7.15.23 Lucas Oil Late Models Results

DAVENPORT WINS RECORD TYING FOURTH DIAMOND NATIONALS AT LUCAS OIL SPEEDWAY
WHEATLAND, MO (July 15, 2023) – Jonathan Davenport led the final 45 laps of the 17th Annual CMH Diamond Nationals Presented by Summit Racing Equipment on Saturday night at Lucas Oil Speedway.

For Davenport, who earned $15,000 for the win, it was his second straight Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series victory and the 71st of his career in series history. The race was co-sanctioned with the Lucas Oi Midwest Late Model Racing Association (MLRA) Series.

Davenport’s fourth win in the annual July event that has been held since 2007 tied him with Jimmy Owens for the most wins in the event history.

Devin Moran got by Ricky Thornton Jr. on the final lap to earn the runner-up spot. Brandon Overton who led the opening laps was fourth with Chris Simpson rounding out the top five drivers.

Davenport, moved into fourth place in the championship standings with the win after survivig a scary moment with a lapped car on the front stretch with just a few laps to go. “Let’s keep it PG for what I said in the car. No, I couldn’t believe I messed up and he got away from me the lap before, so I thought I’d better hug the bottom right there and he’s slid up again. I got a good run on him, and he might have seen the layover flag he could have been pulling off and he turned left, and I had nowhere to go. Luckily my right front was far enough ahead of him I didn’t hit wheels with him with the steering wheel so luckily it didn’t cut a right rear down it was just our night.”

The 39-year-old Blairsville, Georgia racer coming off a record season in dirt late model racing in 2022 with feels like his team his hitting its stride. “We just keep throwing stuff at it you know. We were stuck in our ways for a long time there at the beginning of the year just because we had such a good year last year. We’ve got the same cars, the same shocks, everything should work the same, but it’s just the way this dirt late model racing goes you know. It’s like you get too complacent and you quit working, and everybody catches up. So, we went to work. Normally what happens is that you learn a whole lot more what not to do than what to do.”

Moran, the 2023 Show-Me 100 winner passed Thornton on the final lap to secure the runner-up spot. “Our Double Down Motorsports, Longhorn was really good again. That’s three seconds in a row. It’s good to be up front. Congrats to JD he did a really good job. I just got held up in lapped traffic a little bit. Obviously, we are getting better and better because we passed Ricky [Thornton Jr.] tonight and last time we were here he checked out on us. I have never really had a great track record here. I will say the track was awesome tonight we raced all over it there for a while – the top three there we all were running up front.”

Thornton, who continues to lead the Big River Steel Chase for the Championship presented by ARP headed to Huset’s Speedway next weekend now has a 230-point advantage over Hudson O’Neal rounded out the Big River Steel Podium in third. “I think we were really good tonight. I just wished they hadn’t got it as muddy as they did. It took us a while before it got slick, we had harder tires on than these guys did. I really didn’t want that yellow because I think before that I don’t know if we could have run him [Davenport] down but at least we could have had a shot at it. I think we could have run second, but I’d really rather run third trying to go for the win that it would be following him around the bottom.”

The winner’s Lance and Darla Landers-owned, Double L Motorsports, Longhorn Chassis is powered by a Cornett Racing Engine and sponsored by Nutrien Ag Solutions, Dyna Gro Seed, Lucas Oil Products, Bilstein Shocks, VP Fuels, Mark Martin Automotive, Mega Plumbing of the Carolinas, ASC Warranty, and Midwest Sheet Metal.

Completing the top ten were Earl Pearson Jr. Tyler Bruening, Justin Duty, Hudson O’Neal, and Tim McCreadie.

Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series
Race Summary
CMH Diamond Nationals Presented by Summit Racing Equipment
Saturday, July 15, 2023
Lucas Oil Speedway – Wheatland, MO

Allstar Performance Time Trials
Fast Time Group A: Dustin Hodges / 15.389 seconds
Fast Time Group B: Ricky Thornton, Jr. / 15.272 seconds (overall)

