{"id":38779,"date":"2022-06-16T03:01:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T07:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dirtcar.com\/uncategorized\/close-one-hoffman-holds-off-wietholder-for-victory-at-peoria\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T11:51:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T15:51:31","slug":"close-one-hoffman-holds-off-wietholder-for-victory-at-peoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dirtcar.com\/dirtcar-ump\/ump-modifieds\/close-one-hoffman-holds-off-wietholder-for-victory-at-peoria\/","title":{"rendered":"CLOSE ONE: Hoffman Holds off Wietholder for Victory at Peoria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of Nick Hoffman\u2019s recent DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment<\/a> Modified Nationals wins have been smooth, uncontested drives to the finish. Wednesday night at Peoria Speedway was anything but.<\/p>\n

Dave Wietholder, veteran wheelman and Peoria semi-regular racer from Liberty, IL, had chased Hoffman up to the halfway point in the 25-lap Feature when he began to reel him in. Held up by some lapped traffic, Hoffman\u2019s lead shrank quickly from over one second down to a car-length.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was following [the lapped car], hoping he\u2019d peel-off the wall and try to get back to the bottom,\u201d Hoffman said. \u201cHe entered higher into Turn 1 and I missed the rubber pretty big into 1. That\u2019s when Dave was able to drive underneath me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wietholder suddenly saw a gap open under Hoffman heading into Turn 1 and took it, but was denied due to an untimely yellow flag with 13 laps complete. This cleared traffic from Hoffman\u2019s path, though the race wasn\u2019t over.<\/p>\n

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Hoffman celebrates in Victory Lane with a can of NOS Energy Drink (Terry Page Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI was kinda hoping with 8-to-go on that last restart that I wouldn\u2019t get back to lapped traffic, but we did with 2-to-go,\u201d Hoffman said. \u201c[Stick man] showed me I had a little bit of a lead at that point, and I just followed [the lapped car]. I couldn\u2019t drive by him; I was gonna have to run into him to pass him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hoffman took the green on the restart and did reach the tail of the field again in the closing laps. Wietholder reeled Hoffman in yet again and tried one last-ditch effort in Turns 3-4, getting underneath Hoffman\u2019s NOS Energy Drink #2, but to no avail. Hoffman gassed it out of Turn 4 and crossed the stripe for his 59th Summit Modified victory.<\/p>\n

Notably, Wietholder races a chassis built by Hoffman at Elite Chassis in Mooresville, NC. The two have crossed several times in the past on the track, and the respect is real.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s strong here, at Spoon River, and a lot of other places,\u201d Hoffman said. \u201cHe races a lot of races over the year, and even comes to Florida, so he gets around and ventures out. I think that says a lot about his program to be as strong as he is everywhere he goes.\u201d<\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Summit Modifieds take Thursday off before getting back into action at Tri-City Speedway on Friday, June 17. If you can\u2019t be at the track, watch every lap live on DIRTVision<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ABBREVIATED RESULTS<\/strong> (view full results<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Feature 25 Laps | 00:13:57.826<\/p>\n

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  1. 2-Nick Hoffman[2]; 2. 05-Dave Wietholder[4]; 3. 25-Tyler Nicely[3]; 4. 8-Kyle Steffens[5]; 5. 8A-Austin Holcombe[6]; 6. 79D-John Demoss[8]; 7. 77-Ray Bollinger[12]; 8. 130-Chase Allen[7]; 9. 36-Kenny Wallace[9]; 10. 777-Trevor Neville[11]; 11. 89-Noah Faw[14]; 12. 26D-Derick Doerr[18]; 13. 242-Brandon Bollinger[21]; 14. 6M-Carl McKinney[17]; 15. 82-Shane Kelley[15]; 16. 17D-Degan Dozard[13]; 17. 73-Mark Rhoades[20]; 18. 10J-Steve Jones[16]; 19. 2B-Erik Bruce[10]; 20. 2D- Asa Dillon[22]; 21. 69-Derek Roberts[19]; 22. 25W-Allen Weisser[1]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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