Brandon Sheppard recorded his second straight Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series win at East Bay Raceway Park on Thursday night. Photo: LOLMDS Media
Brandon Sheppard escaped with a Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series win on Thursday night at East Bay Raceway Park in Tampa, Florida.
The 29-year-old Illinois driver nearly gave away a sure-fire victory when he got into the fourth turn wall heading to the white-flag. Sheppard recovered quickly enough to hold off Earl Pearson, Jr. and Kyle Bronson, who were bearing down on him.
It was Sheppard’s second-straight win at “The Clay by the Bay.”
Pearson was 0.516 seconds behind the winner and Bronson was just 0.641 seconds behind Sheppard at the finish line in a close ending.
Devin Moran crossed the line in fourth followed by Hudson O’Neal in fifth.
Evans, Georgia’s Brandon Overton took the lead at the start of the 40-lap main event, and it looked like it was going to be his night again at East Bay as he and Pearson ran 1-2 for the first 20 laps of the race. Just past the halfway mark the complexion of the race changed for Overton as he saw Brian Shirley get by both him and Pearson to take over the lead on lap 21. One lap later Sheppard took over the point as Overton started to fade.
A caution with two laps to go set up a green-white-checkerd finish which proved to be almost detrimental to Sheppard after the hitting the wall in turn four he stayed against the concrete for most of the front stretch, but he able to right the ship just in time.
“I thought I gave that one away that was a crazy race for sure,” said Sheppard after scoring his 24th career series win. “I got rolling pretty good on the top there early in the race. As long as I was passing guys I was going to stay up there. I got the lead and my crew told me I was good to just stay up there so I just kept going.
“I am just super thankful. We have had a really fast car all of Speedweeks, it’s finally starting to come together for us. I want to thank all of the fans. Hopefully, we put on a good show for them. We had a fast car there and we almost gave it away. But we ended up getting it done so that’s awesome and I am super-proud of my team. Hopefully, we can do it again tomorrow night.”
Max Blair, Tyler Erb, Daulton Wilson, Senoia, Georgia’s Ashton Winger, and Brian Shirley rounded out the top 10.
Action continues for the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series at East Bay Raceway Park on Friday, February 11. For more information, visit LucasDirt.com.
Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series
East Bay Raceway Park – Tampa, FL
Race Results – February 10, 2022
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2. 46-Earl Pearson, Jr.
3. 40B-Kyle Bronson
4. 9-Devin Moran
5. 71-Hudson O’Neal
6. 111V-Max Blair
7. 1T-Tyler Erb
8. 18D-Daulton Wilson
9. 89-Ashton Winger
10. 3S-Brian Shirley
11. 25-Shane Clanton
12. 2S-Stormy Scott
13. 16-Tyler Bruening
14. 58-Garrett Alberson
15. 1ST-Johnny Scott
16. 7-Ross Robinson
17. 20-Jimmy Owens
18. 39-Tim McCreadie
19. 99B-Boom Briggs
20. 81E-Tanner English
21. 28E-Dennis Erb, Jr.
22. 76-Brandon Overton
23. 11-Spencer Hughes
24. 212-Josh Putnam
25. 44B-Colten Burdette
26. 20RT-Ricky Thornton, Jr.
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