Bobby Pierce Suspended for tire infraction at Volusia.

[Mike Honcho]

So Moran failed on the 13th, but won on the 16th without failing.

See he knows he didn't need those cheater tars. Lol

[84wedge]

The financial penalties seem negligible but to go from first to 23rd by losing 294 points and missing four more events is a tough row to hoe.

[blncfn57]

No mention of swimming pools, freezers and/ or heaters? I thought that was the secret to tire cheating today.

[kidrock]

And your Hell Tour Champion in 2024 is Bobby Pierce.

I'm going to guess he will be doing a Outlaw schedule and not the World of Outlaws

[Buford.Justice]

You can get Chemical from the tracks water truck. Or from a motor blown from another racecar. So many defferent ways of getting chemicals that will not let you pass a tire test. I believe there is a lot more going on here then we know. If this stands i will NOT SUPPORT a Lucas race again. These are the hardest working drivers in racing getting a bad name. Not good for our sport for sure. Any buddy could get a chemical on anyone's tires if they wanted or did.

Is that you Bob??? Chemicals from a water truck? Really? It would be on everyone's tires.

Rule enforcement applies to all. Some get caught and some get away with it. LUCAS has to enforce rules or lose all credibility.

[HoosierDirtFan]

"𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖'𝕤 𝕒 𝕝𝕠𝕥 𝕠𝕗 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕡𝕖𝕥𝕚𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕤 𝕖𝕩𝕡𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕥𝕠 𝕕𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕣𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘"

World Racing Group CEO, Brian Carter, discusses the penalties given to Bobby Pierce, Kyle Bronson and Devin Moran after failed tire tests from DIRTcar Nationals.

For more on the story, including World of Outlaws Late Model Series competitor Nick Hoffman thoughts, be sure to watch Pit Bull tomorrow at 7pm ET on DIRTVision

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=766256675456738

[blncfn57]

"핋학핖핣핖'핤 핒 핝할핥 할핗 핔할핞핡핖핥핚핥할핣핤 핖합핡핖핔핥핚핟하 핪할핦 핥할 핕할 핥학핖 핣핚하학핥 핥학핚핟하"

World Racing Group CEO, Brian Carter, discusses the penalties given to Bobby Pierce, Kyle Bronson and Devin Moran after failed tire tests from DIRTcar Nationals.

For more on the story, including World of Outlaws Late Model Series competitor Nick Hoffman thoughts, be sure to watch Pit Bull tomorrow at 7pm ET on DIRTVision


https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=766256675456738

The guy couldn't even look at the camera. lmao

[blncfn57]

Is that you Bob??? Chemicals from a water truck? Really? It would be on everyone's tires..

Do you know that something wasn't on everyone's tires? Last I knew they do not check all competitors.

[84wedge]

If everyone tested failed for the same thing, wouldn't that raise a few eyebrows?

[IL LM Fan]

Moran and Bronsons failed from the 13th. Bobby from the 16th. So they're not even all from the same day.

[ZERO25]

Bout time for one of those effin t-shirts!

[HoosierDirtFan]

Nick Hoffman post.

[kidrock]

Bobby has made a statement on his facebook page.

[dirtcrazy4u]

What a bunch of bullsh*t

[HoosierDirtFan]

Facebook post from Pierce just a bit ago.




This is gonna be a long one folks.

Lots of things wrong in today’s world.
What happened today will barely be a blip on the radar in the overall history of dirt late model racing or motorsports in general.
Furthermore, it won’t even come close to landing anywhere near the spectrum of the several various nasty & wrongful things going on across the world.

Sadly, what happened today will eventually be forgotten about & moved on from until the next time it happens to someone else. & the next. & the next. And we’ll all go about our days, business as usual.
The thousands of racers, fans, car owners, sponsors, promoters, series officials, etc will all simply move on & say “it’s just a bad deal all around”.

Well for me, it’s not something little. It’s my career. It’s my name. It’s legitimately my whole life.
You can think to yourself of how I’ve spent my young life committing my time & effort & late night hours to this sport. Come home from school & go right to work in the shop. Skip all my weekends with friends to go racing somewhere halfway across the country. What about my family? My father has lived this stuff for 72 years. Eat, sleeps, & breathes it. He’s showed me how to work like your life depends on it.

