Earl pearson jr black diamond

Former Black Diamond house car driver Earl Pearson Jr. is returning to the Ronnie Stuckey-owned operation this weekend at Missouri's Lucas Oil Speedway on the Lucas Oil Midwest LateModel Racing Association, the Black Diamond team announced Wednesday evening.

The 52-year-old and four-time Lucas Oil Series champion hasn't raced since July 11's Lucas Oil Series event at 34 Raceway driving the Jason Rauen-owned No.

46 BMF Race Car in an 11th-place finish at the Iowa oval. Pearson told FloRacing he could "possibly" race more events beyond the Fall Nationals — "(I'm) not sure yet," Pearson added via text — which begins Thursday and Friday with $5,000-to-win prelims ahead of Saturday's $10,000-to-win finale.

Pearson was the house car driver of the Shreveport, La.-based chassis enterprise from 2018-21, a tenure that began at the beginning of the 2018 season and ended the first week of September in 2021.

He spent five of his 19 full-t