Dirt Late Model Dream – Night 1

Race Story

OVERTON AND BLOOMQUIST WIN THURSDAY PRELIMS

ROSSBURG, OHIO — Brandon Overton and Dirt Late Model Hall of Famer Scott Bloomquist split the Twin 25-lap, $5,000 to-win feature events that opened up the 23rd annual Dirt Late Model Dream presented by Ferris Mowers on Thursday night at Eldora Speedway

Overton, of Evans, Georgia, jumped to the lead from his outside pole starting position and led from flag-to-flag to pick up his first career win at Eldora.

“It probably wasn’t as easy as it looked,” the 26 year-old Overton said. “This is a great way to start the weekend off. I never won before at Eldora and that is a pretty big accomplishment for a guy like me.”

Tim McCreadie, of Avon, New York, pressured Overton in traffic through the middle stages of the event, but two late race cautions, the first for Tim Manville’s slowing machine on lap 21 and the second for debris a lap later, opened the track for Overton and let rest of the field battle for positions.

“I was a nervous wreck out there,” Overton said. “I was just watching my guys telling me where they were making up ground. I was just trying to keep my momentum up. I was probably a lot more crooked than I should I have been but I was just letting that thing float around there and I had a really good car.”

The late race restarts benefitted former Dream winners Darrell Lanigan, Don O’Neal and Shane Clanton, who all passed McCreadie in the closing laps to finish in that order.

“That top was pretty good on those restarts,” runner-up Lanigan said. “The bottom (groove) kind of killed me on that last restart, but it is what it is and we will take a second.”

O’Neal took advantage of the two late restarts to move from fifth-place to the final spot on the podium.

“I got a good restart on the first one and got up to third and thought maybe I got a shot at this, but the car just wasn’t quite good enough,” O’Neal said. “Everybody is working hard. We got two Clint Bowyer cars up to second and third so that is good but we have some work to do yet.”

Earl Pearson, Jr., Chris Simpson, 2014 Dream winner Dale McDowell, 2015 Dream winner Jonathan Davenport and Devin Moran completed the top 10 in the first feature.

Defending World 100 winner Bobby Pierce jumped to the early lead in the second feature event, before 1997 Dream winner Jimmy Mars, of Menominie, Wisconsin, flexed some muscle to wrestle the top spot away.

Pierce and Mars continued to fight for the top spot, but as they did Bloomquist, a six-time Dream winner, closed in. On lap eight, Bloomquist, of Mooreseburg, Tennessee, passed Pierce for second-place and then a lap later made a move around Mars for the top spot and powered away over the final 15 laps to a convincing victory.

“This is a fairly new car that we have only ran twice,” Bloomquist said. “Randy Sweet’s bunch built this one and we have some fresh metal under us here that seems to be working pretty good.”

It was a bit of redemption for Bloomquist for struggled a year ago on Thursday of the Dream weekend and then failed to make the main event on Saturday night.

“We’ve been trying to get our stuff organized and together and get some equipment built ahead and things are going a little bit better for us,” Bloomquist said. “It’s easy to get behind when you don’t have a lot of help. I’ve got some volunteer help here this weekend and I really need to thank them. We are looking forward to tomorrow and the next day.”

Chris Madden, of Gaffney, South Carolina, rallied from eighth starting position to finish runner-up in the second feature, while Mars held on for third-place. Two-time Dream winner Billy Moyer, of Batesville, Arkansas, finished in fourth-place while defending Dream winner Dennis Erb, Jr. completed the top five.

“We got behind on the first start,” Madden said. “Scott was able to get by four or five cars down there and I wasn’t able to clear them and then I had to clear them during the race and try to run (Bloomquist) back down. We had an excellent car tonight and I just need to thank all my guys.”

“We didn’t really adjust the car much all night and maybe we should have,” Mars said. “We will take the third and move on to tomorrow night.”

Rounding out the top ten in the second feature were Pierce, Kent Robinson, 2007 Dream winner Steve Casebolt, R.J. Conley and Billy Moyer, Jr.

Casey Roberts (15.925 seconds) was the fastest qualifier of the 79 entrants. Heat race winners were McCreadie, Moyer, Moran, R.J. Conley, Davenport, Madden, Lanigan and Bloomquist. The two B-mains were split by Timothy Culp and Brandon Sheppard.

The Dirt Late Model Dream presented by Ferris Mowers continues on Friday night with another completed program of hot laps, qualifying, heat races, consolation features and twin 25-lap feature events paying $10,000 to-win.

