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Bobby Pierce Talks Winning The Prairie Dirt Classic! · Kenny Wallace Media

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Well, you're looking at him right now, the fastest dirt,
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super late model driver in America.
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And I'm going to save the world right now because Bobby, heck,
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you could go over to Australia. You're still going to kick their
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butt. How you doing, buddy?
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Bobby Pierce. Doing really good.
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Glad to see you, Kenny. And yeah, man, it's been great
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lately. Hopefully we can keep it going.
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We're here at Cedar Lake this weekend, so a race I won last
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year. So we'll see if we can keep the
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five in a row going to six in a row.
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We thought we would try something new on Kenny
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conversation. Bobby, we're checking in with
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you and I think we're going to say Kenny conversation checking
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in and that's what we're doing. Maybe 15 minutes long.
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So I want to thank you for being the first driver ever on on
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checking in. So let's just do that.
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I saw yesterday the World of Outlaw had a feel good
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situation. All of you, even your
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competitors, you went on a float trip.
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Tell me about that. Yeah, that was pretty nice.
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First time I've ever done it. I I guess I did do when I was a
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little kid, like two or three years old.
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So I don't remember any of it. But the Apple River, which is
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like a 10 minute drive from Cedar Lake, float down the
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river. And heck, there was like 75
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people between drivers and crew and fans and Steve Francis was
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there and WRG officials and everything.
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Yeah, it was good time. It was great weather, sunny, not
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too hot and the water wasn't too cold and it was just a nice
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relaxing time. Had some drinks and flowed down
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the river and then we stopped and had some tacos afterwards.
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So awesome day. I cannot get my wife to do those
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because she think she thinks there's going to be snakes.
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Did you see any snakes? No, I was actually bummed we
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didn't see any wildlife. We because I said it.
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I said I like to see nature and I said I wanted to see like a a
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Beaver or a snake or an alligator in Wisconsin, but
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didn't see anything. Was that all about maybe just a
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mid season 3/4 away season break?
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You guys have been racing a lot. Why do you think the World of
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Outlaws did this? Yeah, I think it's a good to
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have a break. You know we've been going hard
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this summer. Obviously all the races we do
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aren't all where about law races as we we try to get around about
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all of it between XR and Lucas Oil and Flow.
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So heck we race 10 races in a row weeks like 2 weeks ago.
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So literally 10 nights in a row. We've have been having our own
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summer nationals, but it's nice to have some breaks over now.
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So Charlie's going to air this at different times, but right
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now it's it's we are on the same time zone.
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I'm in Saint Louis, you're in Cedar Lake, Wisconsin.
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It's it's 2:10 and you're getting ready to go practice
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here at 630 drivers meeting. I want to thank you for popping
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on. I guess I guess I want to start
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out like this. Is this your best year ever in
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dirt racing because, and I mean this nice.
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Don't take this wrong. It seems like you're either
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winning or blowing a motor. I'm glad you're not mad at me
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because that's what I see. You're either winning.
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Is this your best year ever? Yeah, it I think it is as to
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this point as far as the winds and I only had one crown jewel
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at this point last year. And then of course, I went to
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Cedar Lake and Florence and won both of those, which made it 3
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for the year. But now I already have 3 crown
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jewels or three 50,000 to win races heading into this weekend.
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We've already won three of them. So it's definitely, I think it's
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better. And even we went to Vato, we
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almost can win six races there, and we won four of the six,
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almost won them all. Larson kind of got us that last
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night there. But yeah, it's been a great
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year. Of course, this being the second
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year in a Longhorn, you know that's going to help because
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last year was kind of figuring it out a little.
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Didn't take us long to figure it out.
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And yeah, so better year in the sense of that, worse year in the
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sense of if we're not winning, we're having bad luck, we're
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having crazy stuff happen. It's been a roller coaster
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season up and down, up and down, you know, and that's how racing
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goes. But this year has been pretty
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crazy with that. So it is wild to think that this
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has been my best year as far as wins with everything else.
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I want to get to Fairbury. We're going to get to it right
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away. But before we get to Fairbury,
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the Prairie Dirt Classic, which you just won, incredible win, I
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want to comment on something. I want you to, you know,
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respond. I feel like you have a God-given
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talent. I also feel like now this year
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more so I always felt like it, but now this year I'm convinced
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that you're kind of one with the car.
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Like like I don't think you even have to think about what you're
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going to do it just it's just like it's like you are in
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control of that car. You know, as to where, you know,
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the car's a big vehicle weighs a lot, 20, four, 2500 lbs.
