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By Jordan Morris
CANTON, Ill. – June 18, 2014 – Jason Feger, the 2010 DIRTcar Summer Nationals champion, finally found his way back to a Summer Nationals victory lane Wednesday night, doing so in exciting fashion as he held off Ryan Unzicker to claim the $5,000 checkered flag at Spoon River Speedway.
Unzicker started the pole position and looked to be the car to beat early in the 50-lap feature. Unzicker dueled with Feger, who started on the outside of row one, for much of the early laps. Feger, who’s also known as The Highside Hustler, used the bottom of the race track to slide in front of Unzicker for the lead on lap 27.
Unzicker temporarily slipped back to third as the tour’s most recent winner Shannon Babb joined the fight for the lead. Babb mounted several charges at Feger, but was not be able to pass him as he and Unzicker continued to take shots at the leader, sometimes even going three wide.
Feger held off all challenges and led the final 23 laps. Feger’s victory at Spoon River Speedway becomes the 10th of DIRTcar Summer Nationals career and his first since July 3, 2012.
“It feels good to kind of get that monkey off our back,” said Feger, of Bloomington, Ill. “We’ve had some motor issues – just self-inflicted – and other stuff happen, so we needed some money to give to our engine builder and get the tire guy paid off. This definitely helps things a lot.”
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Unzicker, Brady Smith, Babb and Randy Korte rounded out the top five.
Heat race winners included Feger, Billy Moyer Jr., Randy Korte and Unzicker.
The DIRTcar Summer Nationals continues on Thursday night at Quincy Raceways in Quincy, Ill.
DIRTcar Summer Nationals Statistical Report; Spoon River Speedway; Canton, Ill.; June 18, 2014
A-Main (50-laps): 1. 25-Jason Feger ($5,000), 2. 24-Ryan Unzicker, 3. 2S-Brady Smith, 4. 18-Shannon Babb, 5. 0-Randy Korte, 6. B5-Brandon Sheppard, 7. 21JR-Billy Moyer Jr, 8. 81-Brian Shirley, 9. 1-Rick Eckert, 10. 22-Gregg Satterllee, 11. 12B-Kevin Weaver, 12. 10S-Scott Schmitt, 13. 00V-Kolby Vanderbergh, 14. 28M-Jimmy Mars, 15. 42-MCKay Wenger, 16. 81JR-Jason Riggs, 17. 17-Jim Shereck, 18. 32J-Jason Jaggers, 19. 83-Scott Bull, 20. 2-Allen Murray, 21. B1-Nick Bauman, 22. 32-Bobby Pierce.
2014 DIRTcar Summer Nationals Schedule
| Date | Day | Track | Location | Win |
| June 11 | Wed | Brownstown Speedway | Brownstown, Ind. | RAIN |
| June 12 | Thur | Kankakee Co. Speedway | Kankakee, Ill. | Billy Moyer |
| June 13 | Fri | Cedar Lake Speedway | Somerset, Wis. | Rick Eckert |
| June 14 | Sat | Cedar Lake Speedway | Somerset, Wis. | RAIN |
| June 15 | Sun | Wilmot Raceway | Wilmot, Wis. | Rick Eckert |
| June 16 | Mon | Off | ||
