January 15, 2026 | By WWS PR

Ethan Dotson Steals Wednesday Night at Wild West Shootout, Claims First Career Miniseries Win

CASA GRANDE, Ariz.—As the weather warmed up for the midweek special, Round Three of the 2026 Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout, presented by O’Reilly Auto Parts got underway on Wednesday at FK Rod Ends Central Arizona Raceway in Casa Grande, Arizona, presented by Low Voltage Solutions.

Ethan Dotson and Jake Smith notched their first Wild West Shootout victories, while Reece Solander captured his first A-Mod Wild West Shootout win.

Bakersfield, California’s Ethan Dotson stunned the front-runners late in Wednesday’s 30-lap main event, using the final restart to claim the $10,000 victory. Starting seventh, Dotson waited patiently for the right moment before making his move. He ripped past Bobby Pierce on the high side during the late restart and then powered away in the closing laps to capture the checkered flag.

Ethan Dotson described his winning move, saying, “Whenever Bobby (Pierce) drove in there and Terbo (Tyler Erb) picked the bottom, I was like ‘oh sh*t’ I got a chance here.” He added, “We’ve been working our asses off these last couple months … I told John (Henderson) just don’t give up on me … this is super awesome.”

Bobby Pierce, who settled for runner-up, dominated the first half of the main event before Hudson O’Neal started pressuring him on the bottom. O’Neal then suffered a flat left-rear tire, clearing the way for Ethan Dotson to make his move. Dotson drove the ASD Motorsports machine into Hoker Trucking Victory Lane, capturing his first career Wild West Shootout triumph.

Ryan Gustin completed the podium in third and also claimed the Rio Grande Waste Services Hard Charger Award, his second of the miniseries. He takes home an extra $500, while his crew pockets $1,000 courtesy of the Low Voltage Solutions Hard Chargin’ Crew Award.

The Shocker Hitch X-Modifieds presented by Border Tire saw a different winner this evening, following Blake Adams’ feature victories on opening weekend. Jacob Smith of St. Joseph, Minnesota, held off Adams on the final restart to claim his first-career Wild West Shootout victory.

Reece Solander of Emporia, Kansas, led every lap of the night’s 25-lap Mesilla Valley Transportation Modified main event, but had to fight for it in the closing laps. Dustin Sorensen made several attempts to take the lead, coming up just short on the final lap, giving Solander his first A-Mod victory at the Wild West Shootout.

The Wild West Shootout will take one final day off on Thursday before kicking off the final three nights of racing on Friday, January 16, with a $10,000-to-win show.

Single-day reserved tickets are still on sale now at www.WildWestShootout.net.

The Bailey Schweitzer Memorial Golf Tournament will take place on Thursday for participating teams. The Almost Famous Tent Party will be held on Friday following the completion of the day’s festivities.

If you can't make it out to Arizona in January to enjoy the amazing racing and beautiful weather, you can watch every lap on FloRacing. Sign up and watch here. https://flosports.link/4evwNYI.


RESULTS

Wednesday, January 14, 2025

DIRT SUPER LATE MODELS  (42 entries)

A Feature 1 (30 Laps): 1. 74X-Ethan Dotson[7]; 2. 32-Bobby Pierce[1]; 3. 19R-Ryan Gustin[14]; 4. 1-Tyler Erb[2]; 5. 49-Jonathan Davenport[4]; 6. B5-Brandon Sheppard[10]; 7. 58-Garrett Alberson[6]; 8. 19-Dustin Sorensen[9]; 9. 75-Terry Phillips[18]; 10. 6-Hudson O'Neal[5]; 11. 86-Kyle Beard[8]; 12. 15D-Justin Duty[12]; 13. 18-Chase Junghans[21]; 14. 75A-Daniel Adam[13]; 15. 15S-Clay Stuckey[16]; 16. 49T-Jake Timm[19]; 17. 15-Laela Eisenschenk[24]; 18. 8-Dillon McCowan[22]; 19. 9T-Tim Isenberg[20]; 20. 97-Cade Dillard[15]; 21. 157-Mike Marlar[11]; 22. 0-Jake O'Neil[3]; 23. 96-RC Whitwell[23]; 24. 22*-Drake Troutman[17]