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You do you feel confident? I mean, because it looks like
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you're manhandling that car. Look, the more you race, as you
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know, experience goes a long way and if if you do something about
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every day, you're going to get better at your craft.
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And you know, like I said, we went race 10 races in a row.
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If you can have the opportunity that you're going to be better
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at no matter what it is you do, if you're trying to pick up a
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new hobby and you've never done it before, if you do it every
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day, you're going to get better at it and you're going to become
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one within what you're talking about.
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So I do feel like I got a lot of confidence.
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But you know, my dad, he's very smart.
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We work great together. He's been with him a whole
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career and I got a good career and right now I got three full
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time guys. Ever had three full time guys
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before? It's, you know, that's pretty
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tough to do to have that many crew guys and, and actually make
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it work and the logistics of everything.
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So but when you race that much, you you need that help and it's
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just it's tough. We're all working really hard.
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And yeah, I think just the experience and everything like
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that goes a long way. I've been doing this stuff since
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I was 1414 was when I first started racing super late miles
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1314. So I've been doing it for half
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my life. I I need to do a Kenny
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conversation with the the tall cool one, your dad, Bob Pierce,
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and I wished he was there with you right now.
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So we all want to know he comes to Victory Lane.
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Let's go to fair Berry now He comes to Victory Lane.
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Got the big old gash, got the blood and and you're such a
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loving son. You could see you looked up and
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like you were worried about your dad.
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He goes, he said. He said he got knocked out.
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Tell OK what happened well. He first, he first comes up to
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me and he said I got knocked out, but I'm I'm here, I'm I'm
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OK, I'll you know, I knew he wasn't knocked out.
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He signalled me the race. But in my first impression when
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he said that, I was like thinking a fan, crazy fan, a
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fair Berry. You know, it's crazy there.
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It's rambunctious, like someone just hit him upside the head.
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Who knows, But he said it was a rock.
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A rock hit him on like lap ten of the race and he was people
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next to him were like, oh, you're bleeding and stuff.
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He's like, I don't care. I got a signal.
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And then even after the race, even that later that night, I
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think it was, I mean this is a wild night.
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And when I eventually got home at like 5, AMI had no water in
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my house. So I had to go shower at my
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parents house. I had to drive back to the shop.
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Hold on, this is my job. Why no?
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Why no water in your house? You know, when you're barely
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home, stuff just breaks down I guess, and you can't stay on top
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of it. OK, good stuff.
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It was a water pump issue. Abby ended up fixing it
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actually. So.
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She's a bad ass. Yeah, but yeah, so then I went
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and showered and they were just getting there at like 5:30 in
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the morning and his head was still bloody.
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And I was like, are you going to wash that off?
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I was like, he's like, Nah, I'm all right.
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Oh my God, he, he. That was it.
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That was his Wounded Warrior sort of speak.
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I'm not stealing that from our our our great soldiers, but he's
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a warrior. He's like, I'm going to wear
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this like a badge of honor. So OK, Bobby, I'll paint the
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picture and then you respond. So now straighten me out when
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I'm wrong. You go to fair Berry, you have
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motor issues. You have to start last.
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You take a whirl of outlaw provisional.
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You start last. You go to 4th.
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Before that you missed, you missed a little bit.
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So the motor issue was on Wednesday, that was during the
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flow race, which had nothing to do with pretty classic.
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And then the PDC started on Thursday.
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But so at the flow race we had the motor issue in hot laps and
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I think it was caused from we raced on a really rough
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racetrack the night before, probably should have stuff,
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should have been looked over more.
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It broke in hot laps. We end up finishing fourth the
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flow race and then at the PDC on Friday night's prelim race, we
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were just about to get to the lead in the prelim race and the
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drive shaft broke so. That's why it was.
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Provisional. Yeah, you know, talking about
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that. I always tell my friends I'm
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constantly doing maintenance and the key is to replace this stuff
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before it breaks. So I know what you're talking
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about. We have a lot of what we call
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wheel spin. When we get on a rough track the
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motor free spins and and then lands back down OK.
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Lands, yeah. Yeah.
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So I mean it's it's like if you don't put new U bolts in the
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drive shaft or new drive shaft or new motor, it's just it, it's
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hard to keep up with. I'm with you, Bobby.
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OK, so because of that, you take the provisional, you start, what
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was it, 29th, 30th? They started 30 cars they had.
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Cars started 24th because the rest behind me was provisionals
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for track, provisional and outlaw emergency provisionals.
