the right things to go our way to get it done.”

The 20-year-old threw everything he had at his uncle’s No. 88 last season, only to come up just short. He’s shooting for redemption this year.

“I was trying to reel him in for most of the race, and by the time I finally got to him there just weren’t enough laps left to really set him up,” Anthony McCune recalled. “Lap traffic was really tough last year … and I have worked hard on getting better at working through it, but it was a good night. I’m hoping we can do a little bit better this time around. I want that trophy really bad.”

Both McCunes will have a healthy field of challengers, however, if either of them want to be the driver that is celebrating on the frontstretch at the end of the night.

Fellow Buckeye Charlie Schultz, a former supermodified competitor who is seeking his first Must See Racing win, sits fourth in series points entering the weekend and is expected to be a major player. Jerry Caryer and Joe Speakman will also represent the Ohio contingent during the Midvale event, while Michigan’s Tom Jewell and North Carolina’s Bronzie Lawson IV lead the charge for the invaders.

A full program of Hamilton Trucking two-lap time trials, heat races and a 40-lap main event will be on tap for the Must See Racing sprint cars, while the Midvale Speedway modifieds, street stocks, compacts and mini trucks will also be on the night’s racing card.