B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 22*-Drake Troutman[1]; 2. 49T-Jake Timm[4]; 3. 18-Chase Junghans[2]; 4. 96-RC Whitwell[6]; 5. 13-Bricen James[3]; 6. 66-Eli Ross[7]; 7. 1X-Amelia Eisenschenk[10]; 8. 28-Sam Mars[5]; 9. 4TW-Tim Ward[11]; 10. 6T-Terry Carter[13]; 11. 11X-Austin Kuehl[12]; 12. 28W-Collen Winebarger[9]; 13. 78S-Steve Stultz[8]

B Feature 2 (10 Laps): 1. 75-Terry Phillips[1]; 2. 9T-Tim Isenberg[3]; 3. 8-Dillon McCowan[6]; 4. 15-Laela Eisenschenk[2]; 5. 15*-Cole Schill[9]; 6. 21F-Gunner Frank[4]; 7. 128-Kylan Garner[5]; 8. 88-Chance Mann[7]; 9. 48-Brandon Lance[10]; 10. 0G-Peyton George[11]; 11. 8B-Ashlee Buck[12]; 12. 4P-Richard Papenhausen[8]; 13. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[13]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 1-Tyler Erb[2]; 2. 6-Hudson O'Neal[1]; 3. 19-Dustin Sorensen[4]; 4. 75A-Daniel Adam[3]; 5. 22*-Drake Troutman[6]; 6. 13-Bricen James[8]; 7. 28-Sam Mars[10]; 8. 66-Eli Ross[5]; 9. 28W-Collen Winebarger[9]; 10. 4TW-Tim Ward[7]; 11. 6T-Terry Carter[11]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 49-Jonathan Davenport[1]; 2. 74X-Ethan Dotson[2]; 3. 157-Mike Marlar[6]; 4. 97-Cade Dillard[4]; 5. 18-Chase Junghans[5]; 6. 49T-Jake Timm[3]; 7. 96-RC Whitwell[7]; 8. 78S-Steve Stultz[9]; 9. 1X-Amelia Eisenschenk[8]; 10. 11X-Austin Kuehl[10]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 0-Jake O'Neil[1]; 2. 58-Garrett Alberson[4]; 3. B5-Brandon Sheppard[3]; 4. 19R-Ryan Gustin[2]; 5. 75-Terry Phillips[5]; 6. 9T-Tim Isenberg[6]; 7. 128-Kylan Garner[7]; 8. 88-Chance Mann[8]; 9. 15*-Cole Schill[9]; 10. 0G-Peyton George[10]; 11. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[11]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 32-Bobby Pierce[1]; 2. 86-Kyle Beard[4]; 3. 15D-Justin Duty[5]; 4. 15S-Clay Stuckey[3]; 5. 15-Laela Eisenschenk[8]; 6. 21F-Gunner Frank[7]; 7. 8-Dillon McCowan[2]; 8. 4P-Richard Papenhausen[6]; 9. 48-Brandon Lance[9]; 10. 8B-Ashlee Buck[10]

Qualifying 1: 1. 6-Hudson O'Neal, 00:15.130[10]; 2. 49-Jonathan Davenport, 00:15.159[1]; 3. 1-Tyler Erb, 00:15.180[12]; 4. 74X-Ethan Dotson, 00:15.293[11]; 5. 75A-Daniel Adam, 00:15.351[9]; 6. 49T-Jake Timm, 00:15.360[4]; 7. 19-Dustin Sorensen, 00:15.383[21]; 8. 97-Cade Dillard, 00:15.396[5]; 9. 66-Eli Ross, 00:15.404[2]; 10. 18-Chase Junghans, 00:15.426[7]; 11. 22*-Drake Troutman, 00:15.440[18]; 12. 157-Mike Marlar, 00:15.464[17]; 13. 4TW-Tim Ward, 00:15.565[14]; 14. 96-RC Whitwell, 00:15.645[6]; 15. 13-Bricen James, 00:15.665[13]; 16. 1X-Amelia Eisenschenk, 00:15.764[16]; 17. 28W-Collen Winebarger, 00:15.794[19]; 18. 78S-Steve Stultz, 00:15.938[3]; 19. 28-Sam Mars, 00:16.023[15]; 20. 11X-Austin Kuehl, 00:16.201[8]; 21. 6T-Terry Carter, 00:16.249[20]

