6.19.21 UMP DIRTcar Modifieds Summernationals Results
Five nights, five races, five wins. Nick Hoffman is on one of the most dominant winning streaks in DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals history.
Through those five races, there’s been 130 total Feature laps contested. Hoffman has led every single one. Even with the tough competition on the roster for Saturday night’s race at Fairbury Speedway, nothing could shake his concentration.
“I had a memory pop up on my Facebook today of two years ago [during] Summer Nationals, and it was a quote that I was off to a rough start to Summer Nationals, and man, this is the total opposite,” Hoffman said in Victory Lane.
The one and only six-time Summit Modified champion Mike Harrison, of Highland, IL, made the trip to Fairbury and initially looked to be a serious threat to Hoffman’s win streak, winning his Heat Race and lining up fourth for the start of the Feature.
Harrison jumped right into second on Lap 3 of the 30-lap event, pounding the cushion very aggressively, engine wound-up as he went in hot pursuit of leader Hoffman. But it didn’t last him the whole race.
With 11 laps remaining, having already scraped the outside wall several times, Harrison’s right-front tire gave out and sent him into the Turn 1 wall, ending his night early.
“He gets away with it a lot of times running up there, and sometimes it’ll bite ya,” Hoffman said of the incident. “Right before that happened, I found a ton of grip about a lane off the cushion. I felt like it would’ve been a pretty good race there because I picked up a bunch of pace.”
Curt Spalding inherited the runner-up spot for the restart but did not have anything for the three-time and defending champ Hoffman, who drove away with the $2,000 winner’s check. Nick Allen, Tommy Sheppard Jr. and Allen Weisser completed the top-five.
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Round #6 of the 2021 DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals campaign hits Indiana’s Plymouth Speedway on Sunday night, June 20. Catch all the action live on DIRTVision.
Fairbury Speedway
Feature (30 Laps) 1. 2-Nick Hoffman[1]; 2. 5CS-Curt Spalding[6]; 3. 21A-Nick Allen[2]; 4. T6-Tommy Sheppard Jr[3]; 5. 25W-Allen Weisser[11]; 6. 1W-Bob Pohlman[14]; 7. 9H-John Demoss[7]; 8. 0-Travis Kohler[22]; 9. 24Z-Zeke McKenzie[16]; 10. 45-Kyle Hammer[19]; 11. 64-Dawson Cook[18]; 12. 35-Ethan Weber[17]; 13. 36-Eric Vaughan[21]; 14. 11S-Nick Seplak[5]; 15. 22C-Nick Clubb[10]; 16. 5-Steven Brooks[13]; 17. 24H-Mike Harrison[4]; 18. 8K-Levi Kissinger[8]; 19. 37-Michael Ledford[9]; 20. 22- Wade Wenthe[12]; 21. 88S-Alan Stipp[15]; 22. 17-Mike Mosier[20]
