Top-3 Recap | 2026 FloRacing Night in America at Marshalltown Speedway
Top-3 Recap after Tuesday's 2026 FloRacing Night in America Series feature at Marshalltown (Iowa) Speedway.
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But the droop tr- check is clear.
Trent and Barry, you got a feature winner rolling your direction.
Bobby Pierce picks up his first FLW Racing Night in America win of 2026, and he's headed to FLW Racing victory lane.
Gosh, I love dirt late models, guys.
It's, what a, what a great field here treated to an awesome show.
As you guys mentioned, a beautiful night here in Iowa.
Running on a track that's just knee-deep in dirt, man.
There's so many things, that I, I could talk about just loving this sport so much.
What a great race tonight.
Bobby Pierce down in victory lane, his first FLW Racing Night in America win here of the season.
They're gonna get the rest of victory lane set up here.
Crew looking on the, around the race car, gonna get the banner on the backside, and we're gonna get a quick word here with Bobby Pierce in number 32.
Jeremy Shields right there, gonna get the hat, the FLW Racing Night in America checkered flag for the victory lane celebration, and the awesome custom trophy.
Here he is, race fans, out of Oakwood, Illinois.
How about it?
Number 32, Bobby Pierce.
Bobby, a winner tonight here at the picturesque Marshalltown Speedway.
Gonna get congratulations all around for the crew.
Get a quick word with him, a hug for dad and mom right there as well, and Bobby Pierce, lap 15, you decided it was time to go.
Leading up to that, what, led you to the conclusion that, you need to get out front?
I didn't want a caution to happen while I was in second.
I wanted to get the lead, but definitely give it a little time to not burn my edges off.
The tires that Hoffman had on, I, I figured, you know, just give it some time.
They'd start to fade, 'cause he went a little softer, so, yeah.
Man, the car was good.
Tonight it was, it was a dream to drive this car.
Definitely just loved the way it felt around here.
Shout out to Longhorn Dynamics and the chassis shop, everyone, working hard back there at Longhorn.
And Steve Arpin, Rumley, Joe, Matt, everyone, you know, that has a hand in this thing and, you know, making these cars fast.
So, my awesome crew, I can't thank them enough.
My dad, Justin, Darian, Kong, Tony here tonight, my mom.
Shout out to my lovely wife back home watching.
Just everyone, man.
All my sponsors.
I can't thank them all enough.
I mean, w- without them, it's tough to do this deal.
So Low Voltage Solutions, Churchill Transport, Collins Brothers Towing, Mesilloc Transportation, Reargard Waste Services, and AZ4.
Tonight on the spoiler we have Albertson Family Farms, so shout out to the Wahoo.
Kinda close to this area.
Seidinger Construction, Pontiac RV, Fort Knox Safes and Vaults, Carnegie Towing, Performance Bodies, Fast Shafts, Fort Knox Safes and Vaults, Ohlin Shocks, FK Rod End.
Shout-out to Maria, thank you for the help.
That's everyone.
Thank you.
Hey, pretty important question to ask you here as we wrap up.
There's a Angel donor.
You have a $2,000 prize to give to a, or $2,000 donation to give to your charity of choice.
Where would you like that to go?
Well, I would say Megan's Mission Foundation, but we do have a lot of stuff coming up for them in September when, the, the month of childhood cancer, awareness month rolls around, so, definitely be on the lookout for that.
We'll have some, some really cool stuff going on there.
But, the Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Foundation, I'm not sure the exact com- company foundation, but the EDS, it'll, it'll probably go to that.
Okay.
Bobby Pierce down in victory lane.
Congratulations.
Tonight's FLW Racing Night in America winner.
And congratulations goes out to him as the $20,000 paycheck gets put in front of the number 32 car, the 11th win in his career with FLW Racing Night in America.
Brandon Sheppard gonna finish second here this evening, and Trenton Barry has caught up with him.
Brandon Sheppard, what was gonna have to work out different for you to have a shot up, up front right there?
You were, were good.
Bobby was just a, a little bit better, a little bit better timing.
Yeah, I think I was, I had something for him there, I felt like, middle stages of the race there, and then once it got slick, he got away from us there.
I was trying to move around and, and figure out what I needed to do to, to be a little bit better.
I really thought I needed to run the top, but I couldn't quite get around there as good as I needed to, all the way up there, so I had to move down and kinda just, figure something else out.
So congrats to Bobby.
Good job to Hudson coming from the back there, and, yeah, it was a, it was a heck of a fun race.
The track was really racy.
You kinda raced all over the place there.
So, yeah, I, I felt really good.
My team's obviously been doing a phenomenal job all year.
Can't thank them enough.
Mark, Dan, Austin, Joel, all the great sponsors on this Rocket One team.
We couldn't do it without them, and thanks to all the fans for coming out on a Tuesday night.
Appreciate that, and I gotta thank my family back home, and my beautiful wife and kids.
My dad and my grandpa wouldn't be here without them, and of course, Steve Baker and all the guys at Rocket Chassis for building a phenomenal race car.
Brandon Sheppard, tonight's runner-up.
Great performance for Rocket One.
And- Next driver came in on a three-race winning streak.
That was snapped tonight, but it was not for lack of effort.
You said you didn't wanna bury yourself early on, and that's kind of exactly what happened.
But you made the most of it.
Tell me about saving the car over in three and four there late.
Just mistakes.
You know, you can't make those mistakes with these guys, and after I made it in the heat race, I, I felt like an idiot after the heat race, and I felt twice as big of an idiot whenever I did it right there, 'cause I ran, ran against it for 45 lap, or, you know, ran around there for 45 laps and never And felt like I was good and, and just kinda was conservative and didn't, like, really, really push it.
And, and then I got clear of him, and I had Bobby in my sights, and I think my blood started to boil a little bit.
And maybe, maybe if I can just, hit my marks here, I'll make one good run on him, and just, made another mistake.
So yeah, I, I hate it.
I apologize to Kevin Rumley and everybody that's a part of it.
Wish we would've been able to at least see if we had a shot there at the very end, but thank you to, Longhorn Chassis and Subsurface Indiana and SSI Motorsports, and Todd and Vicky Burns and, Jason, Riley, Kyle, Logan, everybody that's a part of the SSI Motorsports team for allowing me to come out here and be a part of the six car.
And Kevin Rumley and Steve Arpin for allowing me to do it as well, and Jacqueline and everybody, and, everybody on this race car, Senior Life Insurance, Mesilloc Transportation, American Racing Wheel, D&E Marine, Dave, Cameron Cobb, Kevin King, everybody that's a part of this number six car.
And, yeah, we're, not gonna hang our heads, but, definitely gonna beat myself up a little bit to just, try and get it through my thick head that we don't need to jump the cushion anymore in three and four here at Marshalltown.
Great run.
Hudson O'Neal, third place tonight in the Rumley number six.
