Race Story

FRIDAY TWIN 25’S GO TO DAVENPORT AND CLANTON

ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 7) — A pair of Georgians ruled Dream XXV preliminary action Friday at Eldora Speedway. By the end of the two 25-lap, $10,000-to-win features at the Tony Stewart-owned half-mile, both Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., and Shane Clanton of Zebulon, Ga., were simply gone with the wind. Davenport, the 2015 Dream winner, won Friday’s first feature, while Clanton, the 2012 Dream winner, won the second feature.

Leading 24 laps of the caution-free opener, Davenport improved one spot from Thursday’s main event — when he was passed on the final lap by Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky. — as he steered his Lance Landers-backed Longhorn Chassis to victory ahead of polesitter Kent Robinson of Bloomington, Ind. Davenport overtook Robinson on the second lap and stayed comfortably ahead en route to 1.223-second victory. Ricky Weiss of Headingly, Manitoba, who won a prelim feature on Thursday, finished third, while Lanigan improved two positions to finish fourth. Jimmy Owens of Newport, Tenn., completed the top five after starting ninth.

“We tried a little bit different stuff tonight,” Davenport said in victory lane. “I don’t think my car was quite as good tonight as it was last night. So we’ll just keep going through the notebook and keep fine-tuning on this thing. We’ve got a few more things we need to do and I think we’re going to be OK. Just as long as we get through these heat races (Saturday).”
Robinson, who finished second in his heat, made a big leap forward from Thursday’s prelim, when he finished 12th.

“I’m just happy to be here right now,” Robinson said. “They call it the world’s greatest dirt track and it continues to live up to that name. I’m just proud to be here and continue to get a little bit better in this race car. Small changes. It’s that close.”

In the nightcap, Clanton ran away from the field. Starting from the pole, Clanton dominated the second preliminary feature, driving his Ron Davies-backed Capital Race Car to a 3.494-second victory ahead of Chris Ferguson of Mount Holly, N.C., in a race slowed by one caution. The fourth-starting Ferguson shuffled polesitter Ross Bailes of Clover, S.C., back to third on a lap-2 restart and futilely gave chase. Bailes settled for third, while Chase Junghans of Manhattan, Kan., finished fourth and Don O’Neal of Martinsville, Ind., fifth.

“I knew I had a good car,” said Clanton. “I just needed to keep the nose clean. I tried the top a little bit and (Gregg Satterlee was) trying to get some of that moisture leaving the bottom and he was right were I needed to be to make a good lap, but I knew I was OK where I was. I didn’t feel like I was losing no ground and I could maintain down the straightaway.”
After finishing fourth in his preliminary feature on Thursday, Ferguson was pleased with Friday’s runner-up finish finish.

“That was fun,” said Ferguson. “Me and Ross (Bailes) we’re just a bunch of rednecks from South Carolina and North Carolina. We’re not supposed to be good on this stuff, but that just shows how tough we are around home. We were good here at the World, but just had some bad luck. It’s so fun to come up here and run good.”

Action Thursday and Friday determined the lineup for Saturday’s heat races for the 25th running of the Dream. Davenport and Weiss accumulated the most points through the two preliminary rounds and are guaranteed a starting spot in the 100-lap, $125,000-to-win main event.