Saturday night, the richest event in Dirt Late Model racing concludes with the traditional six heat races, B-mains, B-scrambles and the 100-lap, $100,000 to-win main event.

Race Results

Event Box Score

23^rd Annual Dirt Late Model Dream by Ferris Mowers
Night 1 – June 8, 2017

DIRTcar UMP Late Models

Qualifying
1.101-Casey Roberts, 15.925; 2.22S-Gregg Satterlee, 16.118; 3.15-Steve Francis, 16.213; 4.1-Brandon Sheppard, 16.238; 5.5N-Dustin Nobbe, 16.239; 6.44-Chris Madden, 16.239; 7.157-Mike Marlar, 16.250; 8.0-Scott Bloomquist, 16.270; 9.71-Hudson O’Neal, 16.450; 10.21-Billy Moyer, 16.502; 11.32S-Chris Simpson, 16.505; 12.10-Eddie Carrier Jr. , 16.527; 13.49-Jonathan Davenport, 16.536; 14.2-Nick Hoffman, 16.544; 15.17M-Dale McDowell, 16.549; 16.17-Zack Dohm, 16.641; 17.5-Don O’Neal, 16.671; 18.55-Jeep VanWormer, 16.671; 19.9-Devin Moran, 16.713; 20.1CJ-Rusty Schlenk, 16.723; 21.99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr. , 16.741; 22.18B-Shannon Babb, 16.746; 23.14-Darrell Lanigan, 16.748; 24.7R-Kent Robinson, 16.751; 25.39-Tim McCreadie, 16.758; 26.40B-Kyle Bronson, 16.787; 27.33M-Tim Manville, 16.795; 28.71C-RJ Conley, 16.830; 29.1GK-Ryan King, 16.868; 30.21JR-Billy Moyer Jr. , 16.881; 31.116-Brandon Overton, 16.913; 32.31-Nick Latham, 16.940; 33.1P-Earl Pearson Jr., 16.941; 34.7B-Jeff Babcock, 16.991; 35.1G-Devin Gilpin, 17.006; 36.15H-Jon Henry, 17.008; 37.25C-Shane Clanton, 17.049; 38.22-Chris Ferguson, 17.050; 39.25-Jason Feger, 17.081; 40.88-Andrew Reaume, 17.086; 41.12-Jason Jameson, 17.155; 42.C9-Steve Casebolt, 17.167; 43.16B-Tyler Bruening, 17.313; 44.28-Dennis Erb Jr. , 17.335; 45.20c-Jacob Hawkins, 17.361; 46.32P-Bobby Pierce, 17.366; 47.71R-Rod Conley, 17.368; 48.20S-Rodney Sanders, 17.388; 49.0J-Jake O’Neil, 17.401; 50.28M-Jimmy Mars, 17.435; 51.101T-Forrest Trent, 17.440; 52.7W-Ricky Weiss, 17.479; 53.48-Tim Lance, 17.500; 54.29-Spencer Diercks, 17.549; 55.18-Chase Junghans, 17.571; 56.5*-Bryant Dickinson, 17.598; 57.c8-Timothy Culp, 17.627; 58.4B-Jackie Boggs, 17.638; 59.25Z-Mason Zeigler, 17.640; 60.1M-Mike Mataragas, 17.770; 61.1N-Casey Noonan, 17.782; 62.1C-Kenny Collins, 17.788; 63.50-Shanon Buckingham, 17.816; 64.444-Brian Ligon, 17.821; 65.3s-Brian Shirley, 17.832; 66.51-Joey Moriarty, 17.872; 67.91-Tyler Erb, 17.884; 68.95J-Jerry Bowersock, 17.921; 69.6-Blake Spencer, 18.050; 70.97-Brett Miller, 18.056; 71.93-Brian Harris, 18.212; 72.83-Scott James, 18.214; 73.111-Matt Lux, 18.337; 74.4G-Kody Evans, 18.387; 75.79-Troy Worrick, 19.034; 76.33-Jesse James Lay, 99.991; 77.27-Jeffrey Beyers, 99.992; 78.20-Jimmy Owens, 99.993; 79.7M-Donald McIntosh, 99.994;

