Brandon Overton took the win at Eldora
The second of the three-race Dirt Late Model Stream took place at Eldora Speedway on Friday evening. The weekend set of races that saw 50 drivers receive invitations to compete offered up a first prize of $10,000 on this night and it was red hot Brandon Overton who took the payout away from the Rossburg, OH facility following the feature broadcast on FloRacing.com.
Josh Richards was quickest in qualifying with a lap of 15.502 seconds around the half-mile clay oval to better the efforts of Bobby Pierce, Jimmy Owens, Brandon Sheppard, Shanon Buckingham, Kyle Bronson, Chris Ferguson, Devin Moran, Brandon Overton and Chase Junghans.
Josh Richards took the first heat race of the night over Brandon Overton, Jason Jameson and Ashton Winger while Donald McIntosh beat out Chase Junghans, Kyle Bronson and Kent Robinson in the second preliminary.
Chris Madden grabbed the in in the third heat ahead of Jimmy Owens, Chris Simpson and Michael Page just before Devin Moran took the checkered flag in the fourth and final heat over Dale McDowell, Brandon Sheppard and Tim McCreadie.
Kyle Strickler won the first B-main by beating out Shannon Babb and Mason Zeigler while Ricky Weiss took the second B-main ahead of Chris Ferguson and Jonathan Davenport.
The invert placed Dale McDowell on the pole for the feature with Chase Junghans, Brandon Overton, Devin Moran, Jimmy Owens and Josh Richards lined up in order behind him.
At the start of the 30-lap feature it was McDowell who bolted to the early lead with Junghans, Overton, Owens and Moran trailing. Owens began to charge as he passed by Overton to grab third on the second circuit then moved around Junghans for second one laps later.
A lap 10 caution for the slowing car of Davenport slowed the action. Just after the restart, Owens got by McDowell for the lead of the race lead while Overton took third away from Junghans just behind the lead duo.
Overton continued to climb when he went by McDowell for the runner-up position on lap 13.
A lap 20 caution for the slowing car of Ferguson set up a pivotal restart. Overton took the lead away from Owens with ten lap remaining. From that point Overton would pull away from the pack while Moran, Junghans and Richards fought for fourth in three-wide formation.
In the end, it was Overton who would sail under the checkered flag for the victory.
Feature Finish: 1. Brandon Overton, 2. Jimmy Owens, 3. Dale McDowell, 4. Devin Moran, 5. Josh Richards, 6. Brandon Sheppard, 7. Michael Page, 8. Kyle Bronson, 9. Chase Junghans, 10. Mason Zeigler, 11. Chris Madden, 12. Bobby Pierce, 13. Kent Robinson, 14. Ricky Weiss, 15. Shannon Babb, 16. Ashton Winger, 17. Shanon Buckingham, 18. Jason Jameson, 19. Tim McCreadie, 20. Kyle Strickler, 21. Chris Simpson, 22. Donald McIntosh, 23. Chris Ferguson, 24. Jonathan Davenport
