June 11, 2025 | By Matt Skipper, DIRTcar Racing PR

Billy Moyer Ties Shannon Babb for All-Time Summer Nationals Wins in Season Opener at Brownstown

BROWSTOWN, Illinois—Age is just a number.

At 67 years old, Billy Moyer continued to write his name into the modern history of the DIRTcar Summer Nationals in Tuesday’s season opener at the Brownstown Bullring.

Using his skills of driving through a slick racetrack to his advantage, Moyer celebrated his 101st Feature win, tying Shannon Babb on the list of Hell Tour winners.

Starting on the outside of the front row for the 30-lap Feature, the Batesville, AR driver beat polesitter Mike Harrison and got clear of the No. 33 by the end of the first lap.

While Harrison let Moyer extend the lead to one second by Lap 5, he closed back in on the Longhorn Chassis No. 21 when lap traffic became an added challenge.

Moyer lost the lead on Lap 12 when he got caught in the wrong lane of lapped traffic, and Harrison was able to pounce on the opportunity for the lead.

Harrison held a slight lead over Moyer until a bad exit off of Turn 4 forced him to surrender the lead once more to “Mr. Smooth” on Lap 17.

For the remainder of the Feature, Moyer orchestrated the field of 21 Late Models as he captured his first Summer Nationals victory since 2018 under the twin checkered flags.

“(All the wins) are good, it don’t matter if it’s in your backyard or if it’s the World 100,” Moyer said. “We’ve had such a rough start to the year, we lost our trailer a couple weeks ago, and we’ve been completely rebuilding everything and changed a bunch of stuff to this hot rod.

“I mean, we got it back pretty good now. It kind of feels like the good old days again. I had something underneath me to work with, and I was nervous all night long. The Heat race felt so good that I didn’t want to mess it up, but didn’t want to leave it to free, but this hot rod was good and things worked well tonight.”

Up Next: The DIRTcar Summer Nationals Late Models and DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals head to Kankakee County Speedway for the second leg of the opening week in Illinois.

If you can’t make it to the track, you can watch all the action live on DIRTVision – either online or by downloading the DIRTVision App.


RESULTS

Feature (30 Laps): 1. 21-Billy Moyer Sr[2]; 2. 33-Mike Harrison[1]; 3. 18-Shannon Babb[3]; 4. B5-Brandon Sheppard[5]; 5. 96-Tanner English[6]; 6. 22*-Drake Troutman[4]; 7. 6P-Jose Parga[8]; 8. 25F-Jason Feger[10]; 9. 1-Tyler Erb[13]; 10. 75-Dillon McCowan[9]; 11. 10-Joseph Joiner[12]; 12. 388-Jackson Hise[16]; 13. 40B-Kyle Bronson[11]; 14. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr[17]; 15. 15-Clay Stuckey[19]; 16. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[20]; 17. 6K-Michael Kloos[15]; 18. 52-Matt Bailey[18]; 19. 29-Christian Hanger[7]; 20. 38-Thomas Hunziker[22]; 21. 16-Rusty Griffaw[21]; 22. 27M-Rodney Melvin[14]

Last Chance Showdown (B-Main) (10 Laps): 1. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr[1]; 2. 52-Matt Bailey[2]; 3. 14JR-Trey Mills[4]; 4. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[3]; 5. 09-Michael Leach[6]; 6. 31-Tyler Millwood[5]; 7. 17SS-Brenden Smith[7]; 8. 15-Clay Stuckey[11]; 9. GT1-Guy Taylor[8]; 10. 28B-Carson Brown[12]; 11. 05B-Josh Boller[13]; 12. C6-Oakley Johns[10]; 13. 78-Chad Zobrist[15]; 14. 17A-Austin Howes[14]; 15. 38-Thomas Hunziker[16]; 16. 16-Rusty Griffaw[9]

