Devin Moran scored a $15,000 win at WVMS
Devin Moran used a late race pass of Jonathan Davenport to secure a Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series feature victory on Friday night at the West Virginia Motor Speedway in a preliminary event for the Historic 100 main event which will run on Saturday evening.
The Longhorn Chassis driver from Dresden, Ohio earned $15,000 for his win in the race held on the 5/8 mile Mineral Wells, WV track that was shown live by MavTV.com.
Saturday’s feature will dole out $50,000 to its victor.
A total of 31 cars were signed in for competition.
Qualifying Results:
Group A Results- 1. Devin Moran(20.627), 2. Gregg Satterlee, 3. Mike Marlar, 4. Earl Pearson Jr., 5. Kyle Strickler, 6. Garrett Alberson, 7. Freddie Carpenter, 8. Tim McCreadie, 9. Spencer Hughes, 10. Ryan Montgomery
Group B Results- 1. Jonathan Davenport(20.764), 2. Brandon Sheppard, 3. Ricky Thornton Jr., 4. Tyler Erb, 5. Bryan Bernheisel, 6. Hudson O’Neal, 7. Brandon Overton, 8. Ross Robinson, 9. Ashton Winger, 10. Doug Drown
Heat 1 Results: 1. Devin Moran, 2. Mike Marlar, 3. Kyle Strickler, 4. Freddie Carpenter
Heat 2 Results: 1. Gregg Satterlee, 2. Earl Pearson Jr., 3. Tim McCreadie, 4. Garrett Alberson
Heat 3 Results: 1. Jonathan Davenport, 2. Ricky Thornton Jr., Brandon Overton, 4. Ashton Winger
Heat 4 Results: 1. Brandon Sheppard, 2. Tyler Erb, 3. Hudson O’Neal, 4. Ross Robinson
B-main Finish: 1. Rod Conley, 2. Daulton Wilson, 3. Spencer Hughes, 4. Ryan Montgomery
Feature Re-cap: At the start of the 30-lap main event, it was Moran who went to the front with Davenport, Satterlee, Sheppard and Thornton trailing. Thornton swept by Sheppard for fourth on the second circuit. The LOLMDS points leader’s slide continued on lap 5 when Pearson and Strickler got by Sheppard for fifth and sixth respectively.
Davenport closed in on Moran to challenge for the lead. That challenge paid off on lap 8 when Davenport’s No. 49 to the top spot on the leaderboard.
At the halfway mark, Davenport led Moran, Satterlee, Thornton and Pearson in the fast paced feature. Soon after the halfway point, Davenport began to encounter slower traffic in the big speedway.
Davenport then extended his lead as his advantage grew to almost two seconds by the 20th lap. However, slower traffic began to play a role with Moran quickly closing on Davenport.
With Davenport trapped behind a slower machine, Moran regained the lead with just six laps remaining. Davenport tried to fight back but Moran held back the challenge to claim the victory.
“Obviously, J.D. has his stuff rolling,” Moran said in his victory lane interview with MavTV. “His car is really good. We’ve got a lot of work to do to be able to beat him tomorrow. Wylie(Moran’s brother) said before we went out there that lapped traffic would be important and it was. I was hoping I would be leading at that point but he was really good. He was just trying to make a move around those guys and messed up and I was able to slide underneath him.”
Feature Results: 1. Devin Moran, 2. Jonathan Davenport, 3. Gregg Satterlee, 4. Ricky Thornton Jr., 5. Earl Pearson Jr., 6. Kyle Strickler, 7. Brandon Sheppard, 8. Tyler Erb, 9. Tim McCreadie, 10. Hudson O’Neal, 11. Brandon Overton, 12. Spencer Hughes, 13. Garrett Alberson, 14. Ashton Winger, 15. Ross Robinson, 16. Rod Conley, 17. Daulton Wilson, 18. Freddie Carpenter, 19. Edward Shuman, 20. Doug Drown, 21. Ryan Montgomery, 22. Bryan Bernheisel, 23. Brandon Francis, 24. Mike Marlar
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