BECHTELSVILLE, Pa. — As the summer heats up, Billy Decker is doing his best Kyle Busch imitation. Not with post-race burnouts and bowing to the crowd, but by dominating races and threatening the all-time Advance Auto Parts Super DIRTcar Series single season win record.
Decker scored his second July clean sweep in the Traffic Jam 100 for big-block modifieds July 16 at Grandview Speedway.
After drawing seventh spot, he took the lead on lap 38 and with the final 58 laps going caution free, won by five seconds over runner-up Jeff Strunk.
Duane Howard, who surrendered the lead to Decker, was third with Brett Hearn fourth and Rick Laubach fifth.
Decker made an early decision to go with the high line around the third-mile oval.
“We weren’t any good on the bottom, and just before the first caution, we were racing with Matt Sheppard and he was really rolling up there on the outside. When I got an outside restart I said, ‘I better try this thing.’ Lo and behold, it was pretty good out there,” Decker said in victory lane.
He would see his pathfinder Sheppard again, as he lapped the 12th- place car on the final circuit.
The winner took third from Hearn on lap 26, swapped second with Strunk a couple of times and drove past Howard with little resistance. Strunk secured the runner-up spot two thirds of the way through the 100 green flag laps. It marked Decker’s fifth triumph in 10 Advance Auto Parts Super Dirt Series races and stretched his point lead to 116 over Hearn.
The finish:
Billy Decker, Jeff Strunk, Duane Howard, Brett Hearn, Rick Laubach, Jimmy Phelps, Dale Planck, Craig VonDohren, Kenny Brightbill, Steve Paine, Frankie Caprara, Matt Sheppard, Ryan Watt, Gary Tomkins, Mike Gular, Danny Johnson, Ryan Phelps, Larry Wight, Kyle Weiss, Justin Haers, Billy Dunn, Mike Storms, Jim Robertson, Jimmy Horton, Ray Swinehart, Ryan Godown, Tom Scheetz, Kevin Hirthler, Shawn Reimert, Jim Horton IV, Jeff Brownell, Jr., Alan Johnson. 

July 17

GEORGETOWN, Del. — Team work was evident from day one, and when the checkered flag waved to end the inaugural Advance Auto Parts Super DIRTcar Series event Thursday night at Georgetown Speedway, it was a pair of home track heroes taking center stage.
Just one month earlier, track promoter Jay James and DIRTcar Racing NorthEast Director of Competition & Track Sanctioning Cory Reed ironed out a plan to put Georgetown back on the map with a grand re-opening featuring a full card of big-block modified racing.
The event came to a dramatic conclusion with H.J. Bunting III pulling into victory lane for the first time in tour competition, steering the car owned by runner-up Jamie Mills.
“I thought it was a bigger money maker if I let him win and hang on for second,” joked Mills, 37, who steered the Colbourne Farms No. 55 to a second-place finish behind his own No. 30. “Tonight, we had the best man in the car to get the job done. He’s one heck of a driver.”
A capacity crowd cheered on their local favorites from Milford, Delaware, at the rejuvenated Georgetown oval, with third-place runner Jimmy Phelps finishing best from the all-star group of Advance Auto Parts Series regulars making their maiden tour stop at the track, which first opened in 1949. New York invader Dale Planck and Pennsylvanian Rick Laubach rounded out the top five in the 75-lap event.
“I never turned a lap in this car until I got behind the wheel today. Fortunately, things worked in our favor all day,” Bunting explained. “It’s a lot easier sometimes when you’re running second, the leader can’t always see what’s behind him. When I got right beside him in traffic, I figured I give it a try, either be a hero or zero.”
The finish:
H.J. Bunting III, Jamie Mills, Jimmy Phelps, Dale Planck, Rick Laubach, Billy Pauch, Matt Sheppard, Brett Hearn, Billy Decker, Gary Tomkins, Frankie Caprara, Jimmy Horton, Ryan Phelps, Ryan Watt, Ryan Godown, Ricky Johnson, Rich Scagliotta, Danny Johnson, Larry Wight, Billy Dunn, Matt Jester, Richie Pratt, Jr., Steve Downs, Tim Milliman, Billy Pauch, Jr, Wade Hendrickson, Steve Paine, Mike Storms, Kenny Brightbill, Chic Cossaboone, Jeff Brownell, Jr.