Bobby added another World of Outlaws Late Model Series victory Saturday night, winning the $20,000 Battle at the Border at Sharon (OH) Speedway.
Starting third in the 60-lap feature, Bobby wasted little time moving into contention, taking over second at the flagstand to complete the opening lap.
From there, he stalked the race leader through the opening stages.
Several times Bobby dove to the bottom entering the corners and pulled alongside the leader, but each bid for the top spot came up just short as he remained within a half-second of the lead.
The opportunity finally came as lapped traffic entered the picture.
With the leader negotiating slower cars on lap 18, Bobby capitalized when the frontrunner bobbled on the cushion exiting turn two. Pulling alongside down the backstretch, Bobby completed the pass with a perfectly executed slide job in turns three and four to take command of the race.
A caution one lap later erased his early advantage, but Bobby remained in control on the restart.
By lap 30, he had opened a 2.4-second lead, a margin he maintained through lap 41 while continuing to adapt to the ever-changing racing surface.
Cautions on laps 45 and 47 again brought the field back to his rear bumper, but each time Bobby executed flawless restarts and quickly rebuilt his advantage. He stretched the lead back to two seconds by lap 51 and to 2.7 seconds with just three laps remaining before taking the checkered flag 1.4 seconds ahead of the field.
“This track gets super slippery,” Bobby said. “When we’re turning down across the hill and across the black, the tires are spinning. You have to wait and wait and wait. When you’re the leader, you just want to gas it, so it’s hard to do that. But I felt like we had our restarts pretty good.”
Bobby credited the team’s adjustments throughout the evening for giving him a race-winning car.
“The car was really good tonight,” he said. “Earlier, we were trying to find the balance, and in the feature the car felt really balanced and really good. A couple of tweaks we made throughout the night really helped.”
As the track continued to evolve, Bobby found himself constantly searching for the fastest groove.
“The track started kind of breaking up there towards the end with the rain they had yesterday,” he said. “I was trying to find some of those good spots, and some spots weren’t fast and some were. It was really fun and challenging. I kept changing my line even there in the lead. One lap was good in the middle, one lap was good on top, then the bottom kind of came back in. It’s fun when you have to chase the racetrack like that.”
The victory marked Bobby’s 17th World of Outlaws triumph of the season, adding another $20,000 payday to an already impressive campaign.