Bobby picked up his first career Florence win and 18th overall in 2015 on Sunday afternoon in the $5,000 to win Fall 50. He took the lead on lap 17 and led the rest of the way. He was fast qualifier of the 32 cars on hand and also won his heat race.
Bobby picked up his first career Florence win and 18th overall in 2015 on Sunday afternoon in the $5,000 to win Fall 50. He took the lead on lap 17 and led the rest of the way. He was fast qualifier of the 32 cars on hand and also won his heat race.
Bobby started fourth Sunday afternoon at the $5,000 to win UMP Fall Nationals at Eldora, but quickly took the lead from Eddie Carrier Jr., eight laps in and never looked back en route to victory in the 40-lap race. Bobby also locked up his second straight UMP DIRTcar national championship and extended his winning streak to eight races. The margin of victory was 2.3 seconds. “It’s awesome,” Pierce said. “I’m out of breath. I loved the track. It was fast and rough. I rode the cushion a little bit. It was tricky, but we got the win.”
Bobby swept the three-night Tri-City event earning him $6,000 and extending his win streak to seven as he closes in on his second consecutive UMP Late Model National Championship.
Bobby swept the weekend earning $17,000 while extending his win streak to four on Sunday night at Quincy. Starting sixth, he took the lead on the ninth lap and led the rest of the way to pick up the $2,000 Big Ten Series finale.
Bobby’s hot streak continued Saturday night as he picked up his third $5,000 win in a row and sixth victory in his last nine starts. He swept the night as he was the fast qualifier and won his heat race.
Bobby continued his late season surge on Friday night as he scored his fifth victory in his last eight starts, the $5,000 St. Louis Showdown at Tri-City.
Taking the lead after trading sliders with race long leader Brian Shirley, Bobby picked up the $5,000 Corn Belt Clash/American Late Model Series win Thursday night at Farmer City. Starting on the pole, Bobby fell back to third on the start as Shirley and Shannon Babb got around. Shirley got away early as Bobby and Babb tried to stay close as they all navigated through heavy lapped traffic. A caution would slow the action with fifteen laps to go bunching the field up and giving the leaders a clear track to battle out the remaining laps. On the restart, Bobby took second from Babb and set his sights on Shirley. The Smooth Operator used the very bottom of the track going into turn one sliding by Shirley to take the lead. Shirley battled back in turn four to retake the top spot. On the next lap, Bobby cleared Shirley off of turn two and put some distance between himself and second as he went on to capture the $5,000 top prize, his tenth feature win of the season.
Bobby duplicated his stirring — and wall-scraping — performance from Eldora’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event two months earlier as he finished runner-up in the sport’s most prestigious event, the World 100, Saturday night. He started fifth in the 100-lap race and moved up to second from laps 20-35 before slipping back to fifth through the race’s middle stages, but he went from fourth to second on the 90th lap and finished one spot shy of becoming the Earl Baltes-founded event’s youngest winner.
“I don’t know I never really wanted to finish with the car looking the way it did you know like at the Mud Summer Classic with the truck,” Pierce said of his beat-up No. 32. “But it looks the exact same way. I don’t know, I guess it just happens.
“I think it hurt me a little bit going down the straight away and besides that really didn’t seem to faze me. You know that’s when you know you have a good car, you know when you can do that to your spoiler and just notice a little difference instead of a huge difference.
I don’t know it was pretty cool, you know, this place is so much different than what it was heck last year, two years ago. Just to get the hang of it again, like we did back when I was first here for the World, it feels really good you know. It makes me look forward to coming back the next time. I don’t know, I wanted to get it for Illinois.”
Bobby scored his third consecutive victory and $2,000 top prize Sunday night at Spoon River Speedway.
Bobby picked up his eighth win of the season and second in a row Saturday night at I-55 Raceway.