Qualifying Group 1 (3 Laps) 1. 2-Nick Hoffman, 00:14.063[20]; 2. T6-Tommy Sheppard Jr, 00:14.087[13]; 3. 11S-Nick Seplak, 00:14.209[19]; 4. 9H-John Demoss, 00:14.260[18]; 5. 37-Michael Ledford, 00:14.262[7]; 6. 25W-Allen Weisser, 00:14.275[11]; 7. 5-Steven Brooks, 00:14.374[1]; 8. K67-Ian Keller, 00:14.399[3]; 9. 35-Ethan Weber, 00:14.461[6]; 10. 88S-Alan Stipp, 00:14.543[9]; 11. 19- Travis Thrasher, 00:14.671[4]; 12. 1-Nash Hilmes, 00:14.743[2]; 13. 17-Mike Mosier, 00:14.769[10]; 14. 01-Donnie Boyer, 00:14.873[8]; 15. 14-Caden McWhorter, 00:14.892[17]; 16. 1D-Dean Hoffman, 00:14.894[16]; 17. 24L-Sydney Landes, 00:14.915[5]; 18. 18S-Jarrett Stryker, 00:14.961[12]; 19. 121-Deece Schwartz, 00:15.260[15]; 20. X-Dustin Hume, 00:16.895[14]
Qualifying Group 2 (3 Laps) 1. 5CS-Curt Spalding, 00:13.892[10]; 2. 24H-Mike Harrison, 00:13.985[15]; 3. 21A-Nick Allen, 00:14.121[17]; 4. 22-Wade Wenthe, 00:14.153[6]; 5. 22C-Nick Clubb, 00:14.157[7]; 6. 24Z-Zeke McKenzie, 00:14.217[18]; 7. 0-Travis Kohler, 00:14.222[13]; 8. 8K-Levi Kissinger, 00:14.228[5]; 9. 1W-Bob Pohlman, 00:14.265[8]; 10. 7-Mark Lamont, 00:14.423[9]; 11. 45-Kyle Hammer, 00:14.499[14]; 12. 12-Wyatt Harms, 00:14.534[1]; 13. 4M-Timothy Monroe, 00:14.584[12]; 14. 36-Eric Vaughan, 00:14.653[4]; 15. 64-Dawson Cook, 00:14.756[2]; 16. 13S-Jason Scrimpsher, 00:14.958[19]; 17. 94-Tom Pasek, 00:15.086[11]; 18. 71R-Troy Ricketts, 00:15.242[3]; 19. 10J-Steve Jones, 00:15.296[16]
Heat 1 (8 Laps) 1. 2-Nick Hoffman[1]; 2. 11S-Nick Seplak[2]; 3. 37-Michael Ledford[3]; 4. 5-Steven Brooks[4]; 5. 35-Ethan Weber[5]; 6. 14- Caden McWhorter[8]; 7. 121-Deece Schwartz[10]; 8. 19-Travis Thrasher[6]; 9. 24L-Sydney Landes[9]; 10. 17-Mike Mosier[7]
Heat 2 (8 Laps) 1. T6-Tommy Sheppard Jr[1]; 2. 9H-John Demoss[2]; 3. 25W-Allen Weisser[3]; 4. 88S-Alan Stipp[5]; 5. K67-Ian Keller[4]; 6. 1-Nash Hilmes[6]; 7. 01-Donnie Boyer[7]; 8. 1D-Dean Hoffman[8]; 9. 18S-Jarrett Stryker[9]; 10. X-Dustin Hume[10]
Heat 3 (8 Laps) 1. 21A-Nick Allen[2]; 2. 5CS-Curt Spalding[1]; 3. 22C-Nick Clubb[3]; 4. 1W-Bob Pohlman[5]; 5. 4M-Timothy Monroe[7]; 6. 0-Travis Kohler[4]; 7. 64-Dawson Cook[8]; 8. 94-Tom Pasek[9]; 9. 45-Kyle Hammer[6]; 10. 10J-Steve Jones[10]
Heat 4 (8 Laps) 1. 24H-Mike Harrison[1]; 2. 8K-Levi Kissinger[4]; 3. 22-Wade Wenthe[2]; 4. 24Z-Zeke McKenzie[3]; 5. 36-Eric Vaughan[7]; 6. 13S-Jason Scrimpsher[8]; 7. 71R-Troy Ricketts[9]; 8. 7-Mark Lamont[5]; 9. 12-Wyatt Harms[6]
Last Chance Showdown 1 (10 Laps) 1. 35-Ethan Weber[1]; 2. K67-Ian Keller[2]; 3. 18S-Jarrett Stryker[10]; 4. 01-Donnie Boyer[6]; 5. X-Dustin Hume[12]; 6. 17- Mike Mosier[11]; 7. 1-Nash Hilmes[4]; 8. 14-Caden McWhorter[3]; 9. 24L-Sydney Landes[9]; 10. (DNS) 19-Travis Thrasher; 11. (DNS) 1D-Dean Hoffman; 12. (DNS) 121-Deece Schwartz
Last Chance Showdown 2 (10 Laps) 1. 64-Dawson Cook[5]; 2. 94-Tom Pasek[7]; 3. 0-Travis Kohler[3]; 4. 4M-Timothy Monroe[1]; 5. 36-Eric Vaughan[2]; 6. 71R- Troy Ricketts[6]; 7. 13S-Jason Scrimpsher[4]; 8. 7-Mark Lamont[8]; 9. 10J-Steve Jones[11]; 10. (DNS) 45-Kyle Hammer; 11. (DNS) 12-Wyatt Harms