CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — Wasting time wasn’t an option for Bobby Pierce at Atomic Speedway Saturday night. Madden, the pole sitter, stormed to the lead on lap one while Pierce and Brian Shirley battled for second. It wasn’t long before Pierce found an opportunity to get by Shirley. With a lap car on the top of the racetrack, Pierce moved under Madden, pulling even in turns one and two. On Lap 32, Pierce thundered down the backstretch, again pulling even with Madden’s Longhorn. And with the same move he used to pass Shirley, Pierce slid in front of Madden to take the lead in turn three. “It was getting really clean in turn three,” Pierce said. I wanted to get by [Madden], and traffic was really hairy.

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