CONCORD, N.C. — The man they call “Terbo” has a new title: “Outlaw.”
Tyler Erb is gearing up to run the full World of Outlaws Late Model Series presented by DIRTVision tour for the first time since 2018, with his sights set on winning a championship.
“The last two years, I’ve just picked and chose,” Erb said. “It’s been really good and I’m glad we did. The way the money is now, the money keeps going up and up for the major series. It was just time for us to give it another go this year and, hopefully, try to win the points. That’s the whole goal behind it.”
Despite not chasing season-long points, the New Waverly, Texas, native hasn’t been lacking in the win column in recent seasons. He’s won 33 times in the past two years, including major scores like his World of Outlaws win at Mississippi Thunder Speedway last May and the last two National 100s at East Alabama Motor Speedway.
The way Erb sees it, the quantity of his wins and the variety of tracks they’ve come at proves that his Best Performance Motorsports team is returning to the tour with everything they need to contend for a title.
“It’s just a good time for us to do it,” Erb said. “I feel like we have all our ducks in a row, our equipment’s the best it’s ever been. My owner Eric [Brock], all of my sponsors are super excited to try and do it again, and it just seems like the perfect time to do it. And on top of that, we’re running good. The last two years, we’ve gotten a good grasp on what’s going on, so it’s just time to make the most of it. Winning a championship would be the ultimate deal here.”
Many of Erb’s biggest moments as of late have come while following the DIRTcar Summer Nationals full-time in 2024 and 2025. He earned a combined 17 wins across those two campaigns and scored his first Hell Tour title in 2024.
“We won it the first year, and last year we came up a little bit short,” Erb said. “It wasn’t from a lack of speed or effort, it’s just a tough deal. You’re not going to win every single thing you go to, but we were obviously very consistent both years doing it. It’s been good, just because we can kind of say, ‘OK, we ran 30 races and this is what it took, this is how we did it.’ So, to spread that out over a year, it just really puts it into perspective what you need to do to have a chance to win the Outlaw points.”
Erb is set to join a clash of titans all season long, with the likes of reigning champion Bobby Pierce, Nick Hoffman, Tim McCreadie, Ryan Gustin and more committed to the full tour.
“It’s just a testament to our team, we can unload anywhere,” Erb said. “We’ve won all the way from Arizona to Florida, New York, Wisconsin, anything and anywhere in between. We obviously don’t shy away from going to races. Really, for the last five or six years, I’ve gone to basically every major event. I feel like I’ve got good notes and a good idea, and just trying to put it all into fruition this year.”
