Nick Hoffman banks $100,057 at Mansfield
Photo by Emily Schwanke
MANSFIELD, Ohio—Not many drivers can say they’ve earned a six-figure check in one night at a dirt track, but Nick Hoffman is the latest addition to that list.
One night prior, Tyler Erb joined that exclusive club after local philanthropists Dan and Brenda Niss put up a donation that raised Friday’s winner’s payout to a staggering $100,000. As it turned out, they weren’t done there.
Saturday’s Blaster 57 Special finale for the World of Outlaws Late Model Series presented by DIRTVision was already the biggest purse of the season at more than $240,000 in total, with $57,000 going to the winner and $5,700 just to start the Feature. However, midway through the program, track owner Matt Tifft announced that the Niss family had once again boosted Saturday’s top prize to $100,057. It was at that point when Hoffman started licking his chops.
“The Thrill From Mooresville” struggled on Friday and was never a serious contender for the big money. Saturday was a different story though, as Hoffman earned the Simpson Quick Time Award in Qualifying and won his Heat Race prior to the breaking news. He drew a front-row starting spot on the outside of Bilstein Pole Award winner Garrett Alberson, but dropped back to third on the start after Alberson pulled away and fourth-starting Josh Rice cut through the middle and cleared Hoffman exiting Turn 2.
Unflustered, Hoffman stayed with Rice early, briefly nosing out in front on Lap 4. Rice quickly reclaimed the spot on that occasion, but Hoffman got another chance later in the race in a three-wide moment with the lap car of Tristan Chamberlain which Hoffman came out on top of. At that point, Hoffman had the biggest win of his career dangling in front of him and 20 laps remaining to snatch it.
A caution with 11 laps left put Hoffman right on Alberson’s tail, and he immediately seized the opportunity. Alberson went to the top of Turns 1 and 2 while Hoffman ducked low, and when Alberson hit a bump in Turn 2 and lost momentum, he left the door wide open for Hoffman to grab the lead and drive away to what was easily the biggest of his 17 World of Outlaws wins to date.
“It’s unreal,” Hoffman said. “I came here for the Dirt Million [in 2018], those were my first couple starts in a Late Model, and hell, that was eight years ago now. Been through a lot of stuff, a lot of different car owners, great car owners. If it wasn’t for all of them, I wouldn’t be here either. Man, I just don’t know what to say. Thank you Matt Tifft for putting up the extra money.
“Racetrack had character, I had a little bit of a different tire combination on than I feel like the rest of the field. So I knew that the late part of that race, it would come to me. Just pressured and pressured and was able to get by [Alberson].”
Alberson came up one spot short of what would have also been the biggest victory of his career, while Hudson O’Neal put the No. 71 SSI Motorsports machine on the podium in third. Erb backed up Friday’s win with a fourth on Saturday ahead of Brandon Sheppard in fifth.
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RACE NOTES:
Dennis Erb Jr. set the Dirt King Simulators Fastest Hot Lap.
Nick Hoffman won the Simpson Quick Time Award.
Nick Hoffman won Heat 1.
Garrett Alberson won STAKT Products Heat 2.
Josh Rice won Keyser Manufacturing Heat 3.
Trey Mills won Jarrett Rifles Heat 4.
Dustin Sorensen and Drake Troutman won the Last Chance Showdowns.
Garrett Alberson won the Bilstein Pole Award.
Bobby Pierce won the FOX Factory Hard Charger Award.
Trey Mills won the MD3 Rookie of the Race Award.
Garrett Alberson was the WELD Racing Second-Place Finisher.
Hudson O’Neal was the WIX Filters Third-Place Finisher.
Tyler Erb was the ARP Fourth-Place Finisher.
Brandon Sheppard was the MSD Fifth-Place Finisher.
Bobby Pierce was the Swift Springs Sixth-Place Finisher.
Trey Mills was the Penske Racing Shocks Seventh-Place Finisher.
Dustin Sorensen was VP Racing Fuels Eighth-Place Finisher.
Chris Madden was the Lifeline Ninth-Place Finisher.
Drake Troutman was the COMP Cams 10th-Place Finisher.
Tristan Chamberlain was the Quarter Master 11th-Place Finisher.
Ryan Gustin was the Cometic Gaskets 12th-Place Finisher.
Daulton Wilson was the Quarter Master 13th-Place Finisher.
Dallon Murty was the ARP 14th-Place Finisher.
