{"id":5107,"date":"2022-06-23T04:13:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T08:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dirtcarsummernationals.com\/?p=5107"},"modified":"2023-08-12T23:32:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T03:32:34","slug":"great-feeling-pierce-survives-late-restart-wins-44th-of-career-at-adams-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dirtcarsummernationals.com\/recap\/great-feeling-pierce-survives-late-restart-wins-44th-of-career-at-adams-county\/","title":{"rendered":"GREAT FEELING: Pierce Survives Late Restart, Wins 44th of Career at Adams County"},"content":{"rendered":"
Right as he was rolling trackside for the Feature, reigning DIRTcar Summer Nationals champion Bobby Pierce caught a positive wave of energy. Inside, he knew Wednesday night\u2019s return to Adams County Raceway (IL) for the first time since 2019 was going to go well for he and the #32 crew.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt great before the Feature,\u201d he said. \u201cJust before we took the green, I felt like the car was good on the warmup laps. I had a great feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n Pierce used the low side of the quarter-mile for the majority of the race, making moves to the inside of his competition to take the lead in the first half and the eventual trip to Hell Tour Victory Lane for the 44th time in his career.<\/p>\n \u201cI started fifth on the bottom, and realized I had to move up and get going on top,\u201d Pierce said of his lane choice in the opening laps. \u201cI did and I was rolling, and I passed a car or two, and then I was the first one to go back down and find that really low line in Turns 1-2.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I found it, in a couple laps it seemed like I was in the lead. It changed that quick.\u201d<\/p>\n Though he made quick work of the opponents in front of him en route to the lead, keeping them behind him got hairy in the home stretch. A caution was thrown with three laps remaining, which erased Pierce\u2019s lead and put a hungry Shannon Babb right on his rear bumper.<\/p>\n Pierce mashed the throttle in Turn 4 and pulled away from Babb, leaving the others behind him as he crossed the stripe for his third Summer Nationals Feature win of the 2022 campaign.<\/p>\n \u201cAt that point, I didn\u2019t really think anyone would have anything on the top,\u201d Pierce said. \u201cIf I got pressured, maybe I could turn it up a notch and do something.<\/p>\n \u201cI wasn\u2019t too worried, I just knew I had to hit my marks the last few laps and not allow anything to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n Babb, of Moweaqua, IL, came home second after spending the entire race inside the podium. Max Blair, of Centerville, PA, garnered his third-consecutive podium finish in his last three Summer Nationals starts with a third-place Wednesday night. Ryan Unzicker and Brian Shirley rounded-out the top-five.<\/p>\n UP NEXT<\/strong><\/p>\n The DIRTcar Summer Nationals next heads to its birthplace on Thursday, June 23 \u2013\u00a0Spoon River Speedway in Lewiston, IL. If you can\u2019t be at the track, watch every lap live on DIRTVision<\/a>.<\/p>\n ABBREVIATED RESULTS<\/strong> (view full results<\/a>)<\/p>\n Feature 40 Laps | 00:16:42.305<\/p>\n Right as he was rolling trackside for the Feature, reigning DIRTcar Summer Nationals champion Bobby Pierce caught a positive wave of energy. Inside, he knew Wednesday night\u2019s return to Adams County Raceway (IL) for the first time since 2019 was going to go well for he and the #32 crew. \u201cI felt great before the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":5109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[480],"tags":[494,337,42,21],"series":[],"class_list":["post-5107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recap","tag-494","tag-adams-county-speedway","tag-bobby-pierce","tag-featured","has-post-video"],"yoast_head":"\n\n