Brandon Sheppard made the trip to Huset’s Speedway’s victory lane with a win in Saturday night’s Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series race. Photo: LOLMDS Media
Brandon Sheppard held off challenges from both Bobby Pierce and Hudson O’Neal to win Saturday night’s Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series race at Huset’s Speedway in Brandon, South Dakota.
The box score will show that Sheppard led all 80 laps, but it was far from easy as he took home $53,000 for his second series win of the season.
Pierce finished in second, with O’Neal in third, Ricky Thornton, Jr. in fourth, and Tyler Erb in fifth.
Sheppard dueled with Pierce and O’Neal for most of the last half of the race, and withstood every attempt by those two competitors to come home with the victory.
“Man, them guys were making it hard on me for sure,” Sheppard said. “The track it was awesome. It was treacherous out there. I was tight about halfway thru the race thru three and four and they had me messed up and a little bit worried. Once I moved to the top in one and two I kind of started slowing down my entry into three and four and that helped me out a bunch then all the lapped cars were on the bottom, so I just committed myself to the top for the rest of the race. I got a smooth rhythm going and I was just able to hold them guys off. Bobby and Hudson have been really tough this year, we’ve had our ups and downs all year long. Our win column isn’t as good as we would have liked it to be.”
Tim McCreadie, Chase Junghans, Kyle Bronson, Blairsville, Georgia’s Jonathan Davenport, and Devin Moran rounded out the top 10.
The Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series returns to action on Thursday, August 10 at Florence Speedway in Walton, Kentucky. For more information, visit LucasDirt.com.
Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series
Huset’s Speedway – Brandon, SD
Silver Dollar Nationals – July 22, 2023
1. B5-Brandon Sheppard
2. 32-Bobby Pierce
3. 1H-Hudson O’Neal
4. 20RT-Ricky Thornton, Jr.
5. 1T-Tyler Erb
6. 39-Tim McCreadie
7. 18-Chase Junghans
8. 40B-Kyle Bronson
9. 49-Jonathan Davenport
10. 99-Devin Moran
11. 58-Garrett Alberson
12. 25C-Shane Clanton
13. 157-Mike Marlar
14. 111B-Max Blair
15. 28-Dennis Erb, Jr.
16. 11-Spencer Hughes
17. 16-Tyler Bruening
18. 25-Chad Simpson
19. 46-Earl Pearson, Jr.
20. 18D-Daulton Wilson
21. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck
22. 76-Brandon Overton
23. 66C-Matt Cosner
24. 7-Ross Robinson
25. 99B-Boom Briggs
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