Pierce Pockets Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series’ Show-Me 100 Record $75,000 Payday

Story By: LUCAS OIL LATE MODEL DIRT SERIES – WHEATLAND, MO – Bobby Pierce started from the eighth position to claim his second career Show-Me 100 victory on Saturday night at Lucas Oil Speedway, earning a record $75.000 for the win.

Pierce, who won the race in 2017, led the final 32 laps to secure a lucrative victory, marking his 14th overall win this season.

Jonathan Davenport came home in second, followed by Hudson O’Neal in third, as he fell short of a weekend sweep. Devin Moran finished fourth, and Daulton Wilson rounded out the top five drivers.

O’Neal, who was seeking his fifth straight win at Lucas Oil Speedway, jumped to the lead at the start and would lead the first 19 circuits of the race until Davenport, who started third, moved into the top spot after hounding O’Neal from the drop of the green flag.

Davenport maintained the lead until a restart on lap 44, when O’Neal retook the lead with an outside move on lap 45. O’Neal led for three laps before Davenport reclaimed the lead on lap 48, as an exciting battle for the race lead continued.

Davenport and O’Neal ran first and second until Pierce, who started on the outside of the fourth row, moved into second by lap 66. Three laps later, he made a move for the lead, throwing a slider on Davenport on lap 69 to take over the top position.

Pierce would then battle traffic in the final 30 laps as he and Davenport navigated through it, eventually gaining enough breathing room to win by just over 2 seconds ahead of Davenport at the finish.

Pierce’s 25th career victory in the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series presented by FloRacing marked his first win of 2025 and his first since claiming Carl Short’s Dirt Track World Championship at Eldora Speedway last October.

“The cushion was tough, you know how this track with the wall is, it doesn’t really build a cushion on the track. It had a little rut there, you kind of set your right side tires in, and sometimes it would grab and go, and sometimes it would toss you, and sometimes it would make you lose, so it was tricky to hit every lap. That’s how this track has been all weekend, it’s a very finesse race track, like you can lose a lot of ground with one mistake like that. It was a really fun race track. I was waiting for that track all weekend. I know with the possibility of rain, they were taking it easy with track prep, and man that was a lot of fun,” said the Oakwood, Illinois native.

“I didn’t think we had a car that could win tonight, we were all pretty well in the dumps. I know I was pretty negative, we stunk all weekend, we were like 5 or 6 tenths off in qualifying, heat race, we just couldn’t hit on anything, and the track really came around, you could really drive it in different lines, and that’s what I was waiting on. The track was awesome tonight. It’s great that it pays $75,000 now, hats off to Lucas Oil for putting this on, and thanks to the fans for supporting it.”

Davenport, the defending race winner, was looking for his third career win in the crown jewel event. He led the most laps (55) during the race and came home in second, earning a $25,000 payday.

“It was really tough to lead tonight, the line moved a lot there until the very end, hats off to the track prep crew. Lucas Oil Speedway is awesome whenever it moves around like that. I wish it had made that last change and pushed the cushion over the top, because obviously, I didn’t set up to run around the cushion, you know, I kind of run the middle to the bottom, and we really made big gains today. Then, once we could run around the middle to the bottom, we were really good there. I was kind of messing with the lapped cars there a little bit and not trying to be super aggressive, and I tried to move through as quickly as possible.”

O’Neal was looking to pick up a $5,000 bonus if he won the race to take his winnings to $100,000 for the weekend, rounding out the Big River Steel Podium in third.

“We just missed it a little bit. We just weren’t prepared for the way the race track was. We thought it was going to slow down way more so we weren’t real concerned about maybe freeing it back up a little bit for the mud we thought it was going to get slow and kind of like it had for the first two nights, just missed it a little bit, all-in-all it was a great race, it turned out to be an awesome race track. We had a great week, we can’t hang our heads over a third-place finish.”

The winner’s Longhorn Chassis is powered by a Vic Hill Racing Engine and sponsored by Low Voltage Solutions, Rio Grande Waste Services, Churchill Transport, Collins Brothers Towing, Mesilla Valley Transportation, Toyota of Danville, Carnaghi Towing and Repair, Ted Brown’s Quality Paint and Body Shop, Fast 1 Speed Shop, Leka Tree Services, Floyd’s Waste Systems, DuraMAX Racing Oil VP Fuels, and Bert by Budda.