| June 17 | Tue | Farley Speedway | Farley, Iowa | Shannon Babb |
| June 18 | Wed | Spoon River Speedway | Canton, Ill. | Jason Feger |
| June 19 | Thur | Quincy Raceways | Quincy, Ill. | $5,000 |
| June 20 | Fri | Tri-City Speedway | Pontoon Beach, Ill. | $10,000 |
| June 21 | Sat | Fairbury Speedway | Fairbury, Ill. | $10,000 |
| June 22 | Sun | I-96 Speedway | Ionia, Mich. | $5,000 |
| June 23 | Mon | Peoria Speedway | Peoria, Ill. | $5,000 |
| June 24 | Tue | Off | ||
| June 25 | Wed | Clarksville Speedway | Clarksville, Tenn. | $5,000 |
| June 26 | Thur | Clayhill Motorsports | Atwood, Tenn. | $5,000 |
| June 27 | Fri | Paducah Int. Raceway | Paducah, Ky. | $10,000 |
| June 28 | Sat | Federated Auto Parts Raceway | Pevely, Mo. | $10,000 |
| June 29 | Sun | Lincoln Speedway | Lincoln, Ill. | $5,000 |
| June 30 | Mon | Off | ||
| July 1 | Tue | Belle Clair Speedway | Belleville, Ill. | $5,000 |
| July 2 | Wed | Jacksonville Speedway | Jacksonville, Ill. | $5,000 |
| July 3 | Thur | LaSalle Speedway | LaSalle, Ill. | $5,000 |
| July 4 | Fri | Fayette Co. Speedway | Brownstown, Ill. | $7,500 |
| July 5 | Sat | Highland Speedway | Highland, Ill. | $10,000 |
| July 6 | Sun | Tri-State Speedway | Haubstadt, Ind. | $5,000 |
| July 7 | Mon | Off | ||
| July 8 | Tue | Florence Speedway | Union, Ky. | $5,000 |
| July 9 | Wed | Terre Haute Action Track | Terre Haute, Ind. | $5,000 |
| July 10 | Thur | Macon Speedway | Macon, Ill. | $5,000 |
| July 11 | Fri | Farmer City Raceway | Farmer City, Ill. | $10,000 |
| July 12 | Sat | 34 Raceway | Burlington, Iowa | $10,000 |
| July 13 | Sun | Vermilion Co. Speedway | Danville, Ill. | $5,000 |
| July 14 | Mon | Off | ||
| July 15 | Tue | TBA | ||
| July 16 | Wed | Atomic Speedway | Chillicothe, Ohio | $5,000 |
| July 17 | Thur | Brushcreek Motorsports Complex | Peebles, Ohio | $5,000 |
| July 18 | Fri | Attica Raceway Park | Attica, Ohio | $5,000 |
| July 19 | Sat | Oakshade Raceway | Wauseon, Ohio | $10,000 |
2014 DIRTcar Summer Nationals Championship Standings
| Rank | Car | First | Last | Points | ||
| 1 | 1 | Rick | Eckert | 334 | ||
| 2 | 24 | Ryan | Unzicker | 322 | ||
| 3 | 18 | Shannon | Babb | 299 | ||
| 4 | 81 | Brian | Shirley | 267 | ||
| 5 | B5 | Brandon | Sheppard | 264 | ||
| 6 | 32 | Bobby | Pierce | 259 | ||
| 7 | 22 | Gregg | Satterlee | 225 | ||
| 8 | 21 | Billy | Moyer Jr | 223 | ||
| 9 | 10 | Scott | Schmitt | 215 | ||
| 10 | 81 | Jason | Riggs | 193 | ||
| 11 | 21 | Billy | Moyer | 179 | ||
| 12 | 28 | Jimmy | Mars | 132 | ||
| 13 | 96 | Tanner | English | 126 | ||
| 14 | 2 | Brady | Smith | 121 | ||
| 15 | 25 | Jason | Feger | 117 | ||
| 16 | 89 | Mike | Spatola | 115 | ||
| 17 | 1m | Jimmy | Moon | 102 | ||
| 18 | 15b | Brian | Birkhofer | 98 | ||
