Brandon Sheppard controlled the final 39 laps of Saturday night’s World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series race at Wisconsin’s Plymouth Dirt Track en route to the win.
The New Berlin, Illinois native extended his record at the Sheboygan County Fairgrounds to three-for-three, winning in each of his appearances in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
It marks his eighth victory of the year (third-straight) and 63rd of his series career. Most significantly, the 27-year old Sheppard became the winningest World of Outlaws driver in the state of Wisconsin, as he nabbed his tenth triumph in the Badger State to surpass Billy Moyer’s nine wins.
“I’ve got a little theory, wherever corn grows good, we’re gonna have a good race,” Sheppard joked on his Wisconsin’s success. “But seriously, we all really look forward to coming up here. This trip north to Wisconsin and then our Western swing, that’s my favorite part of the whole year. We usually get around these tracks really good and they aren’t scared to work on them and give us a good racey place.”
Completing a clean sweep of the night, Sheppard’s conquest for the record books began with his 35th career Fast Time Award at 14.412 seconds, which marked his second-straight year as the fastest qualifier at Plymouth. He continued the onslaught with a dominant heat race win aboard the Valvoline sponsored No. 1 entry, then hit his biggest roadblock in the Morton Buildings Redraw when he pulled the No. 4 pill.
Lining up on the outside of row two, Sheppard quickly marched forward and slid into the second spot on the opening lap, but it was Cade Dillard who moved to the point. Jumping to the lead from the outside pole, Dillard bested Jimmy Mars into turn one.
Quickly attacking Dillard for control of the lead, Sheppard offered a series of challenges. Heading into lap traffic, the leaders had their work cut out for them facing traffic, a situation that would ultimately decide the race. Coming together with Brent Larson while trying to move around on the outside, Dillard cut a left front tire on lap 11 and was forced to the work area during the feature’s first caution.
From there, it was smooth sailing over the remaining 39 laps for Sheppard, who went unchallenged to the win and a $10,000payday.
Mars finished in second, with Chase Junghans in third, Ricky Weiss in fourth and Scott Bloomquist in fifth.
Justin Ritchie, Taylor Scheffler, Ashton Winger, Darrell Lanigan, and Rodney Sanders rounded out the top 10.
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WoO Morton Buildings Late Model Series
Plymouth Dirt Track – Plymouth, WI
Race Results – July 11, 2020
1. 1-Brandon Sheppard
2. 28m-Jimmy Mars
3. 18-Chase Junghans
4. 7-Ricky Weiss
5. 0-Scott Bloomquist
6. 70-Justin Ritchie
7. 10s-Taylor Scheffler
8. 12-Ashton Winger
9. 29v-Darrell Lanigan
10. 20-Rodney Sanders
11. 99b-Boom Briggs
12. 97-Cade Dillard
13. 97s-Justin Schmidt
14. 11-Justin Reed
15. B1-Brent Larson
16. 28-Dennis Erb
17. D1-Turk Letizia
18. 49-Jake Timm
19. 74-Mitch McGrath
20. 98-Jason Rauen
21. 79-Jim Schmidt
22. 1m-Mike Mataragas
23. 89-Brad Mueller
24. 54-Kevin Baldry