Completing the top ten were Carson Ferguson, Ricky Thornton Jr., Brandon Overton, Brandon Sheppard, and Donald McIntosh.

Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series
Race Summary
33rd Annual Lucas Oil Show-Me 100 presented by Missouri Division of Tourism
Saturday, May 24, 2025
Lucas Oil Speedway – Wheatland, MO

Fast Shafts B-Main Race #1 Finish (10 Laps, Top 3 Transfer): 1. 60-Dan Ebert[1]; 2. 7-Cole Wells[5]; 3. 96-Dalton Imhoff[13]; 4. 7J-Ryan Johnson[8]; 5. 50-Kayden Clatt[7]; 6. 67-Jimmy Vanzandt[10]; 7. 18P-Shannon Parker[12]; 8. 82-Jace Parmley[11]; 9. 1K-Richard Kimberling[14]; 10. 1XM-Aaron Marrant[3]; 11. (DNS) 157-Mike Marlar; 12. (DNS) 40B-Kyle Bronson; 13. (DNS) 91-Chris Jones; 14. (DNS) 1/4J-Jaxon Ertel; 15. (DNS) 3W-Brennon Willard; 16. (DNS) 65-Jon Binning; 17. (DNS) 12-Scott Crigler

UNOH B-Main Race #2 Finish (11 Laps, Top 3 Transfer): 1. 6-Clay Harris[2]; 2. 93L-Cory Lawler[8]; 3. 19M-Spencer Hughes[1]; 4. 8K-Tyler Kuykendall[4]; 5. 93M-Mason Oberkramer[5]; 6. 21-Chris Wilhite Jr[9]; 7. 31C-Cole Henson[7]; 8. USA1-Chris Hawkins[13]; 9. 4X-Dalon Helm[12]; 10. 15-Clay Stuckey[3]; 11. 8:05-Robert Hough[16]; 12. (DNS) 1S-Jeremy Shaw; 13. (DNS) 1G-Bryan Glaze; 14. (DNS) S3-Joey Smith; 15. (DNS) 99H-Dylan Hoover; 16. (DNS) 26P-Glen Powell

Midwest Sheet Metal Non-Qualifier Race Finish (20 Laps): 1. 8K-Tyler Kuykendall[2]; 2. 50-Kayden Clatt[3]; 3. 93M-Mason Oberkramer[4]; 4. 31C-Cole Henson[8]; 5. 21-Chris Wilhite Jr[6]; 6. 18P-Shannon Parker[7]; 7. 4X-Dalon Helm[12]; 8. USA1-Chris Hawkins[10]; 9. 8:05-Robert Hough[13]; 10. 82-Jace Parmley[9]; 11. 7J-Ryan Johnson[1]; 12. (DNS) 67-Jimmy Vanzandt; 13. (DNS) 1K-Richard Kimberling

33rd Annual Lucas Oil Show-Me 100 presented by Missouri Division of Tourism Feature Finish (100 Laps):

Pos – Start – Car # – Competitor – Hometown – Pay

• 1 – 8 – 32 – Bobby Pierce – Oakwood, IL – $75,000
• 2 – 3 – 49 – Jonathan Davenport – Blairsville, GA – $26,600
• 3 – 1 – 71 – Hudson O’Neal – Martinsville, IN – $11,500
• 4 – 4 – 99 – Devin Moran – Dresden, OH – $13,000
• 5 – 15 – 18D – Daulton Wilson – Fayetteville, NC – $9,000
• 6 – 6 – 93 – Carson Ferguson – Lincolnton, NC – $8,000
• 7 – 2 – 20RT – Ricky Thornton Jr – Chandler, AZ – $9,200
• 8 – 10 – 76 – Brandon Overton – Evans, GA – $6,000
• 9 – 5 – 1 – Brandon Sheppard – New Berlin, IL – $15,500
• 10 – 12 – 79 – Donald McIntosh – Dawsonville, GA – $5,100
• 11 – 19 – 60 – Dan Ebert – Lake Shore, MN – $4,300
• 12 – 13 – 22 – Daniel Hilsabeck – Earlham, IA – $4,200
• 13 – 11 – 97 – Cade Dillard – Robeline, LA – $3,600
• 14 – 9 – 58 – Garrett Alberson – Las Cruces, NM – $5,000
• 15 – 17 – 11 – Gordy Gundaker – St. Charles, MO – $3,400
• 16 – 24 – 19M – Spencer Hughes – Meridian, MS – $3,800
• 17 – 25 – 1XM – Aaron Marrant – Richmond, MO – $3,200
• 18 – 18 – 8 – Dillon McCowan – Urbana, MO – $3,100
• 19 – 22 – 93L – Cory Lawler – Hanover, PA – $3,500
• 20 – 20 – 6 – Clay Harris – Jupiter, FL – $3,400
• 21 – 7 – 98 – Justin Wells – Aurora, MO – $2,800
• 22 – 14 – 2T – Tyler Stevens – Paragould, AR – $2,700
• 23 – 21 – 7 – Cole Wells – Aurora, MO – $2,600
• 24 – 16 – 16 – Tyler Bruening – Decorah, IA – $2,500
• 25 – 23 – 96 – Dalton Imhoff – Jamestown, MO – $2,500
• 26 – 26 – 15 – Clay Stuckey – Shreveport, LA – $2,500
• 27 – 27 – 8K – Tyler Kuykendall – Warsaw, MO – $2,500

