a main FEATURE
LATE MODEL
“As far as how I race and carry myself
and things like that, I don’t feel like I’m
going to change anything.”
-Tyler Erb
Photo: Michael Boggs
WHETHER YOU LEARNED of Tyler “Terbo” Erb in August of 2020, or you’ve followed his blazing trail to victory lane from the very beginning, a few things are certain; you’ve decided whether you like him or not and you’ll always remember the name. There’s more to Erb than a few headlines accompanied by penalties. Dirt Empire Magazine was lucky enough to snag Erb for a “Terbo” charged Q&A gathering all of the details shadowed by the incident at Cedar Lake Speedway last year with Bob Pierce that launched
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a hundred headlines. Don’t worry, we cover that and anything else you could possibly ponder, and Erb is nothing less than candid. DIRT EMPIRE (DE): Let’s start with the very basics and get everyone on the same page. For those, whom many only know you from the headlines of 2020, summarize who Tyler Erb is as a driver for them? TYLER ERB (TE): Tyler as a driver is very aggressive, ruthless, and normally not
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going to be an old man’s type of driver. He’s not going to be someone that a legend from way back when will like, if they’re about the “respect” as they would say, I think that’s some of their angles. But - if you like hard nose, just a real person, someone that’s not fake. You know, if the microphone is in front of me, or if I’m talking to my family, or somebody on the street, I’m the same person all of the time. I’m just honest and I don’t sugar coat things; that’s not the way I was raised. Sometimes that’s a
