Like a lot of other tracks on the DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals circuit, Mike Harrison’s win at Macon Speedway before and had no problem doing it again Thursday night.

Taking the lead from Jacob Rexing on Lap 3, Harrison put on another clinic as the defending winner of the Summit Modifieds race at Macon, leading the field back to the checkered untouched for his 52nd career tour victory.

“A few years ago, we figured something out here, and we just keep going back to that,” Harrison said in Victory Lane. “As long as I keep the wheels underneath it, the nose clean and all the air in the tires, it’s hard to beat this car right now.”

A few multi-car jingles got the race off to a slow start, forcing Harrison to be efficient with passing. He did exactly that, going from third to the lead inside of five laps.

Once Harrison cleared Rexing for the lead, only a few cautions occurred, forcing the six-time Summit Modified champion to only have to deal with restarts as the leader sparingly. Nonetheless, he was flawless on them, successfully defending the lead and his $1,500 top prize as he heads for Fayette County Speedway for more Summit Modified action on Friday.

Two-time and defending Summit Modified champion Nick Hoffman broke his streak of top-two finishes on the year after suffering a rare DNF. He completed a total of 17 laps before calling it a night after racing inside the top-10 early on.

Jeff Leka had a great run going in second, but the laps eventually wound down and his charge for Harrison was thwarted by the checkered flag. Ray Bollinger completed the podium while Rodney Standerefer and Jacob Rexing completed the top-five.

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The DIRTcar Summit Modified action continues Friday night at the Fayette County Speedway for Round #19 of racing action. Catch every lap live on DIRTVision presented by Drydene.
Qualifying Flight-A

1. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson, 11.839; 2. T6-Tommy Sheppard, 11.851; 3. 59R-Jacob Rexing, 11.851; 4. 24-Zeke McKenzie, 11.898; 5. 77-Ray Bollinger, 11.924; 6. 7-Nick Hoffman, 12.019; 7. 10-Curt Rhodes, 12.081; 8. 21M-Willy Myers, 12.106; 9. 28-Rodney Standerfer, 12.144; 10. 87C-Alan Crowder, 12.178; 11. 88-Rob Lee, 12.316; 12. 75X-Charles Day, 12.364; 13. 87Z-Zeb Moake, 12.434; 14. 54-Shaun Horstmann, 12.531; 15. 5S-Owen Steinkoenig, 12.547; 16. 52-Billy Knebel, 12.627; 17. 18S-Jarrett Stryker, 12.8; 18. 95-William Jackson, 13.999; 19. 35-Clark Robertson, 99.999

Qualifying Flight-B
1. 3L-Jeff Leka, 11.502; 2. 34W-James Walters, 11.524; 3. 24H-Mike Harrison, 11.527; 4. 96-Cory Daugherty, 11.538; 5. 14-Rick Conoyer, 11.568; 6. 27C-Justin Cundiff, 11.69; 7. 11D-Brian Diveley, 11.729; 8. 36-Kenny Wallace, 11.736; 9. 25W-Allen Weisser, 11.749; 10. 19C-Jeremy Nichols, 11.823; 11. 28B-Lucas Pace, 11.958; 12. 22P-Wil Prater, 12.004; 13. 77T-Guy Taylor, 12.074; 14. 13-Jason Scrimpsher, 12.096; 15. D98-Danny Smith, 12.186; 16. 71-Jeff Graham, 12.257; 17. 5T-Rob Timmons, 12.266; 18. 517-Rick Hamilton, 12.362

Heat #1 – Flight (A) (8 Laps) – Top 4 Transfer
1. 59R-Jacob Rexing [2]; 2. 77-Ray Bollinger [3]; 3. 10-Curt Rhodes [4]; 4. 28-Rodney Standerfer [5]; 5. 87Z-Zeb Moake [7]; 6. 88-Rob Lee [6]; 7. 35-Clark Robertson [10]; 8. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson [1]; 9. 18S-Jarrett Stryker [9]; 10. 5S-Owen Steinkoenig [8]

Heat #2 – Flight (A) (8 Laps) – Top 4 Transfer
1. T6-Tommy Sheppard [1]; 2. 24-Zeke McKenzie [2]; 3. 21M-Willy Myers [4]; 4. 7-Nick Hoffman [3]; 5. 54-Shaun Horstmann [7]; 6. 87C-Alan Crowder [5]; 7. 75X-Charles Day [6]; 8. 52-Billy Knebel [8]; 9. 95-William Jackson [9]

Heat #3 – Flight (B) (8 Laps) – Top 4 Transfer
1. 24H-Mike Harrison [2]; 2. 3L-Jeff Leka [1]; 3. 11D-Brian Diveley [4]; 4. 25W-Allen Weisser [5]; 5. 14-Rick Conoyer [3]; 6. 77T-Guy Taylor [7]; 7. D98-Danny Smith [8]; 8. 28B-Lucas Pace [6]; 9. 5T-Rob Timmons [9]

Heat #4 – Flight (B) (8 Laps) – Top 4 Transfer
1. 34W-James Walters [1]; 2. 36-Kenny Wallace [4]; 3. 19C-Jeremy Nichols [5]; 4. 71-Jeff Graham [8]; 5. 22P-Wil Prater [6]; 6. 13-Jason Scrimpsher [7]; 7. 517-Rick Hamilton [9]; 8. 27C-Justin Cundiff [3]; 9. 96-Cory Daugherty [2]

Last Chance Showdown #1 (8 Laps) – Top 1 Transfer
1. 54-Shaun Horstmann [2][]; 2. 87Z-Zeb Moake [1][]; 3. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson [7][]; 4. 88-Rob Lee [3][]; 5. 52-Billy Knebel [8][]; 6. 87C-Alan Crowder [4][]; 7. 75X-Charles Day [6][]; 8. 95-William Jackson [10][]; 9. 35-Clark Robertson [5][]; 10. 18S-Jarrett Stryker [9][]; 11. 5S-Owen Steinkoenig [11][]

Last Chance Showdown #2 ( Laps)
1. 14-Rick Conoyer [1][]; 2. D98-Danny Smith [5][]; 3. 22P-Wil Prater [2][]; 4. 28B-Lucas Pace [7][]; 5. 517-Rick Hamilton [6][]; 6. 13-Jason Scrimpsher [4][]; 7. 77T-Guy Taylor [3][]; 8. 27C-Justin Cundiff [8][]; 9. 5T-Rob Timmons [9][]; 10. 96-Cory Daugherty [10][]

Feature (25 Laps)
1. 24H-Mike Harrison [3][]; 2. 3L-Jeff Leka [6][]; 3. 77-Ray Bollinger [5][]; 4. 28-Rodney Standerfer [13][]; 5. 59R-Jacob Rexing [2][]; 6. 36-Kenny Wallace [8][]; 7. 54-Shaun Horstmann [17][]; 8. 24-Zeke McKenzie [7][]; 9. 52-Billy Knebel [21][]; 10. 87Z-Zeb Moake [20][]; 11. 25W-Allen Weisser [14][]; 12. 11D-Brian Diveley [10][]; 13. 21M-Willy Myers [11][]; 14. 14-Rick Conoyer [18][]; 15. 34W-James Walters [1][]; 16. 71-Jeff Graham [16][]; 17. 7-Nick Hoffman [15][]; 18. 19C-Jeremy Nichols [12][]; 19. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson [19][]; 20. 10-Curt Rhodes [9][]; 21. 28B-Lucas Pace [22][]; 22. T6-Tommy Sheppard [4][]

KSE Hard Charger Award: 52-Billy Knebel[+12]