Knoxville Late Model Nationals Results: September 18, 2025

Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series results from night one at Knoxville Raceway

National late model drivers are on the grounds in Knoxville, Iowa. It’s night one of the Knoxville Late Model Nationals for the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series.

View Knoxville Late Model Nationals results below.

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On Saturday the field will race for a $75,000-to-win payout. Tonight, they’ll race for $10,000-to-win in a preliminary night feature.

Brandon Sheppard and Garrett Alberson set the front row. 25 laps of dirt track racing are up next…

Main Event
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Green flag, they run side by side into turn one. Alberson is clear via the outside lane off turn two.

17 to go, Alberson works heavy lap traffic. Sheppard is all over him and waiting for an error from the leader.

16 to go, Brian Shirley finds the wall from 6th and the caution is out.

Green, Alberson is clear into turn one.

12 to go, Tyler Bruening is hard into the outside wall. The red flag is out.

Green, Alberson leads Sheppard off turn two.

10 to go, car stalled, caution.

Green, Dalton Wilson rolls off the bottom and runs wide. He runs into the door of Hudson O’Neal. O’Neal is forced over the cushion and he’s upside down and into the catch fence! The red flag is out but the driver climbs out.

Green, Alberson leads Sheppard. Tyler Erb slides Sheppard for 2nd.

8 to go, Sheppard slows with an issue.

Green, Alberson leads Erb by six car lengths off turn two.

6 to go, Ryan Gustin is up in smoke, caution.

Green, Carson Ferguson jumps the cushion, bicycles, catches the wall and flips. The red flag is back out.

The rain has started to fall and this race is over.

Garrett Alberson wins night one at Knoxville Raceway!

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Race Results
September 18, 2025

The following includes full results:

Practice

Hot Laps | GROUP 1: 1. 93-Carson Ferguson, 00:17.299[3]; 2. 32S-Chris Simpson, 00:17.379[8]; 3. 99-Devin Moran, 00:17.699[10]; 4. 19M-Joseph Joiner, 00:18.118[7]; 5. 19R-Ryan Gustin, 00:18.128[2]; 6. 51B-Brandon Carpenter, 00:18.506[9]; 7. 25-Chad Simpson, 00:18.872[5]; 8. 99X-Dallon Murty, 00:19.095[1]; 9. 10-Junior Coover, 00:20.245[6]; 10. 6H-Al Humphrey, 00:20.325[4]

Hot Laps | GROUP 2: 1. 71-Hudson O’Neal, 00:17.251[5]; 2. 1-Brandon Sheppard, 00:17.266[2]; 3. 3S-Brian Shirley, 00:17.473[10]; 4. 79-Donald McIntosh, 00:17.608[8]; 5. 16-Tyler Bruening, 00:17.710[9]; 6. 99S-Jesse Sobbing, 00:18.052[1]; 7. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck, 00:18.109[3]; 8. 38T-Dylan Thornton, 00:18.371[7]; 9. (DNS) 15-Clay Stuckey; 10. (DNS) 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr

Hot Laps | GROUP 3: 1. 1XM-Aaron Marrant, 00:17.031[3]; 2. 01-Tyler Erb, 00:17.131[4]; 3. 76-Brandon Overton, 00:17.344[2]; 4. 32-Bobby Pierce, 00:17.442[10]; 5. 18D-Daulton Wilson, 00:17.586[9]; 6. 58-Garrett Alberson, 00:17.733[7]; 7. 93L-Cory Lawler, 00:17.871[5]; 8. 6J-Jake Neal, 00:18.084[8]; 9. 51-Matt Furman, 00:18.387[6]; 10. 21B-Rich Bell, 00:18.736[1]

Hot Laps | GROUP 4: 1. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr, 00:16.738[4]; 2. 49-Jonathan Davenport, 00:17.427[9]; 3. 18C-Chase Junghans, 00:17.890[6]; 4. 76N-Blair Nothdurft, 00:18.046[5]; 5. 60-Dan Ebert, 00:18.156[7]; 6. 51C-Dean Carpenter, 00:18.342[3]; 7. 75-Daniel Adam, 00:18.501[2]; 8. 6-Clay Harris, 00:18.954[1]; 9. 45D-Dan Battaglia, 00:19.719[8]

Qualifying (Group A)

Qualifying | GROUP A: 1. 3S-Brian Shirley, 00:16.689[20]; 2. 93-Carson Ferguson, 00:16.768[3]; 3. 19R-Ryan Gustin, 00:16.784[2]; 4. 16-Tyler Bruening, 00:16.827[19]; 5. 99X-Dallon Murty, 00:16.837[1]; 6. 1-Brandon Sheppard, 00:16.869[12]; 7. 19M-Joseph Joiner, 00:16.991[7]; 8. 99-Devin Moran, 00:17.000[10]; 9. 32S-Chris Simpson, 00:17.002[8]; 10. 71-Hudson O’Neal, 00:17.020[15];

11. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck, 00:17.091[13]; 12. 79-Donald McIntosh, 00:17.094[18]; 13. 25-Chad Simpson, 00:17.222[5]; 14. 99S-Jesse Sobbing, 00:17.241[11]; 15. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr, 00:17.372[16]; 16. 51B-Brandon Carpenter, 00:17.624[9]; 17. 38T-Dylan Thornton, 00:17.667[17]; 18. 15-Clay Stuckey, 00:17.795[14]; 19. 6H-Al Humphrey, 00:18.333[4]; 20. 10-Junior Coover, 00:18.972[6]