Josh Rice was the Arizona Sport Shirts 18th-Place Finisher.
WORLD OF OUTLAWS LATE MODEL SERIES RESULTS (40 entries)
WoO Late Model Feature (57 Laps): 1. 9-Nick Hoffman[2]; 2. 58-Garrett Alberson[1]; 3. 71-Hudson O'Neal[8]; 4. 1-Tyler Erb[9]; 5. 1S-Brandon Sheppard[11]; 6. 32-Bobby Pierce[22]; 7. 14-Trey Mills[3]; 8. 19-Dustin Sorensen[17]; 9. 44-Chris Madden[7]; 10. 22*-Drake Troutman[18]; 11. 20TC-Tristan Chamberlain[5]; 12. 19R-Ryan Gustin[13]; 13. 58V-Daulton Wilson[24]; 14. 13-Dallon Murty[21]; 15. B1-Brent Larson[25]; 16. 74X-Ethan Dotson[23]; 17. 76-Brandon Overton[15]; 18. 11-Josh Rice[4]; 19. 99-Devin Moran[14]; 20. 1Z-Logan Zarin[26]; 21. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[12]; 22. 12-Ryan Montgomery[19]; 23. 111-Max Blair[16]; 24. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[20]; 25. 9M-Tim McCreadie[10]; 26. 1N-Michael Norris[6]
Last Chance Showdown 1 (10 Laps): 1. 19-Dustin Sorensen[3]; 2. 12-Ryan Montgomery[5]; 3. 13-Dallon Murty[4]; 4. 8B-Steve Banal[1]; 5. 24-Tyler Wyant[8]; 6. 5L-Jon Lee[7]; 7. 5M-Ryan Markham[9]; 8. 55E-Eli Johnson[6]; 9. 58V-Daulton Wilson[2]; 10. 74X-Ethan Dotson[10]; 11. 36-Matt Irey[12]; 12. 25Z-Mason Zeigler[11]
Last Chance Showdown 2 (10 Laps): 1. 22*-Drake Troutman[1]; 2. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[3]; 3. 32-Bobby Pierce[5]; 4. 555-Brock Pinkerous[4]; 5. 1Z-Logan Zarin[2]; 6. 17M-Dale McDowell[7]; 7. 31-Lincoln Smith[9]; 8. 71R-Rod Conley[6]; 9. 59-Larry Bellman[10]; 10. 22-Chris Ferguson[8]; 11. B1-Brent Larson[11]; 12. 1*-Kyle Moore[12]
WoO Late Model Heat Race 1 (8 Laps): 1. 9-Nick Hoffman[1]; 2. 71-Hudson O'Neal[2]; 3. 1-Tyler Erb[4]; 4. 19R-Ryan Gustin[6]; 5. 8B-Steve Banal[3]; 6. 19-Dustin Sorensen[8]; 7. 12-Ryan Montgomery[9]; 8. 5L-Jon Lee[7]; 9. 5M-Ryan Markham[10]; 10. 25Z-Mason Zeigler[5]
STAKT Products Heat Race 2 (8 Laps): 1. 58-Garrett Alberson[1]; 2. 20TC-Tristan Chamberlain[2]; 3. 1S-Brandon Sheppard[3]; 4. 76-Brandon Overton[5]; 5. 58V-Daulton Wilson[8]; 6. 13-Dallon Murty[4]; 7. 55E-Eli Johnson[7]; 8. 24-Tyler Wyant[10]; 9. 74X-Ethan Dotson[6]; 10. 36-Matt Irey[9]
Keyser Mfg Heat Race 3 (8 Laps): 1. 11-Josh Rice[1]; 2. 44-Chris Madden[2]; 3. 9M-Tim McCreadie[3]; 4. 99-Devin Moran[4]; 5. 22*-Drake Troutman[6]; 6. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[5]; 7. 32-Bobby Pierce[7]; 8. 17M-Dale McDowell[8]; 9. 31-Lincoln Smith[10]; 10. B1-Brent Larson[9]
Jarrett Rifles Heat Race 4 (8 Laps): 1. 14-Trey Mills[1]; 2. 1N-Michael Norris[2]; 3. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[3]; 4. 111-Max Blair[8]; 5. 1Z-Logan Zarin[4]; 6. 555-Brock Pinkerous[5]; 7. 71R-Rod Conley[7]; 8. 22-Chris Ferguson[6]; 9. 59-Larry Bellman[10]; 10. 1*-Kyle Moore[9]