Qualifying 2: 1. 0-Jake O'Neil, 00:15.213[17]; 2. 32-Bobby Pierce, 00:15.302[16]; 3. 19R-Ryan Gustin, 00:15.375[9]; 4. 8-Dillon McCowan, 00:15.424[13]; 5. B5-Brandon Sheppard, 00:15.501[7]; 6. 15S-Clay Stuckey, 00:15.518[11]; 7. 58-Garrett Alberson, 00:15.597[19]; 8. 86-Kyle Beard, 00:15.625[2]; 9. 75-Terry Phillips, 00:15.709[6]; 10. 15D-Justin Duty, 00:15.712[8]; 11. 9T-Tim Isenberg, 00:15.860[4]; 12. 4P-Richard Papenhausen, 00:15.867[18]; 13. 128-Kylan Garner, 00:15.867[1]; 14. 21F-Gunner Frank, 00:15.938[12]; 15. 88-Chance Mann, 00:16.100[20]; 16. 15-Laela Eisenschenk, 00:16.309[14]; 17. 15*-Cole Schill, 00:16.858[10]; 18. 48-Brandon Lance, 00:16.861[3]; 19. 0G-Peyton George, 00:17.019[15]; 20. 8B-Ashlee Buck, 00:17.760[5]; 21. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson, 00:17.760[21]


A Modifieds (60 entries)

A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 5-Reece Solander[1]; 2. 19-Dustin Sorensen[4]; 3. 58X-Gary Christian[2]; 4. 20S-Rodney Sanders[8]; 5. 91-Joe Duvall[3]; 6. 25-Kale Murphrey[6]; 7. 38T-Dylan Thornton[14]; 8. 4W-Tyler Wolff[15]; 9. 65X-Carlos Ahumada Jr[7]; 10. 40D-Blake Adams[11]; 11. 10M-Talan Willis[16]; 12. 2SS-Mark Smith[5]; 13. 65-Tyler Davis[17]; 14. 721-Troy Gemmill[10]; 15. 7G-Gabe Hodges[18]; 16. 97A-Cole Anderson[12]; 17. J17-Jake Gallardo[20]; 18. 07X-Troy Morris III[22]; 19. 80XX-Jason Langford[9]; 20. 2J-Blake Jegtvig[21]; 21. 19R-Lucas Rodin[13]; 22. 12S-Hunter Sandy[24]; 23. 19SB-Lance Mari[23]; 24. 2K-Taylor Kuehl[19]

B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 65-Tyler Davis[2]; 2. 2K-Taylor Kuehl[3]; 3. 2J-Blake Jegtvig[4]; 4. 19SB-Lance Mari[11]; 5. 29-Chris Spalding[5]; 6. 186-Jeremy Payne[18]; 7. G17-Fito Gallardo[8]; 8. 24C-Joe Chisholm[6]; 9. 112-Brennan Gave[16]; 10. 71-Dustin Strand[22]; 11. P17-Peyton Gallardo[1]; 12. 88XXX-Randy Klein[7]; 13. J7-Jake Boles[10]; 14. 24-Rick Ortega[13]; 15. 22S-Cole Szlauko[15]; 16. 413-Tate Johnson[20]; 17. 14T-Randy Thornell[21]; 18. 131-Royal Jones[9]; 19. 3N-Gene Kay[14]; 20. 11N-Gene Nicholas[12]; 21. 0-Peyton George[17]; 22. 02LZ-Ellsworth Conover[19]

