Thursday Late Model Feature _ Kubota Gateway Dirt Nationals 12_4_25 _ Highlights

Top three race their way into the ninth annual Gateway Dirt Nationals and much better that time. Green flags out. Harrison still with a good start off into one into Pierce looks to his inside Harrison through the middle. Shirley heads up top down the back straightaway. Three Illinois guys, one, two and three in the lap. Number one, Harrison, your leader, Pierce, second, Shirley, third, Dustin Linville from six up to fourth. Fifth right now is the 32 of Chris Simpson and here comes Pierce trying to get the high side. The drone falls him around the one-fifth mile oval. Pierce looks to the inside. Harrison can't quite get there. Harrison holds the lead. Pierce in second. Side by side for third. Beating and banging back in the back. Shirley's got third. Here comes Linville. Linville having a good run in his debut at the dome here tonight. Meanwhile, Pierce has got a head of steam. Maybe a slider off into one and two. He looks to the inside of Harrison. Harrison's going to hold the spot. Here comes Pierce. Good battle for the lead. Off into three and four. Two good hard-nosed drivers up there running at the front of the field and neither one of them are going to make it. Harris remains out front. Pierce going to throw a slider on him again. Here comes Harrison. Back down to the inside. Harrison, will he try to take the lead back away? No. He'll hold serve behind. You've got a new leader this time. Bobby Pierce. Right along with Ashton Wigger on the right side of your screen. Oh, man. Mike Harrison just caught a handful of the St. Louis concrete coming off turn number two. That'll shuffle him back a full second behind Pierce. Pierce now trying to work his way through the back of the field. And just like that, a Coleman farmstead. Here comes caution on the speedway with seven in the books, 18 to go. Yeah, there's a piece of fence on the racetrack in turn number three. All right. Oh, wow. Well, that was scary. No, Ashton did not have anything to do with it, but he definitely collected it. And there are seven laps of the books, 18 laps to go. Bobby Pierce gets a really good start to break out three car lengths. Meanwhile, Shirley to the inside of Harrison down the back straightaway. And how about this? Linville joining the party, trying to spoil the land of Lincoln party on the podium right now. Here comes Linville to the inside of Shirley. Yeah, he had a run there momentarily. Thinks better of it, though. Ashton Wigger won't think better of it. He'll drive deep down into the corner, and it's actually going to work because they got bottled up in front of me for third and fourth. It's just about time to go on board with Winger. I feel like if that camera still survives. There it is. Right on cue. Thank you, Tyler McKim. Look at that view on board with Ashton Winger. He's got to get one more spot to lock into the show tonight. As Linville got out of shape, dropped to the bottom of the third and fourth. Meanwhile, Brandon Shepard starting to make his moves up through there. He's found his way back up to fifth. Six laps to go this time by Ben. It's a two-second lead for Bobby Pierce. Bobby Pierce going after his 31st win of the year here tonight. He's gone to the low side of the racetrack. His advantage last time by 2.1 seconds. He'll head to the top side through turns three and four. DJ, five fingers there, five more times around the speedway, but it's still Ashton Winger on the right side of your screen trying to get one more spot to third to lock into Saturday's finale. Absolutely. Top three race their way in. Spoiler dangling in the breeze for the 12 of Ashton Winger. That's who you ride along with. There's the battle for second, third, and fourth on your screen. The evil Knievel. Painscape. And Shepard joins the battle. Yeah, is there. And here comes Brandon Shepard, Ben. Harrison's going to throw a slider in front of Bill. He puts him down a lap. And just like that, the Coleman Farms Caution comes out. We got debris on the speedway in turn one. That will set up a four-lap dash to the checkers for the Velocita late models. It will be a single file restart. We're back on the track. The Octane Race Products restart zone. We're back underway. Three move on. Winger's got to figure it out. Meanwhile, Shepard goes to work on him. Pierce pulls away down the back stretch. Here comes Ashton Winger back to the outside of Brandon Shepard. Meanwhile, Brian Shirley's got to run to the inside of Mike Harrison. Three laps to go. Don't count Chevy out of this one. He's going to come after Shirley. Three to go. Three lock in. Everybody else is going to try to get on Saturday. Here comes Brandon Shepard. It's all land of Lincoln at the front of the field. The top four spots taken by drivers from the state of Illinois. Less than two laps to go. Here comes Chevy to the inside. He works by Shirley. Full send. He takes the transfer spot. Out of turn four, Ho Chi Than Saloon. Last call. One to go. One more time around for Pierce Shepard to third. Here comes Brian Shirley back down to the inside trying to take that third spot away. Not going to do it. May not have enough. Checkered flag is out. Your Thursday night winner for the Velocita Supersport. Coming home in second, Mike Harrison. Your lock in car will be Brandon Shepard in third.