January 17, 2026 | By WWS PR

Hudson O'Neal is first repeat Wild West Shootout winner

CASA GRANDE, Ariz.—On Friday evening, the 2026 Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout presented by O’Reilly Auto Parts resumed with a strong showing of 157 cars in the pit area at FK Rod Ends Central Arizona Raceway in Casa Grande, Arizona, presented by Low Voltage Solutions.

Hudson O’Neal captured his second Super Late Model victory of the 2026 Wild West Shootout on Friday evening with a $10,000 triumph. The Indiana native took the top spot on lap 12 and looked poised for a smooth run to the checkered flag before Bobby Pierce mounted a strong charge on the high side. O’Neal and Pierce exchanged multiple sliders late in the 30-lap feature, while Ryan Gustin threw his hat in the ring on the bottom side as well. Ultimately, O’Neal kept Pierce and Gustin at bay to claim his second checkered flag of the miniseries. Hudson powered away in the final few laps, finishing 0.704 seconds ahead of Pierce at the checkered flag.

“Man, that was a race,” said Hudson O’Neal, catching his breath after the feature. “Maybe I was getting a little complacent on the bottom there in one and two. Once I realized he kept getting a run on me … I was able to slide him and take his line away from him a little bit, and it just worked out.” O’Neal added, “It was just whoever made one little mistake on that cushion … was going to be the one who didn’t get it done.”

Visiting Hoker Trucking Victory Lane for the second time this week, Hudson O’Neal and the Rumley Enterprises Longhorn Chassis team secured their second $10,000 payday of the 2026 Wild West Shootout, adding to their Sunday win.

Bobby Pierce led a single lap late in tonight’s 30-lap feature and finished runner-up for the second consecutive night. Ryan Gustin also earned his second podium finish of the event in third. Polesitter Tyler Erb finished fourth after 30 circuits, while Dustin Sorensen rounded out the Top 5. Kyle Beard and crew earned hard charger honors with a 21st-to-7th charge.

Lucas Rodin of Marion, N.D., powered from ninth to first in the 20-lap Shocker Hitch X-Modifieds main event presented by Border Tire. Rodin outran Christy Barnett and Jake Smith to claim the $500 payday.

Heading into tonight’s event atop the Mesilla Valley Transportation Modified point standings, Rodney Sanders of Happy, Texas, finally broke through for a victory during the 2026 Wild West Shootout. Dustin Sorensen, who finished fifth in the Super Late Model A-Main, claimed second, while Wednesday’s winner Reece Solander rounded out the Top 3.

The 2026 Wild West Shootout will fire right back up tomorrow evening for Round #5 at Central Arizona Raceway (Casa Grande, Ariz.) on Saturday, January 17.

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

Saturday morning, the Beaver Stripes Cornhole Tournament will take place at 10:30AM on the grounds. Winners of the cornhole tournament will receive custom Wild West Shootout cornhole boards, courtesy of Pit Boss Grills and Beaver Stripes. Clayton Anderson will host the post-race concert on Saturday night on the Pit Boss Grills Fan Zone Stage, located just behind the grandstands, immediately following the night’s racing action. Admission to the concert is free.

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
WILD WEST SHOOTOUT
Central Arizona Raceway
Casa Grande, AZ

Friday, January 16, 2026


DIRT SUPER LATE MODELS (41 entries)

A Feature 1 (30 Laps): 1. 6-Hudson O'Neal[4]; 2. 32-Bobby Pierce[5]; 3. 19R-Ryan Gustin[2]; 4. 1-Tyler Erb[1]; 5. 19-Dustin Sorensen[7]; 6. 58-Garrett Alberson[3]; 7. 86-Kyle Beard[21]; 8. 157-Mike Marlar[10]; 9. 8-Dillon McCowan[11]; 10. 49-Jonathan Davenport[6]; 11. 15D-Justin Duty[13]; 12. 97-Cade Dillard[17]; 13. 15S-Clay Stuckey[12]; 14. B5-Brandon Sheppard[16]; 15. 74X-Ethan Dotson[8]; 16. 13-Bricen James[19]; 17. 128-Kylan Garner[23]; 18. 9T-Tim Isenberg[22]; 19. 4TW-Tim Ward[9]; 20. 28-Sam Mars[24]; 21. 0-Jake O'Neil[18]; 22. 75-Terry Phillips[20]; 23. 22*-Drake Troutman[14]; 24. 82-Eston Whisler[15]

