January 14, 2024 | By Ben Shelton

Pierce keeps winning at Wild West Shootout

VADO, N.M. — Bobby Pierce made history on Saturday night at the 18th annual Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout presented by O’Reilly Auto Parts at FK Rod Ends Vado (N.M.) Speedway Park.

He became the first driver to win four Dirt Track Bank Super Late Model division features presented by Black Diamond Race Cars to claim the $25,000 portion of the Penske Paydirt Jackpot Bonus.

If he can win Sunday’s miniseries finale, he’ll replace the $25,000 bonus with a $100,000 bonus for five wins.

“With the full track prep we didn’t know what it was gonna do there,” Pierce said in Hoker Trucking Victory Lane. “Had a lot of different mixtures of tires, of guys running up front with different (compounds). It feels awesome (to be in the Penske Paydirt bonus money). No one has ever won more than three — I’ve done it before — and we knew this would be the year, with how consistent we were last year and coming into this being fast right out of the gate with this new car. We got a lot of pressure on us for tomorrow.”

After chasing fellow front-row starter Brandon Sheppard on the first lap, Pierce charged to the lead on the second circuit and survived late-race cautions to score his fourth-straight miniseries victory, which was worth $11,000. Brandon Sheppard, Stormy Scott, Kyle Larson (started 16th), and Cade Dillard completed the Top-5 finishers.

The Shocker Hitch X-Mod action presented by Border Tire finale proved to be a barnburner between Nick Rivera and J.C. Morton. The lead duo battled throughout the feature with Rivera nipping Morton at the line to score the $1,000 win, which was his second of the miniseries.

Gary Christian wired the field in the Mesilla Valley Transportation / Border Tire Modifieds presented by Rancho Milagro. The Broken Bow, Oklahoma racer led all 25 laps from the outside-front-row to snare the $2,000 triumph, which marked the first of his career. Terry Phillips, Tyler Wolff, Dan Ebert, and Noah Daspit.

Full results from the event can be found at www.WildWestShootout.net.

Action continues with Round #6 of the miniseries on Sunday, Jan. 14 at FK Rod Ends Vado (N.M.) Speedway Park with complete shows for Super Late Models ($26,000-to-win), Modifieds ($2,000-to-win), and X-Mods ($1,000-to-win).

The pit gate opens at 1 p.m. MT with the driver’s meeting at 2 p.m. and hot laps at 3:30 p.m.. The grandstand gate opens at 3 p.m.

Daily general grandstand admission on Sunday, Jan. 14 is $30 for adults, $10 for children (ages 6-12) and free for kids (ages 5-and-under). Reserved seats are $35 and can be purchased at https://www.etix.com/ticket/v/17413/vado-speedway-park .

Pit admission is $45.

Full details are available at www.WildWestShootout.net.

The Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout presented by O’Reilly Auto Parts is made possible by Rio Grande Waste Services, O’Reilly Auto Parts, FK Rod Ends, Dirt Track Bank, Black Diamond Race Cars, Hoker Trucking, ShockerHitch.com, Penske Racing Shocks, Merry’s Home Furnishings, Shaw Trucking, Schaeffer Oil, Karl Chevrolet, Rancho Milagro Racing, Eagle Moon Hemp, Top of the World Ranch, Mesilla Valley Transportation, Border Tire, Wehrs Machine & Racing Products, Swift Springs, Dirt Pro Grading & Padwork, Contractors & Developers (C&D) Bonding, Shocks by Hammer, Midwest Sheet Metal, Speedway Motors, Day Motor Sports, Hoosier Racing Tires, Sunoco Race Fuels, Pro Power Engines, Beaver Stripes, Arizona Differential, Gorsuch Performance Solutions, Toste Construction, Winning Edge Carburetion, The Joie of Seating, Screven Motor Speedway, DirtDraft.com, Victory Fuel, and FloRacing.

