QUINCY, Mich. — Updates from Thursday's DIRTcar Summer Nationals event at Butler Motor Speedway, highlighted by a $5,000-to-win main event (results unofficial):
Feature
Billy Moyer Jr. of Batesville, Ark., generated the jump needed on the initial start to lead all 40 laps from the outside pole for the DIRTcar Summer Nationals win Thursday at Butler Motor Speedway, his 10th career series victory. Moyer’s victory was worth $5,000 and came 1.628 seconds ahead of Chad Finley of East Lansing, Mich. Finley had a final shot at Moyer on a restart with three laps, but Moyer was never seriously challenged for the lead throughout the feature’s duration, executing six well-timed restarts. Dona Marcoullier of Houghton Lake, Mich., was third.
Format change
With an incoming storm in the forecase, heat races ahead of the $5,000-to-win DIRTcar Summer Nationals main event at Butler have been scrapped, as the top-five from each qualifying group transfer outright to the A-main. Remaining participants will have to race through the consolation race.
Feature lineup
(40 laps)
Row 1: Chad Finley, Billy Moyer Jr.
Row 2: Payton Freeman, Paul Stubber
Row 3: Dona Marcoullier, Rich Bell
Row 4: Rylee Knoll, Garrett Wiles
Row 5: Eric Spangler, Mark Voigt
Row 6: Thomas Hunziker, Rusty Schlenk
Row 7: Jeff Roth, Chad White
Row 8: Joe Godsey, Mick Quin
Row 9: Jim Plotts, Jarrett Rendel
Row 10: Josh Robertson, Rusty Smith
Row 11: Michael Archer, Nicholas Fenner
Consolation race results
B-main (10 laps; top three transfer): Mick Quin, Jim Plotts, Jarrett Rendel, Rusty Smith, Josh Robertson, Carter Murday, Nicholas Fenner, Michael Archer, Chris Sands, Trevor Reed, Brad Harden, Justin White.
Time trials
Driver (car no.), hometown
First group
Chad Finley (42), East Lansing, Mich., 15.963
Paul Stubber (31aus), Bunbury, Australia, 16.139
Rylee Knoll (07), Lake, Mich., 16.275
Mark Voigt (30), Marine, Ill., 16.399
Jeff Roth (14R), Bentonville, Ark., 16.588
Brad Harden (52), Ovid, Mich., 16.737
Michael Archer (55), Jackson, Mich., 16.848
Josh Robertson (P3), Defiance, Ohio, 17.542
Carter Murday (8M), Adrian, Mich., 17.798
Second group
Payton Freeman (F1), Commerce, Ga., 15.549
Dona Marcoullier (6m), Houghton Lake, Mich., 15.788
Garrett Wiles (16), Hubbardson, Mich., 15.891
Thomas Hunziker (38), Bend, Ore., 16.431
Chad White (20C), Stevensville, Mich., 16.606
Jim Plotts (20), Holgate, Ohio, 17.092
Trevor Reed (2), Napoleon, Ohio, 18.111
Jarrett Rendel (06), Clayton, Mich., 18.627
Justin White (20W), Stevensville, Mich, did not time
Third group
Billy Moyer Jr. (21jr), Batesville, Ark., 15.588
Rich Bell (21B), Sheffield, Ill., 15.658
Eric Spangler (27), Lake City, Mich., 15.677
Rusty Schlenk (1), McClure, Ohio, 15.849
Joe Godsey (14G), Edinburgh, Ind., 15.889
Mick Quin (23NZ), Hawks Bay, N.Z., 16.602
Chris Sands (E5S), Morenci, Mich., 16.980
Rusty Smith (71), Sylvania, Ohio, 17.384
Nicholas Fenner (22F), Morenci, Mich., 17.985
Thursday's schedule
(All times local)
6 p.m. - Drivers’ meeting
6:30 p.m. - On-track activity
- Late Model hot laps
- Modified hot laps/qualifying
- Late Model time trials (2 laps)
Opening ceremonies
- Late Model heats (10 laps)
- Modified heats (10 laps)
- Late Model C-main (10 laps)
- Modified consolation (12 laps)
- Late Model B-main (12 laps)
Feature races
- Modifieds (25 laps)
- Late Models (40 laps)
