MONTPELIER, Ind. — Trevor Neville continues to make the most of his momentum with the DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals, capturing his second win in the last six races.
Neville led the final 23 laps of Tuesday night’s main event Montpelier Speedway, garnering his second victory of the season and seventh of his career.
“We’ve been working hard, we put in 12 or 13 hours yesterday just making sure everything was right, the body, just everything was on point,” Neville said. “Last year we were really grinding and this year we took a little step back and just kind of looked at what was worth it. We’ve come out the gate really good here. We should have had one the other night but that was driver error, so we’ll go on from there.”
Tyler Spalding and Neville started out the 25-lap main event side-by-side around the 1/4-mile oval with Spalding leading the opening lap.
Neville continued his persistence on the outside, finding some momentum to drive around Spalding to lead on Lap 2. Neville washed high exiting Turn 4, opening the door for Spalding to get underneath Neville’s No. 777 to take the lead on Lap 3.
The first five laps saw three lead changes as Neville continued to work the cushion and drove back around Spalding to lead Lap 5.
Over the next 20 laps, Neville continued to build his advantage, pulling away from the field unchallenged enroute to career win No. 7 with the Summit Modifieds.
Spalding finished second, ahead of Dillon Nusbaum, Dylan Woodling and Dalton Smith.
The finish:
Feature (25 Laps): 1. 777-Trevor Neville[2]; 2. 1TS-Tyler Spalding[1]; 3. 17N-Dillon Nusbaum[3]; 4. 3W-Dylan Woodling[7]; 5. 05-Dalton Smith[10]; 6. 24H-Steven Hogue[5]; 7. B5-Matthew Baker[22]; 8. T23-John Toppozini[15]; 9. 4M-Dustin Moore[8]; 10. 9R-Garrett Rons[13]; 11. 22T-Tony Anderson[21]; 12. T5X-Bub Roberts[20]; 13. 14-Dalton Lane[12]; 14. 21C-Drew Charlson[4]; 15. 82-Brennan Sherman[18]; 16. 5CS-Curt Spalding[9]; 17. 2-Garrett Bradley[17]; 18. 166-Travis Shoulders[14]; 19. 25L-Josh Lolmaugh[6]; 20. (DNS) 10-Brody Davis; 21. (DNS) 65-Todd Sherman; 22. (DNS) 24-Zeke McKenzie
