July 5, 2025 | By Matt Skipper, DIRTcar Racing PR

Jason Feger Extends Overall Points Lead with 35th Career Summer Nationals Win at Red Hill Raceway

SUMNER, Ill.—In the final 2025 DIRTcar Summer Nationals Late Models race held in Illinois, it was a home-state native who boosted his chances of winning the overall title.

Through 40 laps of racing around Sumner, IL’s Red Hill Raceway on Independence Day, Jason Feger drove to his fifth victory of the tour as he sits nine races away from his second career championship with the Hell Tour.

Dillon McCowan and Tyler Millwood led the field to the green flag, with McCowan’s No. 75 flying around the top of the cushion around the Thursday night winner to take the lead.

Feger used the bottom while Millwood used the top in their battle for second place. However, Feger’s pace on the low side helped him prevail ahead of Millwood on Lap 3 as he eyed McCowan’s position.

Feger crept up to McCowan after making up a one-second deficit by keeping his car stuck to the bottom lane. McCowan stuck to the cushion while Feger stayed low as they battled side-by-side for the Feature lead. Feger threw a slide job through Turns 3-4 to take the lead until McCowan countered his move in Turns 1-2 to retake the position.

McCowan held onto the lead, but Feger kept the Adam Family Motorsports No. 75 within reach with a 0.5-second interval between the two. When McCowan attempted to use the bottom to squeeze Feger, he was unable to keep the car planted as Feger secured the lead on Lap 19 off of Turn 4 with speed from the bottom lane.

McCowan charged back at Feger, riding the cushion, but the “High Side Hustler” kept McCowan out of an opportunity to take the lead with a 0.8-second distance as lapped traffic on the bottom prevented McCowan from passing Feger.

While lapped traffic kept to the bottom of the 0.4-mile oval, Feger grew the lead to 1.3 seconds over McCowan as he planted the No. 25 Feger Racing Longhorn Chassis towards his 35th career Hell Tour win.

The final Illinois triumph helped Feger get away from Tyler Erb by 82 points entering the final eight races, and leads Erb and Mark Whitener in the Week 4 standings by 24 markers.

“I was just patient,” Feger said. “This place is really hard on tires. And Dillon, I wanted to get in the top of (Turn 2), but I didn’t think my car would be as good as it was around the bottom. and drove around it pretty effortlessly. I felt really good, so I was gonna stay down there as long as I could. I just kept pressuring Dillon and kept running harder and harder, and I could see his grip starting to give up. Just a wily veteran and patient, so it makes my job easy.”


DIRT CAR LATE MODEL RESULTS

Feature (40 Laps): 1. 25F-Jason Feger[3]; 2. 75-Dillon McCowan[2]; 3. 5-Mark Whitener[10]; 4. 14JR-Trey Mills[7]; 5. 1-Tyler Erb[4]; 6. 90-Brian Rickman[17]; 7. 28B-Carson Brown[5]; 8. 21-Billy Moyer Sr[6]; 9. 14-Haiden Cowan[15]; 10. 81-Jason Riggs[12]; 11. 388-Jackson Hise[14]; 12. D48-Derek Groomer[13]; 13. 15-Clay Stuckey[20]; 14. 17SR-Brody Smith[22]; 15. 31M-Tyler Millwood[1]; 16. (DNF) 5S-Kyle Hammer[8]; 17. (DNF) 11G-Gordy Gundaker[11]; 18. (DNF) 17SS-Brenden Smith[16]; 19. (DNF) 18-Shannon Babb[21]; 20. (DNF) 29-Christian Hanger[19]; 21. (DNF) 47-Cyle Forgy[18]; 22. (DNF) 4-Cody Mahoney[9]

Last Chance Showdown (B-Main) (10 Laps): 1. 90-Brian Rickman[2]; 2. 47-Cyle Forgy[4]; 3. 15-Clay Stuckey[1]; 4. 81F-Jadon Frame[8]; 5. 11T-Trevor Gundaker[5]; 6. 21XXX-Neil Baggett[7]; 7. 30-Mark Voigt[10]; 8. 17W-Greg Williams[16]; 9. 17-Lee Williams[15]; 10. (DNF) 17SR-Brody Smith[6]; 11. (DNF) 80-Tucker Chastain[13]; 12. (DNF) 38-Thomas Hunziker[17]; 13. (DNS) 32XXX-Cam Harris; 14. (DNS) 18-Shannon Babb; 15. (DNS) 78-Matthew Brocato; 16. (DNS) 29-Christian Hanger; 17. (DNS) 55-Eli Johnson