Race Results

Event Box Score

Late Models Group A – Qualifying
1. 8H-Jacob Hawkins, 15.250; 2. 1-Brandon Sheppard, 15.329; 3. 49D-Jonathan Davenport, 15.373; 4. O-Scott Bloomquist, 15.390; 5. 7R-Kent Robinson, 15.424; 6. 7W-Ricky Weiss, 15.443; 7. 88R-Andrew Reaume, 15.477; 8. 23B-John Blankenship, 15.509; 9. 32S-Chris Simpson, 15.522; 10. 29-Darrell Lanigan, 15.549; 11. 8S-Kyle Strickler, 15.585; 12. 18X-Michael Page, 15.600; 13. 44-Chris Madden, 15.628; 14. 1GK-Ryan King, 15.630; 15. 40B-Kyle Bronson, 15.670; 16. 49T-Jake Timm, 15.671; 17. 28M-Jimmy Mars, 15.676; 18. 17-Zack Dohm, 15.709; 19. 50-Shanon Buckingham, 15.722; 20. 88-Trent Ivey, 15.758; 21. 20-Jimmy Owens, 15.767; 22. 16T-Tyler Bruening, 15.774; 23. 12W-Ashton Winger, 15.778; 24. 24-Dylan Yoder, 15.793; 25. B1-Brent Larson, 15.801; 26. 99RT-Ricky Thornton Jr, 15.808; 27. 25Z-Mason Zeigler, 15.848; 28. 6-Blake Spencer, 15.852; 29. 421-Anthony Sanders, 15.869; 30. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr., 15.877; 31. 32-Bobby Pierce, 15.893; 32. 2S-Stormy Scott, 15.921; 33. 4G-Kody Evans, 15.932; 34. 51-Joey Moriarty, 15.946; 35. 101T-Forrest Trent, 15.956; 36. 5N-Dustin Nobbe, 16.009; 37. 1M-Mike Mataragas, 16.039; 38. 2-Brandon Overton, 16.095; 39. 1N-Casey Noonan, 16.137; 40. OOS-Jesse Stovall, 16.219; 41. 27-Jim Yoder, 16.227; 42. 48-Tim Lance, 16.237; 43. 31AUS-Paul Stubber, 16.380; 44. P3-Josh Robertson, 16.824; 45. 72-Michael Norris, 99.991; 46. 95J-Jerry Bowersock, 99.992

Heat #1 – (10)Laps – Top 5 Transfer
1. 44-Chris Madden[1]; 2. 7R-Kent Robinson[3]; 3. 20-Jimmy Owens[6]; 4. 28M-Jimmy Mars[5]; 5. 8H-Jacob Hawkins[4]; 6. 32S-Chris Simpson[2]; 7. B1-Brent Larson[7]; 8. 4G-Kody Evans[9]; 9. 1M-Mike Mataragas[10]; 10. 421-Anthony Sanders[8]; 11. 27-Jim Yoder[11]

Heat #3 – (10)Laps – Top 5 Transfer
1. 7W-Ricky Weiss[3]; 2. 29-Darrell Lanigan[2]; 3. 1-Brandon Sheppard[4]; 4. 16T-Tyler Bruening[6]; 5. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr.[8]; 6. 17-Zack Dohm[5]; 7. 1GK-Ryan King[1]; 8. 99RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[7]; 9. 2-Brandon Overton[10]; 10. 48-Tim Lance[11]; 11. 51-Joey Moriarty[9]

Heat #5 – (10)Laps – Top 5 Transfer
1. 40B-Kyle Bronson[1]; 2. 49D-Jonathan Davenport[4]; 3. 8S-Kyle Strickler[2]; 4. 88R-Andrew Reaume[3]; 5. 25Z-Mason Zeigler[7]; 6. 50-Shanon Buckingham[5]; 7. 12W-Ashton Winger[6]; 8. 32-Bobby Pierce[8]; 9. 1N-Casey Noonan[10]; 10. 31AUS-Paul Stubber[11]; 11. 101T-Forrest Trent[9]

Heat #7 – (10)Laps – Top 5 Transfer
1. 18X-Michael Page[2]; 2. 23B-John Blankenship[3]; 3. O-Scott Bloomquist[4]; 4. 24-Dylan Yoder[6]; 5. 88-Trent Ivey[5]; 6. 6-Blake Spencer[7]; 7. 49T-Jake Timm[1]; 8. 5N-Dustin Nobbe[9]; 9. P3-Josh Robertson[11]; 10. OOS-Jesse Stovall[10]; 11. 2S-Stormy Scott[8]

B-Feature #1 – (12)Laps – Top 2 Transfer
1. 99RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[6]; 2. 17-Zack Dohm[2]; 3. B1-Brent Larson[3]; 4. 2-Brandon Overton[8]; 5. 32S-Chris Simpson[1]; 6. 4G-Kody Evans[5]; 7. 51-Joey Moriarty[12]; 8. 1GK-Ryan King[4]; 9. 48-Tim Lance[10]; 10. 1M-Mike Mataragas[7]; 11. 27-Jim Yoder[11]; 12. 421-Anthony Sanders[9]

