The Headline(s)
A major late-race gaffe cost Tyler Bruening a career first, leaving Mike Marlar to grab yet another big-dollar win in 2022 with the $50,000-to-win Dairyland Showdown.
How it Happened
2022 Dairyland Showdown (World of Outlaws Late Models)
Where: Mississippi Thunder Speedway – Fountain City, Wis. (streamed on DirtVision)
Winner’s Purse: $50,000 (Saturday)
The stat sheet will show that Mike Marlar won Saturday’s (May 7) Dairyland Showdown finale at Mississippi Thunder from the pole, but it was anything but that simple.
. @dirtvision REPLAY: @MikeMarlar Wins the 75 Lap Feature on night #3 @ThunderAtMTS and the 50k that comes with it!!! pic.twitter.com/JnfnXcArFV
— World of Outlaws Late Models (@WoOLateModels) May 8, 2022
The early part of the race saw Marlar blown past by Tyler Erb, though Erb’s run up front was short-lived, as Marlar caught back up (Erb would say in his post-race interview that he was late to pick up on the groove in turns 3 and 4 where the track rubbered up).
The Tylers weren’t done though. A mid-race restart saw a three-wide battle for the lead send Tyler Bruening to the front, where he drove off with the lead. A career-first WoO win appeared in the cards until lap 69, when Bruening overdrove turn 1 directly into a lapped car, destroying his front end and ruining any chance for the win.
Did Bruening just cost himself a win trying to wreck a lapped car?
— Live Dirt Updates (@LiveDirtUpdates) May 8, 2022
For Marlar, his cold streak after winning the Wild West Shootout in January is in the rearview mirror, following up his Kyle Larson Late Model Challenge win with a $50,000 prize.
Points leader Dennis Erb Jr. scored a quiet top-five finish to extend his lead at the top of the WoO standings.
Jonathan Davenport and Bobby Pierce scored wins in the Dairyland Showdown preliminary features on Friday and Thursday night, respectively.
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