May 25, 2026 | By Lyndal Scranton

Bobby Pierce charges from 20th to win his third Show-Me 100

WHEATLAND, MO.—The right side of Bobby Pierce's car was beaten and battered in victory lane, even part of the spoiler missing from slapping Lucas Oil Speedway's turn-four cement wall as he charged from his 20th starting position.

Turns out that $75,000 will buy plenty of sheet metal.

Finding speed that had been missing all weekend, using holes in the dirt surface and contact with the wall as a springboard, Pierce successfully defended his title at Sunday night's 34th annual Show-Me 100 Presented by Ace Doran Hauling and Rigging.

Pierce had to win a B-Main to make the starting field for the 100-lap feature. He took the lead on lap 61 and held off Brandon Sheppard and Jonathan Davenport the rest of the way.

The Oakwood, Ill., driver also won the race in 2017. He became only the fourth driver with three or more Show-Me 100 victories joining the late Scott Bloomquist, Jimmy Owens and Wendell Wallace in that exclusive club.

Owens was the last back-to-back winner, winning three straight in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

"Man, that's awesome," Pierce said. "I remember when I was first getting started in Late Models, Jimmy Owens was the guys to beat here, and Scott, of course. Just an incredible group of guys. They're both from Tennessee and this track is a mixture of Tennessee and Illinois, man. The middle you have to drive like it's Tennessee and the top you have to drive like Illinois.

"It's just awesome to be a part of that list and come back and repeat this thing. This is the reason we came here. I think we're the only (World of Outlaws) guy to show up. We had a tough last weekend last week, we have a tough week ahead of us. We really needed to get home today so we could work on a new car, but came to defend our title and it worked out."

Delayed one day by rain, the program saw preliminary feature winners Davenport and Josh Rice on the front row. Pierce, who struggled mightily on Thursday and Friday, won the second B-Main to start outside of row 10.

Optimism was not soaring on race day, but Pierce and his team were the personification of determination. He said a reporter asked him on Saturday about his chances and he shook his head. It was a year ago when he started eighth and captured the lead on lap 69 and never gave it up.

"I kind of sucked on the prelim nights and ended up winning on Saturday," Pierce said of his 2025 win. "I said, 'man, we are way off. I don't see that happening at all.' But it rained and man, they give us a different race track every night. It keeps us guessing.

"Where the holes were, I was making speed so I was trying to hit them."

Pierce led the final 39 laps this time after Davenport paced 54 of the first 60. It didn't take long for Pierce to charge from 20th into the top 10 in an event that had five cautions, the final one on lap 93 that gave Sheppard and Davenport one final chance to chase him down.

"I couldn't run very many laps around the top before I started to feel bad," said Sheppard, of New Berlin, Ill. "I was just trying ... if I could hit two laps in a row right in three and four, I could creep to him a little bit. I felt like I was pretty good in one and two, I just didn't really move around as much as I needed to.

"I was just trying to take care of my tires and a lot of guys who ran the same tire combination I did fell back."

Davenport and Rice ran 1-2 in the early going. The leaders caught lapped traffic by lap 12 and the first lead change came on lap 18 when Rice went around Davenport on the outside off turn two. Davenport returned the favor and took the lead away from Rice on lap 24 at the same place on the track, with Sheppard third and Hudson O’Neal fourth.

Pierce had charged to sixth from 20th by lap 35 as the long green-flag run continued. Caution No. 1 flew on lap 41 as Davenport held a two-second lead over Rice with Sheppard, O’Neal and Pierce rounding out the top five. Sheppard took second away from Rice two laps after the restart as Davenport bolted to a 1.8-second lead.

Pierce’s march took him to second on lap 58 with a slider on Sheppard in turns three and four. As Pierce closed on Davenport, Clay Stuckey and Mason Oberkramer spun to bring out a caution on lap 59. That was all Pierce needed as he would soon take advantage on a rare Davenport mistake after the restart.

Davenport slipped high in turn two and Pierce slid past on the inside to take the lead. Pierce quickly opened a one-second lead over Sheppard with Davenport settling into third, four seconds behind Pierce.