Consolation Race (C-Main) (8 Laps): 1. 05B-Josh Boller[2]; 2. 17A-Austin Howes[3]; 3. 78-Chad Zobrist[5]; 4. 38-Thomas Hunziker[1]; 5. 17SR-Brody Smith[4]; 6. 5-Mark Whitener[12]; 7. ZT1-Zach Taylor[6]; 8. T4-Adam Tischauser[8]; 9. 8-Matthew Larson[16]; 10. 35-Claude Walker[9]; 11. 55-Eli Johnson[10]; 12. 4D-Doug Tye[14]; 13. 108-Chuck Southard[11]; 14. 46-Mark Pfleuger[13]; 15. 5J-Dan Jacober[7]; 16. (DNS) 3S-Brian Shirley

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 33-Mike Harrison[1]; 2. B5-Brandon Sheppard[2]; 3. 75-Dillon McCowan[3]; 4. 1-Tyler Erb[5]; 5. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr[6]; 6. 31-Tyler Millwood[4]; 7. 16-Rusty Griffaw[7]; 8. 38-Thomas Hunziker[9]; 9. 78-Chad Zobrist[10]; 10. 35-Claude Walker[8]; 11. 46-Mark Pfleuger[11]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 21-Billy Moyer Sr[1]; 2. 29-Christian Hanger[2]; 3. 40B-Kyle Bronson[3]; 4. 6K-Michael Kloos[4]; 5. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[7]; 6. 17SS-Brenden Smith[6]; 7. 15-Clay Stuckey[5]; 8. 05B-Josh Boller[10]; 9. ZT1-Zach Taylor[9]; 10. 55-Eli Johnson[8]; 11. 4D-Doug Tye[11]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 18-Shannon Babb[2]; 2. 96-Tanner English[4]; 3. 25F-Jason Feger[5]; 4. 27M-Rodney Melvin[7]; 5. 52-Matt Bailey[8]; 6. 09-Michael Leach[3]; 7. C6-Oakley Johns[9]; 8. 17A-Austin Howes[6]; 9. 5J-Dan Jacober[11]; 10. (DNF) 108-Chuck Southard[10]; 11. (DNF) 3S-Brian Shirley[1]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 22*-Drake Troutman[2]; 2. 6P-Jose Parga[1]; 3. 10-Joseph Joiner[9]; 4. 388-Jackson Hise[5]; 5. 14JR-Trey Mills[3]; 6. GT1-Guy Taylor[4]; 7. 28B-Carson Brown[7]; 8. 17SR-Brody Smith[11]; 9. T4-Adam Tischauser[8]; 10. 5-Mark Whitener[6]; 11. 8-Matthew Larson[10]

Qualifying A (2 Laps): 1. 33-Mike Harrison, 00:12.709[1]; 2. 21-Billy Moyer Sr, 00:12.927[7]; 3. B5-Brandon Sheppard, 00:12.930[13]; 4. 29-Christian Hanger, 00:12.973[15]; 5. 75-Dillon McCowan, 00:12.983[12]; 6. 40B-Kyle Bronson, 00:13.035[4]; 7. 31-Tyler Millwood, 00:13.054[6]; 8. 6K-Michael Kloos, 00:13.098[8]; 9. 1-Tyler Erb, 00:13.152[21]; 10. 15-Clay Stuckey, 00:13.172[16]; 11. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr, 00:13.185[19]; 12. 17SS-Brenden Smith, 00:13.395[3]; 13. 16-Rusty Griffaw, 00:13.396[20]; 14. 28-Dennis Erb Jr, 00:13.469[14]; 15. 35-Claude Walker, 00:13.492[18]; 16. 55-Eli Johnson, 00:13.514[9]; 17. 38-Thomas Hunziker, 00:13.536[10]; 18. ZT1-Zach Taylor, 00:13.645[5]; 19. 78-Chad Zobrist, 00:13.743[17]; 20. 05B-Josh Boller, 00:14.378[22]; 21. 46-Mark Pfleuger, 00:14.550[2]; 22. (DNS) 4D-Doug Tye

