BARBERVILLE, Fla. — The K&L Rumley Enterprises No. 6 team wasn’t planning on coming to DIRTcar Sunshine Nationals until days before the event. By the end of Friday night, they were glad they did.
After Hudson O’Neal finished up a two-win trip to Arizona for the Wild West Shootout, car owner Kevin Rumley elected to take a detour on his way home to Lexington, N.C., and swing by Volusia Speedway Park to try to keep the hot streak going. They did exactly that on Friday night, as O’Neal pulled off the wire-to-wire victory on the second night of the 2026 season for the World of Outlaws Late Model Series presented by DIRTVision.
The Martinsville, Ind., driver powered around the outside of Bilstein Pole Award winner Brandon Overton on the start, but the No. 76 remained his closest competitor early on. The most dominant driver throughout the weekend, Chris Madden, was never far behind until he slowed at the top of Turn 4 while running second to bring out the first caution of the night.
Overton began to fade on the ensuing restart, and in his place, Tyler Erb emerged as the driver to take the fight to O’Neal. By the final lap, “Terbo” was right on O’Neal’s back bumper and dove low through Turns 1 and 2 to make it side-by-side down the backstretch. However, O’Neal had enough speed on the top to clear Erb into Turn 3, shutting the door at the checkers to seal his fourth Volusia win.
“I about gave it away going down into [Turn] 1,” O’Neal said. “I got a little bit too high, got my left-rear in the rough and it kind of jumped my right-front up. Whenever I seen [Erb] leaving [Turn] 2, I was like, ‘Oh no.’ I knew I got a better run than him, and I was just trying my best not to miss the bottom. I wasn’t sure where he was at.”
Erb crossed the line second by a car length to match his Volusia career best, while Tim McCreadie, Brandon Sheppard and Nick Hoffman made up the rest of the top five.
The finish:
Feature (35 Laps): 1. 6-Hudson O’Neal[2]; 2. 1-Tyler Erb[4]; 3. 9M-Tim McCreadie[11]; 4. 1S-Brandon Sheppard[5]; 5. 9-Nick Hoffman[8]; 6. 111-Max Blair[7]; 7. 8-Kyle Strickler[9]; 8. 17M-Dale McDowell[15]; 9. 19R-Ryan Gustin[12]; 10. 32-Bobby Pierce[23]; 11. 22*-Drake Troutman[14]; 12. 97-Cody Overton[17]; 13. 76-Brandon Overton[1]; 14. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[18]; 15. 20TC-Tristan Chamberlain[22]; 16. 74X-Ethan Dotson[10]; 17. 11R-Josh Rice[20]; 18. 1Z-Logan Zarin[26]; 19. 58V-Daulton Wilson[25]; 20. 49-Jake Timm[24]; 21. B1-Brent Larson[16]; 22. 14-Trey Mills[27]; 23. 114-Jordan Koehler[19]; 24. 76N-Blair Nothdurft[13]; 25. 19-Dustin Sorensen[21]; 26. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[6]; 27. 44-Chris Madden[3]; 28. 55E-Eli Johnson[28]
