Key notes: The 40th annual DIRTcar Summer Nationals continues its fifth week of action with Thursday’s 30-lap, $5,000-to-win return to Butler Motor Speedway. … There are four Hell Tour races scheduled over the next four days. … A $150,000 points fund will be paid out weekly with $10,000 to each week’s champion. … Overall points leader Tanner English of Benton, Ky., was crowned the first and fourth week’s champ and enters Butler with 17 top-five finishes in 19 Summer Nationals rounds thus far. … Jason Feger of Bloomington, Ill., narrowly beat English to win the week two title, but has opted out of the last four rounds of the Summer Nationals and heads back to Illinois to prepare for Midwest racing action. … Rusty Schlenk of Jackson, Mich., led the final 16 laps of Wednesday’s Hell Tour stop at I-96 Speedway in Lake Odessa, Mich., his first series win in nearly 16 years. Schlenk topped an Iron-Man Series race at Butler in the fall of 2024. … Chad Finley of St. Johns, Mich., earned a $5,000 Iron-Man victory there last fall. … Eric Spangler of Lake City, Mich., grabbed a $4,000 American Ethanol payday in June of 2018. … Modifieds are on the undercard. … Pits open at 3 p.m. and grandstands open at 4 with hot laps at 6. … Watch live on DIRTVision.
Who to watch: Rusty Schlenk of Jackson, Mich., seeks his second straight Summer Nationals victory.
Points chase: Week 5 before Butler: 1. Rusty Schlenk (129); 2. Tanner English (124); 3. Jason Feger (119); 4. Travis Stemler (114); 5. Luke Morey (109).
Overall before Butler: 1. Tanner English (1,313); 2. Jason Feger (1,185); 3. Clay Stuckey (837); 4. Mitch McGrath (829); 5. Mark Voigt (718).
Expected entrants: Rusty Schlenk, Tanner English, Sam Seawright, Mitch McGrath, Frank Heckenast Jr., Luke Morey, Eric Spangler, Kyle Moore, Devin Shiels, Chad Finley, Travis Stemler, Rich Bell, Brandon Thirlby, Colin Shipley, Logan Nickerson, Rylee Knoll, Brayden Shiels, Mike VanderMark Jr., Chase Burda, Brian Ruhlman, Chad Roush, Mark Voigt, Bill Bray, Jake Rendel and others.
Next series race: July 10, Crystal Motor Speedway (Crystal, MI) $10,000
From staff reports
QUINCY, Mich. — Updates from Thursday’s 20th round of the 40th annual DIRTcar Summer Nationals at Butler Motor Speedway, an event highlighted by a 30-lap, $5,000-to-win feature for DIRTcar Super Late Models (results unofficial):
Thursday’s schedule
(All times local)
3 p.m. - Pits open
3:30 p.m. - Tech and registration open
4 p.m. - Grandstands open
5 p.m. - Tech and registration close
5:30 p.m. - Drivers’ meeting
6 p.m. - On-track activity
- Late Model hot laps
- Modified group qualifying
- Late Model time trials (2 laps)
Opening ceremonies
- Late Model heats (8 laps)
- Modified heats (8 laps)
Intermission/track prep
- Modified consolation (8 laps)
- Late Model consolation (10 laps)
Feature events
- Late Models (30 laps)
- Modifieds (25 laps)
