{"id":7805,"date":"2024-06-20T01:27:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T05:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dirtcarsummernationals.com\/?p=7805"},"modified":"2024-06-20T01:30:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T05:30:06","slug":"michael-long-wins-second-summit-modified-feature-of-2024-at-adams-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dirtcarsummernationals.com\/recap\/michael-long-wins-second-summit-modified-feature-of-2024-at-adams-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Long Wins Second Summit Modified Feature of 2024 at Adams County"},"content":{"rendered":"
Four DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment<\/a> Modified Nationals races have run so far in 2024 and Michael Long has won half of them with his victory Wednesday night at Adams County (IL) Speedway.<\/p>\n Long, of Fowler, IL, collected his ninth career Hell Tour<\/em> win \u2013 three of which have now come at Adams County. It\u2019s Long\u2019s home track, which he said his familiarity with the confines helped secure the victory.<\/p>\n \u201cI just grew up racing here. This is where I started racing,\u201d Long said. \u201cI lived like five miles from here and just got a lot of laps around here.\u201d<\/p>\n From fourth on the grid, Long jumped to second on Lap 2, riding the outside and then looked to chase down outside polesitter Kenny Wallace.<\/p>\n Wallace held onto the lead for the next few circuits but Long was right behind him, waiting for his chance to steal the top spot. Side-by-side into Turn 3 with Wallace went Long on Lap 6, and as they rounded Turn 4, Long sealed the pass on the inside.<\/p>\n \u201cMe and Kenny both started on the outside and he took the lead and was able to follow him,\u201d Long said. \u201cI was able to hug the bottom and he started to skate up a little bit and was able to get by him.\u201d<\/p>\n Though Long now gazed at a clear track in front of him, 2023 Summit Modified champion Tyler Nicely was closing the gap behind him. On Lap 12, Nicely had nearly pulled even with the leader before the caution flag was thrown.<\/p>\n On the restart, Long got the jump he needed and set a sizable distance between himself and Nicely to lead the field back around to the checkered flag to secure the win.<\/p>\n \u201cNicely is really good on tracks like that,\u201d Long said. \u201cI had to keep my momentum up and keep going and was able to stay a car length or two in front of him the whole race.\u201d<\/p>\n UP NEXT<\/strong><\/p>\n The Summit Modifieds return to action with a visit to Spoon River Speedway on Thursday, June 20, racing alongside the DIRTcar Summer Nationals Late Models<\/p>\n ABBREVIATED RESULTS<\/strong> (view full results<\/a>)<\/p>\n Feature (25 Laps): 1. 18L-Michael Long[4]; 2. 25N-Tyler Nicely[3]; 3. 777-Trevor Neville[1]; 4. 99-Hunt Gossum[5]; 5. 36-Kenny Wallace[2]; 6. 22-Austen Becerra[8]; 7. 14C-Rick Conoyer[9]; 8. 59R-Jacob Rexing[12]; 9. 12L-Lucas Lee[6]; 10. 1A-Steve Meyer Jr[14]; 11. 67-Austin Seets[10]; 12. 17V-Mike Vanderiet Jr[11]; 13. 27-Michael Turner[13]; 14. 77D-Drake Stevenson[7]; 15. 76-Shawn Knuckles[15]; 16. 54-Zachary Hawk[17]; 17. 14-Dalton Lane[18]; 18. 16-Shawn Deering[20]; 19. 28D-Matt Diaz[21]; 20. 05-Dave Wietholder[22]; 21. (DNS) 72-Todd Neiheiser; 22. (DNS) 25-Greg Belyea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Four DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals races have run so far in 2024 and Michael Long has won half of them with his victory Wednesday night at Adams County (IL) Speedway. Long, of Fowler, IL, collected his ninth career Hell Tour win \u2013 three of which have now come at Adams County. It\u2019s Long\u2019s … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":7807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[480],"tags":[337,223,397,221],"series":[630],"class_list":["post-7805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recap","tag-adams-county-speedway","tag-kenny-wallace","tag-michael-long","tag-tyler-nicely","series-summit-modified-nationals","has-post-video"],"yoast_head":"\n