Qualifying B (2 Laps): 1. 3S-Brian Shirley, 00:12.944[3]; 2. 6P-Jose Parga, 00:13.049[6]; 3. 18-Shannon Babb, 00:13.075[8]; 4. 22*-Drake Troutman, 00:13.108[17]; 5. 09-Michael Leach, 00:13.235[7]; 6. 14JR-Trey Mills, 00:13.306[2]; 7. 96-Tanner English, 00:13.307[13]; 8. GT1-Guy Taylor, 00:13.362[20]; 9. 25F-Jason Feger, 00:13.369[21]; 10. 388-Jackson Hise, 00:13.447[5]; 11. 17A-Austin Howes, 00:13.506[15]; 12. 5-Mark Whitener, 00:13.521[9]; 13. 27M-Rodney Melvin, 00:13.529[19]; 14. 28B-Carson Brown, 00:13.606[11]; 15. 52-Matt Bailey, 00:13.715[10]; 16. T4-Adam Tischauser, 00:13.831[16]; 17. C6-Oakley Johns, 00:13.905[18]; 18. 10-Joseph Joiner, 00:13.924[22]; 19. 108-Chuck Southard, 00:14.029[12]; 20. 8-Matthew Larson, 00:14.185[4]; 21. 5J-Dan Jacober, 00:14.253[1]; 22. (DNF) 17SR-Brody Smith[14]


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DIRTcar UMP Modifieds

Feature (25 Laps): 1. J82-Treb Jacoby[2]; 2. 777-Trevor Neville[3]; 3. 09-Michael Ledford[4]; 4. 10Y-Trent Young[5]; 5. 5S-Owen Steinkoenig[6]; 6. 45-Chase Holland[8]; 7. 99-Hunt Gossum[9]; 8. 66-Cole Falloway[20]; 9. 95S-Rick Salter[14]; 10. 2-Brayden Doyle[1]; 11. 95-Ed Roley[18]; 12. 27C-James Walters[15]; 13. 14-Dalton Lane[16]; 14. 1A-Steve Meyer Jr[17]; 15. 11D-Brian Diveley[10]; 16. 36-Kenny Wallace[11]; 17. 24-Zeke McKenzie[19]; 18. 14C-Rick Conoyer[7]; 19. 87Z-Zeb Moake[22]; 20. 98-Joshua Hawkins[21]; 21. (DNF) 94-Austin Rettig[13]; 22. (DNF) 81-Kevin Cole[12]

Last Chance Showdown 1 (8 Laps): 1. 1A-Steve Meyer Jr[1]; 2. 59X-Josh Reed[3]; 3. 96C-Marshall Call[8]; 4. 23B-Ethan Boomsma[5]; 5. 6-Jeremy Pate[12]; 6. 52JR-Cole Knebel[6]; 7. 98-Joshua Hawkins[10]; 8. 21T-Talen Beard[4]; 9. 16E-Todd Eyman[7]; 10. 24-Zeke McKenzie[11]; 11. 75-Daniel Adam[2]; 12. (DNS) 58R-Ryan Hamilton; 13. (DNS) 4UW-Bobby Regot

Last Chance Showdown 2 (8 Laps): 1. 95-Ed Roley[2]; 2. 87Z-Zeb Moake[5]; 3. 22-Wade Wenthe[4]; 4. 58L-Steven Lach[8]; 5. 87S-David Shain[6]; 6. (DNS) 66-Cole Falloway; 7. (DNS) 7-Tim Nash; 8. (DNS) 23-Dylan Sharp; 9. (DNS) 84G-Gary Gross; 10. (DNS) 121-Caleb Slaughter; 11. (DNS) 1H-Ben Harmon; 12. (DNS) 10X-Jim Black; 13. (DNS) 73X-Matt Duvall

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 09-Michael Ledford[4]; 2. 10Y-Trent Young[1]; 3. 99-Hunt Gossum[2]; 4. 94-Austin Rettig[6]; 5. 1A-Steve Meyer Jr[5]; 6. 59X-Josh Reed[8]; 7. 23B-Ethan Boomsma[7]; 8. 16E-Todd Eyman[11]; 9. 58R-Ryan Hamilton[3]; 10. (DNS) 24-Zeke McKenzie; 11. (DNS) 4UW-Bobby Regot