18th annual Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout presented by O’Reilly Auto Parts: Round #5
FK Rod Ends Vado (N.M.) Speedway Park
Jan. 13, 2024


SUNDAY 2 RESULTS

DIRT SUPER LATE MODELS - 43 entries

A Feature 1 (40 Laps): 1. 32-Bobby Pierce[1]; 2. B5-Brandon Sheppard[2]; 3. 2S-Stormy Scott[3]; 4. 6-Kyle Larson[16]; 5. 97-Cade Dillard[5]; 6. 18B-Shannon Babb[6]; 7. 157-Mike Marlar[4]; 8. 7-Ricky Weiss[12]; 9. 19-Dustin Sorensen[8]; 10. 1-Tyler Erb[17]; 11. 14S-Collen Winebarger[9]; 12. 73-Rodney Sanders[18]; 13. 49T-Jake Timm[19]; 14. 77-Preston Luckman[23]; 15. 1R-BJ Robinson[25]; 16. 25-Mikey Kile[10]; 17. 86-Kyle Beard[22]; 18. 32B-Cody Laney[15]; 19. 58-Garrett Alberson[7]; 20. 7T-Drake Troutman[13]; 21. 42S-Don Shaw[14]; 22. 18-Chase Junghans[21]; 23. 15-Justin Duty[24]; 24. 11-Jon Kirby[11]; 25. 13-Bricen James[20]

B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 1-Tyler Erb[1]; 2. 49T-Jake Timm[2]; 3. 18-Chase Junghans[3]; 4. 77-Preston Luckman[5]; 5. 1R-BJ Robinson[6]; 6. 101-Forrest Trent[4]; 7. 15S-Clayton Stuckey[7]; 8. 2-Tyler Stevens[8]; 9. 10-Kaden Honeycutt[10]; 10. 82-Ian Whisler[12]; 11. 78S-Steve Stultz[11]; 12. 02-Kent Rosevear[9]; 13. 250-Walton Kyle Jr[13]; 14. 777-Pete Vargas[14]

B Feature 2 (10 Laps): 1. 73-Rodney Sanders[2]; 2. 13-Bricen James[4]; 3. 86-Kyle Beard[1]; 4. 15-Justin Duty[5]; 5. E85-Jason Strand[8]; 6. 14M-Morgan Bagley[6]; 7. 38-Thomas Hunziker[3]; 8. 28M-Sam Mars[10]; 9. 5C-Brad Couch[7]; 10. 88-Chance Mann[12]; 11. 6T-Terry Carter[11]; 12. 28W-Jim Whisler[9]; 13. 3-Keko Perez[13]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 157-Mike Marlar[1]; 2. 97-Cade Dillard[2]; 3. 14S-Collen Winebarger[4]; 4. 7T-Drake Troutman[8]; 5. 1-Tyler Erb[5]; 6. 18-Chase Junghans[7]; 7. 77-Preston Luckman[3]; 8. 15S-Clayton Stuckey[9]; 9. 02-Kent Rosevear[10]; 10. 78S-Steve Stultz[6]; 11. 250-Walton Kyle Jr[11]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 32-Bobby Pierce[1]; 2. 58-Garrett Alberson[2]; 3. 11-Jon Kirby[3]; 4. 32B-Cody Laney[5]; 5. 49T-Jake Timm[4]; 6. 101-Forrest Trent[6]; 7. 1R-BJ Robinson[8]; 8. 2-Tyler Stevens[11]; 9. 10-Kaden Honeycutt[9]; 10. 82-Ian Whisler[7]; 11. 777-Pete Vargas[10]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 2S-Stormy Scott[2]; 2. 18B-Shannon Babb[1]; 3. 25-Mikey Kile[5]; 4. 42S-Don Shaw[3]; 5. 86-Kyle Beard[4]; 6. 38-Thomas Hunziker[6]; 7. 15-Justin Duty[9]; 8. 5C-Brad Couch[10]; 9. 28W-Jim Whisler[7]; 10. 6T-Terry Carter[8]; 11. 3-Keko Perez[11]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. B5-Brandon Sheppard[1]; 2. 19-Dustin Sorensen[4]; 3. 7-Ricky Weiss[2]; 4. 6-Kyle Larson[6]; 5. 73-Rodney Sanders[5]; 6. 13-Bricen James[3]; 7. 14M-Morgan Bagley[8]; 8. E85-Jason Strand[10]; 9. 28M-Sam Mars[7]; 10. 88-Chance Mann[9]