Group A Qualifying (2 Laps): 1. 9-Nick Hoffman, 16.979[12]; 2. 58-Garrett Alberson, 17.184[17]; 3. 71-Hudson O'Neal, 17.205[4]; 4. 20TC-Tristan Chamberlain, 17.357[10]; 5. 8B-Steve Banal, 17.390[1]; 6. 1S-Brandon Sheppard, 17.413[7]; 7. 1-Tyler Erb, 17.460[3]; 8. 13-Dallon Murty, 17.518[8]; 9. 25Z-Mason Zeigler, 17.566[2]; 10. 76-Brandon Overton, 17.588[14]; 11. 19R-Ryan Gustin, 17.642[11]; 12. 74X-Ethan Dotson, 17.650[9]; 13. 5L-Jon Lee, 17.676[6]; 14. 55E-Eli Johnson, 17.720[16]; 15. 19-Dustin Sorensen, 17.798[13]; 16. 58V-Daulton Wilson, 17.812[15]; 17. 12-Ryan Montgomery, 17.854[20]; 18. 36-Matt Irey, 18.015[5]; 19. 5M-Ryan Markham, 18.072[19]; 20. 24-Tyler Wyant, 18.164[18]
Group B Qualifying (2 Laps): 1. 11-Josh Rice, 17.361[2]; 2. 14-Trey Mills, 17.370[16]; 3. 44-Chris Madden, 17.371[7]; 4. 1N-Michael Norris, 17.507[4]; 5. 9M-Tim McCreadie, 17.517[11]; 6. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr, 17.539[14]; 7. 99-Devin Moran, 17.653[17]; 8. 1Z-Logan Zarin, 17.655[10]; 9. 28-Dennis Erb Jr, 17.659[1]; 10. 555-Brock Pinkerous, 17.665[3]; 11. 22*-Drake Troutman, 17.715[12]; 12. 22-Chris Ferguson, 17.743[9]; 13. 32-Bobby Pierce, 17.781[5]; 14. 71R-Rod Conley, 17.798[20]; 15. 17M-Dale McDowell, 17.878[15]; 16. 111-Max Blair, 17.958[18]; 17. B1-Brent Larson, 18.086[8]; 18. 1*-Kyle Moore, 18.115[19]; 19. 31-Lincoln Smith, 18.401[6]; 20. 59-Larry Bellman, 18.859[13]
CURRENT WORLD OF OUTLAWS LATE MODEL SERIES STANDINGS
Points Updated: May 30, 2026
Pos. No. Driver Hometown Points Gap Starts Wins Top 5s Top 10s
1 32 Bobby Pierce Oakwood, IL 3775 27 9 19 27
2 9 Nick Hoffman Mooresville, NC 3766 -9 27 6 23 26
3 1 Tyler Erb New Waverly, TX 3546 -229 27 1 11 19
4 22* Drake Troutman Hyndman, PA 3506 -269 27 0 9 17
5 9M Tim McCreadie Watertown, NY 3483 -292 27 2 9 16
6 19R Ryan Gustin Marshalltown, IA 3471 -304 27 1 8 14
7 74X Ethan Dotson Bakersfield, CA 3418 -357 26 0 4 15
8 58V Daulton Wilson Fayetteville, NC 3410 -365 26 0 7 13
9 19 Dustin Sorensen Rochester, MN 3348 -427 27 0 2 13
10 14 Trey Mills ST. Augustine, FL 3280 -495 23 0 1 10
11 28 Dennis Erb Carpentersville, IL 3253 -522 27 0 2 7
12 20TC Tristan Chamberlain Richmond, IN 3078 -697 27 0 0 2
13 B1 Brent Larson Lake Elmo, MN 3037 -738 24 0 1 1
14 1Z Logan Zarin Hookstown, PA 3018 -757 23 0 0 1
15 55E Eli Johnson Clewiston, FL 2812 -963 16 0 0 0
16 71 Hudson O'Neal Martinsville, IN 1602 -2173 10 2 6 9
17 T1 Todd Morrow Penton, AL 1488 -2287 8 0 0 0
18 49 Jake Timm Winona, MN 1472 -2303 13 0 0 1
19 44 Chris Madden Gray Court, SC 1411 -2364 12 1 5 6
20 1S Brandon Sheppard New Berlin, IL 1400 -2375 11 2 7 9
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