Feger harvests night one win at Corn State Nationals

admin | September 13, 2025

DAVENPORT, Ia. (September 12, 2025) – Jason Feger dominated night one of the Corn State Nationals at the Davenport Speedway. The Bloomington, Illinois racer set quick time in MARS qualifying with a lap of 13.702 seconds. Jason then won his heat race and led all thirty laps of the A-main.
Garrett Alberson gave chase early in the race with Ryan Unzicker the pursuer late in the event. Both would get close to Feger, but neither could mount a pass for the lead. The current MARS point leader, Feger collected a check for $5,000 for his efforts.
Unzicker would finish second with Alberson third. Shannon Babb raced from 14th starting spot to finish fourth. Frank Heckenast Jr. finished fifth. In addition to Feger, Caden McWhorter and Unzicker won heat races. Nick Avelink won the B-main.

Zach Zeitner of Bellvue, Nebraska came away with the win in the The Outhouse / Storage to Go IMCA Late Models. Zeitner took the lead after a lap 17 restart and would lead the rest of the way to the checkers. Andy Nezworski finished in the second position with Jesse Bodin third. Dustin Smith and Logan Veloz rounded out the top five.

Rob Henry was the winner in the Koehler Electric Street Stocks. Henry jumped out to the early lead and never looked back. Cary Brown finished second ahead of Mitch Morris in third. Kyler Hickenbottom was credited with fourth and Jesse Owen fifth.

Saturday brings night two of the Corn State Nationals to Davenport Speedway. The cars and stars of the MARS series will be racing for $10,000-to-win. Also racing will be IMCA Modifieds and IMCA SportMods. There will also be an invitational powder puff race.

Results:
Davenport Speedway September 12, 2025 –

MARS DIRTcar Late Models
A Feature 1 (40 Laps): 1. 25-Jason Feger[2]; 2. 24-Ryan Unzicker[1]; 3. 58-Garrett Alberson[4]; 4. 18-Shannon Babb[14]; 5. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr[10]; 6. 56-Tony Jackson Jr[9]; 7. 32-Chris Simpson[11]; 8. 38T-Dylan Thornton[18]; 9. 75-Daniel Adam[5]; 10. 25S-Chad Simpson[19]; 11. 99-Caden McWhorter[6]; 12. 15-Nick Anvelink[16]; 13. 09-Michael Leach[7]; 14. 38J-Jake Little[15]; 15. 1M-Mike Mataragas[20]; 16. 10-Daryn Klein[12]; 17. 11H-Jeff Herzog[22]; 18. 15V-Kolby Vandenbergh[17]; 19. 51-Matt Furman[13]; 20. (DNF) 15D-Justin Duty[21]; 21. (DNF) 76-Blair Nothdurft[3]; 22. (DNF) 8-Dillon McCowan[8]
B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 15-Nick Anvelink[1]; 2. 15V-Kolby Vandenbergh[5]; 3. 38T-Dylan Thornton[4]; 4. 25S-Chad Simpson[2]; 5. 1M-Mike Mataragas[7]; 6. 11H-Jeff Herzog[9]; 7. 10P-Paul Parker[3]; 8. 42-Fred Remley[11]; 9. 43-Derrick Stewart[6]; 10. 32C-Chad Holladay[13]; 11. 8K-Tyler Kuykendall[12]; 12. 17A-Austin Howes[10]; 13. 3-Brennon Willard[8]; 14. 17-Tim Simpson[16]; 15. 79W-Greg Wagner[17]; 16. 30-Mark Voigt[14]; 17. (DNF) 15D-Justin Duty[15]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 25-Jason Feger[1]; 2. 58-Garrett Alberson[2]; 3. 09-Michael Leach[3]; 4. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr[4]; 5. 51-Matt Furman[6]; 6. 15-Nick Anvelink[5]; 7. 38T-Dylan Thornton[7]; 8. 1M-Mike Mataragas[8]; 9. 17A-Austin Howes[9]; 10. 32C-Chad Holladay[10]; 11. 17-Tim Simpson[11]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 99-Caden McWhorter[1]; 2. 76-Blair Nothdurft[2]; 3. 8-Dillon McCowan[4]; 4. 32-Chris Simpson[6]; 5. 18-Shannon Babb[3]; 6. 25S-Chad Simpson[7]; 7. 15V-Kolby Vandenbergh[5]; 8. 3-Brennon Willard[8]; 9. 42-Fred Remley[10]; 10. 30-Mark Voigt[9]; 11. 79W-Greg Wagner[11]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 24-Ryan Unzicker[2]; 2. 75-Daniel Adam[1]; 3. 56-Tony Jackson Jr[3]; 4. 10-Daryn Klein[5]; 5. 38J-Jake Little[7]; 6. 10P-Paul Parker[6]; 7. 43-Derrick Stewart[8]; 8. 11H-Jeff Herzog[9]; 9. 8K-Tyler Kuykendall[10]; 10. (DNF) 15D-Justin Duty[4]
Qualifying 1: 1. 25-Jason Feger, 00:13.702[1]; 2. 99-Caden McWhorter, 00:13.779[6]; 3. 75-Daniel Adam, 00:13.806[3]; 4. 58-Garrett Alberson, 00:13.870[8]; 5. 76-Blair Nothdurft, 00:13.878[12]; 6. 24-Ryan Unzicker, 00:13.925[23]; 7. 09-Michael Leach, 00:13.991[16]; 8. 18-Shannon Babb, 00:14.052[9]; 9. 56-Tony Jackson Jr, 00:14.056[10]; 10. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr, 00:14.067[21]; 11. 8-Dillon McCowan, 00:14.097[19]; 12. 15D-Justin Duty, 00:14.143[7]; 13. 15-Nick Anvelink, 00:14.162[4]; 14. 15V-Kolby Vandenbergh, 00:14.172[2]; 15. 10-Daryn Klein, 00:14.186[24]; 16. 51-Matt Furman, 00:14.235[20]; 17. 32-Chris Simpson, 00:14.238[30]; 18. 10P-Paul Parker, 00:14.324[11]; 19. 38T-Dylan Thornton, 00:14.330[18]; 20. 25S-Chad Simpson, 00:14.363[27]; 21. 38J-Jake Little, 00:14.390[22]; 22. 1M-Mike Mataragas, 00:14.453[17]; 23. 3-Brennon Willard, 00:14.527[13]; 24. 43-Derrick Stewart, 00:14.590[29]; 25. 17A-Austin Howes, 00:14.720[25]; 26. 30-Mark Voigt, 00:14.723[15]; 27. 11H-Jeff Herzog, 00:14.812[31]; 28. 32C-Chad Holladay, 00:14.963[5]; 29. 42-Fred Remley, 00:15.060[26]; 30. 8K-Tyler Kuykendall, 00:15.122[32]; 31. 17-Tim Simpson, 00:15.287[28]; 32. 79W-Greg Wagner, 00:15.936[14]