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 25F-Jason Feger[2]; 2. 28B-Carson Brown[1]; 3. 4-Cody Mahoney[4]; 4. D48-Derek Groomer[6]; 5. 15-Clay Stuckey[5]; 6. 11T-Trevor Gundaker[7]; 7. 78-Matthew Brocato[8]; 8. 80-Tucker Chastain[9]; 9. 38-Thomas Hunziker[3]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 75-Dillon McCowan[1]; 2. 14JR-Trey Mills[4]; 3. 11G-Gordy Gundaker[2]; 4. 14-Haiden Cowan[5]; 5. 18-Shannon Babb[6]; 6. 21XXX-Neil Baggett[7]; 7. 32XXX-Cam Harris[3]; 8. 17-Lee Williams[8]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 1-Tyler Erb[2]; 2. 21-Billy Moyer Sr[1]; 3. 5-Mark Whitener[3]; 4. 388-Jackson Hise[4]; 5. 90-Brian Rickman[5]; 6. 17SR-Brody Smith[6]; 7. 30-Mark Voigt[7]; 8. (DNS) 55-Eli Johnson

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 31M-Tyler Millwood[1]; 2. 5S-Kyle Hammer[3]; 3. 81-Jason Riggs[6]; 4. 17SS-Brenden Smith[5]; 5. 47-Cyle Forgy[8]; 6. 81F-Jadon Frame[4]; 7. 29-Christian Hanger[2]; 8. 17W-Greg Williams[7]

Qualifying A (2 Laps): 1. 28B-Carson Brown, 00:15.024[4]; 2. 75-Dillon McCowan, 00:15.218[15]; 3. 25F-Jason Feger, 00:15.397[2]; 4. 11G-Gordy Gundaker, 00:15.662[3]; 5. 38-Thomas Hunziker, 00:15.701[5]; 6. 32XXX-Cam Harris, 00:15.713[11]; 7. 4-Cody Mahoney, 00:15.756[1]; 8. 14JR-Trey Mills, 00:15.825[17]; 9. 15-Clay Stuckey, 00:15.900[13]; 10. 14-Haiden Cowan, 00:15.976[16]; 11. D48-Derek Groomer, 00:16.003[10]; 12. 18-Shannon Babb, 00:16.036[8]; 13. 11T-Trevor Gundaker, 00:16.194[14]; 14. 21XXX-Neil Baggett, 00:16.219[7]; 15. 78-Matthew Brocato, 00:16.454[12]; 16. 17-Lee Williams, 00:16.771[6]; 17. 80-Tucker Chastain, 00:16.912[9]

Qualifying B (2 Laps): 1. 21-Billy Moyer Sr, 00:15.513[3]; 2. 31M-Tyler Millwood, 00:15.679[12]; 3. 1-Tyler Erb, 00:15.710[13]; 4. 29-Christian Hanger, 00:15.944[2]; 5. 5-Mark Whitener, 00:15.995[8]; 6. 5S-Kyle Hammer, 00:16.027[1]; 7. 388-Jackson Hise, 00:16.119[9]; 8. 81F-Jadon Frame, 00:16.138[11]; 9. 90-Brian Rickman, 00:16.146[6]; 10. 17SS-Brenden Smith, 00:16.159[14]; 11. 17SR-Brody Smith, 00:16.328[10]; 12. 81-Jason Riggs, 00:16.504[15]; 13. 30-Mark Voigt, 00:16.566[16]; 14. 17W-Greg Williams, 00:17.009[5]; 15. (DNS) 55-Eli Johnson; 16. (DNS) 47-Cyle Forgy


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WILL KRUP SCORES FIRST WIN WITH SUMMIT MODIFIED NATIONALS IN 2025, SECOND CONSECUTIVE AT RED HILL

SUMNER, Ill. -- Will Krup has cracked the code at Red Hill Raceway.

In his first start with the DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals in 2025, the Mt. Carmel, IL driver revisited where he last took a victory with the tour, as he secured a second consecutive win at the Sumner, IL track.

Krup kept his No. K9 Elite Chassis at the top of the leaderboard in every UMP Modified event that he participated in by going fastest in his Qualifying group, then won his Heat race to draw the Pole Position for the night’s 25-lap Feature.

He led the field to the green flag and mixed his strategies by switching from the bottom lane to the high side of the 4/10-mile racetrack as 2023 champion Tyler Nicely and current points leader Trevor Neville followed behind Krup, but could

Krup found his pace around the top of the track while he held Nicely to a 0.9-second advantage while the two drivers distanced themselves from Neville in the race for the night’s win.

In the final stages, Krup broke away from Nicely’s grasp as he drove towards a 2.2-second lead for his ninth career Summit Modifieds win. Krup’s flag-to-flag win gives him sole possession of ninth on the all-time tour wins list, leaving the Independence Day race.