B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 97-Cade Dillard[2]; 2. 13-Bricen James[1]; 3. 86-Kyle Beard[3]; 4. 128-Kylan Garner[5]; 5. 49T-Jake Timm[7]; 6. 1X-Amelia Eisenschenk[4]; 7. 4P-Richard Papenhausen[9]; 8. 78S-Steve Stultz[11]; 9. 66-Eli Ross[12]; 10. 15*-Cole Schill[6]; 11. 96-RC Whitwell[8]; 12. 11X-Austin Kuehl[10]

B Feature 2 (10 Laps): 1. 0-Jake O'Neil[1]; 2. 75-Terry Phillips[4]; 3. 9T-Tim Isenberg[3]; 4. 28-Sam Mars[7]; 5. 18-Chase Junghans[6]; 6. 15-Laela Eisenschenk[11]; 7. 75A-Daniel Adam[2]; 8. 48-Tim Lance[5]; 9. 88-Chance Mann[13]; 10. 21F-Gunner Frank[9]; 11. 28C-John Cornell[12]; 12. 6T-Terry Carter[8]; 13. 0G-Matt Gilbertson[10]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 6-Hudson O'Neal[1]; 2. 32-Bobby Pierce[2]; 3. 4TW-Tim Ward[3]; 4. 15D-Justin Duty[4]; 5. 13-Bricen James[5]; 6. 86-Kyle Beard[6]; 7. 128-Kylan Garner[9]; 8. 49T-Jake Timm[7]; 9. 4P-Richard Papenhausen[8]; 10. 78S-Steve Stultz[10]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 1-Tyler Erb[1]; 2. 19-Dustin Sorensen[2]; 3. 8-Dillon McCowan[3]; 4. 82-Eston Whisler[7]; 5. 97-Cade Dillard[5]; 6. 1X-Amelia Eisenschenk[6]; 7. 15*-Cole Schill[10]; 8. 96-RC Whitwell[9]; 9. 11X-Austin Kuehl[8]; 10. 66-Eli Ross[4]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 19R-Ryan Gustin[3]; 2. 49-Jonathan Davenport[2]; 3. 157-Mike Marlar[5]; 4. 22*-Drake Troutman[1]; 5. 0-Jake O'Neil[4]; 6. 9T-Tim Isenberg[7]; 7. 48-Tim Lance[11]; 8. 28-Sam Mars[6]; 9. 21F-Gunner Frank[9]; 10. 15-Laela Eisenschenk[8]; 11. 88-Chance Mann[10]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 58-Garrett Alberson[3]; 2. 74X-Ethan Dotson[1]; 3. 15S-Clay Stuckey[2]; 4. B5-Brandon Sheppard[4]; 5. 75A-Daniel Adam[5]; 6. 75-Terry Phillips[7]; 7. 18-Chase Junghans[6]; 8. 6T-Terry Carter[8]; 9. 0G-Matt Gilbertson[9]; 10. 28C-John Cornell[10]

Qualifying 1: 1. 6-Hudson O'Neal, 00:14.988[4]; 2. 1-Tyler Erb, 00:15.122[1]; 3. 32-Bobby Pierce, 00:15.180[10]; 4. 19-Dustin Sorensen, 00:15.200[16]; 5. 4TW-Tim Ward, 00:15.277[14]; 6. 8-Dillon McCowan, 00:15.320[9]; 7. 15D-Justin Duty, 00:15.344[2]; 8. 66-Eli Ross, 00:15.393[3]; 9. 13-Bricen James, 00:15.433[8]; 10. 97-Cade Dillard, 00:15.444[11]; 11. 86-Kyle Beard, 00:15.456[7]; 12. 1X-Amelia Eisenschenk, 00:15.560[13]; 13. 49T-Jake Timm, 00:15.678[19]; 14. 82-Eston Whisler, 00:15.724[5]; 15. 4P-Richard Papenhausen, 00:15.836[12]; 16. 11X-Austin Kuehl, 00:15.867[6]; 17. 128-Kylan Garner, 00:16.171[17]; 18. 96-RC Whitwell, 00:16.215[20]; 19. 78S-Steve Stultz, 00:16.289[18]; 20. 15*-Cole Schill, 00:17.323[15]