Lapped traffic was no problem for Pierce, who doubled the size of his lead by lap 73 with O’Neal taking third away from Davenport. Pierce held a two-second lead with 20 to go. Things got more interesting on lap 83 when caution No. 4 waved for debris on the track, from part of Pierce’s spoiler.

Davenport passed Sheppard on the restart and gave chase to Pierce, who continually pop the outside wall in turn four. Sheppard went back to second on lap 86.

Pierce said that hitting the wall coming off turn four actually helped him gain speed off the turn at times. The speedway reworked turns three and four in the offseason, taking out the shelf atop the turns with banking progressing all the way to the wall.

Even though he's notorious for seeking the high groove, as is necessary in many tracks in his home state, Pierce said he was skeptical about the cushion getting to the wall.

"I was pretty pessimistic. I told a bunch of fans back (in the pits) that I don't see (the cushion) getting up there. I think it's too flat, but we'll see," Pierce said. "It got up there.:

Pierce held a 1.2-second lead on lap 93 when the fifth caution, again for debris. That set the stage for a seven-lap shootout. Continuing to live on the edge of the top groove, Pierce held on and beat Sheppard by 1.3 seconds.

“Luckily just the way the track was and the car was great, too," Pierce added. "My guys worked their butts off this weekend. Every time we were in the pits, we were changing something. Throwing the kitchen sink at it is an understatement."

Davenport settled for third with Alberson fourth and O’Neal fifth.

"I don't know if we bent something, but we started bottoming out really bad through the middle," Davenport said. "We were just trying to find the smoothest place. They did a pretty good job, the track crew. There were three lanes at the end and me and Sheppard and Pierce were all trying to do something different.

"I guess third is better than a poke in the eye, but leading so much and we've been so good here that is just sucks to run third."

Rice faded to 14th and the top local finisher was Urbana's Dillon McCowan, who wound up 12th.

Ingram wins USRA Stock Cars: Eddie Ingram of Linn Valley, Kan., took the lead on lap six and drove away to the O'Reilly USRA Stock Cars feature prior to the Show-Me 100.

Pole-starting Shayne Bailey checked out to a sizable lead over Ingram and William Garner by the first caution on lap five. Ingram took the lead away on the restart with Fennewald rallying from fifth to second.

Bailey pulled off the track the next time around, leaving Ingram and Fennewald running 1-2 at the halfway point. Action was slowed again on lap 11 for a three-car spin in turn four, wiped out Ingram’s 1.4-second lead.

Ingram quickly rebuilt, even extending his leading margin after the restart. He kept pouring in on and beat Jayden Bears by 1.7 seconds. Garner finished third with Fennewald fourth and Mason Beck fifth.

"This track was awesome. It doesn't get any better than this," Ingram said in victory lane. "It's a super cool place and I"m glad they had us down here. There's not a bad car in the whole field. It was fun to race with those guys."


LUCAS OIL SPEEDWAY UNOFFICIAL RESULTS (May 24, 2026)
Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series

34th annual Show-Me 100 Presented by Ace Doran Hauling & Rigging

Feature - 1. 32-Bobby Pierce[20]; 2. 1-Brandon Sheppard[6]; 3. 49-Jonathan Davenport[1]; 4. 58-Garrett Alberson[9]; 5. 71-Hudson O'Neal[5]; 6. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[19]; 7. 6-Clay Harris[16]; 8. 76-Brandon Overton[4]; 9. 22F-Chris Ferguson[3]; 10. 93-Carson Ferguson[13]; 11. 3S-Brian Shirley[7]; 12. 8-Dillon McCowan[8]; 13. 40B-Kyle Bronson[11]; 14. 11-Josh Rice[2]; 15. 99-Devin Moran[18]; 16. 11G-Gordy Gundaker[26]; 17. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck[17]; 18. 111-Max Blair[10]; 19. 60-Dan Ebert[15]; 20. 15-Clay Stuckey[24]; 21. 93O-Mason Oberkramer[14]; 22. 56-Tony Jackson Jr[22]; 23. 93L-Cory Lawler[25]; 24. 11T-Trevor Gundaker[21]; 25. 18J-Chase Junghans[12]; 26. 19M-Brenden Smith[23]; 27. 5S-Kolby Vandenbergh[27]