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So you put on a display and I'm going to let you I'm going to
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let you take it over here in a minute, but this is for the fans
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that didn't watch. So you start basically 24th, you
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get to 4th and you're coming. You're.
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Coming up, crowds. On their feet and you you're
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right front gets into somebody you spin out you go to the dead
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last again and you come who win it on the last corner take over
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now what in the with with 40 go when you spin out that's where I
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want you to take over right now. Tell me about it.
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So when I spun out, which it was a deal where a lap car had my
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vision kind of blocked and then I went below the lap car and
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then there was a car right there.
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And that kind of deal where you can't get welled up in time and
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you almost take yourself out instead of taking that person
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out. And I sat there, got the engine
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fired back up and was like, man, I probably just blew my shot at
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winning the Prater Classic this year because you know, you never
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know if the race tracks even going to be good again for the
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last bit of the race to even get back to the front.
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Your tires are probably shot by then.
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You're you know, the momentum you had just got killed.
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So fired an engine back up, rolled around, looked at Bob up
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there. He was signaling me.
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He was trying to look at the crew guys and I was, it's like
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I, I'm, I was thinking Bob was going to be like, you know,
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sometimes he gets. Closer.
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Throws the signal gloves down or whatever and just watches the
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rest of their race and. So now you're on an island by
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yourself sometimes, like you think.
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So what did your dad do this time?
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He didn't throw his gloves down, did he?
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No, he actually didn't. He actually was cool, calm and
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collected for a change. And I, I had to go to the
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official because my race heaver was like cutting in and out.
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And I stopped to ask the official where I was going to
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restart. And he said because I talked to
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the official later, my friend Maddie, he thought I was going
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to be coming up with some excuse as to how I should get my spot
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back. And I was like, no, I just need
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to know where I restart. And so they told me I restarted
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19th and 40 laps to go restarting 19th.
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I had to do all that, all that passing that I did, had to do it
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over again. And in my head I, I thought, OK,
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a top five is not out of the picture here, but a win is
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definitely out of the picture. Like I'll be lucky to get a top
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five now because I had a fast car and I got from 24th to 4th
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and 60 laps. So I was like, OK, I can go from
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19th and maybe 5th if things work out and I got to, what was
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it 6th with or 7th with 20 laps to go.
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So I was over halfway there with 20 laps out of the 40 and
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finally got to 4th. And it was a battle.
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I mean, it was a battle getting to there.
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You can imagine what was going on and stuff.
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And when I got to 4th, I was like, OK, we can literally have
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a shot at winning this thing. And I was starting to get a
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little, I wasn't really getting nervous until I got the 3rd.
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So when I was in fourth, Ricky Thornton ends up hitting the
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wall, breaking the J bar. He was running second.
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So that put me in 3rd with a restart.
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So we're 10 to go and I'm in 3rd and I'm thinking, OK, the guy
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running first and second are running bottom to middle mostly,
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and I'm running top. So I was like, I literally have
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a shot because of the lines they're running, the line I'm
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running and there's 10 to go. And I got all this momentum
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built back up and I was like, man, this would be the craziest
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race I've ever been a part of if I can pull this off.
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So I started getting a little nervous as in the sense of
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thinking what can happen and I just need to keep doing my thing
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and not not screw it up. So got the second mile to get
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the second. Then there was 5 laps to go and
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by the time I got the second Nick Hoffman, which was leading,
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he was quite a bit of ways ahead of me and I was like, I don't
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think I'm going to catch him in these five laps.
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And I got lucky with another caution.
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Brandon Shepherd has a flat tire.
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So if it wasn't for that chain of events, I probably wouldn't
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have had a chance to win. So now here we are restarting
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second with five laps to go and it's just it's a 5 lap shootout
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right for Prater Classic. Biggest, biggest race of my life
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in the sense of it's eluded me forever and I've ran second so
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many times and 3rd. I've been so close and things
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with the car happened, you know, I guess as Ruben said, we LED
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262 laps bigger classic and haven't won it yet.
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And then we restart and I, I, I could almost feel the energy of
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that place in the driver's seat, like I knew the crowd was
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experiencing in that moment and how pumped up everybody had to
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been. And thinking, just thinking to
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myself, why, if I pull this off like I'm dreaming, right?
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Cuz ain't no way that that just happened.
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Me and Nick having a good battle.
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He's running like middle, bottom, middle, bottom.
