Week 5: DIRTcar Summer Nationals

Though it was the last race on the schedule, the 38th annual DIRTcar Summer Nationals season finale at Wayne County Speedway was a night full of firsts.

A first-time champion was crowned in 23-year-old Ashton Winger, the resilient racer from Senoia, GA, who met his summer’s ultimate goal and clinched his first career Hell Tour championship, becoming the first driver from outside the State of Illinois to win the overall points title since Don O’Neal (Martinsville, IN) in 2004.

A first-time Feature winner later emerged in Kyle Moore, the 32-year-old local star from Mansfield, OH, who led all 40 laps and held off the wrath of Winger for the entire race to score his first career Summer Nationals victory in front of a massive gathering of friends and family.