Qualifying (Group B)

Qualifying | GROUP B: 1. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr, 00:16.566[14]; 2. 1XM-Aaron Marrant, 00:16.676[3]; 3. 18D-Daulton Wilson, 00:16.695[9]; 4. 58-Garrett Alberson, 00:16.706[7]; 5. 01-Tyler Erb, 00:16.839[4]; 6. 76-Brandon Overton, 00:16.887[2]; 7. 32-Bobby Pierce, 00:16.889[10]; 8. 75-Daniel Adam, 00:17.021[12]; 9. 93L-Cory Lawler, 00:17.055[5]; 10. 76N-Blair Nothdurft, 00:17.142[15];

11. 49-Jonathan Davenport, 00:17.202[19]; 12. 6J-Jake Neal, 00:17.402[8]; 13. 18C-Chase Junghans, 00:17.407[16]; 14. 6-Clay Harris, 00:17.493[11]; 15. 60-Dan Ebert, 00:17.555[17]; 16. 51-Matt Furman, 00:17.837[6]; 17. 51C-Dean Carpenter, 00:17.925[13]; 18. 21B-Rich Bell, 00:18.230[1]; 19. 45D-Dan Battaglia, 00:19.897[18]

Heat Races

Penske Shocks Heat 1 (12 Laps): 1. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck[1]; 2. 19M-Joseph Joiner[3]; 3. 32S-Chris Simpson[2]; 4. 19R-Ryan Gustin[5]; 5. 3S-Brian Shirley[6]; 6. 25-Chad Simpson[7]; 7. 99X-Dallon Murty[4]; 8. 38T-Dylan Thornton[9]; 9. 6H-Al Humphrey[10]; 10. (DNS) 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr

Summit Racing Heat 2 (12 Laps): 1. 79-Donald McIntosh[1]; 2. 99-Devin Moran[3]; 3. 1-Brandon Sheppard[4]; 4. 71-Hudson O’Neal[2]; 5. 16-Tyler Bruening[5]; 6. 15-Clay Stuckey[9]; 7. 93-Carson Ferguson[6]; 8. 51B-Brandon Carpenter[8]; 9. 10-Junior Coover[10]; 10. 99S-Jesse Sobbing[7]

Cool-It Thermo Tec Heat 3 (12 Laps): 1. 49-Jonathan Davenport[1]; 2. 32-Bobby Pierce[3]; 3. 01-Tyler Erb[4]; 4. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[6]; 5. 18D-Daulton Wilson[5]; 6. 60-Dan Ebert[8]; 7. 93L-Cory Lawler[2]; 8. 45D-Dan Battaglia[10]; 9. 18C-Chase Junghans[7]; 10. (DNS) 51C-Dean Carpenter

Simpson Race Products Heat 4 (12 Laps): 1. 6J-Jake Neal[1]; 2. 76N-Blair Nothdurft[2]; 3. 58-Garrett Alberson[5]; 4. 76-Brandon Overton[4]; 5. 1XM-Aaron Marrant[6]; 6. 6-Clay Harris[7]; 7. 51-Matt Furman[8]; 8. 21B-Rich Bell[9]; 9. 75-Daniel Adam[3]

B Main

Fast Shafts B-Main 1 (8 Laps): 1. 25-Chad Simpson[1]; 2. 93-Carson Ferguson[4]; 3. 15-Clay Stuckey[2]; 4. 99S-Jesse Sobbing[9]; 5. 51B-Brandon Carpenter[6]; 6. 38T-Dylan Thornton[5]; 7. 10-Junior Coover[8]; 8. 6H-Al Humphrey[7]; 9. (DNS) 99X-Dallon Murty; 10. (DNS) 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr

UNOH B-Main 2 (6 Laps): 1. 60-Dan Ebert[1]; 2. 6-Clay Harris[2]; 3. 51-Matt Furman[4]; 4. 21B-Rich Bell[6]; 5. 93L-Cory Lawler[3]; 6. 45D-Dan Battaglia[5]; 7. (DNS) 18C-Chase Junghans; 8. 75-Daniel Adam; 9. (DNS) 51C-Dean Carpenter

Main Event

25 Laps | $10,000-to-win

1. 58-Garrett Alberson[2]

2. 01-Tyler Erb[10]

3. 18D-Daulton Wilson[4]

4. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[8]

5. 49-Jonathan Davenport[18]

6. 1XM-Aaron Marrant[6]

7. 19M-Joseph Joiner[9]

8. 99-Devin Moran[11]

9. 79-Donald McIntosh[19]

10. 60-Dan Ebert[22]

11. 76-Brandon Overton[12]

12. 32S-Chris Simpson[13]

13. 32-Bobby Pierce[14]

14. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck[17]

15. 76N-Blair Nothdurft[16]

16. 1-Brandon Sheppard[1]

17. 6-Clay Harris[24]

18. 93-Carson Ferguson[23]

19. 19R-Ryan Gustin[5]

20. 71-Hudson O’Neal[15]

21. 25-Chad Simpson[21]

22. 16-Tyler Bruening[3]

23. 3S-Brian Shirley[7]

24. 6J-Jake Neal[20]

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