{"id":1765,"date":"2020-11-21T04:55:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T09:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/volusiaspeedwaypark.com\/uncategorized\/sunshine-showdowns-allgaier-dixon-nicely-mathews-win-reutimann-memorial-prelim-features-at-volusia\/"},"modified":"2020-11-21T04:55:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T09:55:36","slug":"sunshine-showdowns-allgaier-dixon-nicely-mathews-win-reutimann-memorial-prelim-features-at-volusia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volusiaspeedwaypark.com\/recaps\/sunshine-showdowns-allgaier-dixon-nicely-mathews-win-reutimann-memorial-prelim-features-at-volusia\/","title":{"rendered":"SUNSHINE SHOWDOWNS: Allgaier, Dixon, Nicely, Mathews Win Reutimann Memorial Prelim Features at Volusia"},"content":{"rendered":"
Twenty drivers now locked into Saturday\u2019s 50-lap, $5,000-to-win main event<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n BARBERVILLE, FL \u2013\u00a0Nov. 20, 2020 \u2013\u00a0Fifty-two of the best DIRTcar UMP Modified drivers in the country assembled at the Volusia Speedway Park Friday night for the preliminary night of action at the 7th annual Emil & Dale Reutimann Memorial. Twenty names have since punched their ticket into Saturday\u2019s $5,000-to-win main event.<\/p>\n Four 15-lap Showdown Features hit the track after two groups of Qualifying, locking the top-five finishers into Saturday\u2019s Feature and taking the top-two into the redraw.<\/p>\n Showdown Feature #1 \u2013 Justin Allgaier<\/strong><\/p>\n He hasn\u2019t been able to drive his Federated Auto Parts #7 Elite Chassis as much as he would have liked to in 2020, but Justin Allgaier looked as if he had been in the car all season Friday night with a flag-to-flag victory in the first Showdown Feature.<\/p>\n Grabbing the lead into Turn 1 from the outside pole on the opening lap, Allgaier fought off all challengers from behind, including his chassis builder and 2020 DIRTcar UMP Modified national champion Nick Hoffman, for the $500 victory.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Hoffman held on for second, sending both he and Allgaier to the redraw. Also transferring into the Feature were Austin Holcombe, David Stremme and Chris Arnold.<\/p>\n Allgaier\u2019s been steadily working on his dirt program recently and said he feels very comfortable with the car and the crew working tirelessly behind him. Hoffman\u2019s been in his car for most of the season and has provided both he and Allgaier with a great opportunity to pick up the big $5,000 victory Saturday night.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, tomorrow\u2019s 50 laps, tonight was only 15,\u201d Allgaier said of his outlook to Saturday. \u201cI\u2019ve got to not make a mistake. There\u2019s a lot of guys tonight that got caught-out by the track conditions in Qualifying. The conditions tonight suited my driving style really well. But if it gets slick tomorrow, which I think it will, Nick\u2019s [Hoffman] gonna be incredible. I know it.\u201d<\/p>\n UMP Modifieds Feature 1 (15 Laps) RESULTS<\/em><\/p>\n Showdown Feature #2 \u2013 Devin Dixon<\/strong><\/p>\n Through the first half of the second Showdown Feature, it appeared as though the event\u2019s Best Appearing Car Award winner Rich Dawson was going to drive away flawlessly for the win. But Apollo Beach, FL\u2019s Devin Dixon had other plans.<\/p>\n Dawson won the battle into Turn 1 on the opening lap, but Dixon never let him out of sight. A restart five laps in gave Dixon the opportunity he needed to make the move, which he did to Dawson\u2019s inside in Turn 1 after furiously reeling him in lap-by-lap.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n \u201cOnce we got going there, [Dawson] took off pretty good and then he started fading a little bit the later the race went, and we started getting better. Down there into [Turn] 1, he jumped the cushion a little bit and I just slid him, and it was on from there,\u201d Dixon said.<\/p>\n From that point forward, Dixon set it on cruise and was never challenged for the lead again as he drove across the stripe, punching his ticket to the redraw with runner-up Dawson. Steve Stevenson, Ryan Ayers and Rich Pratt also transferred to the 50-lap Feature.<\/p>\n UMP Modifieds Feature 2 (15 Laps) RESULTS<\/em><\/p>\n Showdown Feature #3 \u2013 Tyler Nicely<\/strong><\/p>\n For the first weekend out in a brand-new car, Tyler Nicley\u2019s certainly gotten off to a great start.<\/p>\n After laying down the night\u2019s fastest lap in Qualifying of 18.740, a $250 cash prize courtesy of the Reutimann family, Nicely grabbed the lead from the pole of the third Showdown Feature and never once even thought about giving it up. The Owensboro, KY-native led every single lap en route to the redraw and $500 prize with runner-up Maverick Varnadore.<\/p>\n Even when he proved a green-white-checkered finish could not throw him off of his game, at the end of the day, Nicely was still looking for more speed.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe weren\u2019t as good as we wanted to be in that Feature,\u201d Nicely said. \u201cJust tried to get the car to work well on the bottom and rotating. Tomorrow night will be different, 50 laps. Hopefully the track slows down a lot and we get a good redraw.\u201d<\/p>\n Also transferring into the 50-lap Feature was two-time event winner David Reutimann, Troy Johnson and Seth Geary.<\/p>\n UMP Modifieds Feature 3 (15 Laps) RESULTS<\/em><\/p>\n Showdown Feature #4 \u2013\u00a0Jeff Mathews<\/strong><\/p>\n The 2017 Reutimann Memorial Feature winner had absolutely no problem putting himself in position to win it a second time Friday night. Jeff Mathews did just that with a flag-to-flag victory in the fourth and final Showdown Feature.<\/p>\n Mathews took the lead at the drop of the green and never looked back, leading every lap en route to the $500 victory and a spot in the redraw with runner-up Garrett Stewart.<\/p>\n Even the restarts Mathews faced along the way could not slow his momentum. But he knows Saturday is the big one, and he\u2019ll have to be extra prepared to be there at the end of 50 laps.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe didn\u2019t really know which direction we wanted to go, if we wanted to be getting tighter or freeing-up, or trying to stay neutral,\u201d Mathews said of his car setup. \u201cI think we made the right call, but tomorrow\u2019s a whole different ball game. We\u2019ve got 50 laps, and I don\u2019t think we\u2019ll have this type of racetrack tomorrow night.\u201d<\/p>\n Justin Haley, Travis Vanadore and Buzzie Reutimann also transferred into the Feature. Reutimann, the 79-year-old racing legend from Zephyrhills, FL, was perhaps the biggest star of the entire show when he was spun sideways about halfway through the race, gathered it back in on the restart and hung on to the fifth and final transfer spot to punch his ticket into the big show.<\/p>\n UMP Modifieds Feature 4 (15 Laps) RESULTS<\/em><\/p>\n UP NEXT<\/strong><\/p>\n The Reutimann Memorial action continues Saturday evening for the DIRTcar UMP the Modifieds, beginning with the redraw, Last Chance events and closing with the 50-lap, $5,000-to-win Feature. Catch all the action LIVE on DIRTVision!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Twenty drivers now locked into Saturday\u2019s 50-lap, $5,000-to-win main event BARBERVILLE, FL \u2013\u00a0Nov. 20, 2020 \u2013\u00a0Fifty-two of the best DIRTcar UMP Modified drivers in the country assembled at the Volusia Speedway Park Friday night for the preliminary night of action at the 7th annual Emil & Dale Reutimann Memorial. 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