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I'm trying to get around him. He's swinging out to the wall
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and every lap I'm, I'm just having enough just to get back
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to his rear bumper, but not really do anything.
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Two laps to go and I'm bouncing through the holes about push and
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I just had to gas and I had a good, good exit and I got under
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Nick. We went and turned 3 and we were
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side by side and three and four. And what that did was when I got
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to his inside, it actually pulled him down low on the next
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corner because he thought he had to, he thought he had to come
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down a little bit right because he saw me on the inside.
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So I I went back to the outside and got to run around him and
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passed him and it was just, I think I blacked out coming to
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the checkered and had a a blackout moment where I don't
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really know exactly what I was experiencing.
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As a driver, I just want to talk about the white flag is in the
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air. You go into turn one, that run
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that you got, you know, white flags in the air.
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You going to turn one, you get the car turned the way you want
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it. Did you lay in the gas more
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right there because it seemed like you got a better run coming
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to the checkered off of to you. I mean you literally cleared in
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going down the back straight away.
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Do you remember what your foot was doing?
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Did you say screw it and just lay it down and see what would
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happen? So when we took the restart with
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five to go, we turned the second lap.
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After the restart, me and Nick both turned a lap time that was
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like really fast. Like we hadn't been that fast in
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the race since around lap 50 or 60 something.
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This is 100 lap race. So we were on the gas on the
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white flag lap. You know, I still hadn't passed
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him yet. So I knew when I went in turn
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one I had to make AI had to make the best corner that I have yet,
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right? I said when I go.
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In turn, I'm going to. Have to nail this freaking
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corner and how you had to enter the corner.
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It was so rough on the top on entrance.
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I was kind of going right below that.
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But you know, when you're on lap 100 of 100 lap race, your tires
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are gone. You don't have much traction in
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the slick. So you go in there and you're
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you got to be gentle. But because the harder you drive
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it, sometimes you're not faster right.
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You know how that is. So you have to just hit it
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right. And when I finally got to the
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moisture up there, I remember just matting it.
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I just matted the gas and it luckily the car didn't bounce a
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certain way. It it it bounced the correct way
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and I had a heck of a corner and just enough where I could get
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down and kind of block his entrance into three.
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So it was. It was crazy.
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Great, great description. So you entered a little easier,
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a little lower and then matted it then when?
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Yeah, yeah, Good stuff. So first of all, it was
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incredible. One of the greatest dirt races
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of all time. We we've seen a lot of good
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ones, but with the reason we say this one was one of the greatest
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of all time, One of them, one of them is because of what you went
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through. Because of what you went
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through. You went to the back, you know,
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twice. You started in the back, you
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went to the front, you went to the back.
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So that's why this race, this rates as one of the greatest
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crown jewel wins of all time for all of us.
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So I think I know the answer, but I want you to tell us all.
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You said, Oh my God, I think I started crying.
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I'm so emotional. I want to hear it from you.
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Why were you so emotional? Yeah.
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Even right now it's it's pretty crazy to think about.
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So that's. OK, you can cry.
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I cry. The PDC champion.
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There he is, ladies and gentlemen.
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So this race has been probably the biggest race of my career
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that you hear it all the time. You know, fans will say when are
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you going to win the PC? This be your ear, this be your
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ear. And it's like when the PDC rolls
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around, it is the thing that everyone talks about because
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ever since I was younger, so I've watched this race grow to
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be what it is. You know, it used to not be this
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big of a race. It used to be more of a, it was
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a big race in Illinois, but now it's a nationally well known big
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race. 50,000 win, $500 per lot. You can win $100,000 at that
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race. So the amount that this race is
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just, I've been so close. I've been passed on the last lap
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at this race. So I've been in Nick Hoffman's
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shoes. I've flipped going for the lead
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this race. I've I've ran second to Kyle
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Larson. I ran second to Ricky Thornton
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with a broken right rear shock, all sorts of things.
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I've even when I was younger at this race, I thought I was going
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to win it one time and late caution came out and I got
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passed in the 3rd. So my dad's won this race five
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times and I've won it zero times, but now I finally won it
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and that was a mixture there. You take this whole year of
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everything that's happened earlier in the year and
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everything how I said, it's been a roller coaster year and we're
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trying to climb back up there in points and we're trying to just
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work. We're working so hard.
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You know, we've been on the road a lot, the crews working hard,
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everybody's working hard and lots of sacrifice.