B-Feature #3 – (12)Laps – Top 2 Transfer
1. 50-Shanon Buckingham[1]; 2. 12W-Ashton Winger[3]; 3. 32-Bobby Pierce[5]; 4. 2S-Stormy Scott[12]; 5. 49T-Jake Timm[4]; 6. 1N-Casey Noonan[7]; 7. 5N-Dustin Nobbe[6]; 8. 31AUS-Paul Stubber[9]; 9. 101T-Forrest Trent[11]; 10. 6-Blake Spencer[2]; 11. P3-Josh Robertson[8]

A-Feature 1 – (25)Laps
1. 49D-Jonathan Davenport[2]; 2. 7R-Kent Robinson[1]; 3. 7W-Ricky Weiss[5]; 4. 29-Darrell Lanigan[6]; 5. 20-Jimmy Owens[9]; 6. 18X-Michael Page[3]; 7. 44-Chris Madden[4]; 8. 1-Brandon Sheppard[10]; 9. O-Scott Bloomquist[12]; 10. 23B-John Blankenship[8]; 11. 8S-Kyle Strickler[11]; 12. 28M-Jimmy Mars[13]; 13. 40B-Kyle Bronson[7]; 14. 16T-Tyler Bruening[14]; 15. 8H-Jacob Hawkins[17]; 16. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr.[18]; 17. 50-Shanon Buckingham[22]; 18. 17-Zack Dohm[23]; 19. 99RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[21]; 20. 88R-Andrew Reaume[15]; 21. 12W-Ashton Winger[24]; 22. 25Z-Mason Zeigler[19]; 23. 24-Dylan Yoder[16]; 24. 88-Trent Ivey[20]

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Late Models Group B – Qualifying
1. 1P-Earl Pearson Jr., 15.511; 2. 1ST-Johnny Scott, 15.520; 3. 18-Chase Junghans, 15.606; 4. 157-Mike Marlar, 15.628; 5. 14-Josh Richards, 15.692; 6. 5-Don O’Neal, 15.723; 7. 39-Tim McCreadie, 15.724; 8. 22-Chris Ferguson, 15.747; 9. 1T-Tyler Erb, 15.764; 10. 87-Ross Bailes, 15.810; 11. 20C-Duane Chamberlain, 15.811; 12. 1V-Vic Hill, 15.815; 13. C9-Steve Casebolt, 15.817; 14. 111-Steven Roberts, 15.841; 15. 0B-Shannon Babb, 15.856; 16. 25C-Shane Clanton, 15.912; 17. 2H-Nick Hoffman, 15.924; 18. 12J-Jason Jameson, 15.933; 19. 17M-Dale McDowell, 15.942; 20. 9-Devin Moran, 15.953; 21. 33-Jonathan Henry, 15.979; 22. 3S-Brian Shirley, 15.988; 23. 1S-Chad Simpson, 16.005; 24. 22S-Gregg Satterlee, 16.033; 25. 83-Scott James, 16.038; 26. 7M-Donald Mcintosh, 16.047; 27. 2X-John Henderson, 16.061; 28. 71-Hudson O’Neal, 16.066; 29. 21-Robby Hensley, 16.101; 30. 36V-Kyle Hardy, 16.110; 31. 14G-Joe Godsey, 16.152; 32. 71C-RJ Conley, 16.186; 33. 18K-Brandon Kinzer, 16.213; 34. 48F-Colton Flinner, 16.261; 35. OO-Dalton Polston, 16.300; 36. 71R-Rod Conley, 16.314; 37. 28-Dennis Erb Jr., 16.404; 38. 55-Jeep Van Wormer, 16.551; 39. 8A-Rob Anderzack, 16.890; 40. 14R-Jeff Roth, 16.976; 41. 5D-Bryant Dickinson, 17.073; 42. 25H-Chuck Hummer, 17.308; 43. 22F-Nick Fenner, 18.035; 44. 15V-Kolby Vandenbergh, 99.998; 45. OK-Freddie Carpenter, 99.999

