HomeDirt Late Model NewsShannon Babb gets 98th career UMP Summer Nationals win at Highland Speedway!

Shannon Babb gets 98th career UMP Summer Nationals win at Highland Speedway!

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Babb Is Back!

HIGHLAND, IL – June 29, 2019 – Three-hundred sixty-nine days ago, Shannon Babb picked up his 97th career DIRTcar Summer Nationals “Hell Tour” win at the Spoon River Speedway on June 25, 2018. Tonight, as Series Announcer Ruben Mireles declared in Victory Lane, “Babb is Back!” as he emerged victorious for the 98th time in his Summer Nationals career Saturday night at the Highland Speedway.

Billy Moyer, the only driver with more Hell Tour wins than Babb at 100, held strong all race long to claim the runner-up spot. Rusty Schlenk bagged a third-place finish, tying his best Summer Nationals finish this season.

As Rusty Griffaw led the field around for opening circuits, Brandon Sheppard and Babb started their battle for position – Sheppard hammering the cushion and Babb swiftly maneuvering the bottom.

Sheppard eventually got the best of Babb by the fifth lap and led the next 11 laps, as Moyer continued his charge to the front from his ninth-place starting spot. But the cushion proved to be too much for Sheppard’s right-rear Hoosier tire to handle, and he pulled his #B5 machine into the infield with the flat tire after fading back to seventh by lap 28.

By this point, Moyer had already completed his charge to the front, nearly going four-wide with Schlenk, Bobby Pierce and Sheppard at one point for the runner-up spot. But the young guns of the tour just weren’t able to outdrive the veterans. Babb had taken the lead from Sheppard for good on lap 18 and held it the rest of the way to score his first Hell Tour victory of the season.

The Summer Nationals Late Models are back in action tonight at the Lincoln Speedway in Lincoln, Illinois. Catch all of the action live on DIRTVision!

Late Model Feature (50 Laps) – 1. 18-Shannon Babb [4]; 2. 21-Billy Moyer [9]; 3. CJ1-Rusty Schlenk [6]; 4. 25F-Jason Feger [15]; 5. 3S-Brian Shirley [7]; 6. 33M-Tim Manville [11]; 7. 96-Tanner English [3]; 8. 32-Bobby Pierce [5]; 9. 78-Chad Zobrist [12]; 10. 99JR-Frank Heckenast, [13]; 11. 22-Daniel Jacober [16]; 12. 31AUS-Paul Stubber [19]; 13. 16H-Mike Hammerle [20]; 14. 25H-Chuck Hummer [22]; 15. B5-Brandon Sheppard [2]; 16. 10-Daryn Klein [10]; 17. B1-Brent Larson [18]; 18. 16-Rusty Griffaw [1]; 19. 6K-Michael Kloos [17]; 20. 11-Gordy Gundaker [14]; 21. 30V-Mark Voigt [21]; 22. 33-Rodney Melvin [8]; Hard Charger: 25F-Jason Feger[+11]

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