PEORIA, IL \u2013 June 25, 2007 \u2013 Dennis Erb Jr. of Carpentersville, Ill., was flawless in marching to a flag-to-flag victory in Monday night\u2019s 40-lap UMP DIRTcar Racing Summernationals A-Main at Peoria Speedway.<\/p>\n
In a race that ran non-stop after a single caution flag flew on the first lap, Erb grabbed the lead from the pole position at the initial green flag and never looked back. He held off several challenges from Wes Steidinger of Fairbury, Ill., to pocket the quarter-mile track\u2019s $6,000 top prize in his Petroff Towing\/Thomason Transportation Rayburn.<\/p>\n
It was the fourth win of the 2007 Summernationals for Erb, who entered this year\u2019s 27-event schedule with a total of three career triumphs on the tour.<\/p>\n
Erb, 34, tightened what is shaping up to be the closest Summernationals points race in several years with his score. He\u2019s third in the standings, 28 points behind leader Mike Marlar of Winfield, Tenn., who finished ninth (his worst placing of the \u201907 tour), and two points behind second place Don O\u2019Neal of Martinsville, Ind., who finished third.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old Steidinger settled for second place, falling just short of his first career Summernationals win.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Neal finished third, followed by six-time Summernationals champion Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark., and Jason Feger of Springfield, Ill.<\/p>\n
Forty-seven dirt Late Models entered the event.<\/p>\n
Heat winners were Feger, O\u2019Neal, Steidinger and Erb, and the B-Mains were claimed by Jeep VanWormer of Pinconning, Mich., and Marlar.<\/p>\n
UMP DIRTcar Racing Summernationals Feature Finish (40 laps):<\/p>\n
1. Dennis Erb Jr.<\/p>\n
2. Wes Steidinger<\/p>\n
3. Don O\u2019Neal<\/p>\n
4. Billy Moyer<\/p>\n
5. Jason Feger<\/p>\n
6. Kevin Weaver<\/p>\n
7. Rodney Melvin<\/p>\n
8. Eddie Kirchoff<\/p>\n
9. Mike Marlar<\/p>\n
10. Terry Casey<\/p>\n
11. Billy Moyer Jr.<\/p>\n
12. Jeep VanWormer<\/p>\n
13. Shannon Babb<\/p>\n
14. Ryan Dauber<\/p>\n
15. Steve Sheppard Jr.<\/p>\n
16. Jordan Bland<\/p>\n
17. Charles Hess<\/p>\n
18. Tim Lance<\/p>\n
19. A.J. Diemel<\/p>\n
20. Eric Bruce<\/p>\n
21. Steve Lance<\/p>\n
DNQ: Adam Mefford, Dawn Memmel, Jay Sparks, Don Hammer, JR Shickel, Todd Bennett, Kenny Adams, Ron Bartels, Lance Alcorn, Chad Jones, Matt Murphy, Rich Bell, Russ Adams, Christian Rayburn, Shawn Gray, Brandon Thirlby, Chris Laney, Greg Longfellow, Ryan Little, Gerry Reeder, Jeff Maher, Mike Mullvain, Ed Dixon, Scott Bull, Cody Baumann, Jim Felker<\/p>\n
UMP DIRTcar Racing Summernationals Point Standings (after 10 of 27 events):<\/p>\n
1. Mike Marlar 731<\/p>\n
2. Don O\u2019Neal 705<\/p>\n
3. Dennis Erb Jr. 703<\/p>\n
4. Wes Steidinger 659<\/p>\n
5. Rodney Melvin 637<\/p>\n
6. Steve Sheppard Jr. 619<\/p>\n
7. Terry Casey 587<\/p>\n
8. Jeep VanWormer 559<\/p>\n
9. Kevin Weaver 525<\/p>\n
10. Randy Korte 477<\/p>\n
11. Eddie Kirchoff 455<\/p>\n
12. Jason Feger 439<\/p>\n
13. A.J. Diemel 316<\/p>\n
14. Rusty Schlenk 303<\/p>\n
15. Billy Moyer 287<\/p>\n
16. Greg Johnson 222<\/p>\n
17. Ryan Dauber 214<\/p>\n
18. Jordan Bland 212<\/p>\n
19. Chad Zobrist 206<\/p>\n
20. Matt Taylor 202<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PEORIA, IL \u2013 June 25, 2007 \u2013 Dennis Erb Jr. of Carpentersville, Ill., was flawless in marching to a flag-to-flag victory in Monday night\u2019s 40-lap UMP DIRTcar Racing Summernationals A-Main at Peoria Speedway. In a race that ran non-stop after a single caution flag flew on the first lap, Erb grabbed the lead from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4],"tags":[56,92,157],"division":[],"series":[],"regions":[],"class_list":["post-5700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-nationals","category-late-models","tag-late-models-2","tag-peoria-speedway","tag-schedule"],"yoast_head":"\n