Highlights | 2026 Illinois Valley Showdown Twin 25s at LaSalle Speedway
A double dose of MARS Late Model Championship action comes to LaSalle Speedway with the Twisted Twin 25s.
Video Transcript
Ryan Unzicker, Dennis Erb off four.
We are green here at La Salle.
Now working at turns one and two for the first time.
Oh, Dennis Erb slips up the track.
Brandon Shepherd quickly gonna go to second.
Unzicker, Shepherd, Erb again slips up the track.
Tanner English will go to third.
Fourth will be Erb, fifth will be Stuckey.
Opening lap.
Ryan Unzicker there in the 12.6 and fives when they started.
Here comes Ryan Unzicker again, working through lap tra- traffic.
Nearly got into the back of the BK3 of Billy Knippenberg.
Setting a torrent pace up front, Brandon Shepherd second.
Rich Bell running in the 13th spot, so already lapped up to 13.
Next on the hit list is Jake Little, who's 12th, but here comes Brandon Shepherd.
Shepherd, now Unzicker slips up off of turn four here on the front straightaway, and all of a sudden, Brandon Shepherd has got Ryan Unzicker in the crosshairs, but now Unzicker's gonna put three lapped cars, Ledford, Little, and 21 of Bell, here on the front straightaway, and a puff of smoke from Brandon Shepherd.
Another puff of smoke over in one and two.
Not sure if that's a tire rub or maybe an issue for the B5 of Brandon Shepherd.
Unzicker now going after the 33 of Will Harrington.
Harrington running in that 11th spot.
Paul Parker gonna call it a night, as Brandon Shepherd again with his sights set on the 24.
Now Fager spinning here on the front straightaway.
He pulls to the infield.
Fager calls it a night.
10 to go here in feature number one.
Ryan Unzicker to the inside of Will Harrington.
Harrington running in the 10 spot, so he's lapped up to the top 10 now.
Two to go in feature number one.
Brandon Shepherd, Tanner English battle.
Oh, man, Tanner English in trouble, bicycling through turns one and two.
Wave of the white flag here in feature number one.
Unzicker, Shepherd, English, Erb, Stuckey, and Spatola.
We'll see what pill they draw.
Feature win number one goes to Ryan Unzicker with the BAR Championship Late Model Series.
Second will go to Shepherd, third will go to Tanner English, fourth will go to Dennis Erb, and fifth will go to Clay Stuckey.
Twisted Twin 25 at La Salle, feature number two, Clay Stuckey, Dennis Erb.
Let's dance one more time.
Clay Stuckey will lead the charge into turns one and two, will have the lead down the back straightaway.
Brandon Shepherd to the outside of Tanner English.
Oh, Stuckey slipped up.
He's in trouble.
Stuckey is broke.
So tough break for the 25 all the way from Shreveport, Louisiana.
Big problems for Clay Stuckey in turn four.
What do you say we dance for 25 more laps at a crack at five grand?
Tanner English from the All Star Performance Start Zone.
Dennis Erb Jr. Gonna work to his outside.
Oh, man, Unzicker right in front of him.
He'll go to second quickly.
Brandon Shepherd gonna go to third, Dennis Erb Jr. Back to fourth, Spatola fifth.
Here comes Ryan Unzicker once again.
He's got a good hot rod in 24.
Unzicker around the outside of Tanner English.
He has got the lead once again.
Ryan Unzicker trying to win $10,000 here tonight, and it could be Unzicker night in America, as your Midwest Sheet Metal points leader showing the way out front again.
There's that battle for second, Tanner English and the B5 of Brandon Shepherd.
Ryan Unzicker looking for an unprecedented sweep of the night and a check for $10,000.
Here comes Brandon Shepherd now for second down the front straightaway.
Shepherd now gonna go to second, so good lap for Brandon Shepherd, hoping for a caution.
Bad news for Shepherd, there's only four laps to go.
Shepherd to second.
Oh, and he slips up, may be in trouble over in one and two.
Here comes Tanner English.
English and Shepherd gonna go side by side for the runner-up spot.
Smoke continue to pour out of the back of the five.
Definitely got some friction on the rear of the five.
A slide job from Tanner English.
English will go back to second.
Entertaining battle for the runner-up spot behind the 24 of Ryan Unzicker.
We'll see the one to go.
It'll work down the back straightaway.
Got the Midwest Sheet Metal fluorescent red spoiler, and tonight he's gonna win both the Twisted Twin 25s and pocket a check for $10,000.
Ryan Unzicker, your winner.
Good battle for second down to the line, Tanner English.
Brandon Shepherd will come home third.
Rounding out your top five, Dennis Erb Jr. Fourth, and fifth will go to Mike Spatola.
