FERGUS FALLS, Minn. — The northern swing couldn’t be going any better for Bobby Pierce.
The trip started with a wire-to-wire win at 141 Speedway in Wisconsin. Pierce then traveled over to Minnesota for a night at Ogilvie Raceway, where he outran Jonathan Davenport, Nick Hoffman and several others for a second-straight win.
The next stop was the first World of Outlaws Late Model Series presented by DIRTVision race in three years at I-94 emr Speedway, a place where he won back in 2023.
The 2026 edition ended with the same result, as Pierce parked the No. 32 in victory lane for the 13th time this season in World of Outlaws competition.
His wins at 141 and Ogilvie both came from the pole, but Pierce had a little more work to do on the start this time from the fourth starting spot.
Pierce made quick work of Hoffman on the opening lap to get to third, but out front, it was a battle between youth and experience. The front row featured 21-year-old rookie Dallon Murty racing for the lead with 53-year-old Tim McCreadie, who has competed in the division for as long as Murty has been alive.
That tussle was interrupted on Lap 3 for a flat left-rear tire on Eli Johnson’s car, and Pierce took advantage of the restart to blast past McCreadie up high in Turn 2. One lap later, Murty got his first chance to experience Pierce’s signature deep slider for the lead from the driver’s seat. That moved Pierce up to the top spot, which he never relinquished for the rest of the race.
Murty started to drop back through the field, but McCreadie and Hoffman both kept Pierce in sight as the 40-lapper progressed, all while racing each other hard for second. Hoffman was ahead when the final caution flew with two laps left, but he didn’t have anything for Pierce on the final sprint to the finish.
“I saw Nick was running the bottom, and I really didn’t get a very good restart on the last one,” Pierce said. “Feel like I kind of spun the tires, the uke tire placement was a bit hard to grab that last bit of traction on the bottom there. Kind of protected a little bit in Turn 1, probably made it look a little exciting there for a second until I got that cushion blast off the corner.”
The win was the 55th of Pierce’s World of Outlaws career, putting him 19 behind Darrell Lanigan in third on the all-time wins list.
Starting at the Dirt Late Model Dream, Pierce has gone on a run of seven wins in his last eight starts, winning $216,500 in the past 22 days.
Hoffman made it three-straight podiums to start the northern swing in second ahead of McCreadie in third, who earned his 200th World of Outlaws top five.
The finish:
Feature (40 Laps): 1. 32-Bobby Pierce[4]; 2. 9-Nick Hoffman[3]; 3. 9M-Tim McCreadie[2]; 4. 19R-Ryan Gustin[5]; 5. 1-Tyler Erb[7]; 6. 14-Trey Mills[14]; 7. 97-Cody Overton[13]; 8. 58V-Daulton Wilson[6]; 9. 19-Dustin Sorensen[11]; 10. 28M-Sam Mars[10]; 11. 49-Jonathan Davenport[9]; 12. 74X-Ethan Dotson[8]; 13. 13-Dallon Murty[1]; 14. 22*-Jake Timm[12]; 15. B1-Brent Larson[19]; 16. 20TC-Tristan Chamberlain[18]; 17. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[17]; 18. 1Z-Logan Zarin[15]; 19. 8-Matthew Larson[22]; 20. 7-Ross Robinson[16]; 21. 1E-Amelia Eisenschenk[24]; 22. 55E-Eli Johnson[20]; 23. 16-Tyler Bruening[23]; 24. 15-Laela Eisenschenk[21]