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 2-Brayden Doyle[1]; 2. 14C-Rick Conoyer[4]; 3. 36-Kenny Wallace[3]; 4. 27C-James Walters[6]; 5. 75-Daniel Adam[2]; 6. 21T-Talen Beard[8]; 7. 52JR-Cole Knebel[5]; 8. 96C-Marshall Call[7]; 9. 98-Joshua Hawkins[10]; 10. 6-Jeremy Pate[9]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 777-Trevor Neville[1]; 2. 5S-Owen Steinkoenig[2]; 3. 11D-Brian Diveley[6]; 4. 95S-Rick Salter[5]; 5. 66-Cole Falloway[4]; 6. 7-Tim Nash[9]; 7. 87Z-Zeb Moake[8]; 8. 23-Dylan Sharp[10]; 9. 84G-Gary Gross[7]; 10. (DNF) 1H-Ben Harmon[3]; 11. (DNS) 73X-Matt Duvall

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. J82-Treb Jacoby[2]; 2. 45-Chase Holland[1]; 3. 81-Kevin Cole[4]; 4. 14-Dalton Lane[3]; 5. 95-Ed Roley[7]; 6. 22-Wade Wenthe[9]; 7. 87S-David Shain[5]; 8. 58L-Steven Lach[10]; 9. 121-Caleb Slaughter[6]; 10. 10X-Jim Black[8]

Qualifying A (3 Laps): 1. 10Y-Trent Young, 00:13.799[12]; 2. 2-Brayden Doyle, 00:13.846[13]; 3. 99-Hunt Gossum, 00:13.848[21]; 4. 75-Daniel Adam, 00:13.921[5]; 5. 58R-Ryan Hamilton, 00:13.995[4]; 6. 36-Kenny Wallace, 00:14.001[15]; 7. 09-Michael Ledford, 00:14.043[2]; 8. 14C-Rick Conoyer, 00:14.061[10]; 9. 1A-Steve Meyer Jr, 00:14.174[1]; 10. 52JR-Cole Knebel, 00:14.275[11]; 11. 94-Austin Rettig, 00:14.284[19]; 12. 27C-James Walters, 00:14.327[6]; 13. 23B-Ethan Boomsma, 00:14.328[8]; 14. 96C-Marshall Call, 00:14.455[20]; 15. 59X-Josh Reed, 00:14.467[7]; 16. 21T-Talen Beard, 00:14.479[9]; 17. 24-Zeke McKenzie, 00:14.538[14]; 18. 6-Jeremy Pate, 00:14.670[16]; 19. 4UW-Bobby Regot, 00:14.712[17]; 20. 98-Joshua Hawkins, 00:14.816[3]; 21. 16E-Todd Eyman, 00:16.746[18]

Qualifying B (3 Laps): 1. 777-Trevor Neville, 00:13.664[12]; 2. 45-Chase Holland, 00:13.684[5]; 3. 5S-Owen Steinkoenig, 00:13.778[7]; 4. J82-Treb Jacoby, 00:13.789[10]; 5. 1H-Ben Harmon, 00:13.899[17]; 6. 14-Dalton Lane, 00:13.999[4]; 7. 66-Cole Falloway, 00:14.068[6]; 8. 81-Kevin Cole, 00:14.093[21]; 9. 95S-Rick Salter, 00:14.158[15]; 10. 87S-David Shain, 00:14.167[1]; 11. 11D-Brian Diveley, 00:14.217[9]; 12. 121-Caleb Slaughter, 00:14.225[18]; 13. 84G-Gary Gross, 00:14.265[3]; 14. 95-Ed Roley, 00:14.273[13]; 15. 87Z-Zeb Moake, 00:14.441[2]; 16. 10X-Jim Black, 00:14.467[14]; 17. 7-Tim Nash, 00:14.473[20]; 18. 22-Wade Wenthe, 00:14.606[8]; 19. 23-Dylan Sharp, 00:14.617[11]; 20. 58L-Steven Lach, 00:15.147[19]; 21. 73X-Matt Duvall, 00:15.418[16]