Midwest Sheet Metal Show-Me Challenge - 1. 5S-Kolby Vandenbergh[1]; 2. 90-Brian Rickman[3]; 3. 128-Kylan Garner[5]; 4. 8K-Tyler Kuykendall[9]; 5. 8L-Matthew Larson[2]; 6. 25B-Chevy Boyer[15]; 7. 7J-Ryan Johnson[12]; 8. 78S-Steve Stultz[16]; 9. 96X-Dalton Imhoff[19]; 10. 96-RC Whitwell[13]; 11. 3W-Brennon Willard[4]; 12. 12-Scott Crigler[11]; 13. 0X-Jason Sivils[8]; 14. 11H-Jeff Herzog[6]; 15. 1/4J-Jaxon Ertel[7]; 16. (DNS) 24C-Brandon Conkwright; 17. (DNS) 18-Shannon Parker; 18. (DNS) 66-Eli Ross; 19. (DNS) 4X-Dalon Helm

Fast Shafts B Feature 1 - 1. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[2]; 2. 11T-Trevor Gundaker[1]; 3. 19M-Brenden Smith[6]; 4. 11G-Gordy Gundaker[3]; 5. 8L-Matthew Larson[7]; 6. 93L-Cory Lawler[4]; 7. 128-Kylan Garner[10]; 8. 1/4J-Jaxon Ertel[9]; 9. 8K-Tyler Kuykendall[13]; 10. 12-Scott Crigler[11]; 11. 96-RC Whitwell[12]; 12. 25B-Chevy Boyer[8]; 13. 66-Eli Ross[5]; 14. 96X-Dalton Imhoff[14]

UNOH B Feature 2 - 1. 32-Bobby Pierce[1]; 2. 56-Tony Jackson Jr[2]; 3. 15-Clay Stuckey[5]; 4. 5S-Kolby Vandenbergh[6]; 5. 90-Brian Rickman[11]; 6. 3W-Brennon Willard[7]; 7. 11H-Jeff Herzog[4]; 8. 0X-Jason Sivils[13]; 9. 24C-Brandon Conkwright[9]; 10. 7J-Ryan Johnson[8]; 11. 18-Shannon Parker[10]; 12. 78S-Steve Stultz[14]; 13. 4X-Dalon Helm[12]; 14. (DNS) 37W-Frank Waszkiewicz; 15. (DNS) 1X-Aaron Marrant


Big River Steel Championship Standings Presented by ARP:

Pos - Car # - Competitor - Hometown - Points - Earnings
1 - 71 - Hudson O'Neal - Martinsville, IN - 3560 - $164,700
2 - 1 - Brandon Sheppard - New Berlin, IL - 3410 - $140,900
3 - 99 - Devin Moran - Dresden, OH - 3310 - $164,724
4 - 76 - Brandon Overton - Evans, GA - 3265 - $76,175
5 - 20RT - Ricky Thornton Jr - Chandler, AZ - 3170 - $101,075
6 - 111 - Max Blair - Centerville, PA - 3140 - $68,050
7 - 58 - Garrett Alberson - Las Cruces, NM - 2970 - $64,175
8 - 3s - Brian Shirley - Chatham, IL - 2960 - $54,650
9 - 11 - Josh Rice - Crittenden, KY - 2910 - $56,775
10 - 40B - Kyle Bronson - Brandon, FL - 2840 - $45,975
11 - 6 - Clay Harris - Jupiter, FL - 2790 - $58,650
12 - 93 - Carson Ferguson - Lincolnton, NC - 2730 - $45,400
13 - 60 - Dan Ebert - Lake Shore, MN - 2635 - $43,100
14 - 8 - Dillon McCowan - Urbana, MO - 2490 - $32,400
15 - 22 - Daniel Hilsabeck - Earlham, IA - 2370 - $31,275
16 - 19M - Brenden Smith - Dade City, FL - 2245 - $27,525
17 - 93L - Cory Lawler - Hanover, PA - 2110 - $18,725


