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With the cancellation of the final two events, Bobby has now claimed the FloRacing Night in America Series championship, his second series title of the season. In 10 starts with the series, he picked up two feature wins with seven top-five finishes and nine top 10s. Bobby banked $75,000 for winning the championship.

woo champ 1Bobby collected his $150,000 champion’s check Sunday night in the season-ending World of Outlaws banquet. “It honestly means the world,” Bobby said. “This season, I want to dedicate to my dad. He’s 71 years old, going on 72, and he gets up and down the road working on the car like a young guy. He keeps going, and we keep each other going, so that’s awesome. He’s been there my whole life, supporting me every step of the way.” Bobby’s dad, Bob, was awarded the crew chief of the year. “I may be getting the Crew Chief of the Year award, but my son made me look good a lot of times,” Bob said. “Being on the World of Outlaws for the first year is pretty cool. Going up and down the road with a lot of miles has been pretty fun for an old guy like me. I keep this thing going because I love racing.” Bobby also picked up the Social Ambassador of the Year award. He will receive a commercial on DIRTVision for his merchandise.

woochampBobby earned his first career national touring series championship as he was crowned the 2023 World of Outlaws Series champion Saturday night at the Charlotte (NC) Dirt Track. In his first full season with the World of Outlaws, he scored 14 feature wins with 25 top-five finishes and 32 top 10s in 38 starts. “It was really nice proving everybody wrong, all the naysayers and all that,” Bobby said. “And not just proving them wrong but winning the whole thing and dominating toward the end. I don’t doubt them for having disbeliefs. I only ran a full series one time. It was a long time ago. It was 2018. You see it all the time, guys drop off and they go run Summer Nationals or whatever they might do, and it just doesn’t work out. We knew we had a mindset that we were going to do it. The car was really fast all year. Won a lot of races. Just been one of them monumental years for us. It’s pretty crazy. The Outlaw title is something that, for me… I never knew when I was going to run a national series again. So, when we ran it this year, at first, I wasn’t sure we would even be in the hunt to win this thing. To come out on top is very very special for us. The history with the World of Outlaws, I think it is one of the best series of racing in the world. Man, it’s just, it’s really a goal that came true.” Bobby collected $150,000 for winning the championship and another $25,000 as part of the winner’s circle bonus program.

tricounty oct12 1Bobby started on the pole of the Tar Heel 53 Thursday night at Tri-County (NC) Racetrack but was unable to get the lead at the start which proved costly as he had to settle for second in the Flo Night in America Series race. He fell back to third after the initial start but was able to get back to the runner-up position on lap 11. He stayed close to the leader throughout the rest of the 53-lap feature as he tried different lines on the track but didn’t quite have enough to make the winning pass as the top side proved to be too strong. “At the start of the race the bottom was a little slimy and I just couldn’t take off (from the pole) and that’s what got me back to third on the start,” Bobby said. “Luckily J.D. (Davenport) made that one bobble over there and I got around him and from then on it was just holding him off on every restart. O’Neal was pretty good up there (around the top).” Bobby holds a nine-point advantage in the series standings with two races remaining.

fairbury oct7Bobby’s mastery of the Fairbury (IL) Speedway continued on Saturday night as he surged into the lead on lap 14 and built up an over three-second advantage at one point on his way to his 34th feature win of the season in the 50-lap FALS Frenzy World of Outlaws Series race. Starting outside of the front row, he fell back to third on the start but settled into the high line and waited for his chance to pounce. He briefly took the top spot on lap nine but couldn’t hold it. On lap 14, he was able to use his top side momentum to power by on the outside of a three-wide battle for the lead. “It was a little nerve-racking,” Bobby said. “The car was great, but the most nerve-racking part was going through lap traffic, and a couple times I got pinched, and I couldn’t get around. It was a great racetrack. You had a car on the bottom, middle, and top. It made for a fun race. I’m glad to get the win.” With five races remaining, Bobby leads the series points by 156.

brownstown oct6Bobby took command on the eighth lap Friday night in the Hoosier Dirt Classic World of Outlaws Series race at Brownstown (IN) Speedway and stayed in control the rest of the 40-lap distance to pick up his 13th series victory of the season. “We had to guess on what the track was going to do after the heats,” Bobby said. “I told my dad ‘The tacky spots are tacky, and the slick spots are slick.’ So, we went ahead and tightened it up. I was a little nervous on the tire choice because everyone else was almost the same, and we had one tire that was different than the rest of the field. I think that’s why I got tight, but an awesome car, awesome effort by my team again. I can’t thank those guys enough.” Bobby’s series points lead now stands at 150 with six races to go.

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