Qualifying 1: 1. 157-Mike Marlar, 00:14.390[13]; 2. 32-Bobby Pierce, 00:14.416[5]; 3. 97-Cade Dillard, 00:14.506[9]; 4. 58-Garrett Alberson, 00:14.531[8]; 5. 77-Preston Luckman, 00:14.538[7]; 6. 11-Jon Kirby, 00:14.641[12]; 7. 14S-Collen Winebarger, 00:14.697[11]; 8. 49T-Jake Timm, 00:14.715[4]; 9. 1-Tyler Erb, 00:14.733[3]; 10. 32B-Cody Laney, 00:14.798[22]; 11. 78S-Steve Stultz, 00:14.801[17]; 12. 101-Forrest Trent, 00:14.846[18]; 13. 18-Chase Junghans, 00:14.868[6]; 14. 82-Ian Whisler, 00:14.868[16]; 15. 7T-Drake Troutman, 00:14.870[21]; 16. 1R-BJ Robinson, 00:14.942[10]; 17. 15S-Clayton Stuckey, 00:15.071[14]; 18. 10-Kaden Honeycutt, 00:15.071[1]; 19. 02-Kent Rosevear, 00:15.255[2]; 20. 777-Pete Vargas, 00:15.651[15]; 21. 250-Walton Kyle Jr, 00:16.400[19]; 22. 2-Tyler Stevens, 00:16.400[20]

Qualifying 2: 1. 18B-Shannon Babb, 00:14.579[5]; 2. B5-Brandon Sheppard, 00:14.615[10]; 3. 2S-Stormy Scott, 00:14.616[2]; 4. 7-Ricky Weiss, 00:14.700[14]; 5. 42S-Don Shaw, 00:14.776[9]; 6. 13-Bricen James, 00:14.856[7]; 7. 86-Kyle Beard, 00:14.860[20]; 8. 19-Dustin Sorensen, 00:14.872[8]; 9. 25-Mikey Kile, 00:14.946[11]; 10. 73-Rodney Sanders, 00:14.976[12]; 11. 38-Thomas Hunziker, 00:15.004[19]; 12. 6-Kyle Larson, 00:15.015[13]; 13. 28W-Jim Whisler, 00:15.091[18]; 14. 28M-Sam Mars, 00:15.175[16]; 15. 6T-Terry Carter, 00:15.257[6]; 16. 14M-Morgan Bagley, 00:15.274[15]; 17. 15-Justin Duty, 00:15.299[3]; 18. 88-Chance Mann, 00:15.305[17]; 19. 5C-Brad Couch, 00:15.472[21]; 20. E85-Jason Strand, 00:15.523[1]; 21. 3-Keko Perez, 00:15.709[4]

Pro Power Dash (9 Laps): 1. 1R-BJ Robinson[1]; 2. 14M-Morgan Bagley[4]; 3. E85-Jason Strand[2]; 4. 15S-Clayton Stuckey[5]; 5. 10-Kaden Honeycutt[7]; 6. 101-Forrest Trent[3]; 7. 38-Thomas Hunziker[6]; 8. 28M-Sam Mars[8]; 9. 5C-Brad Couch[9]



A MODIFIEDS- 57 entries

A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 58X-Gary Christian[2]; 2. T75-Terry Phillips[1]; 3. 4W-Tyler Wolff[7]; 4. 60-Dan Ebert[3]; 5. 34-Noah Daspit[6]; 6. 65-Tyler Davis[4]; 7. 4R-Dereck Ramirez[9]; 8. 65X-Carlos Ahumada Jr[11]; 9. J17-Jake Gallardo[13]; 10. 97-Cade Dillard[14]; 11. 20-Rodney Sanders[17]; 12. 19SB-Lance Mari[5]; 13. 89-AJ Diemel[10]; 14. 02-Tanner Mullens[19]; 15. 69-Lucas Schott[16]; 16. 32-DJ Shannon[8]; 17. 0-Jake O'Neil[21]; 18. 45-Chase Holland[20]; 19. 01-Jacob Hobscheidt[23]; 20. 88-Chad Wheeler[12]; 21. 131J-Johnny Scott[18]; 22. 88S-Nathan Smith[15]; 23. 16-Chris Henigan[22]; 24. 71-Philip Houston[24]

B Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 20-Rodney Sanders[1]; 2. 02-Tanner Mullens[5]; 3. 0-Jake O'Neil[9]; 4. 01-Jacob Hobscheidt[3]; 5. G17-Fito Gallardo[10]; 6. 111-Logan Drake[6]; 7. 2SS-Mark Smith[15]; 8. 131-Royal Jones[7]; 9. 77X-CJ Hulsey[4]; 10. 77-Ronnie Yanacsek[14]; 11. 18JR-Ricardo Olague Jr[16]; 12. 11W-Lucas Ward[19]; 13. J7-Jake Boles[2]; 14. 57-Duke Erickson[11]; 15. 9R-Jimmy Ray[13]; 16. 12-Paul Miles[8]; 17. 64S-Jay Sale[20]; 18. 2X-Gene Weaver[18]; 19. 75J-Jeremy LaCoe[12]; 20. 24-Rick Ortega[17]; 21. 30-James Newton[21]