B Feature 2 (10 Laps): 1. 7G-Gabe Hodges[2]; 2. J17-Jake Gallardo[3]; 3. 07X-Troy Morris III[6]; 4. 12S-Hunter Sandy[5]; 5. D25-David Tanner[4]; 6. 20-Cole Queensland[7]; 7. 50-Robert Adams[8]; 8. 7-AJ Sharpensteen[13]; 9. 26S-Steven Glenn[17]; 10. 12-Jay Rosales[1]; 11. 6F-Matt Fester[18]; 12. 57-Gage McCaughan[19]; 13. US-Jonathan Olmscheid[20]; 14. 73S-Mike Szlauko[22]; 15. 46-Paul Miles[11]; 16. 64-Casey Fowler[15]; 17. 96-Taton Hansen[10]; 18. 17-Brent Holman[9]; 19. 85D-Mark Dotson[12]; 20. 73-Jeff Helget[16]; 21. 24X-Xavier Ortega[14]; 22. 96C-Carson Ditsch[21]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 25-Kale Murphrey[2]; 2. 5-Reece Solander[10]; 3. 97A-Cole Anderson[5]; 4. 29-Chris Spalding[1]; 5. 2K-Taylor Kuehl[8]; 6. 12-Jay Rosales[11]; 7. 46-Paul Miles[3]; 8. 24X-Xavier Ortega[6]; 9. 131-Royal Jones[12]; 10. 0-Peyton George[4]; 11. 186-Jeremy Payne[9]; 12. US-Jonathan Olmscheid[7]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 91-Joe Duvall[5]; 2. 20S-Rodney Sanders[4]; 3. 2J-Blake Jegtvig[2]; 4. 19R-Lucas Rodin[7]; 5. 07X-Troy Morris III[3]; 6. 65-Tyler Davis[11]; 7. J7-Jake Boles[6]; 8. 96-Taton Hansen[9]; 9. 7-AJ Sharpensteen[10]; 10. 73-Jeff Helget[8]; 11. 14T-Randy Thornell[1]; 12. 73S-Mike Szlauko[12]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 65X-Carlos Ahumada Jr[2]; 2. 58X-Gary Christian[8]; 3. P17-Peyton Gallardo[4]; 4. 7G-Gabe Hodges[6]; 5. 10M-Talan Willis[9]; 6. G17-Fito Gallardo[5]; 7. 12S-Hunter Sandy[10]; 8. 85D-Mark Dotson[7]; 9. 112-Brennan Gave[3]; 10. 22S-Cole Szlauko[12]; 11. 96C-Carson Ditsch[1]; 12. 413-Tate Johnson[11]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 721-Troy Gemmill[1]; 2. 2SS-Mark Smith[5]; 3. 19-Dustin Sorensen[8]; 4. 38T-Dylan Thornton[7]; 5. 24C-Joe Chisholm[4]; 6. 17-Brent Holman[2]; 7. 11N-Gene Nicholas[3]; 8. 50-Robert Adams[10]; 9. 19SB-Lance Mari[11]; 10. 64-Casey Fowler[12]; 11. 6F-Matt Fester[9]; 12. (DNS) 71-Dustin Strand

Heat 5 (8 Laps): 1. 40D-Blake Adams[1]; 2. 4W-Tyler Wolff[2]; 3. J17-Jake Gallardo[3]; 4. D25-David Tanner[5]; 5. 80XX-Jason Langford[11]; 6. 20-Cole Queensland[6]; 7. 88XXX-Randy Klein[9]; 8. 24-Rick Ortega[7]; 9. 3N-Gene Kay[10]; 10. 26S-Steven Glenn[4]; 11. 02LZ-Ellsworth Conover[8]; 12. 57-Gage McCaughan[12]



Limited Mods   (44 entries)

