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Tyler Erb Explains Why He Is So Passionate And Gets So Aggressive That He Has To “Woosaw” Himself

August 27, 2026  ·
  John Trent

Tyler Erb laid down an impressive performance at Southern Iowa Speedway charging from seventh to the win, but he admitted that it all could have ended up very differently if he didn’t “woosaw” himself after a poor heat race.

Erb laid down a new track record during qualifying with a time of 17.477. That put him on the pole of the first heat race.

However, on the initial start, Erb struggled to launch with Ryan Gustin motoring past him on the top and Dallon Murty sneaking underneath him into second. Erb would settle for a third place finish in the heat, giving him a seventh place starting position for the feature.

In the feature, Erb quickly began working his way forward. He quickly moved forward on the bottom. He snuck past Bobby Pierce in 1 and 2, who had to get on the binders up top for Ethan Dotson. He then hooked the bottom through 3 and 4 to get past Gustin at the line. With one lap down, Terbo was already up to fifth. On lap 5, he worked his way to fourth past Daulton Wilson motoring underneath him down the back stretch. 

After Trey Mills flipped on lap 14 on the back stretch, Erb used the restart to work underneath Dallon Murty. He continued to march forward, working underneath Dotson on lap 19 through the center of 1 and 2 and getting a huge drive off the bottom of the corner down the back that allowed him to slide him through 3 and 4. He then quickly tracked down Dustin Sorensen and got past him on lap 21, doing it again on the bottom of the back stretch and sliding through 3 and 4 after getting a strong run exiting turn 2.

In a post-race interview with Always Race Day, Erb was asked how this year has been his best year to date. As part of his answer, Erb discussed the lessons he has learned as well as how he has matured over the last few years, “Just kind of took what I learned from sucking, took what I learned from running the tour all those years, and nights that I would win a race, but then I’d blow up seven other nights and wreck and do stupid stuff.”

“The heat race could have been very easily the turning where I just [freaking] lose my mind and ruin the the rest of my weekend,” he continued. “Just maturing. I’m almost 30. I don’t feel 30. I feel like I’m about 16 on a little bit of Tren/Deca. That’s what I feel like.”

“I have to woosaw myself. And it’s not ’cause I’m like an idiot. I’m not a psycho,” Erb added. “Look, people don’t understand. This is the best analogy. This is what I’m going to end it with ’cause I can, ’cause it’s my [freaking] interview. I don’t know what you do for work every day, but if you had the opportunity to win $12,000 a day and I took it out of your hands, threw it on the ground, took a [crap] on it, lit it on fire, and walked away, you would be in a bad mood too. And that’s what it feels like to come out here and race, work all week long, do all this stuff, and you have a flat tire, some noodledick spins you out. All that matters. And that really bothers me. So the fact that I care about-. It’s not the money. It’s the principle. Nobody thinks about money until it’s $12,000. You got $12,000 hanging out of your pocket, let me steal it, [crap] on it, and take it from you. You would be upset too. That’s just the moral of the whole story.”

“I’m just very passionate about it and one day nobody’s going to give a damn, but I’ll be happy with everything I did, and that’s that.”

If you are unfamiliar with the term “woosaw,” Urban Dictionary defines it is a “relaxing mechanism, to sop you from loosing your cool.”

The win and demeanor is a marked contrast to Erb’s weekend at Maquoketa Speedway. On Friday night, he was sent flying over the berm in turn 1 after contact with Matthew Larson in his heat race. 

On the next restart, Erb targeted Larson for some payback throwing a door at him in turn 1. He then got into the rear of Justin Duty down the back stretch. Larson took advantage of that to drive past both of them. Erb immediately countered by driving into his left front in the middle of 3 and 4.

On Saturday night after locking himself into the feature with a fourth place finish in his heat race, Erb was over the entire weekend telling DIRTVision, “I’m ready to go home.”

The beginning of the feature did not improve things for Erb. He ended up on his lid after contact with Clay Stuckey after the initial start. Fortunately, he was able to get the car fixed up and rallied for an 11th place finish.

Nevertheless, he expressed his displeasure with the track telling Always Race Day, “Just three-wide. Race track’s terrible for three days. It was lap one and somebody was kind of just stuck in my left side door, or, quarter, or fender and I was kind of on them. And I thought like we were just in a slow motion skate and then obviously the guys behind us have nowhere to go and they’re kind of just like slowly you can feel people start like stacking up, stacking up. I was like, ‘Please, the last guy don’t hit me.’ I feel like the last guy on the Jenga block hit us and we all just kind of turned over. It just sucks.”

“The fastest car won and that’s what it takes to win these races. You have to have the fastest car and we didn’t,” he continued. “Definitely not a fan of this place. A couple years ago it was alright, but not very fun. Just tear it all apart, build everything brand new, and we’ll be back Wednesday at Oskaloosa.”

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Author: John Trent