Bobby Pierce continued his podium streak extending it to six in a row, but he came up two spots short of the top spot with Mike Marlar and Ricky Thornton Jr. finishing ahead of him.

Pierce spoke to StockCarReport.com following the race on what he needed to do to get to the win after he made significant headway on the top side of the track moving from 7th to 3rd.

When asked about whether he wanted the race to stay green when the final caution came out, he said, “Probably stay green ’cause I actually just got around Madden for third. Caution came out and that put me back in fourth. Luckily, I got back around him on the restart, but then Marlar and Ricky kinda had clear sailing, no laps or anything. So it took awhile for them to catch the lap cars and then when they did, had a chance there and there’s one lap car out there that I don’t know if he knew where he was going. So we all had a bit of an issue getting around him. By that time I was a few car lengths back again. If it would have stayed green maybe had a chance.”

“But, yeah, I’ll take a third place finish here. I think that’s my best finish here by far,” he continued.” Car was really good tonight. We started off qualifying good. If only I could have won that heat race, started front two rows, it would have helped out a lot. But we started 7th, got to 3rd. I’ll take it. Said earlier if I had a top 5 I’d be happy.”

Pierce also explained the high line he was running that allowed him to maneuver to a podium finish, “It kinda was a hard line to run compared to the rubber. Sometimes you see that rubber forming there about a lane below that top and that’s where everyone was running while I was getting that extra momentum and then I’d get such a run off of four, I’d slide them in [turn] 1.”

“Sliders here are kinda sketchy ’cause that outside guy is hauling in there so fast and you gotta go even faster than him to beat him there so you don’t clean him out.”

“It worked out doing that line,” he added. “I think Camaron Marlar showed me that line. … He slide me into 1 and I figured, ‘Okay, he must have had a good off of 4. He must’ve ran the cushion.’ When I came back around, I did see my dad moving me up so once I got up there that’s when I really got rolling pretty good.”

With the third place finish and Nick Hoffman bring it home in 9th after starting in 11th, Pierce has taken control of the points lead albeit it is of the slimmest margins. He leads Hoffman by two points. Tim McCreadie is 41 points back in third. Ryan Gustin sits 56 points back in fourth and Terbo Tyler Erb is in fifth just 61 points behind.

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