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Terbo Tyler Erb Explains The Contact Between Him Jonathan Davenport That Ended Davenport’s Heat Race

January 19, 2026  ·
  John Trent

Terbo Tyler Erb shared his perspective on what happened between him and Jonathan Davenport on the first lap of heat 1 during the Wild West Shootout finale.

The heat started with Davenport on the inside on the pole with Terbo on the outside. The two started leaning on each other as soon as the green flag dropped and continue to beat and bang down the front stretch. Davenport did not take too kindly to it and drove up in to Terbo right before they went into turn 1.

Davenport then slid Terbo coming out of 2. Terbo attempted to the crossover and then a slider going through 3. Davenport appeared to angle his car downward to try to thwart the slider, but it did not work out and Terbo went up and over his entire hood and his left rear smashed down on Davenport’s right front quarter panel. The two then slid up to the wall together. Terbo was able to get away while Davenport came to a stop exiting turn 4.

Terbo told FloRacing’s Trenton Berry after he won the heat race, “[Jonathan Davenport] got a little excited and [expletive] with me getting down the front straightaway here. All I’ve heard about all week is these starts and one car crowded. I started at the fence and I let him slide me and crossed him over. And he had two choices and he picked the choice that created the most work for him and not the best result.”

“Excited about tonight. I feel really good about it. You know, it’s a long ways out here to stay for two weeks and have nothing to show for it so just put a good feature together here and have a lot of fun.”

Billy Moyer, who’s in the FloRacing booth, shared his thoughts saying, “Well, what he says is really right. We’re all racing. He’s going to see it from his view. JD’s going to see it from his view. My opinion there the way he drove it in there, he’s hungry wants to win the darn race. And if I was going to have a driver driving for me, I’d rather slow them down rather than speed them up.”

Interestingly, Moyer had shared back on Wednesday night that he prefers the guy that’s getting slid to hit the brakes. He explained, “Well, in my aspect and I think this way-. When I see some of that stuff coming and they’re going to come across your hood — I call it across your air cleaner — you know, you just got to get on the brakes.”

“Because if you go and try and be a hero and hit them and spin them out like a lot of these guys do all you’re doing is tearing up your own stuff and you’re not going to finish the race if you tear your nose off of it anyway,” he explained. “What you can do is let him slide in there, and let him go, and just try to get your bearings back together and come back after ’em and do the same thing to them a lap or two later if you can.”

Following the heat, Jonathan Davenport pulled his car in front of Terbo’s hauler and blocked him from being able to pit. The two also exchanged words.

NEXT: Here’s What Caused Mike Marlar To Miss Night 5 Of The Wild West Shootout

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Author: John Trent