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BOBBY PIERCE THAT MEDDLING KID: DIRTcar Champ Just Keeps Winning By Ashley Zimmerman
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glad we had a chance to dig inside the mind of the talented rising star of DIRTcar. Dirt Empire: As we are nearing the very last races of the 2021 race season, would you summarize this season as successful? Considering the extensive list of wins you’ve amassed, do you feel that you’ve left any unfinished business on the table? Bobby Pierce: Yeah, I feel like it’s been a very successful year. Last year, with COVID and everything, I feel like I didn’t really get to race all that much, and this year with being almost up to 100 races, and having twenty wins, is really important. It was something that I felt like I needed to get back to doing it, it’s been a couple of years since I’ve won a championship. Winning my first World of Outlaws race this year, along with winning the one right after that, they were both really big races to win, so that was really cool. We’ve been pretty
DIRT EMPIRE MAGAZINE • ISSUE 07 - 2021
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THE CONSISTENT COMPETITIVE growth and resumé of wins that belongs to Illinois’ Bobby Pierce would have any race face unknowingly assuming this already storied career belonged to a season veteran in the world of late model racing all the while belonging to the young twenty four year old driver. The 2021 race season could arguably be called one of the most successful seasons to date for Pierce. If it is a predictor of what is to come, all eyes will be on Pierce for years to come as he continues to sign his name to the pages that fill the dirt track racing history books. Having been crowned the DIRTcar Late Model National Champion, after claiming the DIRTcar summer national championship in nothing less than spectacular Pierce fashion, it was by hot request Dirt Empire Magazine snagged some of the little downtime offered prior to the racing action at Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s Duel in the Desert. Shortly after this chat, Pierce went out and scored the $100,000 win in Vegas and we were