Qualifying 2: 1. 22*-Drake Troutman, 00:15.100[4]; 2. 74X-Ethan Dotson, 00:15.126[2]; 3. 49-Jonathan Davenport, 00:15.240[11]; 4. 15S-Clay Stuckey, 00:15.252[3]; 5. 19R-Ryan Gustin, 00:15.263[19]; 6. 58-Garrett Alberson, 00:15.274[15]; 7. 0-Jake O'Neil, 00:15.276[5]; 8. B5-Brandon Sheppard, 00:15.298[20]; 9. 157-Mike Marlar, 00:15.396[14]; 10. 75A-Daniel Adam, 00:15.469[18]; 11. 28-Sam Mars, 00:15.518[1]; 12. 18-Chase Junghans, 00:15.555[13]; 13. 9T-Tim Isenberg, 00:15.580[16]; 14. 75-Terry Phillips, 00:15.814[12]; 15. 15-Laela Eisenschenk, 00:15.954[6]; 16. 6T-Terry Carter, 00:15.988[17]; 17. 21F-Gunner Frank, 00:16.002[7]; 18. 0G-Matt Gilbertson, 00:16.008[9]; 19. 88-Chance Mann, 00:16.155[10]; 20. 28C-John Cornell, 00:16.352[21]; 21. 48-Tim Lance, 00:16.352[8]


A Modifieds (61 entries)

A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 20S-Rodney Sanders[3]; 2. 19-Dustin Sorensen[2]; 3. 5-Reece Solander[14]; 4. 65-Tyler Davis[6]; 5. 7G-Gabe Hodges[1]; 6. 186-Jeremy Payne[7]; 7. 07X-Troy Morris III[23]; 8. 44N-Jason Noll[4]; 9. 38T-Dylan Thornton[5]; 10. 65X-Carlos Ahumada Jr[11]; 11. 10M-Talan Willis[17]; 12. 50-Robert Adams[10]; 13. 4W-Tyler Wolff[15]; 14. 19SB-Lance Mari[22]; 15. 25-Kale Murphrey[12]; 16. 29-Chris Spalding[24]; 17. 88XXX-Travis Saurer[13]; 18. 2SS-Mark Smith[8]; 19. 24C-Joe Chisholm[16]; 20. 24-Rick Ortega[18]; 21. 12S-Hunter Sandy[9]; 22. 80XX-Jason Langford[20]; 23. P17-Peyton Gallardo[19]; 24. G17-Fito Gallardo[21]

B Feature 1 (8 Laps): 1. P17-Peyton Gallardo[1]; 2. 19SB-Lance Mari[2]; 3. 85D-Mark Dotson[11]; 4. 112-Brennan Gave[8]; 5. 44-Christy Barnett[3]; 6. 81-Devon Jobin[10]; 7. 19R-Lucas Rodin[7]; 8. 12-Jay Rosales[4]; 9. 97A-Cole Anderson[14]; 10. 22S-Cole Szlauko[12]; 11. 131-Royal Jones[13]; 12. 11N-Gene Nicholas[9]; 13. 0-Peyton George[5]; 14. 6F-Matt Fester[6]; 15. 411-Todd Izzo[15]

B Feature 2 (8 Laps): 1. 80XX-Jason Langford[2]; 2. 07X-Troy Morris III[5]; 3. 58X-Gary Christian[1]; 4. 71-Dustin Strand[4]; 5. 96-Taton Hansen[3]; 6. 91-Joe Duvall[6]; 7. M19-JC Mattingly[8]; 8. 24X-Xavier Ortega[10]; 9. 51-Dallas Caldwell[11]; 10. L8-Ethan Stevens[13]; 11. 17-Brent Holman[12]; 12. 2K-Taylor Kuehl[7]; 13. 101-Luke Silber[9]; 14. 2J-Blake Jegtvig[14]

