Tyler Erb's Emotional Gateway Win Presented by MPM Marketing

Photo Credit - Michael Boggs Photography

Tyler Erb takes home the 2022 Gateway Dirt Nationals win overtaking Will Herrington late in the race before Herrington broke a J Bar ending his magnificent Gateway Dirt Nationals run. Front row starters Cody Bauer and Tanner English led the field to green. Bauer would jump out to the early race lead with Tanner following the brightly colored #19. Will Herrington jumped up to run the high side banging the cushion and flirting with the outside fence to take the lead away from Bauer. Herrington would hold a comfortable lead until a caution with about 8 laps to go would gather the field back up. When the green flag waved for the restart Tyler Erb , English , and Tyler Carpenter all were ready to pounce for the lead. Herrington clipped the outside wall a little too hard this time causing him to break his J Bar knocking him out of the $30,000 payday.

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One last restart gave English and the rest of the field a chance to overtake The Best Performance Motorsports XR1 Rocket Chassis but "Turbo" smashed The Loud Pedal the final few laps to cross the checkers first ahead of English and Ricky Thornton Jr.

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In victory lane Tyler would break the devastating news about the passing of his father. We at Loud Pedal send our condolences to Tyler , Sandra , and the entire Era family.

2022 Gateway Dirt Nationals Finish

1) Erb

2) English

3) Thornton Jr (Hard Charger +10 spots)

4) Carpenter

5) Spatola

6) Moran

7) Bauer

8) Feger

9) Herrington

10) Pierce

11) Schlenk

12) Hocevar

13) Gundaker

14) Babb

15) Daniel

16) Sheppard

17) Reed

18) Simpson

19) Alberson

20) Unzicker

In the Modified portion of The Gateway Dirt Nationals Ricky Thornton Jr. would pace himself til the time was right to smash The Loud Pedal down to take the lead from Jordan Grabouski for the lead and the eventual win last night at The Dome at America's Center

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At the drop of the green young Michael Ledford , FALS Mod Track Champion , would jump out to the early race lead. The young "Leadfoot" held the lead until he would lose a driveshaft handing the lead over to Grabouski. The IMCA standout was trying hard to keep not only RTjr behind him but also Mike McKinney who joined the battle for the win.

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Thornton would pull away from the other two as McKinney on the last lap would overtake Grabouski for the runner up spot from his 18th starting position. In victory lane Thornton talked about how good the Royal Racecar was and the only Royal Racecar there on the track. They might get some orders for the 2023 racing season because that car has been fast everywhere they have been.

2022 Gateway Dirt Nationals Mod Finish

1) Thornton Jr.

2) McKinney

3) Grabouski

4) Steffens

5) Holland

6) Altobeli

7) Bauer

8) Burdette

9) Sharp

10) Allen

11) Wallace

12) Taylor

13) Smith

14) M. Thomas

15) Ledford

16) J. Thomas

17) Peterson

18) Harrison

19) Bollinger

20) Troutman