B Modifieds

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 121-Deece Schwartz[4]; 2. 88J-Joshua Dolenz[2]; 3. 25X-Kyle Helmick[7]; 4. 9D-Brody Pompe[6]; 5. 52-Joe Rudy[5]; 6. 20-Cody Clark[8]; 7. 3-Shad Prescott[14]; 8. 71-Joel Ortberg[11]; 9. 24B-Brent Weaver[16]; 10. 3E-Robbie Eilers[15]; 11. 33-Kevin Medlin[10]; 12. 13-Zack Huegen[9]; 13. 2M-Michael Meyer[19]; 14. Y35-Joe Younker[13]; 15. 17E-Matthew Edler[12]; 16. 15B-Matt Brucato[1]; 17. 74-James Hileman[17]; 18. 14G-Tommy Gaither[3]; 19. 88-Christian Lee[20]; 20. 13K-Kodi Savage[18]

B Feature 1 (8 Laps): 1. 74-James Hileman[3]; 2. 2M-Michael Meyer[1]; 3. 11-Hagen Langley[2]; 4. 5M-Randy McNeely[8]; 5. 14P-Joe Patrick[5]; 6. 30-Gage Walker[7]; 7. 80-Tony Walker[4]; 8. 27-Keith Harre[6]

B Feature 2 (8 Laps): 1. 13K-Kodi Savage[7]; 2. 88-Christian Lee[2]; 3. 45-Dean Vickers[3]; 4. 1H-Brock Hellman[4]; 5. 76JR-Blake Goetter[1]; 6. 14C-Carter Standerfer[6]; 7. 28P-Peyton Barker[5]; 8. (DNS) 78-Maxx Emerson

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 15B-Matt Brucato[2]; 2. 52-Joe Rudy[3]; 3. 13-Zack Huegen[1]; 4. Y35-Joe Younker[8]; 5. 2M-Michael Meyer[4]; 6. 74-James Hileman[7]; 7. 14P-Joe Patrick[6]; 8. 30-Gage Walker[5]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 88J-Joshua Dolenz[1]; 2. 9D-Brody Pompe[6]; 3. 33-Kevin Medlin[7]; 4. 3-Shad Prescott[5]; 5. 76JR-Blake Goetter[4]; 6. 45-Dean Vickers[2]; 7. 28P-Peyton Barker[8]; 8. 13K-Kodi Savage[3]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 14G-Tommy Gaither[1]; 2. 25X-Kyle Helmick[2]; 3. 71-Joel Ortberg[4]; 4. 3E-Robbie Eilers[3]; 5. 11-Hagen Langley[5]; 6. 80-Tony Walker[8]; 7. 27-Keith Harre[7]; 8. 5M-Randy McNeely[6]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 121-Deece Schwartz[3]; 2. 20-Cody Clark[8]; 3. 17E-Matthew Edler[5]; 4. 24B-Brent Weaver[6]; 5. 88-Christian Lee[1]; 6. 1H-Brock Hellman[4]; 7. 14C-Carter Standerfer[7]; 8. (DNS) 78-Maxx Emerson


Factory Stocks

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 32-Brett Page Sr[3]; 2. 23-Kason Timmons[1]; 3. 28T-Kanden Tompkins[5]; 4. 00C-Kyle Cook[8]; 5. 2-Brett Page[6]; 6. 07-Drew Spencer[7]; 7. 11-Triston Chrisman[10]; 8. 8-Sam Flowers[9]; 9. 68-Terry McCann[2]; 10. `14G-Zach Gaither[4]; 11. 1R-Collin Rose[11]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 23-Kason Timmons[2]; 2. 32-Brett Page Sr[6]; 3. 28T-Kanden Tompkins[4]; 4. 07-Drew Spencer[5]; 5. 8-Sam Flowers[3]; 6. 1R-Collin Rose[1]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 68-Terry McCann[3]; 2. `14G-Zach Gaither[2]; 3. 2-Brett Page[5]; 4. 00C-Kyle Cook[1]; 5. 11-Triston Chrisman[4]