B Feature 3 (8 Laps): 1. G17-Fito Gallardo[2]; 2. 29-Chris Spalding[1]; 3. J17-Jake Gallardo[8]; 4. 721-Troy Gemmill[6]; 5. 26S-Steven Glenn[13]; 6. 7-AJ Sharpensteen[4]; 7. 151-Lucas Gibbs[5]; 8. 413-Tate Johnson[7]; 9. 46-Paul Miles[11]; 10. 02LZ-Ellsworth Conover[12]; 11. 73-Jeff Helget[14]; 12. 57-Gage McCaughan[10]; 13. 20-Cole Queensland[3]; 14. J7-Jake Boles[9]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 38T-Dylan Thornton[2]; 2. 186-Jeremy Payne[4]; 3. 71-Dustin Strand[1]; 4. 7-AJ Sharpensteen[3]; 5. G17-Fito Gallardo[8]; 6. 19R-Lucas Rodin[5]; 7. 07X-Troy Morris III[10]; 8. J17-Jake Gallardo[9]; 9. 46-Paul Miles[7]; 10. 22S-Cole Szlauko[11]; 11. 411-Todd Izzo[6]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 65-Tyler Davis[2]; 2. 20S-Rodney Sanders[6]; 3. 88XXX-Travis Saurer[5]; 4. 4W-Tyler Wolff[7]; 5. 25-Kale Murphrey[10]; 6. 0-Peyton George[8]; 7. 6F-Matt Fester[9]; 8. 57-Gage McCaughan[4]; 9. 02LZ-Ellsworth Conover[3]; 10. 73-Jeff Helget[1]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 12S-Hunter Sandy[1]; 2. 65X-Carlos Ahumada Jr[3]; 3. 2SS-Mark Smith[6]; 4. 24C-Joe Chisholm[7]; 5. 151-Lucas Gibbs[5]; 6. 413-Tate Johnson[4]; 7. 91-Joe Duvall[9]; 8. 51-Dallas Caldwell[2]; 9. 81-Devon Jobin[10]; 10. 131-Royal Jones[8]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 7G-Gabe Hodges[6]; 2. 24-Rick Ortega[2]; 3. 96-Taton Hansen[3]; 4. 10M-Talan Willis[7]; 5. 58X-Gary Christian[9]; 6. 20-Cole Queensland[10]; 7. 11N-Gene Nicholas[4]; 8. J7-Jake Boles[8]; 9. 97A-Cole Anderson[1]; 10. 2J-Blake Jegtvig[5]

Heat 5 (8 Laps): 1. 44N-Jason Noll[3]; 2. P17-Peyton Gallardo[2]; 3. 5-Reece Solander[5]; 4. 80XX-Jason Langford[6]; 5. 44-Christy Barnett[8]; 6. M19-JC Mattingly[1]; 7. 721-Troy Gemmill[9]; 8. 112-Brennan Gave[10]; 9. 17-Brent Holman[4]; 10. L8-Ethan Stevens[7]

Heat 6 (8 Laps): 1. 19-Dustin Sorensen[6]; 2. 19SB-Lance Mari[1]; 3. 12-Jay Rosales[2]; 4. 50-Robert Adams[8]; 5. 29-Chris Spalding[9]; 6. 2K-Taylor Kuehl[5]; 7. 101-Luke Silber[3]; 8. 85D-Mark Dotson[4]; 9. 24X-Xavier Ortega[10]; 10. 26S-Steven Glenn[7]


Limited Mods (55 entries)

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 19-Lucas Rodin[9]; 2. 44-Christy Barnett[2]; 3. 21-Jake Smith[11]; 4. 3J-Josh Cain[5]; 5. 75-Tyler Johnson[3]; 6. 5-Shane McNutt[20]; 7. M17-Rob Moseley[15]; 8. 1S-Scott Bintz[1]; 9. 11DW-Danny Wagner[12]; 10. 32C-Curtis Stieh[13]; 11. 94-Tyler Potter[18]; 12. 22-Keenan Glasser[14]; 13. 9-Ken Schrader[8]; 14. 57-Duke Erickson[17]; 15. 28T-Scott Tofte[4]; 16. 0-Dakota Girard[6]; 17. 7X-Bubba Stafford Jr[24]; 18. 99-Jeremy Haddox[22]; 19. 10-Bryan Bennett[7]; 20. 27P-Parker Anderson[21]; 21. 05-Aasa Flores[23]; 22. 79-Jaden Christ[16]; 23. 75S-Cole Suckow[19]; 24. 14J-Jacob Hodges[10]

