After four years of waiting, Hunt Gossum has made his return to Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals Victory Lane.
The Mayfield, KY driver drove a perfect race at Lincoln Speedway on Sunday night by leading flag-to-flag for his fifth career tour win.
Gossum began the night with the fastest time set in his Qualifying group, then followed up the drive with the win in his Heat race.
The win helped Gossum draw the pole for the night’s 25-lap Feature with multi-time Summit Modified winner Ray Bollinger to his outside at the drop of the green flag.
Gossum used the bottom lane advantage to gain a 0.5-second lead over Bollinger. At the same time, points leader Trevor Neville attempted to pass Bollinger on the bottom lane for second place, but could not make the move stick as he stayed behind Bollinger’s No. 77 UMP Modified.
While lapped traffic added a new challenge for Gossum to face as the halfway mark, he sliced through the pack through any open lane available to gain a 1.9-second advantage until a caution on Lap 18 offered the field a second chance at passing him for the Feature win.
Gossum did not cave under the pressure of the seven-lap race towards the checkered flag as he gained a half-second lead on Bollinger for his fifth career win, tying him with Ken Schrader and Allen Weisser for 12th in all-time wins.
“I’m really happy, man,” Gossum said. “I feel like it’s been so long since I’ve won one of those. I worked my ass off, my dad works his ass off, my crew guy, Ty, works his ass off. I’m just so happy right now that it all paid off.”
Up Next: The DIRTcar Summer Nationals Late Models visit Missouri’s Springfield Raceway on Tuesday, June 24, while the DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals rejoin the Late Models at Tri-City Speedway on Wednesday, June 25.
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 (25 Laps): 1. 99-Hunt Gossum[1]; 2. 77-Ray Bollinger[2]; 3. 777-Trevor Neville[5]; 4. 66-Cole Falloway[4]; 5. 45H-Chase Holland[7]; 6. 75-Daniel Adam[10]; 7. 72A-Austin Lynn[9]; 8. 35-Brandon Roberts[13]; 9. 3-Mike Brooks[6]; 10. 5S-Owen Steinkoenig[11]; 11. 96C-Marshall Call[18]; 12. 21T-Talen Beard[12]; 13. 23B-Ethan Boomsma[14]; 14. J13-Justin Coffey[24]; 15. 75P-Gavyn Parmele[19]; 16. 14-Brian Lynn[8]; 17. 71-Jeff Graham[20]; 18. 49B-Zach Brandt[21]; 19. 5P-Nicholas Porter[23]; 20. 110-Landen Miller[3]; 21. 1A-Steve Meyer Jr[17]; 22. 19C-Carter Sinkhorn[15]; 23. 11D-Brian Diveley[16]; 24. (DNS) 24-Zeke McKenzie