Heat 1 – (10 Laps)
1. 39-Tim McCreadie[1] ; 2. 5-Don O’Neal[2] ; 3. 1P-Earl Pearson Jr.[5] ; 4. 71-Hudson O’Neal[3] ; 5. 3s-Brian Shirley[9] ; 6. c8-Timothy Culp[8] ; 7. 101-Casey Roberts[4] ; 8. 0J-Jake O’Neil[7] ; 9. 111-Matt Lux[10] ; 10. 12-Jason Jameson[6]

Heat 2 – (10 Laps)
1. 21-Billy Moyer[3] ; 2. 28M-Jimmy Mars[7] ; 3. 22S-Gregg Satterlee[4] ; 4. C9-Steve Casebolt[6] ; 5. 7B-Jeff Babcock[5] ; 6. 4B-Jackie Boggs[8] ; 7. 55-Jeep VanWormer[2] ; 8. 51-Joey Moriarty[9] ; 9. 4G-Kody Evans[10] ; 10. 40B-Kyle Bronson[1]

Heat 3 – (10 Laps)
1. 9-Devin Moran[2] ; 2. 32S-Chris Simpson[3] ; 3. 15-Steve Francis[4] ; 4. 25Z-Mason Zeigler[8] ; 5. 33M-Tim Manville[1] ; 6. 1G-Devin Gilpin[5] ; 7. 91-Tyler Erb[9] ; 8. 101T-Forrest Trent[7] ; 9. 16B-Tyler Bruening[6] ; 10. 79-Troy Worrick[10]

Heat 4 – (10 Laps)
1. 71C-RJ Conley[1] ; 2. 15H-Jon Henry[5] ; 3. 28-Dennis Erb Jr. [6] ; 4. 1CJ-Rusty Schlenk[2] ; 5. 10-Eddie Carrier Jr. [3] ; 6. 1-Brandon Sheppard[4] ; 7. 95J-Jerry Bowersock[9] ; 8. 33-Jesse James Lay[10] ; 9. 1M-Mike Mataragas[8] ; 10. 7W-Ricky Weiss[7]

Heat 5 – (10 Laps)
1. 49-Jonathan Davenport[3] ; 2. 25C-Shane Clanton[5] ; 3. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr. [2] ; 4. 20c-Jacob Hawkins[6] ; 5. 1GK-Ryan King[1] ; 6. 5N-Dustin Nobbe[4] ; 7. 1N-Casey Noonan[8] ; 8. 6-Blake Spencer[9] ; 9. 48-Tim Lance[7]

Heat 6 – (10 Laps)
1. 44-Chris Madden[4] ; 2. 32P-Bobby Pierce[6] ; 3. 20-Jimmy Owens[10] ; 4. 18B-Shannon Babb[2] ; 5. 2-Nick Hoffman[3] ; 6. 21JR-Billy Moyer Jr. [1] ; 7. 22-Chris Ferguson[5] ; 8. 29-Spencer Diercks[7] ; 9. 1C-Kenny Collins[8] ; 10. 97-Brett Miller[9]

Heat 7 – (10 Laps)
1. 14-Darrell Lanigan[2] ; 2. 116-Brandon Overton[1] ; 3. 17M-Dale McDowell[3] ; 4. 25-Jason Feger[5] ; 5. 18-Chase Junghans[7] ; 6. 50-Shanon Buckingham[8] ; 7. 7M-Donald McIntosh[10] ; 8. 157-Mike Marlar[4] ; 9. 71R-Rod Conley[6] ; 10. 93-Brian Harris[9]

Heat 8 – (10 Laps)
1. 0-Scott Bloomquist[4] ; 2. 7R-Kent Robinson[2] ; 3. 17-Zack Dohm[3] ; 4. 83-Scott James[9] ; 5. 31-Nick Latham[1] ; 6. 88-Andrew Reaume[5] ; 7. 20S-Rodney Sanders[6] ; 8. 5*-Bryant Dickinson[7] ; 9. 444-Brian Ligon[8]

B-Feature 1 – (12 Laps)
1. c8-Timothy Culp[1] ; 2. 0J-Jake O’Neil[9] ; 3. 1G-Devin Gilpin[2] ; 4. 50-Shanon Buckingham[4] ; 5. 101-Casey Roberts[5] ; 6. 7M-Donald McIntosh[8] ; 7. 111-Matt Lux[13] ; 8. 157-Mike Marlar[12] ; 9. 91-Tyler Erb[6] ; 10. 5N-Dustin Nobbe[3] ; 11. 48-Tim Lance[15] ; 12. 1N-Casey Noonan[7] ; 13. 71R-Rod Conley[16] ; 14. 12-Jason Jameson[17] ; 15. 16B-Tyler Bruening[14] ; 16. 93-Brian Harris[20] ; 17. 6-Blake Spencer[11] ; 18. 79-Troy Worrick[18] ; 19. 101T-Forrest Trent[10]