B Feature 2 (12 Laps): 1. 131J-Johnny Scott[1]; 2. 45-Chase Holland[5]; 3. 16-Chris Henigan[3]; 4. 71-Philip Houston[4]; 5. 27X-Calvin Iverson[2]; 6. 33-Jaren Martin[7]; 7. 16JR-Dustin Henigan[6]; 8. 7G-Gabe Hodges[14]; 9. 24X-Xavier Ortega[10]; 10. 11N-Gene Nicholas[17]; 11. 28-Tom Georges[9]; 12. D25-David Tanner[13]; 13. 37-John Neal Reid[16]; 14. 71T-Billy Wilker[8]; 15. 55G-Braden Gress[11]; 16. 1T-Cameron Thomas[12]; 17. 75-Alan Sharpensteen[15]; 18. 37T-Coty Tanquary[18]; 19. 54T-Matthew Day[19]; 20. 96C-Carson Ditsch[20]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 65-Tyler Davis[4]; 2. 88S-Nathan Smith[2]; 3. 65X-Carlos Ahumada Jr[6]; 4. 02-Tanner Mullens[3]; 5. 71T-Billy Wilker[1]; 6. 20-Rodney Sanders[11]; 7. 24X-Xavier Ortega[5]; 8. 0-Jake O'Neil[10]; 9. 9R-Jimmy Ray[9]; 10. 37-John Neal Reid[7]; 11. 11W-Lucas Ward[8]; 12. (DNS) 96C-Carson Ditsch

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 88-Chad Wheeler[1]; 2. 32-DJ Shannon[5]; 3. T75-Terry Phillips[10]; 4. 16-Chris Henigan[4]; 5. 16JR-Dustin Henigan[3]; 6. 111-Logan Drake[8]; 7. 131-Royal Jones[9]; 8. 75J-Jeremy LaCoe[7]; 9. 57-Duke Erickson[11]; 10. 24-Rick Ortega[6]; 11. 2X-Gene Weaver[12]; 12. 64S-Jay Sale[2]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 19SB-Lance Mari[4]; 2. 4W-Tyler Wolff[6]; 3. 97-Cade Dillard[5]; 4. 34-Noah Daspit[11]; 5. 27X-Calvin Iverson[7]; 6. G17-Fito Gallardo[3]; 7. 55G-Braden Gress[2]; 8. 28-Tom Georges[10]; 9. D25-David Tanner[8]; 10. 7G-Gabe Hodges[9]; 11. 54T-Matthew Day[1]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 58X-Gary Christian[5]; 2. 60-Dan Ebert[7]; 3. 69-Lucas Schott[4]; 4. 45-Chase Holland[2]; 5. 131J-Johnny Scott[8]; 6. 01-Jacob Hobscheidt[9]; 7. 71-Philip Houston[11]; 8. 77-Ronnie Yanacsek[1]; 9. 2SS-Mark Smith[3]; 10. 11N-Gene Nicholas[6]; 11. 37T-Coty Tanquary[10]

Heat 5 (8 Laps): 1. J17-Jake Gallardo[1]; 2. 4R-Dereck Ramirez[5]; 3. 89-AJ Diemel[7]; 4. 77X-CJ Hulsey[4]; 5. 12-Paul Miles[2]; 6. J7-Jake Boles[10]; 7. 33-Jaren Martin[9]; 8. 1T-Cameron Thomas[6]; 9. 75-Alan Sharpensteen[3]; 10. 18JR-Ricardo Olague Jr[8]; 11. (DNS) 30-James Newton



X-MODS - 51 entries

A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. A0S-Nick Rivera[1]; 2. 18-JC Morton[4]; 3. X15-Jesse Haynie[9]; 4. 3J-Josh Cain[10]; 5. 44-Christy Barnett[2]; 6. 5-Reece Solander[7]; 7. 71-Nate Reinke[5]; 8. 1J-Jaden Christ[11]; 9. M17-Rob Moseley[6]; 10. 15A-Mike Anderson[20]; 11. 24-Jonathon Ortega[17]; 12. 198-Jake Haddox[15]; 13. 19-Lucas Rodin[16]; 14. 5M-Eric McNutt[3]; 15. 17-Peyton Gallardo[12]; 16. 7-Willie Gammill[14]; 17. 7CC-Colby Williams[19]; 18. 12-Mike Rosales[22]; 19. 21X-Tanner Kade[23]; 20. 14J-Jacob Hodges[18]; 21. 96-Dusty Riggs[13]; 22. 44JT-Jaime Torres[21]; 23. 58-Chad Reid[24]; 24. 23H-Hector Barraza[8]

B Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 24-Jonathon Ortega[3]; 2. 7CC-Colby Williams[1]; 3. 44JT-Jaime Torres[2]; 4. 21X-Tanner Kade[11]; 5. 24M-Shane McNutt[4]; 6. 15-Tracy Denby[10]; 7. 02-Deuce Teague[5]; 8. 1S-Scott Bintz[6]; 9. 23B-Israel Ortega[17]; 10. 28A-Aiden Frazier[7]; 11. 47CC-Conner Williams[12]; 12. 24S-Scott Morlang[8]; 13. 22T-Gregory Muirhead[9]; 14. 102-Leonidas Tanner[15]; 15. Y23-Ethan Young[13]; 16. 21A-Andrew Hodges[14]; 17. 81-Devon Jobin[16]; 18. 96V-Victor Barraza[18]

B Feature 2 (12 Laps): 1. 14J-Jacob Hodges[8]; 2. 15A-Mike Anderson[5]; 3. 12-Mike Rosales[2]; 4. 58-Chad Reid[1]; 5. 21K-Brian Kleine[3]; 6. 95-Mason Day[6]; 7. M77-Cameron Martin[14]; 8. 7C-John Carney[11]; 9. 28T-Brian Barrett[15]; 10. 94-Justin Garrett[10]; 11. 05N-Jimmy Nicholas[4]; 12. 40-Ruben Ortega[13]; 13. 27N-Colton Polen[9]; 14. 20D-Drew Pattat[7]; 15. 241-David Jay Jr[16]; 16. 05-Aasa Flores[12]; 17. 10-Enrique Barraza[17]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. X15-Jesse Haynie[2]; 2. 198-Jake Haddox[1]; 3. 18-JC Morton[8]; 4. 7CC-Colby Williams[5]; 5. 24-Jonathon Ortega[6]; 6. 95-Mason Day[4]; 7. 15-Tracy Denby[3]; 8. 7C-John Carney[7]; 9. 40-Ruben Ortega[10]; 10. 102-Leonidas Tanner[9]; 11. (DNS) 241-David Jay Jr

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 44-Christy Barnett[5]; 2. 5M-Eric McNutt[6]; 3. 71-Nate Reinke[8]; 4. 17-Peyton Gallardo[7]; 5. 7-Willie Gammill[9]; 6. 20D-Drew Pattat[1]; 7. 94-Justin Garrett[3]; 8. Y23-Ethan Young[4]; 9. 05-Aasa Flores[10]; 10. 81-Devon Jobin[2]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 5-Reece Solander[3]; 2. A0S-Nick Rivera[9]; 3. 44JT-Jaime Torres[1]; 4. 58-Chad Reid[5]; 5. 02-Deuce Teague[4]; 6. 24M-Shane McNutt[8]; 7. 24S-Scott Morlang[6]; 8. 47CC-Conner Williams[7]; 9. 28T-Brian Barrett[2]; 10. (DNS) 23B-Israel Ortega

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 3J-Josh Cain[1]; 2. 23H-Hector Barraza[5]; 3. M17-Rob Moseley[8]; 4. 21K-Brian Kleine[2]; 5. 1S-Scott Bintz[3]; 6. 28A-Aiden Frazier[4]; 7. 14J-Jacob Hodges[6]; 8. 27N-Colton Polen[9]; 9. M77-Cameron Martin[7]; 10. (DNS) 10-Enrique Barraza

Heat 5 (8 Laps): 1. 1J-Jaden Christ[1]; 2. 96-Dusty Riggs[2]; 3. 19-Lucas Rodin[3]; 4. 12-Mike Rosales[4]; 5. 05N-Jimmy Nicholas[5]; 6. 15A-Mike Anderson[7]; 7. 22T-Gregory Muirhead[6]; 8. 21X-Tanner Kade[8]; 9. 21A-Andrew Hodges[9]; 10. (DNS) 96V-Victor Barraza