IMCA Late Models – The Outhouse / Storage to Go
A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 76-Zach Zeitner[3]; 2. 7-Andy Nezworski[5]; 3. 2JR-Jesse Bodin[8]; 4. 53-Dustin Smith[1]; 5. 43LV-Logan Veloz[10]; 6. 70-Mitch Morris[16]; 7. 01-CJ Horn[11]; 8. 30-Curtis Glover[12]; 9. 16C-Cruz Birkhofer[6]; 10. 47-Ethan Pickard[17]; 11. 4B-Chris Zogg[19]; 12. 9G-Anthony Guss[14]; 13. 8L-Chris Lawrence[20]; 14. 72-Dave Hammond[9]; 15. 6-Broderick Prescott[22]; 16. 11JC-Jayden Johnson[23]; 17. 1H-Mike Haines[21]; 18. 07-Matt Ryan[2]; 19. 25JR-Clay Simpson[4]; 20. 63-Kelly Pestka[18]; 21. 77-Joe Beal[15]; 22. 86-Jake Morris[13]; 23. 6D-Doug Nigh[7]
Heat 1 – Top 4 Redraw (10 Laps): 1. 72-Dave Hammond[3]; 2. 53-Dustin Smith[2]; 3. 2JR-Jesse Bodin[6]; 4. 16C-Cruz Birkhofer[5]; 5. 86-Jake Morris[1]; 6. 70-Mitch Morris[8]; 7. 4B-Chris Zogg[4]; 8. 1H-Mike Haines[7]
Heat 2 – Top 4 Redraw (10 Laps): 1. 25JR-Clay Simpson[1]; 2. 43LV-Logan Veloz[6]; 3. 7-Andy Nezworski[5]; 4. 6D-Doug Nigh[3]; 5. 9G-Anthony Guss[2]; 6. 47-Ethan Pickard[7]; 7. 11JC-Jayden Johnson[8]; 8. 6-Broderick Prescott[4]
Heat 3 – Top 4 Redraw (10 Laps): 1. 07-Matt Ryan[1]; 2. 01-CJ Horn[2]; 3. 76-Zach Zeitner[3]; 4. 30-Curtis Glover[7]; 5. 77-Joe Beal[5]; 6. 63-Kelly Pestka[4]; 7. 8L-Chris Lawrence[6]

Street Stocks – Koehler Electric
A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 00-Rob Henry[2]; 2. 81-Cary Brown[1]; 3. M80-Mitch Morris[5]; 4. 8H-Kyler Hickenbottom[6]; 5. 95-Jesse Owen[4]; 6. 14B-Chevy Andreatta[3]; 7. 52A-Bob Barker[7]
Heat 1 – Top 5 Redraw (8 Laps): 1. 14B-Chevy Andreatta[1]; 2. 00-Rob Henry[5]; 3. 81-Cary Brown[4]; 4. 95-Jesse Owen[6]; 5. M80-Mitch Morris[7]; 6. 8H-Kyler Hickenbottom[3]; 7. 52A-Bob Barker[2]

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