Incredible Photo Finish | 2023 Lucas Oil Late Model Gopher 50 at Deer Creek Speedway 

Love him or hate him Pierce puts on a hell of a show.

Thats how ya bring fans to a race track! Great race. Just depends the location of the transponder line. My local track is roughly 20 feet before the flag stand. So its probably the right call! Good racing fellas

It sure looked like O'Neal was a head by a couple of inches!, plain as day!.

I swear the 32 could start dead last and somehow he's battling for the win.

NASCAR is only praying they could have races like this !

Congrats smooth operator. Sure looked like Hudson crossed the line inches ahead though.

What a great race to the transponder. Crazy its not racing to the finish line. I know its the series' silly rule but that rule has costed several teams the winner's part. All tracks should have a flagstand camera. IMO

Whoever wrenches on those two cars is top notch

Damn thats a helluva finish!

What a Awesome Finish !!! Wow !!!

If you haven’t seen these guys live I highly recommend you do!! This is great coverage but still doesn’t do them justice!!

Wow that was close good racing

O'Neal had that race 100% that came down to transponder location.

Wow what a race

What a finish

I think we could tie this one up in court for a few years. Whew what a finish. Hooda thunk a Rocket chassis would be this good at this point in the year? Bobby Pierce YEAH!

What a race 🏁

Tried keeping my eyes open for this one. Damn ! Good finish. The drivers know where the transponder is located.

Already been said, I was gonna state the obvious that Hudson won but they must have went with the transponders. These guys are amazing

That 32 is the man let’s go!!!! There ain’t no noise in Illinois

Hell yeahhhh bobby way to go what a great race

this is probably the best race I've seen in sometime folks. for a payday it was clean. so many highlights I've seen lately have just been shit drivers running over people in the top 5 last 15 laps. man i wish i was there.

That was close, Hudsons white bumper seemed to be a couple inches ahead of Bobby, but the scoring from the transponders dictates the winner. Congratulations, Bobby, on that .002 finish.

Congratulations Bobby that was one hell of a move on the last lap congratulations buddy that was awesome

That 32 is on a MF Roll

If you pause it at 5:51 both drivers are side by side. Look at the distance to the flag stand. We know there is a little bit of an angle from this camera to the flag stand. But is the camera's position where the transponder line is at? I wish we know where the transponder line starts on our side and ends on the infield. From this point on Hudson has it. I hate the term "photo finish" when they don't actually decide at the finish line. Crazy race and happy for Bobby!

Way to go pierce! From 10th

I love close finish like that

When I raced we placed the transponders on the rear axle. Either move the finish line or move the transponders. Hard to know what to do as a driver when the finish line is so flexible.

What a race… From where the camera was set up, it almost appears Hud got it. They need to have a high speed camera mounted ON the flag stand. JMO

Wow what a race! That really takes me back to the days of "Guardrail Grinding" at Susky (now Baps), but sadly they narrowed the straights and ruined the track.

Not hating at all u love both these guys and their wheeling abilities! Buuuuuut I'm pretty sure that was Hudsons win from what it looked like on the video but hey either way congrats to Bobby!

Way to go Smooth

The best race I’ve seen all year was s at Indiana , tri city, Indiana this Sunday. And you can see. All of the race every lap not the first one put all of them and if you didn’t like that race you must be dead.

Where's the line at? If it's straight across from the flagman, O'Neal had it.

I seen it differently but I am not an official. Congratulations on the win. I like both drivers and teams so win, win for me either way.

Just noticed first auomobile company sponsor on a car. And its Toyota? On the winning car? My heart is broken, i had no idea

Camera angle wasnt the best since it wasnt directly in line with the flag stand but i believe bobby got it where the transponder line is. Another foot sooner and hudson wouldve had it

There is no "finish" line painted on the track. If you use the flag stand, how wide is the flagstand?Transponder line is the scoring line.

Wow

Apparently Hudson was ok with the finish results ?

Bobby Pierce. Husdon. Best Short Track Racers! Inspirational

I don't know what the Officials was looking at but it looked like O'Neal won that race. Looks like the #1 got Robbed!

Hud was robbed; check the transponder box location on the 32 race car.

