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Dennis Erb Jr. is threatening to make the
2007
UMP DIRTcar Racing Summernationals his personal playground.
The Carpentersville, Ill., star remained undefeated on this year's
tour, making
Saturday night's 40-lap feature at Kamp Motor Speedway his second
straight
victory.
With the tour championship race wide open thanks to the absence of
2005-06
Summernationals dominator Shannon Babb as a regular, Erb has staked his
claim
to Babb's throne in the most forceful fashion possible. He controlled
the
second of 28 scheduled Summernationals events, leading Saturday's
headliner
from flag-to-flag.
Erb, 34, didn't drive away from the field in his Petroff
Towing/Thomason
Transportation Rayburn, but no one was able to find a way by the
red-hot
Midwesterner on the high-banked, three-eighths-mile oval.
The $10,000 triumph was the fifth of Erb's career in UMP DIRTcar Racing
Summernationals competition.
A titanic battle for second place saw Mike Marlar of Winfield, Tenn.,
who is
planning to make his first fulltime assault on the Summernationals,
emerge as
the runner-up. He finished several car lengths behind Erb.
Don O'Neal of Martinsville, Ind., finished third, giving him
consecutive
top-five finishes on the Summernationals road. Steve Sheppard Jr. of
New
Berlin, Ill., was fourth and Jason Feger of Springfield, Ill. Placed
fifth.
Thirty-eight cars entered the event at Bob and Gayle Kamp's
spic-and-span
facility.
Heat winners were Sheppard, O'Neal, Erb and Steidinger, while Rodney
Melvin of
Benton, Ill., and Jeep VanWormer of Pinconning, Mich., captured the
B-Mains.
UMP DIRTcar Racing Summernationals Feature Finish (40 laps):
1. Dennis Erb Jr.
2. Mike Marlar
3. Don O'Neal
4. Steve Sheppard Jr.
5. Jason Feger
6. Terry Casey
7. Randy Korte
8. Wes Steidinger
9. Greg Johnson
10. Rodney Melvin
11. Richie Hedrick
12. Patrick Sheltra
13. Jeep VanWormer
14. Dan Walden
15. Mike Mataragas
16. Rusty Schlenk
17. Kevin Weaver
18. Tim Manville
19. A.J. Diemel
20. Michael Kloos
21. Mark Burgtorf
DNQ: Steve Zakrajsek, Guy Volk, Frank Heckenast Jr., Jordan Bland,
George
Scheffler, Kerry Mathew, Michael Bradley, Matt Miller, Rusty Pleasant,
Tyler
Boggs, Jim Felker, Eddie Kirchoff, Bill Luse, Ted Loomis, Shawn Toczek,
Zach
Carney
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