Tyler Erb, Chase Holland Score Summer Nationals Triumphs at Benton Speedway

📸 Tyler Carr

BENTON, MO — July 1, 2025 — Benton Speedway brought fireworks both on and off the track for the DIRTcar Summer Nationals Week 4 opener.

Rocketing to the front in a 30-lap green flag run to the finish at the Missouri racetrack, Tyler Erb scored his 19th career Hell Tour win against his championship rivals in the 2025 campaign.

The New Waverly, TX driver had to start against Bloomington, IL’s Jason Feger in the third row while polesitter Billy Moyer Jr. joined the Summer Nationals for the first time since 2023.

While Moyer controlled the early pace, Feger jumped Mark Whitener and made his way up to second while Erb began to create momentum on the cushion while the competition ahead of him rode the bottom lane.

Feger found his way to the cushion and used the momentum to slide job around Moyer for the lead on Lap 12.

Perfecting his line through the first 1/3 of the Feature, “Terbo” found his rhythm to pass by Whitener for third on the same lap, then passed Moyer on the high side on Lap 13 for second place.

The pace of Erb was unmatched in the first battle between the two, with Erb throwing a slide job in Turns 3-4 to claim the lead.

Feger was not done racing for the lead by following Erb on the top through the halfway point; then, he made his second move for the top spot after the Best Performance Motorsports No. 1 made contact with a lapped car, having slid the car up the track too soon.

Erb’s lost speed helped Feger take back the lead while Whitener climbed back from a three-second deficit to race the two drivers for the win.

The final battle for the win saw Erb slide across Feger once more through Turns 3-4 on Lap 25, then used the cushion of Turns 1-2 to speed away from the No. 25 Longhorn Chassis. While Erb got clear, Whitener squeezed Feger between a lapped car to overtake for second place.

Erb grew the distance from Whitener to 1.7 seconds as he captured the fourth win of the 2025 season and closed back in on Feger for the overall title.

“Pure anger, honestly,” Erb said. “I felt like I was single-handedly cleaning the top off at the beginning. I felt like I did everything right to get to the lead, and then I don't know what was going on. (It was) a lot of creative driving from the lapped cars. 

I was like ‘I need to slide (Feger),’ and next thing you know, we’re mounted in (Turn) 1, Feger got by me, and I thought I had lost the race. But, hunkered down and thought that ‘I’ll run the cushion harder. And if I wreck, I wreck.’ It was just a really good racecar.” 

Feature (30 Laps): 1. 1-Tyler Erb[6]; 2. 5-Mark Whitener[3]; 3. 25F-Jason Feger[5]; 4. 14-Haiden Cowan[2]; 5. 15-Clay Stuckey[12]; 6. 29-Christian Hanger[7]; 7. 81F-Jadon Frame[4]; 8. 75-Dillon McCowan[15]; 9. 14JR-Trey Mills[19]; 10. 31M-Tyler Millwood[8]; 11. 40B-Kyle Bronson[10]; 12. 17SS-Brenden Smith[14]; 13. 55-Eli Johnson[9]; 14. 21-Billy Moyer Jr[1]; 15. 28B-Carson Brown[22]; 16. 17SR-Brody Smith[16]; 17. 44-Blaze Burwell[20]; 18. (DNF) 14M-Morgan Bagley[11]; 19. (DNF) 388-Jackson Hise[13]; 20. (DNF) 5S-Kyle Hammer[17]; 21. (DNF) 81-Jason Riggs[18]; 22. (DNF) 16-Rusty Griffaw[21]

Chase Holland Wins First Career Summit Modified Nationals Feature at Benton

After two years of anticipation, Chase Holland’s time in DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals Victory Lane has arrived.

Holland had to flex his muscles against the top Modified drivers in the country to score his first career win with the tour in his first trip to Missouri’s Benton Speedway on Tuesday night.

Holland began the night in fifth place for the 30-lap Feature, but a checkup on the bottom lane dropped him back to eighth by the end of the opening lap.

He immediately recovered as he found the cushion of the track to be his most useful line for the 25-lap Feature.

The Success, MS native drove back into the top five after passing two cars in one corner from the top to secure his spot after Lap 4, then moved by tour points leader Trevor Neville for fourth place on the following lap.

While front row starters Kenny Wallace and Lucas Lee ran the bottom lane, Holland used his momentum on the top to outrun the No. 36 and No. 12 UMP Modifieds along the frontstretch to take over second place.

Leader Tyler Nicely felt the challenge of Holland and shifted to the cushion to block Holland’s run at him. Holland responded with a slide job through Turns 3-4 and narrowly cleared Nicely before the No. 25 performed a crossover move to retake the lead.

Holland tried to slide job Nicely once more, but the two drivers slammed into each other going into Turn 3, which sent Nicely spinning into the wall and Holland in full possession of the lead.

Once Holland got to full speed on the final restart, Holland inflated the interval to 2.6 seconds over Zach Whaley as he crossed the twin checkered flags as a first-time Summit Modified winner.

“It means the world to me,” Holland said. “It doesn’t mean as much to me as the people that support this deal and make it possible.

“Let me start here. I’ve got a ton of respect for Tyler Nicely. I grew up watching that dude win his fair share of races, so I knew it was gonna be tricky racing against him. I figured that when we started throwing sliders that we’re not gonna block them. There was nothing I could do because I was committed down the backstretch.” 

Up Next: The DIRTcar Summer Nationals Late Models and DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modifieds visit the birthplace of the Hell Tour at Spoon River Speedway on Wednesday, July 2.

If you can’t make it to the track, you can watch every DIRTcar Summer Nationals race live on DIRTVision. 

Feature (25 Laps): 1. 45H-Chase Holland[5]; 2. 12-Zach Whaley[12]; 3. 12L-Lucas Lee[4]; 4. 36-Kenny Wallace[2]; 5. 94-Austin Rettig[16]; 6. 75-Daniel Adam[9]; 7. 98-Zac Harris[8]; 8. 2-Peyton Walker[11]; 9. 1A-Steve Meyer Jr[7]; 10. 27G-Jason Garver[6]; 11. 76-Shawn Knuckles[15]; 12. 81-Kevin Cole[14]; 13. 18-Brent Thompson[10]; 14. 66-Chris Hall[17]; 15. 3G-Haleigh Gross[18]; 16. 151-Zach Resinger[23]; 17. 1H-Steve Hughes[21]; 18. 25-Tyler Nicely[3]; 19. 84G-Gary Gross[20]; 20. 777-Trevor Neville[1]; 21. 42-Clint Young[13]; 22. (DNS) 24-Zeke McKenzie; 23. (DNS) 13-Charlie Mefford