ELEVENTH HEAVEN: Hoffman Dominates Loaded Field at Spoon River for Eleventh Win

The Spoon River Speedway pit area was packed with the strongest field of DIRTcar UMP Modified talent seen all season Wednesday night, and Nick Hoffman dominated them all. He’s now up to eleven wins in eleven DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals starts.

Once again, the three-time and defending champion led every single lap of the Feature, bringing him to a perfect 265-for-265 in consecutive Feature laps led. But not without a little shakeup on the final lap.

Third-place running Josh Allen looped it in Turn 4 coming to the white flag as fourth-place Kelly Kovski spun to avoid. This erased Hoffman’s near four-second lead over runner-up Tyler Nicely, who sat right on Hoffman’s bumper for the restart.

“You never want to see that late in the race, especially when you’ve got a decent lead,” Hoffman said of the late caution.

The green and white waved together as Hoffman mashed the throttle. He immediately pulled away from Nicely down the backstretch and cruised across the line for his 49th career Summit Modified victory at a track he holds in very high regard.

“I love this place. I love coming here – it’s always perfect. It’s never rough and always fits my style,” Hoffman said.

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The Summit Modifieds are back in action Thursday night at the fifth-mile Macon Speedway to support one of the most iconic events on the schedule – the 41st running of the Herald & Review 100. Catch all the action live on DIRTVision presented by Drydene.

Feature (25 Laps): 1. 2-Nick Hoffman[1]; 2. 25-Tyler Nicely[6]; 3. 7K-Kelly Kovski[7]; 4. 35-Brandon Roberts[4]; 5. 96M-Mike McKinney[9]; 6. 99-Hunt Gossum[10]; 7. 05-Dave Wietholder[18]; 8. 14C-Rick Conoyer[12]; 9. 36-Kenny Wallace[2]; 10. T6-Tommy Sheppard Jr[8]; 11. 45-Kyle Hammer[17]; 12. K19-Will Krup[11]; 13. 77-Ray Bollinger[20]; 14. 24Z-Zeke McKenzie[13]; 15. 3-Mike Brooks[15]; 16. 242-Brandon Bollinger[21]; 17. 117-Frankie Wellman[16]; 18. 19T-Travis Thrasher[22]; 19. 292-Josh Allen[5]; 20. 7-Drake Troutman[3]; 21. 59R-Jacob Rexing[14]; 22. 25W-Allen Weisser[19]

Last Chance Showdown 1 (10 Laps): 1. 45-Kyle Hammer[2]; 2. 53-Bobby Stremme[1]; 3. 18L-Michael Long[4]; 4. 20-Richie Biswell[5]; 5. 4G-Bill Griffith[6]; 6. 64-Dawson Cook[9]; 7. 29-Brandon David[8]; 8. 08-Michael Claeys[10]; 9. 10J-Steve Jones[7]; 10. 77-Ray Bollinger[3]

Last Chance Showdown 2 (10 Laps): 1. 05-Dave Wietholder[2]; 2. 19-Chad Bauer[3]; 3. 242-Brandon Bollinger[5]; 4. 87-Blake Woodruff[4]; 5. 117E-Mark Enk[8]; 6. 5A-Kevin Anderson[7]; 7. 21B-Dustin Branch[1]; 8. 19T-Travis Thrasher[6]; 9. 14K-Shane Kelley[9]; 10. N14-Paul Nelson[11]; 11. (DNS) 25W-Allen Weisser

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 36-Kenny Wallace[1]; 2. 292-Josh Allen[2]; 3. 96M-Mike McKinney[5]; 4. 24Z-Zeke McKenzie[3]; 5. 53-Bobby Stremme[4]; 6. 77-Ray Bollinger[6]; 7. 20-Richie Biswell[7]; 8. 10J-Steve Jones[9]; 9. 64-Dawson Cook[8]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 7-Drake Troutman[1]; 2. 7K-Kelly Kovski[4]; 3. K19-Will Krup[2]; 4. 3-Mike Brooks[3]; 5. 45-Kyle Hammer[6]; 6. 18L-Michael Long[5]; 7. 4G-Bill Griffith[7]; 8. 29-Brandon David[8]; 9. 08-Michael Claeys[9]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 2-Nick Hoffman[1]; 2. 25-Tyler Nicely[2]; 3. 99-Hunt Gossum[3]; 4. 59R-Jacob Rexing[4]; 5. 21B-Dustin Branch[6]; 6. 19-Chad Bauer[5]; 7. 242-Brandon Bollinger[7]; 8. 5A-Kevin Anderson[8]; 9. 14K-Shane Kelley[10]; 10. N14-Paul Nelson[9]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 35-Brandon Roberts[1]; 2. T6-Tommy Sheppard Jr[5]; 3. 14C-Rick Conoyer[2]; 4. 117-Frankie Wellman[7]; 5. 05-Dave Wietholder[6]; 6. 87-Blake Woodruff[3]; 7. 19T-Travis Thrasher[8]; 8. 117E-Mark Enk[9]; 9. 25W-Allen Weisser[4]

Qualifying Group 1 (3 Laps): 1. 36-Kenny Wallace, 00:14.874[10]; 2. 7-Drake Troutman, 00:14.927[5]; 3. 292-Josh Allen, 00:14.931[12]; 4. K19-Will Krup, 00:14.997[16]; 5. 24Z-Zeke McKenzie, 00:15.052[2]; 6. 3-Mike Brooks, 00:15.062[9]; 7. 53-Bobby Stremme, 00:15.151[14]; 8. 7K-Kelly Kovski, 00:15.153[6]; 9. 96M-Mike McKinney, 00:15.160[15]; 10. 18L-Michael Long, 00:15.231[18]; 11. 77-Ray Bollinger, 00:15.273[17]; 12. 45-Kyle Hammer, 00:15.292[8]; 13. 20-Richie Biswell, 00:15.323[7]; 14. 4G-Bill Griffith, 00:15.365[13]; 15. 64-Dawson Cook, 00:15.692[4]; 16. 29-Brandon David, 00:16.135[3]; 17. 10J-Steve Jones, 00:16.139[1]; 18. 08-Michael Claeys, 00:16.398[11]

Qualifying Group 2 (3 Laps): 1. 2-Nick Hoffman, 00:14.917[16]; 2. 35-Brandon Roberts, 00:14.995[1]; 3. 25-Tyler Nicely, 00:15.097[11]; 4. 14C-Rick Conoyer, 00:15.193[2]; 5. 99-Hunt Gossum, 00:15.219[3]; 6. 87-Blake Woodruff, 00:15.293[7]; 7. 59R-Jacob Rexing, 00:15.302[17]; 8. 25W-Allen Weisser, 00:15.313[4]; 9. 19-Chad Bauer, 00:15.316[8]; 10. T6-Tommy Sheppard Jr, 00:15.401[15]; 11. 21B-Dustin Branch, 00:15.418[5]; 12. 05-Dave Wietholder, 00:15.438[6]; 13. 242-Brandon Bollinger, 00:15.526[14]; 14. 117-Frankie Wellman, 00:15.553[12]; 15. 5A-Kevin Anderson, 00:15.919[9]; 16. 19T-Travis Thrasher, 00:16.059[13]; 17. N14-Paul Nelson, 00:16.852[10]; 18. (DNS) 117E-Mark Enk; 19. (DNS) 14K-Shane Kelley