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So everything that went into that weekend, breaking the motor
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early to begin the week, having the drive shaft break in the
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prelim night, starting 24th, going to the front, spinning
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out, thinking your nights over, restarting 19th, coming back to
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the front, winning it on the last lap in dramatic fashion,
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like it had everything. You know, when Matt Curle came
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to my window, which Matt Curl is the owner promoter of Fairbury
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Speedway, he came to my window to congratulate me right before
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I was like getting out of the car and they were kind of
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holding me in the car for a second.
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You know how that is sometimes they're like, we're not ready
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yet. We're not ready.
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We got to set up. So you got to sit in that car
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and you're just wanting to get out of it.
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And he came to my window and he said Congrats.
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And me and Matt have a long history of just, you know, he's
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seen all the heartbreak we've endured there and everything.
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And I guess when he came in my window, I just started losing
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it. I just started crying.
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And you know, we finally, finally won it so.
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I think, I think it's go ahead. When I got out of the car, I
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freaking I was beating the heck out of the roof.
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With flag. Yeah.
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You. Yeah, I loved it.
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Yeah. And then I spiked the flag and
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spiked the hat and then. Damn it, Damn it.
23:15
Damn it. Yes, Yeah.
23:17
And then you and then you come off the car and you kind of you
23:21
have this rush of adrenaline that's now kind of like
23:24
crashing. And when I got off the car, I
23:29
just wanted to see my family and crew and mostly Abby.
23:34
I knew Abby was Abby was there and I didn't know where she was
23:37
at. I was like, where's Abby?
23:38
And and we hugged and. Did you almost pass out?
23:44
Did you almost pass out from the?
23:46
Hyperactivity. Yeah, the hyperactivity, just
23:49
whenever you have that rush of adrenaline, you know, the last
23:51
couple laps and cross the checkered flag and then you get
23:55
on the roof and you celebrate. You have this adrenaline high.
23:57
And then you come to an adrenaline crash and it's like,
23:59
yeah, you got to, you got to like, hold up, I need some
24:03
water. I want to, I want to do an
24:04
audible here while I have you. We're at 25 minutes and we were
24:09
already, I told Charlie we're going to do 15 minutes.
24:11
He went, oh, yeah, right. So yeah, OK, fair.
24:14
Berry. I was there for Indiana Midget
24:18
week and I watched Rico Abrew. Those Midget guys just throw
24:22
sliders on each other, which were ugly. the IT, it seems like
24:28
fair Berry, there's a different set of rules in a good way.
24:32
In other words, I watched Brandon Shepherd throw a slider
24:37
on you for the win and just kind of climbed all up over your car
24:40
and it's like, OK, that's what you do to win the race.
24:46
Tell me about fair Berry and sliders.
24:48
Is it kind of like it? Is it like OK for the win?
24:53
You know, that's you just kind of do it because I watch this
24:56
during when Rico Avery. It might have been five years
24:59
ago, but I I watched some Midget guys just throw the most
25:02
craziest dirty sliders. Tell me about sliders for the
25:06
win at at Fair Berry. I think last lap, go for it in
25:13
the sense of don't clean the guy out, but if you think it's going
25:18
to be a close one, that's probably one race where you're
25:21
kind of OK to go for it in a in a way.
25:23
Yeah. When Shepherd, When Shepherd
25:26
slid me, I was cool with it. This was back in like I think
25:32
2019. Yeah, they they showed the
25:35
highlights. That's why I bring it up.
25:36
I'm like, Oh my God, he cleaned his clock.
25:39
I LED most of this race and then he the last lap, he catches me,
25:43
slides me and kind of puts me in the wall a little bit.
25:45
But but the thing about it is that whole race I had like very,
25:52
very little power steering. It's a long story on what
25:55
happened. It was an issue with the power
25:57
steering tank, but I thought I wasn't even supposed to be in
26:03
that position in that race anyway.
26:04
So to be winning that race at the moment was a shock.
26:10
And so when he went to slide me, I 9 by 10, you know, I can see
26:15
him coming and I could you can kind of hit the brake pedal,
26:19
turn down the hill, hopefully get enough run to clear him and
26:22
and win the race, right. Do a crossover, they call it.
26:25
But I didn't have the strength of that moment in the race
26:29
because of the power steering issue to even turn the wheel.
26:32
So I just stayed in the gas and I actually kind of ran into him
26:35
in a sense, and everyone thought it looked worse on his part
26:38
because I kind of stayed in the gas.
26:40
Yeah, I, I, I see that a lot where people blame people where
26:46
actually the guy that's getting slid, like you said that, you
26:49
know, you see him coming up and and drivers will run into the
26:52
driver. They say he threw a dirty slider
26:55
on me. I'm like, no, I was sly.
