Zack Mitchell, Curt Spalding Leave Shadyhill Speedway Return as Summer Nationals Feature Winners

MEDARYVILLE, IN — July 8, 2025 — First start. First win.

Zack Mitchell entered Tuesday night wondering how he fared with the competitors of the DIRTcar Summer Nationals Late Models.

Leaving the 30-lap Feature at Shadyhill Speedway, the Enoree, SC driver can now call himself the Hell Tour winner for the first time after a dominant performance in the Hoosier State.

Mitchell and Colin Shipley led the field to the green flag, with Mitchell taking the lead off the top side of Turns 3-4 to take command on the opening circuit.

Mitchell held a one-second advantage until he approached the tail end of the lapped traffic, allowing Shipley, Trey Mills, and Rusty Schlenk to join the fight for the lead.

Stuck in traffic, Mitchell held a slight buffer of 0.5 seconds over Shipley until Mills forced his way around Shipley by pushing him up the track in Turn 4.

The resulting contact kept the No. 46 stuck to the top side, then spun across the frontstretch with a flat right rear tire on Lap 28, setting up a last-gasp effort from Mills and Schlenk towards the end.

While the two drivers chased down Mitchell on the three-lap dash, they were the first to witness the Coltman Farms Racing No. 57 Longhorn Chassis cross the finish line as the 118th different winner of the DIRTcar Summer Nationals. Mitchell also becomes the first driver from South Carolina to win on the tour.

“It feels really good,” Mitchell said. “I don’t think I had that on my bingo card for tonight, but we put together a good night. A solid night put ourselves in position to do this. I know the racetrack kinda rubbered up, but I had a really good piece all night long.”

Leaving the Week 5 opener, Jason Feger holds a 65-point gap over Tyler Erb entering the final five races of the 2025 season.

Up Next: The DIRTcar Summer Nationals Late Models and DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals visit Montpelier Motor Speedway for the final Indiana visit of 2025 on Wednesday night, July 9.

If you can’t make it to the track, you can watch all the action live on DIRTVision – either online or by downloading the DIRTVision App.

Feature (30 Laps): 1. 57-Zack Mitchell[2]; 2. 14JR-Trey Mills[3]; 3. 91-Rusty Schlenk[4]; 4. 55-Eli Johnson[6]; 5. 75-Dillon McCowan[8]; 6. 5-Mark Whitener[10]; 7. 71R-Rod Conley[5]; 8. 25F-Jason Feger[7]; 9. 41-Mike Vandermark Jr[12]; 10. 89-Mike Spatola[9]; 11. 1-Tyler Erb[16]; 12. 17SS-Brenden Smith[18]; 13. 17SR-Brody Smith[14]; 14. 31M-Tyler Millwood[19]; 15. 1G-Devin Gilpin[13]; 16. LIL91-Carter Schlenk[11]; 17. 29-Christian Hanger[22]; 18. 06-Jake Rendel[20]; 19. 07-Rylee Knoll[17]; 20. 38-Thomas Hunziker[21]; 21. 46-Colin Shipley[1]; 22. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr[15]

Curt Spalding Secures Third Summit Modifieds Triumph at Shadyhill, First Since 2021

Never give up.

While Curt Spalding dealt with troubles that saw him swap out haulers, and questioned his and son Tyler Spalding’s arrival at Shadyhill Speedway on Tuesday, the Watervliet, MI driver left with his third career DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals trophy in hand.

Wheatfield, IN’s Nick Allen and Spalding led the field to the opening green flag, with Allen securing the top spot on the bottom before a multi-car pileup on Lap 2 involved several drivers inside the top-10.

Allen held the lead on the restart, while Spalding stayed glued to his back bumper throughout the first half of the 25-lap Feature.

Spalding stayed within striking distance of Allen’s No. 21A, but could not find any room to create an opportunity for a pass around him as third-place runner Tyler Nicely placed heat on Spalding’s No. 5 Lethal Chassis.

A caution with three laps to go gave Spalding one last chance at snagging the win away from Allen. Spalding carried more speed into the restart than Allen, as the two went side-by-side for the lead. Spalding slid under Allen through Turns 1-2 to take the race lead while Allen lost a right rear tire that took him out of the Feature.

Spalding nailed the restart over Nicely by jumping out to a one-second lead as he scored his first Summit Modified Nationals win of 2025 at the Indiana racetrack, and his first since Fairbury Speedway in 2021.

“Well, I was pretty frustrated,” Spalding said. “The first couple of restarts, I had Nick (Allen) beat. But, that’s what you call never giving up. I just kept dialing breaks, and that was my only shot, right? He knew I wasn’t gonna go in there and blast him out or anything like that. We just dragged race down in there, and we got it done.”

Up Next: The DIRTcar Summer Nationals Late Models and DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals visit Montpelier Motor Speedway for the final Indiana visit of 2025 on Wednesday night, July 9.

If you can’t make it to the track, you can watch all the action live on DIRTVision – either online or by downloading the DIRTVision App.

Feature (25 Laps): 1. 5CS-Curt Spalding[2]; 2. 25-Tyler Nicely[3]; 3. 777-Trevor Neville[4]; 4. 4-Michael Ledford[6]; 5. 7-Brad Deyoung[8]; 6. 27-Beau DeYoung[10]; 7. 28M-Frank Marshall[15]; 8. 9R-Garrett Rons[20]; 9. 28-Mason Lobb[17]; 10. 757-Bradley Jameson[9]; 11. 25B-Greg Belyea[14]; 12. 51T-Tim Walter[21]; 13. (DNF) 21A-Nick Allen[1]; 14. (DNF) 23B-Ethan Boomsma[13]; 15. (DNF) 1TS-Tyler Spalding[5]; 16. (DNF) 14-Dalton Lane[22]; 17. (DNF) 0-Garrett Jameson[7]; 18. (DNF) 75-Daniel Adam[11]; 19. (DNF) 15-Chris Kittle[12]; 20. (DNF) 25S-Jake Straka[16]; 21. (DNF) 35-David Stremme[18]; 22. (DNS) 45H-Chase Holland