When Bobby Pierce announced in the offseason that he’d accepted a ride with the Dunn Benson Motorsports team to replace the departing Earl Pearson Jr. — a move for Pierce that meant relocation from his Oakwood, Ill., home to Dunn-Benson’s headquarters in North Carolina — my first thought was not of Pierce’s newfound opportunity to chase the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series.

No, at first I thought, what about the DIRTcar Summer Nationals? After all, Pierce was a Summer Nationals MORE