CMH Diamond Nats A-Main (50 Laps): 1. 49-Jonathan Davenport[4]; 2. 99-Devin Moran[6]; 3. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[2]; 4. 76-Brandon Overton[1]; 5. 32C-Chris Simpson[7]; 6. 46-Earl Pearson Jr[11]; 7. 16-Tyler Bruening[15]; 8. 15J-Justin Duty[9]; 9. 1H-Hudson O’Neal[14]; 10. 39-Tim McCreadie[13]; 11. 1T-Tyler Erb[8]; 12. 25-Chad Simpson[12]; 13. 111B-Max Blair[18]; 14. 174-Ethan Dotson[20]; 15. 58-Garrett Alberson[23]; 16. 7-Ross Robinson[24]; 17. 8-Dillon McCowan[21]; 18. 11H-Jeff Herzog[22]; 19. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck[17]; 20. 22H-Dustin Hodges[5]; 21. (DNF) 11-Spencer Hughes[10]; 22. (DNF) 36-Logan Martin[16]; 23. (DNF) 14G-Trevor Gundaker[25]; 24. (DNF) 15L-Payton Looney[3]; 25. (DNF) 18D-Daulton Wilson[19]

FAST Shafts B Main 1 (10 Laps): 1. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck[2]; 2. 18D-Daulton Wilson[4]; 3. 8-Dillon McCowan[1]; 4. 58-Garrett Alberson[5]; 5. 46J-Jason Papich[3]; 6. 1X-Aaron Marrant[6]; 7. 14G-Trevor Gundaker[7]; 8. 1A-Bryon Allison[10]; 9. 45-Cole Wells[8]; 10. 50-Kaeden Cornell[9]; 11. 82-Jace Parmley[11]; 12. 7J-Ryan Johnson[12]

UNOH B Main 2 (10 Laps): 1. 111B-Max Blair[1]; 2. 174-Ethan Dotson[3]; 3. 11H-Jeff Herzog[2]; 4. 99B-Boom Briggs[4]; 5. 50C-Kayden Clatt[7]; 6. 7-Ross Robinson[6]; 7. 78S-Steve Stultz[9]; 8. 1TC-Tucker Cox[11]; 9. 96-Dalton Imhoff[8]; 10. 0X-Jason Sivils[10]; 11. 7B-Mark Burgtorf[5]; 12. 42L-Lane Ehlert[12]

Penske Shocks Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 76-Brandon Overton[2]; 2. 22H-Dustin Hodges[1]; 3. 15J-Justin Duty[3]; 4. 39-Tim McCreadie[8]; 5. 8-Dillon McCowan[5]; 6. 46J-Jason Papich[4]; 7. 58-Garrett Alberson[9]; 8. 14G-Trevor Gundaker[7]; 9. 50-Kaeden Cornell[6]; 10. 82-Jace Parmley[10]

Summit Racing Equipment Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 15L-Payton Looney[1]; 2. 32C-Chris Simpson[2]; 3. 46-Earl Pearson Jr[3]; 4. 16-Tyler Bruening[4]; 5. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck[6]; 6. 18D-Daulton Wilson[5]; 7. 1X-Aaron Marrant[9]; 8. 45-Cole Wells[8]; 9. 1A-Bryon Allison[7]; 10. 7J-Ryan Johnson[10]

Simpson Race Products Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[1]; 2. 99-Devin Moran[4]; 3. 11-Spencer Hughes[2]; 4. 1H-Hudson O’Neal[3]; 5. 111B-Max Blair[6]; 6. 174-Ethan Dotson[5]; 7. 7B-Mark Burgtorf[8]; 8. 50C-Kayden Clatt[7]; 9. 78S-Steve Stultz[9]; 10. 1TC-Tucker Cox[10]

AP1 Insurance Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 49-Jonathan Davenport[1]; 2. 1T-Tyler Erb[4]; 3. 25-Chad Simpson[2]; 4. 36-Logan Martin[6]; 5. 11H-Jeff Herzog[3]; 6. 99B-Boom Briggs[7]; 7. 7-Ross Robinson[5]; 8. 96-Dalton Imhoff[8]; 9. 0X-Jason Sivils[10]; 10. 42L-Lane Ehlert[9]

Qualifying – GROUP A (2 Laps): 1. 22H-Dustin Hodges, 00:15.389[16]; 2. 15L-Payton Looney, 00:15.416[2]; 3. 76-Brandon Overton, 00:15.443[19]; 4. 32C-Chris Simpson, 00:15.482[7]; 5. 15J-Justin Duty, 00:15.601[18]; 6. 46-Earl Pearson Jr, 00:15.666[1]; 7. 46J-Jason Papich, 00:15.701[9]; 8. 16-Tyler Bruening, 00:15.712[5]; 9. 8-Dillon McCowan, 00:15.947[14]; 10. 18D-Daulton Wilson, 00:15.993[4]; 11. 50-Kaeden Cornell, 00:16.011[3]; 12. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck, 00:16.029[12]; 13. 14G-Trevor Gundaker, 00:16.030[20]; 14. 1A-Bryon Allison, 00:16.080[17]; 15. 39-Tim McCreadie, 00:16.120[6]; 16. 45-Cole Wells, 00:16.125[11]; 17. 58-Garrett Alberson, 00:16.169[15]; 18. 1X-Aaron Marrant, 00:16.342[13]; 19. 82-Jace Parmley, 00:16.535[10]; 20. 7J-Ryan Johnson, 00:16.679[8]