26:56
You, you ran into me. I'm glad you agree with that,
27:00
because that's the way I see that too.
27:02
Bobby, want to want to end it like this.
27:08
You have to feel good about what you've done with your own race
27:11
team. Now, this is a compliment, but
27:13
it's a little controversial. You and I've had a lengthy Kenny
27:18
conversation. You own your own team.
27:21
I'm going to repeat it. You own your own team.
27:26
You've got to feel good about yourself owning your own team.
27:30
After you see what has happened to some of the other drivers
27:33
like like a Ricky Thornton at the time, you know, winning
27:37
everything course. You 2 weren't racing each other
27:40
back-to-back. You know one's over at Lucas Oil
27:43
that you're over at World Outlaws, and for him to get
27:46
fired, did you ever think for a moment, damn, I'm glad I owned
27:50
my own team? Yeah, you definitely, whenever
27:54
you see stuff like that, you think about that.
27:58
It's not easy. You know, there's there's always
28:00
going to be a positive and a negative to everything, whether
28:03
you're on your own team or whether you race for somebody.
28:07
You know, we all go through a lot.
28:08
Racing owners have to go through a lot.
28:14
It just comes down to, you know, you can, you can I've seen JD
28:19
have a heck of a year when he was in the Rumley 6 car.
28:22
But it can be little things that, you know, this was a few
28:26
years back when he was winning everything, right?
28:28
It could be a little thing seen that just if something's just
28:31
not clicking, someone might think it's best to go separate
28:37
ways. And I don't know whatever the
28:40
deal is there, but yeah, it's, it's, it's sometimes tough
28:45
owning my own race team thinking that, man, all this money, I I'm
28:50
winning could be winning, you know, I could be doing it and
28:53
getting a good solid percentage with no expenses because, you
28:58
know, I win these races, but I still have expenses.
28:59
Whereas most drivers if they go win a race, they get a good
29:04
percentage of that and they don't have any expenses really.
29:06
I mean, so it's it, it definitely it's, it's crazy to
29:12
see that happening, I guess. Yeah, you bring up a good point.
29:17
The six car with Kevin Rumley and Jonathan Davenport, they
29:21
dominate and then shut the team down.
29:24
Ricky Thornton, of course, that was six years ago or so.
29:27
Ricky Thornton dominates and they fire him.
29:30
It is a funny business and I guess we'll just leave it at
29:34
that, Bobby. And yeah, I like that look that
29:39
you gave us inside your brain because when you do pop a motor
29:43
and they're 5560 thousand dollars and then you win 50
29:46
grand, you're like, well, I only lost 5 grand.
29:49
So I hear you, buddy. OK, listen, I know you got to
29:54
practice in a little bit there at Cedar Lake, Wisconsin.
29:57
You're going for 50,000 win. Bobby, thank you so much for
30:01
jumping on here and taking us through the legendary win at
30:05
Fairbury for the Prairie Dirt Classic.
30:08
Yeah, thank you. Thanks for having me.
30:10
It's it's nice to relive that moment and I I I'm still
30:15
thinking about that race. I I've watched replay several
30:18
times. It's.
30:19
Just crazy so. Yeah, hopefully we can go make
30:24
some more magic this weekend. It's your lake.
30:26
All right, buddy. Well, listen, there he is.
30:28
Bobby Pierce, the winningest dirt racer this year.
30:32
He's won his dream race to Prairie Dirt Classic in Fair
30:35
Berry. And this is the Kenny
30:37
conversation. Remember, we are in podcast
30:40
form. You can listen to Bobby on your
30:42
way to work or on your way from work back home.
30:46
We are in iTunes and Spotify. Until next time.
30:50
All right, Bobby, thank you so much and goodbye everybody.
30:53
Can I give a huge shout out real quick to a couple people?
30:57
Yes, at. The 32 minute mark, I'm going to
30:59
thank Gary from Low Voltage Solutions.
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And I want to say that was pretty cool.
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We are 32 minutes, 40 seconds. And you said 32 seconds because
31:31
that's your #32 minutes. Excuse me.
31:34
Yeah. Good stuff, Bobby.
31:36
And a shout out, yes, to Gary Saints in Low Voltage Solution,
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my sponsor, and, of course, your sponsor.
31:42
All right, everybody, wish him luck.
31:44
He's going for another 50 grand to win at Cedar Lake, Wisconsin
31:47
this week. See you later.