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 21-Jake Smith[1]; 2. 40D-Blake Adams[4]; 3. 19-Lucas Rodin[6]; 4. M17-Rob Moseley[7]; 5. 1S-Scott Bintz[5]; 6. 79-Jaden Christ[3]; 7. 27P-Parker Anderson[12]; 8. 3J-Josh Cain[11]; 9. 22-Keenan Glasser[19]; 10. 99-Jeremy Haddox[18]; 11. 28-David Pitt[13]; 12. 980-Kaden Woodie[21]; 13. 44-Eric Winemiller[9]; 14. 30-Blake Davis[10]; 15. 509-Brennan Davis[22]; 16. 50X-Paul Parks[16]; 17. 14J-Jacob Hodges[2]; 18. 9-Ken Schrader[8]; 19. 19X-James Trantina III[14]; 20. 32C-Curtis Stieh[15]; 21. 5M-Eric McNutt[17]; 22. 34-Brandon Rehill[24]; 23. 93-Greg Gorham[23]; 24. 12-Mike Rosales[20]

B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 5M-Eric McNutt[9]; 2. 22-Keenan Glasser[7]; 3. 980-Kaden Woodie[1]; 4. 93-Greg Gorham[2]; 5. 0-Dakota Girard[3]; 6. 94-Tyler Potter[14]; 7. 0G-Peyton George[8]; 8. 50-Braydon Whitfield[13]; 9. 27-Andy Davis[5]; 10. 28M-Phil Marino[4]; 11. 13-Josh Beyer[10]; 12. 11D-Dave Smith[12]; 13. 196-Skeeter Estey[11]; 14. 77-Chance Kodet[6]

B Feature 2 (10 Laps): 1. 99-Jeremy Haddox[2]; 2. 12-Mike Rosales[6]; 3. 509-Brennan Davis[5]; 4. 34-Brandon Rehill[4]; 5. 11DW-Danny Wagner[1]; 6. 02-Deuce Teague[14]; 7. 05-Aasa Flores[13]; 8. 57-Duke Erickson[7]; 9. 71B-Dave Siercks[3]; 10. 54-Lance Relf[12]; 11. 88-Tyler Delong[8]; 12. 5-Shane McNutt[10]; 13. 28T-Scott Tofte[9]; 14. 21B-Braxton James[11]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 21-Jake Smith[5]; 2. 3J-Josh Cain[1]; 3. 19-Lucas Rodin[6]; 4. 11DW-Danny Wagner[2]; 5. 0-Dakota Girard[3]; 6. 99-Jeremy Haddox[7]; 7. 93-Greg Gorham[10]; 8. 5M-Eric McNutt[8]; 9. 196-Skeeter Estey[4]; 10. 21B-Braxton James[9]; 11. 50-Braydon Whitfield[11]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. M17-Rob Moseley[1]; 2. 40D-Blake Adams[4]; 3. 14J-Jacob Hodges[8]; 4. 19X-James Trantina III[5]; 5. 30-Blake Davis[10]; 6. 12-Mike Rosales[3]; 7. 22-Keenan Glasser[7]; 8. 13-Josh Beyer[2]; 9. 0G-Peyton George[11]; 10. 54-Lance Relf[6]; 11. 05-Aasa Flores[9]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 9-Ken Schrader[1]; 2. 1S-Scott Bintz[4]; 3. 28-David Pitt[2]; 4. 50X-Paul Parks[3]; 5. 980-Kaden Woodie[6]; 6. 34-Brandon Rehill[5]; 7. 27-Andy Davis[8]; 8. 509-Brennan Davis[10]; 9. 88-Tyler Delong[11]; 10. 11D-Dave Smith[7]; 11. 94-Tyler Potter[9]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 79-Jaden Christ[2]; 2. 44-Eric Winemiller[3]; 3. 27P-Parker Anderson[4]; 4. 32C-Curtis Stieh[5]; 5. 71B-Dave Siercks[1]; 6. 28M-Phil Marino[6]; 7. 57-Duke Erickson[7]; 8. 77-Chance Kodet[10]; 9. 28T-Scott Tofte[8]; 10. 5-Shane McNutt[11]; 11. 02-Deuce Teague[9]