Qualifying – GROUP B: 1. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr, 00:15.272[15]; 2. 49-Jonathan Davenport, 00:15.372[4]; 3. 11-Spencer Hughes, 00:15.430[18]; 4. 25-Chad Simpson, 00:15.530[7]; 5. 1H-Hudson O’Neal, 00:15.542[11]; 6. 11H-Jeff Herzog, 00:15.580[12]; 7. 99-Devin Moran, 00:15.581[1]; 8. 1T-Tyler Erb, 00:15.725[16]; 9. 174-Ethan Dotson, 00:15.740[6]; 10. 7-Ross Robinson, 00:15.754[19]; 11. 111B-Max Blair, 00:15.851[2]; 12. 36-Logan Martin, 00:15.894[17]; 13. 50C-Kayden Clatt, 00:15.995[5]; 14. 99B-Boom Briggs, 00:16.023[8]; 15. 7B-Mark Burgtorf, 00:16.151[9]; 16. 96-Dalton Imhoff, 00:16.220[13]; 17. 78S-Steve Stultz, 00:16.231[14]; 18. 42L-Lane Ehlert, 00:16.640[3]; 19. 1TC-Tucker Cox, 00:16.718[20]; 20. 0X-Jason Sivils, 00:17.150[10]

Hot Laps – GROUP 1: 1. 18D-Daulton Wilson, 00:16.196[4]; 2. 16-Tyler Bruening, 00:16.263[5]; 3. 46-Earl Pearson Jr, 00:16.268[1]; 4. 39-Tim McCreadie, 00:16.445[6]; 5. 50-Kaeden Cornell, 00:16.491[3]; 6. 32C-Chris Simpson, 00:16.548[7]; 7. 15L-Payton Looney, 00:16.735[2]; 8. 46J-Jason Papich, 00:17.128[9]; 9. 7J-Ryan Johnson, 00:17.439[8]; 10. 82-Jace Parmley, 00:17.757[10]

Hot Laps – GROUP 2: 1. 76-Brandon Overton, 00:15.962[9]; 2. 15J-Justin Duty, 00:16.045[8]; 3. 1X-Aaron Marrant, 00:16.210[3]; 4. 1A-Bryon Allison, 00:16.425[7]; 5. 45-Cole Wells, 00:16.515[1]; 6. 8-Dillon McCowan, 00:16.541[4]; 7. 22H-Dustin Hodges, 00:16.668[6]; 8. 14G-Trevor Gundaker, 00:16.777[10]; 9. 58-Garrett Alberson, 00:16.928[5]; 10. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck, 00:17.129[2]

Hot Laps – GROUP 3: 1. 49-Jonathan Davenport, 00:15.497[4]; 2. 111B-Max Blair, 00:15.514[2]; 3. 99-Devin Moran, 00:15.867[1]; 4. 7B-Mark Burgtorf, 00:16.025[9]; 5. 174-Ethan Dotson, 00:16.334[6]; 6. 25-Chad Simpson, 00:16.692[7]; 7. 50C-Kayden Clatt, 00:16.709[5]; 8. 0X-Jason Sivils, 00:16.733[10]; 9. (DNS) 42L-Lane Ehlert; 10. (DNS) 99B-Boom Briggs

Hot Laps – GROUP 4: 1. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr, 00:15.352[5]; 2. 11-Spencer Hughes, 00:15.451[8]; 3. 1H-Hudson O’Neal, 00:15.624[1]; 4. 7-Ross Robinson, 00:15.919[9]; 5. 1T-Tyler Erb, 00:15.921[6]; 6. 11H-Jeff Herzog, 00:15.942[2]; 7. 96-Dalton Imhoff, 00:16.381[3]; 8. 1TC-Tucker Cox, 00:16.893[10]; 9. 78S-Steve Stultz, 00:16.935[4]; 10. (DNS) 36-Logan Martin