Heat #2 – (10)Laps – Top 5 Transfer
1. C9-Steve Casebolt[1]; 2. 14-Josh Richards[3]; 3. 1T-Tyler Erb[2]; 4. 1P-Earl Pearson Jr.[4]; 5. 83-Scott James[7]; 6. 28-Dennis Erb Jr.[10]; 7. 33-Jonathan Henry[6]; 8. 2H-Nick Hoffman[5]; 9. 18K-Brandon Kinzer[9]; 10. 21-Robby Hensley[8]; 11. OK-Freddie Carpenter[12]; 12. 5D-Bryant Dickinson[11]

Heat #4 – (10)Laps – Top 5 Transfer
1. 87-Ross Bailes[2]; 2. 5-Don O’Neal[3]; 3. 3S-Brian Shirley[6]; 4. 111-Steven Roberts[1]; 5. 7M-Donald Mcintosh[7]; 6. 1ST-Johnny Scott[4]; 7. 48F-Colton Flinner[9]; 8. 36V-Kyle Hardy[8]; 9. 55-Jeep Van Wormer[10]; 10. 12J-Jason Jameson[5]; 11. 25H-Chuck Hummer[11]

Heat #6 – (10)Laps – Top 5 Transfer
1. 18-Chase Junghans[4]; 2. 0B-Shannon Babb[1]; 3. 17M-Dale McDowell[5]; 4. 39-Tim McCreadie[3]; 5. 1S-Chad Simpson[6]; 6. 20C-Duane Chamberlain[2]; 7. 2X-John Henderson[7]; 8. 14G-Joe Godsey[8]; 9. OO-Dalton Polston[9]; 10. 8A-Rob Anderzack[10]; 11. 22F-Nick Fenner[11]

Heat #8 – (10)Laps – Top 5 Transfer
1. 25C-Shane Clanton[1]; 2. 22-Chris Ferguson[3]; 3. 157-Mike Marlar[4]; 4. 22S-Gregg Satterlee[6]; 5. 71-Hudson O’Neal[7]; 6. 9-Devin Moran[5]; 7. 71R-Rod Conley[9]; 8. 1V-Vic Hill[2]; 9. 71C-RJ Conley[8]; 10. 15V-Kolby Vandenbergh[11]; 11. 14R-Jeff Roth[10]

B-Feature #2 – (12)Laps – Top 2 Transfer
1. 1ST-Johnny Scott[2]; 2. 28-Dennis Erb Jr.[1]; 3. 2H-Nick Hoffman[5]; 4. 18K-Brandon Kinzer[7]; 5. 55-Jeep Van Wormer[8]; 6. OK-Freddie Carpenter[11]; 7. 48F-Colton Flinner[4]; 8. 33-Jonathan Henry[3]; 9. 12J-Jason Jameson[10]; 10. 21-Robby Hensley[9]; 11. 36V-Kyle Hardy[6]; 12. 5D-Bryant Dickinson[13]; 13. 25H-Chuck Hummer[12]

B-Feature #4 – (12)Laps – Top 2 Transfer
1. 9-Devin Moran[2]; 2. 71R-Rod Conley[4]; 3. 2X-John Henderson[3]; 4. 20C-Duane Chamberlain[1]; 5. 1V-Vic Hill[6]; 6. OO-Dalton Polston[7]; 7. 14G-Joe Godsey[5]; 8. 71C-RJ Conley[8]; 9. 15V-Kolby Vandenbergh[10]; 10. 14R-Jeff Roth[12]; 11. 8A-Rob Anderzack[9]; 12. 22F-Nick Fenner[11]

A-Feature 2 – (25)Laps
1. 25C-Shane Clanton[2]; 2. 22-Chris Ferguson[4]; 3. 87-Ross Bailes[1]; 4. 18-Chase Junghans[5]; 5. 5-Don O’Neal[6]; 6. 17M-Dale McDowell[11]; 7. 14-Josh Richards[3]; 8. 39-Tim McCreadie[15]; 9. 0B-Shannon Babb[8]; 10. 3S-Brian Shirley[10]; 11. 1T-Tyler Erb[9]; 12. 157-Mike Marlar[12]; 13. 71-Hudson O’Neal[20]; 14. C9-Steve Casebolt[7]; 15. 1S-Chad Simpson[19]; 16. 83-Scott James[17]; 17. 28-Dennis Erb Jr.[23]; 18. 7M-Donald Mcintosh[18]; 19. 9-Devin Moran[22]; 20. 22S-Gregg Satterlee[16]; 21. 1ST-Johnny Scott[21]; 22. 111-Steven Roberts[14]; 23. 71R-Rod Conley[24]; 24. 1P-Earl Pearson Jr.[13]