They need to relook at that bc Hudson O'Neal was feather ahead of Bobby Pierce.

Transponder Finish LOL I bet if Hudson's car would have had the number 20RT on the side of it, they would be here till this time next week trying to decide, who should we give this win to LMAO.. gotta love the politics involved

Looks like O’Neal at the line

Definitely looked like O'Neil got that shit

This is what happens when the #49 doesnt get carried away lol

WOW! Looks like the Blue car won though

If o'neal would not have made a mistake he would have won! Nice job bobby!

Bobby did a hell of a job but hudson got that one. If the transponder isnt lined up correctly with the finish line (someone said 25ft away) sounds like grounds for a lawsuit

the announcers called it a "photo" finish. i'd like to see the photo of Bobby ahead of Hudson, just so the fans can learn where the finish line, oops i mean scoring loop, is located. why cant all tracks just make the Scoring loop and the finish line at the same place? Hopefully going forward James and the broadcast crew can let us know before the race starts weather it will end at the finish line, or before the finish line x amount of feet where the unseen scoring loop is. ya, know so we don't get all excited when the one that crosses the line first is not declared the winner. regardless of the outcome. it was a great race. but lucas oil got it wrong. Bobby may have been ahead at that scoring loop. It sure would have been nice to know that that final scoring loop is now where the race ends. maybe they can paint the wall facing the crowd and cameras with something like a line or something. maybe even a checkered line so we know where it ends. then they could add cameras at that spot too. ya know, for the close finishes heck hire i guy to wave colored flags from that spot. maybe lucas oil is on to something. id apply for that job. the scoring loop reading / flag waver guy.

The understanding I get the transponder line isn’t 100% straight either

I guess the photo decision depends on the driver affected

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Lucas oil is looking at this finish transponder is good thru the race except the last lap then they go by flag stand photo which clearly shows O'Neil winning. Just like earlier this year a race between B shep and Bruening shep beat him to the transponder but Bruening beat shep to flag stand they gave the win to b shep but after looking at photo they reversed the call because Bruening got to the flag stand first. Same situation here . Lucas oil will make the right call on this one to.

Awesome race the two best out there today in my opinion congrats Bobby 👍

Hudson won the damn race

Yeah it was a great race, but it's a shame that Lucas got the winner wrong. They need to change it. O'Neal won that hands down.

Oh yes O'Neal won look at the photos at the finish line

If O'Neal hadn't messed up in turn 2 he`d of won.

The line is the same for all. Wtg BP32

Where the finish line!

He had to know pierce was gonna throw that massive slide at him in 3 and 4 Hudson shoulda undercut him he woulda won easily the way pierce hit the wall.

Transponders in different places

Hudson got robbed on that one

Yeah O'Neil won that

Hudson won that race that was a bad call

O’Neal got robbed. He won that

That’s some bullshit! The visual is O’Neal

Don't call it a photo finish, if you're going to ignore the photos... I understand that the scoring loop may not be exactly at the flagstand, but it should be marked in some way. Whether you're a fan, or racer, to be told to ignore what we can still see with our eyes, is wrong.

Hud got robbed

Hudson won

Something about this photo finish looks a little off. Guess seeing it with your own eyes doesn’t matter.

Wow what a terrible call for the win!!!!!

I think they need to get rid of scoring loops and electionic scoring and go old school and race to the checkered flag and cut out all the extra bullshit and making things more complicated than it needs to be, i think the biggest problem with dirt track racing today is we're getting too far from the roots of racing and getting to the point

Oneal won by a nose what is up with that

clearly hudson is ahead..not by much but still ahead. should of stuck his tongue out i guess lol.

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Stop using the term photo finish when every photo shows the Rocket1 winning!!! Heck just do away with the flag stand and just use lights since you aren’t going to use the checkered flag as the finish 🤡🤡

Hudson was robbed.

O'Neill won that by the nose of his car man that's b*******

Guys, it doesn't matter where the transponder beacon is set. It's called a start/finish line for a reason. If that's how the race was decided it's pathetic.

Are they blind

O’Neal won that race. Even Ray Charles can see O’Neal won that race.