“Terbo” Tyler Erb turned a sixth-starting spot into a $5,000 payday Friday at Portsmouth Raceway Park, capitalizing when race leader Josh Rice jumped the cushion with two laps to go.
Terbo had a solid start to the night qualifying third. He fell back a spot in his heat race and finished second. That put him starting sixth for the feature. He was able to work his way up to second, and with just a few laps left was only a couple of car lengths behind race leader Josh Rice. Rice would slip on the exit of turn 2, which was all it took for Terbo to take advantage and slip underneath him.
He powered by him down the back stretch and then held him off the final two laps of the race to get the win and the $5,000 payday.
Terbo spoke to Michael Hamilton Photography ahead of Saturday’s big $20,000 to-win race about how he executed the win last night. First, he shared how he felt he did not have a chance at the win until Rice’s mistake, “Not really until I got to second. Didn’t really expect him to make a mistake, but it happens. We’re all right on the ragged edge. Just capitalized, was close enough when he jumped the cushion to be able to get by him, and it’s what it took to win last night.”
On top of discussing how he was able to get the win at Portsmouth, Terbo also teased his World 100 wrap, “We have a wrap. … I’m going to race Eldora tomorrow with the 51 car again. And then we have it all done. It’s not super, super crazy. It’s just a cool idea. We can only one up ourselves so many times. It’s hard to one up the Grave Digger, the Dukes of Hazzard, Cole Trickle cars, the Kyle Busch car. I wouldn’t say it’s my most favorite one, but it’s a little bit different and hopefully everybody likes it.”
Following the $20,000 to-win race on Saturday at Portsmouth, Erb will turn his attention to Eldora Speedway and the 18th Annual Baltes Classic presented by Coors Light. The race is a tune-up for the World 100 honoring Earl and Berneice Baltes sanctioned by the American Late Model Iron-Man Series. The race will feature the new format that was introduced last year. The field will be split into two groups and each group will races its own hot laps, qualifying, heat races, B-Mains, and finally a 25-lap A-main. Each twin feature pays $5,000 to-win. Last years winners were Kyle Bronson and Ricky Thornton Jr. Thornton went on to win the World 100.
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