Race Statistics

• Entrants: 51
• Victory Fuel Pole Sitter: Hudson O’Neal
• MD3 Lap Leaders: Hudson O’Neal (Laps 1-19); Jonathan Davenport (Laps 20-44); Hudson O’Neal (Laps 45-47); Jonathan Davenport (Laps 48-68); Bobby Pierce (Laps 69-78); Jonathan Davenport (Laps 79-84); Bobby Pierce (Lap 85); Jonathan Davenport (Lap 86); Bobby Pierce (Lap 87); Jonathan Davenport (Laps 88-89); Bobby Pierce (Laps 90-100)
• Hellraizer Jacks Halfway Leader: Jonathan Davenport
• Wieland Feature Winner: Hudson O’Neal
• Margin of Victory: 2.055 seconds
• Coltman Farms Racing Cautions: Tyler Stevens (Lap 9); Dalton Imhoff (Lap 34); Cade Dillard (Lap 41); Debris (Lap 43); Tyler Bruening (Lap 52); Cole Wells, Tyler Stevens, Tyler Bruening, Spencer Hughes (Lap 53); Debris (Lap 54)
• Series Provisional: n/a
• Fast Time Provisional: n/a
• Emergency Provisional: n/a
• Track Provisional: n/a
• Show-Me 100 Points Provisionals: Aaron Marrant; Clay Stuckey
• Big River Steel Podium Top 3: Bobby Pierce, Jonathan Davenport, Hudson O’Neal
• Penske Shocks Top 5: Bobby Pierce, Jonathan Davenport, Hudson O’Neal, Devin Moran, Daulton Wilson
• PEM 4th Place Feature: Devin Moran
• DMI Rearends 5th Place Feature: Daulton Wilson
• Wilwood Brakes Lucky 7th Place Feature: Ricky Thornton, Jr.
• Wehrs Machine 11th Place Feature: Dan Ebert
• Deatherage Opticians Lucky 13th Place Feature: Cade Dillard
• MD3 24th Place Feature: Tyler Bruening
• Hoker Trucking Hard Charger of the Race: Daulton Wilson (Advanced 10 Positions)
• MD3 Most Laps Led: Jonathan Davenport (55 Laps)
• Sunoco Race for Gas Highest Finisher: Hudson O’Neal
• Midwest Sheet Metal Spoiler Challenge Point Leader: Ricky Thornton, Jr.
• O’Reilly Auto Parts Rookie of the Race: Donald McIntosh
• Pro Fabrication Headers Fastest Lap of the Race: Hudson O’Neal (Lap 1 | 15.259 seconds)
• Slicker Graphics Slickest Move of the Race: Bobby Pierce
• Fresh Roof Hard Luck Award: Garrett Alberson
• Outerwears Crew Chief of the Race: Bob Pierce
• ARP Engine Builder of the Race: Vic Hill Racing Engines
• Miller Welders Chassis Builder of the Race: Longhorn Chassis
• Dirt Draft Fastest in Hot Laps: Cory Lawler (15.252 seconds)
• Time of Race: 48 minutes 30 seconds