Pierce Keeps Rolling In Wild West Shootout
Written by I Dig Sports
VADO, N.M. Bobby Pierce and Rob Moseley returned to Hoker Trucking Victory Lane on Saturday night at the 19th annual Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout presented by OReilly Auto Parts at FK Rod Ends Vado (N.M.) Speedway Park, while Dustin Sorensen notched his first win of the year.
Controlling all 40 laps of the super late model feature, largely unchallenged, Pierce cruised to win Saturdays $10,000 fifth round of the 19th annual Wild West Shootout at Vado Speedway Park.
Pierce earned his third victory of the week and the 15th miniseries victory of his career, further extending his lead on the all-time wins list.
I was happy in the lapped traffic, I felt like I was getting through them good, Pierce said. It took a little rubber where the left-rear tire was hitting over there in (turn) one, so it started making me tight. I know it probably didnt look like it, but it made it a little nerve wracking in the car on the restarts, ya know, just wanting to gain a healthy lead again that was a little nerve wracking just trying to hit my marks on the restarts, get a big gap again and kinda cruise from there.
Brandon Sheppard raced from the sixth-starting spot to finish second, with fifth-starting Tyler Erb finishing fifth, 15th-starting Ethan Dotson in fourth, and Drake Troutman rounding out the top five.
In the Shocker Hitch X-Mod division presented by Border Tire, Rob Moseley fended off race-long challenges from Christy Barnett to pick up his third win of the week. The sixth-starting Barnett finished second with 18th-starting Josh Cain in third, seventh-starting Hunter Sandy fourth, and eighth-starting Scott Bintz finished fifth.
With the victory, Moseley is one win away from claiming the Arizona Differential by Nate Four-Or-More Challenge, which posts a $2,500 bonus for any driver, who can win four-or-more Shocker Hitch X-Mod features.
The Mesilla Valley Transportation / Border Tire Modified feature presented by Rancho Milagro saw Dustin Sorensen decimate the field from the pole position. Seventh-starting Cade Dillard finished second with 11th-starting Kyle Strickler in third, while Gary Christian and Joseph Thomas completed the top five.
The finish:
Feature (40 Laps): 1. 32-Bobby Pierce[1]; 2. B5-Brandon Sheppard[6]; 3. 1-Tyler Erb[5]; 4. 74X-Ethan Dotson[15]; 5. 22*-Drake Troutman[4]; 6. 14S-Collen Winebarger[8]; 7. 58-Garrett Alberson[9]; 8. 97-Cade Dillard[3]; 9. 69-Ross Bailes[11]; 10. 157-Mike Marlar[20]; 11. 49-Jake Timm[13]; 12. 74-Mitch McGrath[17]; 13. 42S-Don Shaw[7]; 14. 28M-Sam Mars[10]; 15. 28B-Carson Brown[2]; 16. 8-Dillon McCowan[18]; 17. 13-Bricen James[25]; 18. 11-Jon Kirby[16]; 19. 77-Preston Luckman[22]; 20. 6-Jake Neal[24]; 21. 86-Kyle Beard[14]; 22. 2S-Stormy Scott[21]; 23. 19-Dustin Sorensen[19]; 24. 56-Tony Jackson Jr[23]; 25. 18-Chase Junghans[12]