Dirt on Dirt - Lineups for Saturday's 36th Prairie Dirt Classic

July 25

Fairbury Speedway,

Fairbury, IL

Sanction: World of Outlaws Late Model Series (Prairie Dirt Classic) - $50,000

Information provided by: Kevin Kovac, series and track reports (last updated July 25, 3:55 pm)

Lineups for Saturday's 36th Prairie Dirt Classic

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Getting ready for Saturday's action at Fairbury Speedway.

Key notes: The 36th annual Prairie Dirt Classic concludes with Saturday’s 100-lap, $50,000-to-win finale at Fairbury Speedway. … Jason Feger, Sam Seawright, Brandon Sheppard and Trey Mills each won one of Friday’s 25-lap, $5,000 semifeatures, clinching their spot in Saturday’s Prairie Dirt Classic along with the top-four finishers from each prelim; Sheppard is a three-time Prairie Dirt Classic champ (2017, ’19, ’22). … Consolations and a 25-lap, $3,500-to-win Prairie Dirt Shootout for non-qualifiers will precede Saturday’s main event. … Hudson O’Neal won Wednesday’s 50-lap FloRacing Series-sanctioned One for the Road event, which wasn’t directly connected with the PDC. … Brian Shirley led the final 77 laps to win last year’s Prairie Dirt Classic, his first victory in his 20th start in his home state’s crown jewel; Shirley earned more than $88,500, including $38,500 in lap leader bonus money ($500 per lap led). … Bobby Pierce rallied from a lap-60 spin to win 2024’s PDC, his first in the lucrative event that had eluded him up to that point in his illustrious career. … Ricky Thornton Jr. had a similar rebound to win 2023’s edition after a mechanical glitch sent him back to sixth with 20 laps to go, leaving him charging to the win. Thornton is fresh off a $52,000 payday in July 18’s Silver Dollar Nationals at Shelby County Speedway in Harlan, Iowa. … The PDC has won DirtonDirt’s Race of the Year honors four times (2013-’15, ’24), to go along with two DIRTcar Summer Nationals features held at the quarter-mile bullring (2011, ’20). … DIRTcar Summit Modifieds are on the undercard with consolations and 40-lap, $5,000-to-win season finale. … Pits open at 9 a.m. and First Street grandstands open at 11 with hot laps at 5:30 p.m.; a driver autograph session will take place from 4-4:45 p.m. on the backstretch midway. … Watch live on DIRTVision.

Who to watch: Brandon Sheppard of New Berlin, Ill., will start inside the top four seeking his fourth career Prairie Dirt Classic finale.

Points chase: Before Fairbury: 1. Bobby Pierce (5,365); 2. Nick Hoffman (5,290); 3. Tyler Erb (5,051); 4. Tim McCreadie (4,957); 5. Ryan Gustin (4,902); 6. Ethan Dotson (4,809); 7. Daulton Wilson (4,756); 8. Dennis Erb Jr. (4,691); 9. Trey Mills (4,680); 10. Dustin Sorensen (4,595).

Current weather: Overcast, 73°F

Car count: 86

Next series race: July 30, Cedar Lake Speedway (New Richmond, WI) $10,000

Editor's note: Results and race details are unofficial.

From staff reports

FAIRBURY, Ill. — Live updates from Saturday’s 36th annual Prairie Dirt Classic at Fairbury Speedway, highlighted by a 100-lap, $50,000-to-win feature for World of Outlaws Series-sanctioned Super Late Models (results unofficial):

Feature lineup 

(100 laps)

Row 1: Redraw results
Row 2: Redraw results
Row 3: Dallon Murty, Justin Duty
Row 4: Chris Simpson, Shane Clanton
Row 5: Kaede Loudy, Tyler Erb
Row 6: Dennis Erb Jr., Mike Marlar
Row 7: Ricky Thornton Jr., Bobby Pierce
Row 8: Ryan Gustin, Gordy Gundaker
Row 9: Consolation transfers
Row 10: Consolation transfers
Row 11: Consolation transfers
Row 12: Provisional starters 
Row 13: Provisional starters
Row 14: Prairie Dirt Shootout winner

Consolation lineups

(15 laps; top two transfer)

First consolation
Row 1: Kyle Bronson, Rich Bell
Row 2: Devin Moran, Ryan Montgomery
Row 3: Bubba Roling, Chase Junghans
Row 4: Max Blair, Brenden Smith
Row 5: Ethan Dotson, Kyle Hammer
Row 6: Brayton Wallace, Bob Gardner
Row 7: Mitch McGrath, Trent Ivey
Row 8: Clay Harris, Dan Ebert
Row 9: Lance Brasington, Brian Rickman
Row 10: Alex Wilson, Jake O’Neil
Row 11: Jake Little, Tyler Kuykendall
Row 12: Collin Rutledge, Garrett Alberson
Second consolation
Row 1: Daulton Wilson, Matthew Larson
Row 2: Tim McCreadie, Brent Larson
Row 3: Hudson O’Neal, Frank Heckenast Jr.
Row 4: Brian Shirley, Kyle Strickler
Row 5: Zack Mitchell, Mike Glasscock
Row 6: Tanner English, Mike Spatola
Row 7: Austin Smith, Michael Leach
Row 8: Austin Howes, Logan Zarin
Row 9: Mike Winn, Josh Rice
Row 10: Cam Harris, Timmy Dick
Row 11: Sean Mattingly, Brody Smith
Row 12: Trevor Gundaker
Third consolation
Row 1: Nick Hoffman, Ryan Unzicker
Row 2: Dustin Sorensen, Myles Moos
Row 3: Shannon Babb, Tyler Bruening
Row 4: Mike Mataragas, Daniel Adam
Row 5: Ashton Winger, Tristan Chamberlain
Row 6: McKay Wenger, Caden McWhorter
Row 7: Shane Stephens, Eli Johnson
Row 8: Matt Furman, Jerry Bowersock
Row 9: Mike Provenzano, Steven Tippens
Row 10: Neil Baggett, Sam Moore
Row 11: Chase Osterhoff, Doug Carls
Row 12: Jimmy Miller

Saturday’s schedule

 (All times local)
7-11 a.m. - VFW Post PDC breakfast (VFW Building on Locust Street)
9 a.m. - Pits open, Second Street grandstands open
11 a.m. - First Street grandstands open
3 p.m. - Suave Talk Live show (turn two backstretch bus)
4-4:45 p.m. - Driver autograph session (backstretch midway)
5 p.m. - Drivers’ meeting (WoO command center)
5:30 p.m. - On-track activity
- Late Model hot laps (consolation entrants)
- Modified hot laps (consolation entrants)
Opening ceremonies
6:20 p.m. - Redraw and prerace festivities
- Late Model consolations (15 laps)
- Late Model hot laps (feature entrants)
- Modified consolations (12 laps)
- Modified hot laps (feature entrants)
Intermission/track prep
- Late Model Prairie Dirt Shootout (25 laps)
Feature events
- Modifieds (40 laps)
- 36th annual Prairie Dirt Classic (100 laps)