B-Feature 2 – (12 Laps)
1. 1-Brandon Sheppard[2] ; 2. 4B-Jackie Boggs[1] ; 3. 21JR-Billy Moyer Jr. [3] ; 4. 55-Jeep VanWormer[5] ; 5. 29-Spencer Diercks[11] ; 6. 33-Jesse James Lay[10] ; 7. 20S-Rodney Sanders[8] ; 8. 40B-Kyle Bronson[17] ; 9. 88-Andrew Reaume[4] ; 10. 51-Joey Moriarty[9] ; 11. 1M-Mike Mataragas[14] ; 12. 5*-Bryant Dickinson[12] ; 13. 4G-Kody Evans[13] ; 14. 97-Brett Miller[19] ; 15. 7W-Ricky Weiss[18] ; 16. 444-Brian Ligon[16] ; 17. 1C-Kenny Collins[15] ; 18. 22-Chris Ferguson[7] ; 19. 95J-Jerry Bowersock[6]

Twin 25 Feature 1 – (25 Laps)
1. 116-Brandon Overton[2] ; 2. 14-Darrell Lanigan[4] ; 3. 5-Don O’Neal[6] ; 4. 25C-Shane Clanton[1] ; 5. 39-Tim McCreadie[3] ; 6. 1P-Earl Pearson Jr.[9] ; 7. 32S-Chris Simpson[8] ; 8. 17M-Dale McDowell[12] ; 9. 49-Jonathan Davenport[7] ; 10. 9-Devin Moran[5] ; 11. 18-Chase Junghans[20] ; 12. 50-Shanon Buckingham[24] ; 13. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr. [11] ; 14. 0J-Jake O’Neil[22] ; 15. 3s-Brian Shirley[17] ; 16. 25-Jason Feger[16] ; 17. 25Z-Mason Zeigler[14] ; 18. 1G-Devin Gilpin[23] ; 19. c8-Timothy Culp[21] ; 20. 1GK-Ryan King[19] ; 21. 15-Steve Francis[10] ; 22. 33M-Tim Manville[18] ; 23. 20c-Jacob Hawkins[15] ; 24. 71-Hudson O’Neal[13]

Twin 25 Feature 2 – (25 Laps)
1. 0-Scott Bloomquist[7] ; 2. 44-Chris Madden[8] ; 3. 28M-Jimmy Mars[1] ; 4. 21-Billy Moyer[6] ; 5. 28-Dennis Erb Jr. [10] ; 6. 32P-Bobby Pierce[2] ; 7. 7R-Kent Robinson[5] ; 8. C9-Steve Casebolt[13] ; 9. 71C-RJ Conley[4] ; 10. 21JR-Billy Moyer Jr. [23] ; 11. 22S-Gregg Satterlee[9] ; 12. 17-Zack Dohm[12] ; 13. 1-Brandon Sheppard[21] ; 14. 15H-Jon Henry[3] ; 15. 20-Jimmy Owens[11] ; 16. 4B-Jackie Boggs[22] ; 17. 18B-Shannon Babb[15] ; 18. 55-Jeep VanWormer[24] ; 19. 10-Eddie Carrier Jr. [18] ; 20. 1CJ-Rusty Schlenk[14] ; 21. 7B-Jeff Babcock[17] ; 22. 2-Nick Hoffman[19] ; 23. 31-Nick Latham[20] ; 24. 83-Scott James[16]

Photos

Images from the Event

Courtesy Mike Campbell and Jim Denhamer

Videos

Video Highlights From The Event

Dream XXIII - Night One Highlights

Points Update

Dream XXIII Points

Unofficial points update following Thursday's event
(edited to reflect qualifying times out to full four digits)

