Key notes: The 40th annual DIRTcar Summer Nationals continues Week 4 with Friday’s 30-lap, $10,000-to-win Independence Day special at Red Hill Raceway. … A $150,000 total points fund will be distributed weekly, with $10,000 to each week’s points champion. … Jason Feger of Bloomington, Ill., was the Week 1 champ, while Ryan Gustin of Marshalltown, Iowa, topped the standings in Week 2 and Brandon Sheppard of New Berlin, Ill., won Sunday’s final Hell Tour race at Clarksville (Tenn.) Speedway to clinch the Week 3 title. … Tyler Millwood passed Feger in the late going to steal Thursday’s $5,000 win at La Salle (Ill.) Speedway for his first Hell Tour victory. … Reigning Summer Nationals champ Tyler Erb of New Waverly, Texas, had back-to-back series wins before appearing to lose an engine while running third in Thursday’s 40-lapper at La Salle. Terbo has won the last two Summer Nationals races at Red Hill, worth more than $10,000. … Ryan Unzicker of El Paso, Ill., won last August’s $5,000 MARS stop. … Modifieds, B-mods and hornets are on the undercard. … Pits open at 1 p.m. and grandstands open at 5:30, with hot laps at 6:45. … Watch live on DIRTVision.
Who to watch: Tyler Erb of New Waverly, Texas, eyes his third straight Summer Nationals victory at Red Hill.
Points chase: Week 4 before Red Hill: 1. Jason Feger (200); 2. Tyler Millwood (197); 3. Tyler Erb (196); 4. Mark Whitener (186); 5. Christian Hanger (159).
Overall before Red Hill: 1. Jason Feger (1,135); 2. Tyler Erb (1,073); 3. Dillon McCowan (896); 4. Mark Whitener (842); 5. Tyler Millwood (798).
Expected entrants: Tyler Erb, Jason Feger, Shannon Babb, Mike Harrison, Bob Gardner, Mark Whitener, Trey Mills, Dillon McCowan, Ryan Unzicker, Clay Stuckey, Rodney Melvin, Jadon Frame, Brian Rickman, Carson Brown, Christian Hanger, Tyler Millwood, Blaze Burwell, Kyle Hammer, Neil Baggett, Rich Bell, Thomas Hunziker, Brenden Smith, Jackson Hise, Brody Smith, Haiden Cowan and others.
Next series race: July 5, Tri-State Speedway (Haubstadt, IN) $10,000
From staff reports
SUMNER, Ill. — Updates and results from Friday’s 20th round of the DIRTcar Summer Nationals at Red Hill Raceway, an event highlighted by a 30-lap, $10,000-to-win feature for DIRTcar Super Late Models (results unofficial):
Friday’s schedule
(All times local)
1 p.m. - Pits open
5:30 p.m. - Grandstands open
6:15 p.m. - Drivers’ meeting
6:45 p.m. - On-track activity
- Late Model hot laps
- Modified group qualifying
- Late Model time trials (2 laps)
- B-mod hot laps
- Hornet hot laps
Opening ceremonies
- Late Model heats (8 laps)
- Modified heats (8 laps)
- Late Model C-main (8 laps)
- B-mod heats (8 laps)
- Hornet heats (6 laps)
- Late Model B-main (10 laps)
- Modified consolation (8 laps)
Intermission/track prep
- Late Model feature (30 laps)
- Modified feature (25 laps)
- B-mod feature (15 laps)
- Hornet feature (12 laps)
