Tyler Erb Captures Tuesday Thriller at Benton Speedway for Fourth Summer Nationals Win in 2025

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]