O'Reilly USRA Stock Cars

Feature - 1. 54-Eddie Ingram[4]; 2. 20J-Jayden Bears[7]; 3. 7-William Garner[6]; 4. 21-Johnny Fennewald[3]; 5. 0F-Mason Beck[10]; 6. 50-Darrell Hurt[8]; 7. 15E-Eddy Noll[12]; 8. 111-Butch Bailey[16]; 9. 19-Dennis Slader[5]; 10. 22F-Dawson Fennewald[9]; 11. 34-Blake Bolton[13]; 12. 05G-Grayson McKiney[14]; 13. 41-Bryan White[2]; 14. 17M-JP Harris[17]; 15. 12-Christopher Sawyer[19]; 16. 23L-Allen Luttjohann[11]; 17. 24W-Craig Wright[20]; 18. 13-John Winters[24]; 19. 76-Shannon Lowrey[22]; 20. 06-Ryan Knight[26]; 21. 14-Aaron Johns[21]; 22. (DNF) 15-Nick Drew Jr[23]; 23. (DNF) 21H-Jake Hoover[15]; 24. (DNF) 16M-Jaymee McGarrah[18]; 25. (DNF) 7B-Shayne Bailey[1]; 26. (DNS) 21P-Darren Phillips

Heat 1 - 1. 21-Johnny Fennewald[1]; 2. 7-William Garner[2]; 3. 0F-Mason Beck[3]; 4. 20J-Jayden Bears[8]; 5. 05G-Grayson McKiney[6]; 6. 21H-Jake Hoover[9]; 7. 24W-Craig Wright[4]; 8. 14-Aaron Johns[7]; 9. 15-Nick Drew Jr[5]

Heat 2 - 1. 41-Bryan White[4]; 2. 7B-Shayne Bailey[8]; 3. 50-Darrell Hurt[2]; 4. 15E-Eddy Noll[3]; 5. 111-Butch Bailey[5]; 6. 17M-JP Harris[6]; 7. 12-Christopher Sawyer[1]; 8. 76-Shannon Lowrey[7]; 9. 13-John Winters[9]

Heat 3 - 1. 54-Eddie Ingram[1]; 2. 19-Dennis Slader[3]; 3. 22F-Dawson Fennewald[2]; 4. 23L-Allen Luttjohann[5]; 5. 34-Blake Bolton[7]; 6. 16M-Jaymee McGarrah[6]; 7. (DNF) 21P-Darren Phillips[8]; 8. (DNF) 06-Ryan Knight[4]


Show-Me 100 winners:

2026 - Bobby Pierce, Oakwood, Ill.
2025 - Bobby Pierce, Oakwood, Ill.
2024 - Jonathan Davenport, Blairsville, Ga.
2023 - Devin Moran, Dresden, Ohio
2022 - Chris Ferguson, Mount Holly, N.C.
2021 - Hudson O’Neal, Martinsville, Ind.
2020 - Payton Looney, Republic, Mo.
2019 - (Canceled due to storm damage)
2018 - Scott Bloomquist, Mooresburg, Tenn.
2017 - Bobby Pierce, Oakwood, Ill.
2016 - Jimmy Owens, Newport, Tenn.
2015 - Jonathan Davenport, Blairsville, Ga.
2014 - Don O’Neal, Martinsville, Ind.
2013 - Jimmy Owens, Newport, Tenn.
2012 - Jimmy Owens, Newport, Tenn
2011 - Jimmy Owens, Newport, Tenn.
2010 - Ray Cook, Brasstown, N.C.
2009 - Brian Birkhofer, Muscatine, Iowa
2008 - Scott Bloomquist, Mooresburg, Tenn.
2007 - Wendell Wallace, Batesville, Ark.
2006 - Wendell Wallace, Batesville, Ark.
2005 - Scott Bloomquist, Mooresburg, Tenn.
2004 - Scott Bloomquist, Mooresburg, Tenn.
2003 - Scott Bloomquist, Mooresburg, Tenn.
2002 - Wendell Wallace, Batesville, Ark.
2001 - Freddy Smith, Knoxville, Tenn.
2000 - Ray Cook, Murphy, N.C.
1999 - Terry Phillips, Springfield, Mo.
1998 - Freddy Smith, Knoxville, Tenn.
1997 - Rick Aukland, Fargo, N.D.
1996 - Billy Moyer, Batesville, Ark.
1995 - Scott Bloomquist, Mooresburg, Tenn.
1994 - Billy Moyer, Batesville, Ark.
1993 - Billy Moyer, Batesville, Ark.


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