Super Late Model drivers will have more money to chase during the 2018 Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout presented by O’Reilly Auto Parts scheduled for Jan. 6-14 at the FK Rod Ends Arizona Speedway outside Phoenix.

In addition to the expansion of the Keyser’s Quarter-Million Challenge, Wild West Shootout co-promoters Chris Kearns and Kevin Montgomery have announced a $12,000 total increase in purses for the six-race miniseries. Five $5,000-to-win features (Jan. 6-7, 10, 12-13) will see the start money bumped to $500 — up $100 from 2017 — and the Jan. 14 finale will offer a $13,000 first-place prize, continuing a $1,000-per-year rise for the biggest show of the mid-winter meet.

The announcement comes in the wake of the news that the Keyser’s Quarter-Million Challenge has been tweaked to provide competitors more opportunity to leave the Southwest with bonus money. A one-driver sweep of six races will for the third consecutive year be worth a blockbuster $250,000 bonus, winning five of six features will again earn a racer an extra $100,000 and capturing four races offers a $25,000 check. For the first time, three triumphs will be worth a $10,000 bonus.

Earlier this year Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., won three of the four Wild West Shootout features that were completed. Rain forced the cancellation of the final two events, ending Pierce’s chance at the four- or five-win bonuses that would have made him the first driver to collect Keyser Quarter-Million Challenge money since the program was instituted in 2016.

Find more information and tickets at wildwestshootout.net or by calling 520-664-2074.