{"id":6612,"date":"2023-06-25T04:34:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T08:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dirtcarsummernationals.com\/?p=6612"},"modified":"2024-05-23T14:21:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T18:21:02","slug":"stormy-scott-wins-first-career-summer-nationals-feature-in-wild-finish-at-i-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dirtcarsummernationals.com\/recap\/stormy-scott-wins-first-career-summer-nationals-feature-in-wild-finish-at-i-55\/","title":{"rendered":"Stormy Scott Wins First Career Summer Nationals Feature in Wild Finish at I-55"},"content":{"rendered":"
When the air temperature rises on the Hell Tour<\/em>, so does the action on track. Stormy Scott served up a blazing hot plate of excitement Saturday night with a last-lap, last-corner pass on Ashton Winger for his first career DIRTcar Summer Nationals Feature win.<\/p>\n \u201cTo win at I-55 \u2013\u00a0it\u2019s more exciting because everybody knows the history of this place,\u201d Scott said. \u201cEverybody knows who half of one of the owners is, the track is on the video game\u2026 It\u2019s awesome to get a win here, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n After Winger took the lead from Shannon Babb just past the halfway point, Scott and Drake Troutman had ascended into the second and third spots and were hot on Winger\u2019s tail as the laps clicked off. Babb had broken drivetrain components immediately after taking the green on a Lap 25 restart and drew a caution, retiring to the infield under yellow.<\/p>\n Though Scott had got to the runner-up spot first, Troutman found some speed on the cushion and drove around Scott to take second. A couple caution flags in the few laps that followed gave Scott and Troutman some more chances at the leader, but they went uncapitalized as Winger continued his charge out front.<\/p>\n At its largest, Winger\u2019s lead stretched to slightly over a full second as the leaders prepared to enter lapped traffic in the final 10 laps.<\/p>\n \u201cI felt like when I had a gap, I actually tried to slow my pace down ever so slightly to not catch that lapped car,\u201d Winger said. \u201cI saw where the lapped car was running, and I didn\u2019t have it in my mind how I was going to pass him when I got to him.\u201d<\/p>\n That\u2019s when Scott and Troutman began to close back in on Winger, shrinking the gap to less than a car length at its closest. Troutman tried several lanes on the track to make the pass but Winger was able to hold him off. Scott, however, was not to be tamed.<\/p>\n \u201cWe all got to racing, and I saw where Troutman got by me on the bottom,\u201d Scott said. \u201cI tried running that line for about three laps and I kept missing it. I knew I had to be patient and figure it out.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI knew that as long as I could keep a good run going, if I could keep my tires cooler than theirs at the end, they\u2019d come back to me.\u201d<\/p>\n Armed with a good car and the right strategy, Scott stuck to the bottom and pulled nearly even with Winger down the backstretch as they headed for the white flag.<\/p>\n Winger was forced to make a quick move around a lapped car out of Turn 4 and did so without issue, though he said it did slow his progress slightly.<\/p>\n \u201cI really had to throw a haymaker on that lapped car coming to the white,\u201d Winger said. \u201cI misjudged my entry a little bit \u2013\u00a0it just barely hindered my rhythm a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n Scott was unaffected by the slower traffic and continued getting faster on the bottom. He got a run on Winger out of Turn 2 and down the backstretch, came into Turns 3-4 with the speed he needed to get under Winger, held it to the bottom and snuck past him just before the start\/finish line by .224 seconds to bag the $10,000 check.<\/p>\n \u201cI knew that if we could be door-to-door getting into Turn 3, I knew the spot where we were all entering, and I was gonna enter as hard as he went,\u201d Scott said. \u201cI was afraid that if I let off too early and he got too much momentum going, I wouldn\u2019t beat him off the corner.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t plan on dooring him or anything like that, but I knew that I needed to drive in with him and keep up my speed so I could at least have a shot at it to get off of Turn 4 and we could drag race in.\u201d<\/p>\n UP NEXT<\/strong><\/p>\n The DIRTcar Summer Nationals action continues with the final race of Week 2 on Sunday, June 25, at Lincoln Speedway in Lincoln, IL. Tickets will be available at the gate; streaming is available on DIRTVision<\/a>.<\/p>\n ABBREVIATED RESULTS<\/strong> (view full results<\/a>)<\/p>\n Feature (40 Laps): 1. 2S-Stormy Scott[5]; 2. 12-Ashton Winger[2]; 3. 7T-Drake Troutman[3]; 4. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr[7]; 5. 25-Jason Feger[8]; 6. 21J-Billy Moyer Jr[10]; 7. 33-Mike Harrison[6]; 8. 36-Logan Martin[1]; 9. 2-Tyler Stevens[18]; 10. 31AUS-Kye Blight[16]; 11. 16-Rusty Griffaw[20]; 12. 58-Tyler Clem[17]; 13. 4G-Bob Gardner[19]; 14. 30-Mark Voigt[22]; 15. 19X-Cody Bauer[14]; 16. 15-Clayton Stuckey[13]; 17. 10-Daryn Klein[12]; 18. 18-Shannon Babb[4]; 19. 94-Austin Rettig[9]; 20. 54-Dane Dacus[15]; 21. 4-Jason Suhre[11]; 22. 6K-Michael Kloos[21]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When the air temperature rises on the Hell Tour, so does the action on track. Stormy Scott served up a blazing hot plate of excitement Saturday night with a last-lap, last-corner pass on Ashton Winger for his first career DIRTcar Summer Nationals Feature win. \u201cTo win at I-55 \u2013\u00a0it\u2019s more exciting because everybody knows the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":6618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[480],"tags":[431,176,21,105,25,430],"series":[628],"class_list":["post-6612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recap","tag-431","tag-ashton-winger","tag-featured","tag-federated-auto-parts-raceway-at-i-55","tag-late-models","tag-stormy-scott","series-dirtcar-summer-nationals","has-post-video"],"yoast_head":"\n