Jason Feger’s muscle on the high side of dirt tracks remains unmatched.
On his home turf at Kankakee County Speedway, the Bloomington, IL driver put his expertise to use on Wednesday night as he led every lap for his first DIRTcar Summer Nationals Late Model win of 2025.
Feger began his night with a win in his Heat race, then picked up a front row start for the 30-lap Feature around the 1/4-mile bullring.
Using the outside at the drop of the green flag, Feger ran the cushion and got the edge on polesitter Dillon McCowan to take the early claim.
The Longhorn Chassis No. 25 machine took residence on the top while McCowan and third-place runner Brian Shirley had to try both the low and middle lanes of the track in their attempt at squandering Feger’s supremacy at the front.
Through the first half of the Feature, the “High Side Hustler” inflated his lead gap to three seconds as Tuesday winner Billy Moyer and Mark Whitener charged into the top five after starting in 12th and 13th, respectively.
While a caution with 10 laps remaining gave the top five a second life in the fight for the win, the 2010 champion proceeded to rip the high line towards a 2.2-second lead away from the field as he captured the 31st Hell Tour triumph of his career.
“Well, it’s been a rough start to the year for us,” Feger said. “I feel like we’ve been working really hard, getting better and better. Feels good to get a win off Hell Tour early. I mean, second night, it takes that pressure off and now we can focus on racing. It ended up being a pretty good race where I could really manuever to the top, middle or bottom.”
Up Next: The DIRTcar Summer Nationals Late Models and DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals head for Peoria Speedway in the halfway mark of the opening week.
If you can’t make it to the track, you can watch all the action live on DIRTVision – either online or by downloading the DIRTVision App.
Feature (30 Laps): 1. 25F-Jason Feger[2]; 2. 75-Dillon McCowan[1]; 3. 3S-Brian Shirley[3]; 4. 5-Mark Whitener[13]; 5. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr[8]; 6. 21-Billy Moyer Sr[12]; 7. K67-Braiden Keller[10]; 8. 22*-Drake Troutman[9]; 9. 40B-Kyle Bronson[5]; 10. 14JR-Trey Mills[7]; 11. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[18]; 12. 18-Shannon Babb[17]; 13. 10J-Joseph Joiner[15]; 14. 31-Tyler Millwood[4]; 15. 17SS-Brenden Smith[16]; 16. 1-Tyler Erb[11]; 17. 16-Rusty Griffaw[20]; 18. 15-Clay Stuckey[19]; 19. (DNF) 130-Chase Osterhoff[6]; 20. (DNF) C6-Oakley Johns[14]; 21. (DNF) 29-Christian Hanger[22]; 22. (DNF) 10-Paul Parker[21]
