Jonathan Davenport picked up $10,000 for his win
For the first time in his career, Davenport Speedway proved to be good to Jonathan Davenport as the driver of the No. 49 machine drove to victory in a Tuesday night version of the Lucas Oil Late Model Series. It was Davenport’s fifth series win of 2023.
The Longhorn Chassis driver from Blairsville, Georgia earned $10,000 from the track located in Davenport, Iowa in a race shown live by FloRacing.com.
A total of 32 cars were signed in for competition
Qualifying Results:
Group A Results- 1. Devin Moran(13.330), 2. Ricky Thornton Jr., 3. Tyler Bruening, 4. Daulton Wilson, 5. Spencer Hughes, 6. Garrett Alberson, 7. Tyler Erb, 8. Chad Simpson
Group B Results- 1. Jonathan Davenport(13.572), 2. Brandon Overton, 3. Ryan Gustin, 4. Garrett Smith, 5. Spencer Diercks, 6. Drake Troutman, 7. Max Blair, 8. Daniel Hilsabeck
Heat 1 Results: 1. Devin Moran, 2. Tyler Erb, 3. Spencer Hughes, 4. Tyler Bruening
Heat 2 Results: 1. Ricky Thornton Jr., 2. Garrett Alberson, 3. Daulton Wilson, 4. Ethan Dotson
Heat 3 Results: 1. Jonathan Davenport, 2. Chris Simpson, 3. Max Blair, 4. Matt Furman
Heat 4 Results: 1. Drake Troutman, 2. Hudson O’Neal, 3. Brandon Overton, 4. Brian Shirley
B-main Finish: 1. Frank Heckenast Jr., 2. Tim McCreadie, 3. Ryan Gustin, 4. Spencer Diercks, 5. Earl Pearson Jr., 6. Justin Duty
Feature Re-cap: The 40-lap feature got underway with Davenport leading Moran, Thornton, Troutman and Simpson. Moran passed Davenport for the lead on lap 6 as the top-5 ran in very tight formation around the track.
Davenport regained the top spot on lap 12 just before a caution for the slowing car of Erb. On the restart, Thornton moved into second behind Davenport with Moran, Troutman and O’Neal rounding out the top-5.
Davenport built a lead of more than two second by the time the race reached its halfway point. While the top-5 held station, Shirley was on the rise when he took sixth on lap 25 then moved to fifth one lap later pushing Troutman back a position.
Moran took second back on lap 29 three seconds behind the race leader. Moran began to cut into the lead as they raced through traffic while Thornton, O’Neal and Shirley fought over the remaining spots in the top-5.
Despite a late charge by Moran that saw him slash the lead to less than one second, Davenport went on to take the checkered flag ahead of the pack.
Feature Results: 1. Jonathan Davenport, 2. Devin Moran, 3. Ricky Thornton Jr., 4. Hudson O’Neal, 5. Brian Shirley, 6. Garrett Alberson, 7. Tim McCreadie, 8. Brandon Overton, 9. Drake Troutman, 10. Max Blair, 11. Ethan Dotson, 12. Spencer Hughes, 13. Daulton Wilson, 14. Ross Robinson, 15. Justin Duty, 16. Earl Pearson Jr., 17. Frank Heckenast Jr., 18. Ryan Gustin, 19. Matt Furman, 20. Boom Briggs, 21. Spencer Diercks, 22. Chris Simpson, 23. Tyler Erb, 24. Tyler Bruening
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