Nick Hoffman celebrates in victory lane after winning the DIRTcar UMP Modified Gator Championship at the DIRTcar Nationals Monday night at Volusia Speedway Park. Photo: DIRTcar Nationals Media
Nick Hoffman continued his DIRTcar Nationals dominance Monday night as he held off Austin Dillon to score the Gator Championship and the coveted ‘Big Gator’ trophy at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, FL.
Hoffman drew the number one starting spot in the night’s redraw but faced stiff competition from NASCAR stars Austin and Ty Dillon, as well as Jason Beaulieu as the green flag flew on the night’s 30-lap feature at Volusia Speedway Park.
Hoffman jumped out to a nearly two second lead early as the Dillon brothers worked to run him down. By lap 13, Ty Dillon caught Hoffman and began a multi-lap battle for the lead. With lapped traffic in play, Hoffman was able to again extend out his lead.
As Hoffman maintained a consistent one-and-a-half-second lead over Ty Dillon, Beaulieu began battling Austin Dillon for the third position. Billy Workman, Jr. slowed to a stop on the front straight on lap 27 and bunched the field back up as the yellow flag flew.
“I was kind of hoping that thing was just going to go straight to the checkered but I just didn’t want to do what Ty did the other night and screwed up in lapped traffic or miss my marks in the last two laps,” Hoffman said. “It was nail-biting coming to that green with two to go. I knew if I could make three perfect laps that that was all it was going to take.”
When the feature returned to green with three laps remaining, Hoffman held off Ty Dillon as Beaulieu battled to the third position. It was the third win of DIRTcar Nationals for Hoffman.
“I knew all of my fate relied on that redraw but man this thing was so good I think we could have won that thing from 10th,” Hoffman said. “I knew Ty would be really tough and I just held onto it and those lappers were a little scary.
Billy Moyer, Jr. scored Monday night’s DIRTcar Late Model opener at Volusia Speedway Park. Photo: DIRTcar Nationals Media
Billy Moyer, Jr. held off Dennis Erb Jr. and Shane Clanton to win the 30-lap DIRTcar Late Models opener.
Moyer battled past the polesitter early as Erb and Clanton traded the second position for much of the feature. As the laps dwindled down, Erb and Clanton pulled within striking distance of the leader, who struggled to navigate lapped traffic.
With 10 laps to go, the top three were separated by less than a second. As Clanton faded, Erb stayed close to Moyer but was not able to get around.
“I’ve never ran good in a feature here,” Moyer said. “I’m really excited, we finally got a Gator and that means a lot to me. The car was phenomenal, I tend to overtighten myself a lot, so it was great having my dad here to help me on the adjustments. We’ll go to work tomorrow and hopefully get another one.”
Nightly doubleheaders at Volusia run through Saturday, Feb. 20. The DIRTcar Late Models return Tuesday night as the DIRTcar UMP Modifieds takes on its final night at Volusia Speedway Park with the Triple-20s.
For more information, visit DIRTcarNationals.com.
Volusia Speedway Park – Barberville, FL
DIRTcar Nationals – Feb. 15, 2016
DIRTcar UMP Modified Gator Championship
1. 2-Nick Hoffman
2. 41-Ty Dillon
3. 90-Jason Beaulieu
4. 3-Austin Dillon
5. 49-Brian Ruhlman
6. Z8-Max McLaughlin
7. 35-David Stremme
8. 13-Jacob Hawkins
9. 16C-Josh Harris
10. 10Y-Trent Young
11. 36-Kenny Wallace
12. K9-Will Krup
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14. 54-Larry Burkins
15. D4B-Jackie Boggs
16. 13M-Dale McDowell
17. 7-Justin Allgaier
18. 01L-Patrick Lyon
19. 1S-Brian Shaw
20. 77-Ray Bollinger
21. 51-Brandon Green
22. 67-Garrett Stewart
23. 9-Ken Schrader
24. 72X-Brian Papiez
25. 32Z-Nate Zimmer
26. 33-Jeff Matthews
27. 64-Billy Workman, Jr.
28. 22T-Tony Anderson
29. 0J-Bryce Jewell
30. 56-Tyler Nicely
DIRTcar Late Models
1. 21-Billy Moyer, Jr.
2. 28E-Dennis Erb, Jr.
3. 99-Frank Heckenast, Jr.
4. 25-Shane Clanton
5. 777-Jared Landers
6. 25F-Jason Feger
7. 1-Josh Richards
8. 15s-Donny Schatz
9. 99B-Boom Briggs
10. 20-Rodney Sanders
11. B5-Brandon Sheppard
12. 15-Steve Francis
13. 3s-Brian Shirley
14. 7-Rick Eckert
15. 39-Tim McCreadie
16. 38-Kenny Pettyjohn
17. 14M-Morgan Bagley
18. 22-Gregg Satterlee
19. 16T-Tyler Bruening
20. 7W-Ricky Weiss
21. 201-Billy Ogle, Jr.
22. 1*-Chub Frank
23. 5-Mark Whitener
24. 40B-Kyle Bronson
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