I’ve been doing it for 27 years. Raced late models for half my life. Since I was 13.
I’ve owned my own race team for the last 6 years. Built it up since then and became a triple series champion with 34 wins in 2024.
Bob has taught me everything I know & he’s been to every single race. He’s taught me how to race with passion. Race with heart, dignity, pride, & a fire that burns inside me which is probably why I’m so (not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word) competitive!

He’s taught me just about anything there is to know about racing. But you know the most important thing he’s taught me about racing?
It’s how to beat the best racers across America, fair and square.

I’m proud to say I’ve become the # 1 ranked late model driver, & with a legal car.
No tire dope, no traction control, no trick RR shock, no trick suspension. And I’m not saying anybody else does it either— all of our livelihoods depend on running a legal car. We just work hard with what we got and make it work better than anybody else most of the time. The simple way. The people that know, they just know how we do it.

Now don’t let all this fool you. I’m always humble. I’m not anywhere close to being the best & I never will be the best. I’m just another dude out here trying my best.
I understand how people can view things out of assumptions. Truth is, they just don’t know how we operate. We don’t back down and we won’t stop.

Now where do we go from here?
I want to be fully transparent with all my fans.
Our chase for a consecutive Outlaw championship is ruined. The remaining outlaw races will now be tbd. I hate that for the fans who wanted to see us put a show on at several tracks across the country, but business decisions will have to be made where it makes the most sense.

I got a phone call today about an hour before the WoO Facebook post came out, which I wasn’t even informed that it would be public knowledge so soon.
In the conversation it included how 3 of 67 tires from Volusia came back “not meeting Hoosier benchmark standards”.
Of about a dozen tires sampled from my car that week, (& probably over 100 samples last year) only one tire didn’t test good in Blue Ridge Laboratories based out of NC.
Mine was a RR 3 compound from the Friday night’s feature at the Volusia Dirtcar nats when I ran 3rd in a thrilling battle with Madden & Hoffman.
The other 2 tires that were not met to benchmark standards that week were Bronsons & Moran's from that Tuesday night.

You might be asking yourself, what’s a benchmark? In a roundabout way, when Hoosier makes a new compound, they give a “puck” or a sample piece of rubber to the labs so that they can determine a “benchmark” through lab testing.
This is basically a way to compare test results of tire A to tire B. They should have the same test results or else it isn’t considered to be legal.
Something about chemical reactions and the tire emitting certain chemicals around specific time frames during the test.
A pretty common misconception is that they can tell what foreign substance was supposedly put on a tire. They cannot. They can only tell if it’s “altered” from the benchmark. Well that something can be a lot of things. Doesn’t mean I put any tire enhancing chemicals into my tire. It could be chemicals in the dirt from various fluids & who knows what spread across a dirt track. Could be a simple flaw with the manufacturer or various other reasons.

Now, let’s back up to when I get the phone call & shortly thereafter, read my email, & almost immediately saw the post online.
My heart sank. How could it be. I didn’t do this. Here we go again. And it’s a feeling that you can’t describe until it happens to you.
It’s late in the evening and I still can’t get a call back from anybody at WRG, I have no idea what the lab results truly were or what the graphs look like. I have had no explanations. The public should be able to know what is going on. But especially me!
I’ve been tossed into the corner and made a non-priority from my friends at World Racing Group.

Hundreds of racers have reached out to me with how they’ve been through the same thing. Wrongly accused & nobody cares, but how do we band together to stop this?
I remember when it wasn’t myself in this situation. It was easy to feel as if someone was cheating, & to agree with their penalties. Because yeah some do cheat.

It all comes back to a similar lab. A similar tire company. A similar trend.
And some of us are really paying the price for something we didn’t do.
If you win enough races & get your tires sampled a lot, your time is coming too.

We gotta hold these places accountable & do a better job. I should get a second or third test from different labs. We need more up to date benchmarks! WoO should keep any tire in question for future appeals.
I already know doing it yourself falls on deaf ears! Lie detector tests get overlooked.
We should all know what is really going on here!!

Basically, to sum it all up, we hope to find a way to keep other races in the future safe from these allegations.
Appreciate all my fans, sponsors, crew, family etc. We’ll bounce back.