A dejected Terbo Tyler Erb explained that his Gateway Dirt Nationals ended early due to an engine failure.

Despite coming out at the end of qualifying on a much slower track, Terbo was able to post a fifth place qualifying time. Unfortunately, oil was noticed under the car and FloRacing reported that his weekend was over due to an engine failure.

Terbo shared more details later in the night when he was asked what his plan was for the rest of the weekend, “Sell t-shirts and try to buy like 7 more motors because that one’s pretty tore up. It was cool. Qualified good being out literally dead last so I guess have some sort of notes for next year. I guess I’ll just start like that. Come back next year.”

“Some point luck will turn around. Last year had a flat. This year I blew up. The year before that I got thrown out for a transponder and then I won the first year. Really, since I won nothing’s gone good here. But it’s cool. It’s a lot of fun. Try again next year.”

As for why he did not attempt to put a second motor in the car, Terbo explained, “Cut your losses. You ever see a guy bleeding out on the side of the road and just walk by and stab him some more? You don’t race for the provisional. Starting 20th sucks.”

“It would be humanly impossible to change oil system, motor and all that in about 32 minutes,” he continued. “You can change the motor, but not the oil system and everything, and it was killed too. Just no time to do all that and to start 12th.”

“I want it really bad, but I don’t know that I want it that bad. That’s a little crazy. Sometimes you got to know when to call it quits and we’ll fire off again in Phoenix at the Wild West Shootout,” he concluded.

.@Terbo_91 discusses the quick end to his #GatewayDirt Nationals and his plan to sell more t-shirts now that his week’s over. @GatewayDirt pic.twitter.com/DEdWZYBYFd

— FloRacing (@FloRacing) December 5, 2025

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