Stevie Sheppard explained why he tells his son, Brandon Sheppard, to be more like Tyler Erb.

Brandon Sheppard shared that his dad gave him that advice during a conversation on The Dirt Parlor. When asked about the way he races and if it stemmed from a conversation he had with Rocket1 Racing team owner Mark Richards, Sheppard shared that both Mark and his dad have encouraged him to be a little more aggressive. Sheppard said, “Mark and my Dad are similar in the aspect of, you know, they’re both, ‘We got all this equipment. Just go. Just go do what you got to do. Just win. Just go run them over if you have to. It don’t matter.”

He then shared, “My Dad says I need to be more like Terbo sometimes. I don’t know what that exactly means.”

Stevie Sheppard explained what exactly he meant in a comment on the Stock Car Report Facebook page. He wrote, “What I mean is Terbo don’t put up with anyone’s [crap]. Didn’t mean drive exactly like him. I love watching Terbo. You never [know] what might happen. But you all say Brandon Sheppard gets respect. Well, not totally true. There’s lots of big name guys that drive him dirty. Not going to mention names. I’d clean some of [their] clocks is all I’m say[ing] and they would start [to] have a little more respect.

“But I am very proud of my son,” he concluded. “He does his thing and don’t let anyone change him. He will always be BSHEPP!”

During his conversation with The Dirt Parlor, Sheppard indicated he doesn’t plan on changing his driving style, “One thing that I look back and I think about a lot, is watching Scott [Bloomquist], and watching Billy [Moyer], and watching [Shannon] Babb, seeing them guys not put themselves in a situation to get their nose tore off or their spoiler tore off. Obviously, it’s going to happen sometimes.”

“I can remember we had a super fast car at Ogilvie about every time we’ve been there with Rocket1 and for some reason about 10 laps in, 15 laps in leading the race, I’ll peel the right side spoiler piece off going down the back stretch and just go to [crap] and run second. It’s a 40-lap race. You come in and you think, ‘Man, if I could have kept that spoiler on it probably would have been a different race car.’ ‘Cause your race car totally changes when you lose a spoiler or mess up the right door or whatever it is.

“So between just those experiences over the years and learning that I need to figure out how to keep the panels on this thing straight. The other side of it is watching those guys and growing up watching them guys actually have respect for each other, slide each other clear, not run over each other. And if you did run each other over, you better go back to the pit area and watch because somebody’s getting beat up. I can remember my dad fighting numerous times back in the day. There probably needs to be a lot more of it, honestly. There would be a lot less people running over each other and then talking [crap] on DirtonDirt than what there is right now.”

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