Place	#	Name	Total Pts	Back	Qual	Heats	Features
1	44	Chris Madden	986	0	290	200	496
1	0	Scott Bloomquist	986	0	286	200	500
3	21	Billy Moyer	970	-16	282	200	488
4	5	Don O'Neal	955	-31	266	197	492
5	32S	Chris Simpson	953	-33	280	197	476
6	22S	Gregg Satterlee	952	-34	298	194	460
6	14	Darrell Lanigan	952	-34	256	200	496
8	49	Jonathan Davenport	944	-42	276	200	468
9	17M	Dale McDowell	938	-48	272	194	472
10	116	Brandon Overton	937	-49	240	197	500
11	39	Tim McCreadie	936	-50	252	200	484
12	1	Brandon Sheppard	934	-52	294	188	452
13	9	Devin Moran	928	-58	264	200	464
14	7R	Kent Robinson	927	-59	254	197	476
15	17	Zack Dohm	920	-66	270	194	456
16	71C	RJ Conley	914	-72	246	200	468
17	25C	Shane Clanton	913	-73	228	197	488
18	15	Steve Francis	910	-76	296	194	420
18	1P	Earl Pearson Jr.	910	-76	236	194	480
20	99JR	Frank Heckenast Jr.	906	-80	260	194	452
21	10	Eddie Carrier Jr.	896	-90	278	190	428
22	21JR	Billy Moyer Jr.	894	-92	242	188	464
23	28	Dennis Erb Jr.	892	-94	214	194	484
24	28M	Jimmy Mars	891	-95	202	197	492
25	101	Casey Roberts	890	-96	300	186	404
26	32P	Bobby Pierce	887	-99	210	197	480
27	18B	Shannon Babb	886	-100	258	192	436
27	55	Jeep VanWormer	886	-100	268	186	432
29	71	Hudson O'Neal	884	-102	284	192	408
30	C9	Steve Casebolt	882	-104	218	192	472
31	2	Nick Hoffman	880	-106	274	190	416
32	1CJ	Rusty Schlenk	878	-108	262	192	424
33	15H	Jon Henry	875	-111	230	197	448
34	157	Mike Marlar	864	-122	288	184	392
34	5N	Dustin Nobbe	864	-122	292	188	384
36	1GK	Ryan King	858	-128	244	190	424
37	25	Jason Feger	856	-130	224	192	440
38	33M	Tim Manville	854	-132	248	190	416
39	1G	Devin Gilpin	852	-134	232	188	432
40	7B	Jeff Babcock	844	-142	234	190	420
41	18	Chase Junghans	842	-144	192	190	460
42	31	Nick Latham	840	-146	238	190	412
43	0J	Jake O'Neil	836	-150	204	184	448
44	40B	Kyle Bronson	822	-164	250	180	392
45	50	Shanon Buckingham	820	-166	176	188	456
46	20c	Jacob Hawkins	816	-170	212	192	412
47	4B	Jackie Boggs	814	-172	186	188	440
48	25Z	Mason Zeigler	812	-174	184	192	436
49	3s	Brian Shirley	806	-180	172	190	444
50	c8	Timothy Culp	804	-182	188	188	428
51	88	Andrew Reaume	798	-188	222	188	388
52	20S	Rodney Sanders	788	-198	206	186	396
53	20	Jimmy Owens	786	-200	148	194	444
54	29	Spencer Diercks	782	-204	194	184	404
55	12	Jason Jameson	768	-218	220	180	368
56	22	Chris Ferguson	764	-222	226	186	352
57	16B	Tyler Bruening	762	-224	216	182	364
57	71R	Rod Conley	762	-224	208	182	372
59	48	Tim Lance	758	-228	196	182	380
59	83	Scott James	758	-228	158	192	408
61	5*	Bryant Dickinson	750	-236	190	184	376
62	1M	Mike Mataragas	744	-242	182	182	380
63	7W	Ricky Weiss	742	-244	198	180	364
63	1N	Casey Noonan	742	-244	180	186	376
63	91	Tyler Erb	742	-244	168	186	388
66	51	Joey Moriarty	738	-248	170	184	384
67	111	Matt Lux	734	-252	156	182	396
67	33	Jesse James Lay	734	-252	150	184	400
69	101T	Forrest Trent	732	-254	200	184	348
69	7M	Donald McIntosh	732	-254	146	186	400
71	1C	Kenny Collins	716	-270	178	182	356
71	444	Brian Ligon	716	-270	174	182	360
73	97	Brett Miller	710	-276	162	180	368
74	4G	Kody Evans	708	-278	154	182	372
75	6	Blake Spencer	704	-282	164	184	356
76	95J	Jerry Bowersock	700	-286	166	186	348
76	93	Brian Harris	700	-286	160	180	360
78	79	Troy Worrick	684	-302	152	180	352
79	27	Jeffrey Beyers	0	-986	0	0	0
79	27	Jeffrey Beyers	0

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