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Point Totals

 

Dream XXV Points

UNOFFICIAL after Friday
#Car#FirstLastThu HThu BThu AFri HFri BFri ATOTAL
149DJonathanDavenport200049619705001393
27WRickyWeiss200050020004921392
329DarrellLanigan197050019704881382
422ChrisFerguson194048819704961375
525CShaneClanton194048020005001374
644ChrisMadden197049620004761369
717MDaleMcDowell200048819404801362
820JimmyOwens200048419404841362
939TimMcCreadie200048419204721348
103SBrianShirley197049219404641347
117RKentRobinson192045619704961341
1218ChaseJunghans194044820004881330
131TTylerErb200047219404601326
148HJacobHawkins197049219004441323
151BrandonSheppard192046419404721322
160BShannonBabb197046019704681322
1728MJimmyMars197047619204561321
1887RossBailes190043620004921318
1918XMichaelPage190044820004801318
20157MikeMarlar194046819404561312
211SChadSimpson200047219004441306
2240BKyleBronson197045620004521305
2371HudsonO'Neal192046419004521298
2422SGreggSatterlee194047619204241286
255DonO'Neal190041219704841283
2623BJohnBlankenship190043219704641283
2783ScottJames192046019004401282
281PEarlPearson Jr.200048019204081280
29OScottBloomquist190042819404681280
308SKyleStrickler188043219404601274
3125ZMasonZeigler197046819004161271
3214JoshRichards188040819704761269
337MDonaldMcintosh192045219004321266
3488RAndrewReaume192045219204241260
3528DennisErb Jr.190044418804361258
3650ShanonBuckingham192044018804361256
3716TTylerBruening186041619204481242
3817ZackDohm186043618804321242
39C9SteveCasebolt186400020004481234
4099JRFrankHeckenast Jr.188041619004401234
4199RTRickyThornton Jr190042018404281222
421STJohnnyScott192042018804201220
4332SChrisSimpson194044018839601218
4424DylanYoder194041219204121210
4533JonathanHenry194044418638401208
46B1BrentLarson188042418640401202
479DevinMoran184400018804281200
482BrandonOverton190042818240001200
4932BobbyPierce188042418440401200
5012WAshtonWinger186392018604201184
512HNickHoffman188040818440401184
5271RRodConley180396018604121174
5349TJakeTimm188404018639601174
54111StevenRoberts182380019204161170
5588TrentIvey182384019004081164
561VVicHill186396018439601162
5755JeepVan Wormer182400018239601160
5818KBrandonKinzer184392018240001158
5920CDuaneChamberlain180388018840001156
6051JoeyMoriarty184404017838801154
612XJohnHenderson184380018640401154
62OKFreddieCarpenter184400017839201154
631GKRyanKing184396018638401150
641NCaseyNoonan180388018239201142
654GKodyEvans180384018439201140
6648FColtonFlinner182384018638801140
67OODaltonPolston182380018239201136
6812JJasonJameson184388018038001132
6936VKyleHardy180392018437201128
705NDustinNobbe178376018438801126
7121RobbyHensley182388018037601126
7214GJoeGodsey182372018438801126
7348TimLance182384018038001126
746BlakeSpencer180376018837601120
7531AUSPaulStubber180372018038401116
76101TForrestTrent186372017838001116
7715VKolbyVandenbergh178376018038001114
78421AnthonySanders180380018036801108
7914RJeffRoth178368017837601100
8027JimYoder178372017837201100
81P3JoshRobertson178368018237201100
825DBryantDickinson178376017636801098
8325HChuckHummer176368017836401086
8422FNickFenner176364017836801086
852SStormyScott039601784000974
86OOSJesseStovall184392018000756
871MMikeMataragas186001823760744
8872MichaelNorris1884040000592
8995JJerryBowersock1864040000590
9071CRJConley0001823840566
918ARobAnderzack0001803720552

Ties broken by:
1) Best finish
2) Best Qualifying Time
3)Entry timestamp

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