Bobby turned in a strong performance Saturday night at Brownstown (IN) Speedway, finishing third in the prestigious $50,000-to-win Jackson 100 with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series.
Starting ninth in the 100-lap feature, Bobby wasted little time moving forward. By lap nine, he was already inside the top five, then made a bold outside move on the front stretch that carried him past two cars into third with 81 laps remaining. Just one lap later, he powered into second running the high line, and with 78 to go, Bobby slid into the lead in turn four.
For much of the first half of the race, Bobby set the pace, driving away from the field before a restart with 55 laps to go shuffled him back to second. Another restart with 35 to go saw him slip to third, but he stayed in the mix, trading second position multiple times in the closing laps before ultimately securing a third-place podium finish.
Reflecting on the night, Bobby said, “A lot of times here I’ve been good in the beginning of the race. It’s a great feeling when you drive from ninth to the lead and then you’re driving away from them. But it was so early in the race still, heck, we had a whole ‘nother feature to go. It was like 50 to go still at that point. I knew the track was going to change some and once the speed slowed down a little bit, I feel like that’s when I struggle, just keeping the car in the race track once we get that slow and we’re just crawling around there.”
While he wanted more, Bobby left the night feeling encouraged: “This kind of feels like a win because we’ve been not struggling but we just haven’t been running up front like we want to so this feels pretty good.”