B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 57-Duke Erickson[2]; 2. 75S-Cole Suckow[5]; 3. 27P-Parker Anderson[11]; 4. 05-Aasa Flores[3]; 5. 34-Brandon Rehill[4]; 6. 509-Brennan Davis[6]; 7. 50X-Paul Parks[7]; 8. 50-Braydon Whitfield[13]; 9. 28M-Phil Marino[9]; 10. 21B-Braxton James[8]; 11. 89-Chris Mangum[1]; 12. 562-Craig Walker[14]; 13. 54-Lance Relf[16]; 14. 14B-Erick Barraza[17]; 15. 0G-Paxton George[12]; 16. 28BY-Bryson Yeager[10]; 17. 23B-Israel Ortega[18]; 18. 30-Blake Davis[15]; 19. 980-Kaden Woodie[19]; 20. 88-Tyler Delong[20]

B Feature 2 (10 Laps): 1. 94-Tyler Potter[1]; 2. 5-Shane McNutt[13]; 3. 99-Jeremy Haddox[2]; 4. 7X-Bubba Stafford Jr[4]; 5. 161-Remington Budd[5]; 6. 3R-Mel Romero[12]; 7. 711-Payce Herrera[15]; 8. 27-Andy Davis[17]; 9. 196-Matt Micheli[10]; 10. 23H-Hector Barraza[8]; 11. 28-David Pitt[7]; 12. 77-Chance Kodet[11]; 13. 5C-Chandler Dodge[9]; 14. 71B-Dave Siercks[16]; 15. 02-Deuce Teague[3]; 16. 11D-Dave Smith[14]; 17. 13-Josh Beyer[18]; 18. 12C-Cale Riggs[6]; 19. 82-Sherman Barnett[19]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 75-Tyler Johnson[4]; 2. 94-Tyler Potter[1]; 3. 14J-Jacob Hodges[6]; 4. M17-Rob Moseley[7]; 5. 509-Brennan Davis[2]; 6. 34-Brandon Rehill[8]; 7. 196-Matt Micheli[3]; 8. 23H-Hector Barraza[10]; 9. 11D-Dave Smith[5]; 10. 562-Craig Walker[11]; 11. 13-Josh Beyer[9]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 44-Christy Barnett[6]; 2. 79-Jaden Christ[2]; 3. 02-Deuce Teague[1]; 4. 05-Aasa Flores[5]; 5. 32C-Curtis Stieh[10]; 6. 50X-Paul Parks[4]; 7. 27P-Parker Anderson[3]; 8. 77-Chance Kodet[7]; 9. 50-Braydon Whitfield[9]; 10. 71B-Dave Siercks[8]; 11. 27-Andy Davis[11]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 10-Bryan Bennett[2]; 2. 28T-Scott Tofte[6]; 3. 3J-Josh Cain[7]; 4. 7X-Bubba Stafford Jr[1]; 5. 99-Jeremy Haddox[8]; 6. 28-David Pitt[4]; 7. 5C-Chandler Dodge[5]; 8. 28M-Phil Marino[10]; 9. 54-Lance Relf[3]; 10. 711-Payce Herrera[9]; 11. (DNS) 88-Tyler Delong

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 1S-Scott Bintz[9]; 2. 57-Duke Erickson[1]; 3. 0-Dakota Girard[7]; 4. 11DW-Danny Wagner[8]; 5. 19-Lucas Rodin[11]; 6. 21B-Braxton James[4]; 7. 28BY-Bryson Yeager[5]; 8. 5-Shane McNutt[3]; 9. 14B-Erick Barraza[2]; 10. 30-Blake Davis[10]; 11. 980-Kaden Woodie[6]

Heat 5 (8 Laps): 1. 21-Jake Smith[1]; 2. 89-Chris Mangum[2]; 3. 22-Keenan Glasser[5]; 4. 9-Ken Schrader[9]; 5. 75S-Cole Suckow[11]; 6. 161-Remington Budd[7]; 7. 12C-Cale Riggs[8]; 8. 3R-Mel Romero[6]; 9. 0G-Paxton George[10]; 10. 23B-Israel Ortega[4]; 11. 82-Sherman Barnett[3]