| 19 | 1cj | Gary | Christian | 95 | ||
| 20 | B12 | Kevin | Weaver | 94 | ||
| 21 | 98 | Jason | Rauen | 86 | ||
| 22 | 32j | Jason | Jaggers | 80 | ||
| 23 | 83 | Scott | Bull | 76 | ||
| 24 | 77 | Jason | McBride | 71 | ||
| 25 | 5m | Mike | Fryar | 71 | ||
| 26 | 20 | Rodney | Sanders | 70 | ||
| 27 | 17 | Jim | Shereck | 70 | ||
| 28 | 21 | Rich | Bell | 65 | ||
| 29 | 10 | Pete | Parker | 61 | ||
| 30 | Oo | Randy | Korte | 60 | ||
| 31 | 25 | Steve | Lance | 59 | ||
| 32 | 45 | Kyle | Hammer | 55 | ||
| 33 | 15 | Brian | Harris | 50 | ||
| 34 | 77 | Tim | McCreadie | 49 | ||
| 35 | 77 | Jay | Morris | 45 | ||
| 36 | 7k | Jason | Krohn | 43 | ||
| 37 | Oov | Kolby | Vandenbergh | 43 | ||
| 38 | 10 | Don | Hilleary | 42 | ||
| 39 | 74 | Mitch | Mcgrath | 42 | ||
| 40 | 42 | Shawn | Toczek | 41 | ||
| 41 | 33 | Adam | Hensel | 41 | ||
| 42 | 42 | Mckay | Wenger | 41 | ||
| 43 | 99 | Franky | Heckenast | 40 | ||
| 44 | 90 | Lance | Mathees | 38 | ||
| 45 | D7 | Jim | Letizia | 36 | ||
| 46 | 2 | Allen | Murray | 36 | ||
| 47 | 58 | A J | Diemel | 35 | ||
| 48 | 56 | Andy | Eckrich | 35 | ||
| 49 | 33h | Billy | Hough | 35 | ||
| 50 | B1 | Nick | Bauman | 35 | ||
| 51 | 116 | Torrin | Mettille | 34 | ||
| 52 | 11 | Pat | Doar | 34 | ||
| 53 | 8 | Bill | Rezetek | 34 | ||
| 54 | 58 | Ray | Guss | 34 | ||
| 55 | 33 | Kevin | Cole | 32 | ||
| 56 | 32 | Chris | Simpson | 32 | ||
| 57 | 75 | Billy | Drake | 32 | ||
| 58 | M27 | Mike | Provenzano | 31 | ||
| 59 | 7 | Steve | Thornsten | 30 | ||
| 60 | 28 | Jeff | Provinzino | 30 | ||
| 61 | 4g | Bob | Gardner | 30 | ||
| 62 | 2 | Mike | Nutzmann | 29 | ||
| 63 | 16 | Tyler | Bruening | 29 | ||
| 64 | 94 | Evan | Fink | 29 | ||
| 65 | 40 | Joel | Callahan | 28 | ||
| 66 | 6 | Nick | Herrick | 27 | ||
| 67 | 20 | Jake | Meier | 27 | ||
| 68 | 28 | Clint | Kirkham | 27 | ||
| 69 | 14 | Glen | Thompson | 26 | ||
| 70 | 15 | Caley | Emerson | 26 | ||
| 71 | 9d | Dan | Flessner | 26 | ||
| 72 | 21 | Joel | Collins | 25 | ||
| 73 | 65 | Lucas | Peterson | 24 | ||
| 74 | 7s | Jay | Spark | 23 | ||
| 75 | 74 | Russ | Adams | 22 | ||
The DIRTcar Summer Nationals “Hell Tour” is brought to fans across the country by many important partners including: Arizona Sport Shirts (Official Apparel Company), Hoosier Racing Tires (Official Racing Tires), Racing Electronics (Official Communication), Velocita (Official Uniform), VP Racing Fuel (Official Racing Fuel); in addition to these fine Contingency Partners: Beyea Headers, Cometic Gasket, Comp Cams, Dominator Race Products, Edelbrock, Fox Shocks, JE Pistons, JRI Shocks, Mobil 1, MSD, Quartermaster, Superflow Dynos, Summit Racing Equipment and Wrisco Aluminum; Promotional Partners include: Chevy Performance Parts, Indiana Decal, Intercomp and Petroff Towing.Â