“I think the biggest key is that whoever got in the lead definitely had the advantage,” Krup said. “So, it was going to be hard to get around Tyler if he ended up getting the lead early. Good redraw put me on the outside front row, got to take the lead, and the car was really good.”

Up Next: The DIRTcar Summer Nationals Late Models and DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals visit Indiana for the first time in 2025 with a trip to Haubstadt Speedway on Saturday, July 5.

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.


DIRTCAR UMP MODIFIED RESULTS

eature (25 Laps): 1. K9-Will Krup[2]; 2. 25-Tyler Nicely[3]; 3. 777-Trevor Neville[5]; 4. 99-Hunt Gossum[8]; 5. 45H-Chase Holland[6]; 6. 75-Daniel Adam[4]; 7. 37-Everett Bradham[1]; 8. 1A-Steve Meyer Jr[10]; 9. 27G-Jason Garver[12]; 10. 16C-John Clippinger[15]; 11. 67-Chris Moore[9]; 12. 50-Tyler Weiss[11]; 13. 81-Kevin Cole[14]; 14. 95K-Levi Kissinger[13]; 15. 95-Ed Roley[16]; 16. 86A-Kevin Burns[20]; 17. 55M-Blaze Melton[7]; 18. 23B-Ethan Boomsma[17]; 19. 2X-Wes Harms[24]; 20. 1S-Brian Shaw[21]; 21. 91K-Cody Kibby[18]; 22. 55-Justin Jones[19]; 23. 69L-Josh Lemke[26]; 24. 81K-Kyle Cole[22]; 25. 81C-Christopher Cole[23]; 26. (DNS) 77-Jim Shipman; 27. (DNS) 73X-Matt Duvall

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. K9-Will Krup[1]; 2. 75-Daniel Adam[4]; 3. 55M-Blaze Melton[3]; 4. 1A-Steve Meyer Jr[7]; 5. 95K-Levi Kissinger[2]; 6. 95-Ed Roley[5]; 7. 55-Justin Jones[6]; 8. 81K-Kyle Cole[8]; 9. (DNS) 77-Jim Shipman

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 25-Tyler Nicely[2]; 2. 777-Trevor Neville[1]; 3. 99-Hunt Gossum[4]; 4. 50-Tyler Weiss[3]; 5. 81-Kevin Cole[7]; 6. 23B-Ethan Boomsma[5]; 7. 86A-Kevin Burns[9]; 8. 81C-Christopher Cole[8]; 9. 69L-Josh Lemke[6]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 37-Everett Bradham[3]; 2. 45H-Chase Holland[4]; 3. 67-Chris Moore[1]; 4. 27G-Jason Garver[6]; 5. 16C-John Clippinger[2]; 6. 91K-Cody Kibby[5]; 7. 1S-Brian Shaw[8]; 8. 2X-Wes Harms[7]; 9. 73X-Matt Duvall[9]

Qualifying 1 (3 Laps): 1. K9-Will Krup, 00:16.243[3]; 2. 95K-Levi Kissinger, 00:16.351[6]; 3. 55M-Blaze Melton, 00:16.623[2]; 4. 75-Daniel Adam, 00:16.652[7]; 5. 95-Ed Roley, 00:16.737[8]; 6. 55-Justin Jones, 00:16.985[4]; 7. 1A-Steve Meyer Jr, 00:17.093[1]; 8. 81K-Kyle Cole, 00:17.135[5]; 9. 77-Jim Shipman, 00:17.608[9]

Qualifying 2 (3 Laps): 1. 777-Trevor Neville, 00:16.224[4]; 2. 25-Tyler Nicely, 00:16.723[5]; 3. 50-Tyler Weiss, 00:16.777[3]; 4. 99-Hunt Gossum, 00:16.869[8]; 5. 23B-Ethan Boomsma, 00:17.038[7]; 6. 69L-Josh Lemke, 00:17.113[2]; 7. 81-Kevin Cole, 00:17.192[6]; 8. 81C-Christopher Cole, 00:17.469[1]; 9. 86A-Kevin Burns, 00:17.610[9]

Qualifying 3 (3 Laps): 1. 67-Chris Moore, 00:16.956[9]; 2. 16C-John Clippinger, 00:17.007[7]; 3. 37-Everett Bradham, 00:17.036[4]; 4. 45H-Chase Holland, 00:17.078[6]; 5. 91K-Cody Kibby, 00:17.256[1]; 6. 27G-Jason Garver, 00:17.286[5]; 7. 2X-Wes Harms, 00:17.513[8]; 8. 1S-Brian Shaw, 00:17.532[3]; 9. 73X-Matt Duvall, 00:18.195[2]