Jonathan Davenport grabbed the lead just past the race’s halfway point and held off a hard charging and 26th starting Mike Marlar to win the 50th World 100 on Saturday night. Davenport is now in rare air, becoming only the fourth driver to accumulate four World 100 Championships.
For a second consecutive night, a near capacity crowd drove up the famous Eldora 50/50 winner’s share north of $100,000.
Full video highlights are posted below.
Heat #1 – (15)Laps – Top 3 Transfer 1. 49-Jonathan Davenport[1]; 2. 66-Kyle Bronson[3]; 3. 11H-Spencer Hughes[2]; 4. 11K-Austin Kirkpatrick[5]; 5. 17M-Dale McDowell[4]; 6. 32S-Chris Simpson[8]; 7. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr[6]; 8. 26JR-Jimmy Sharpe Jr[9]; 9. 151-Kyle Lear[11]; 10. 3-Dale Markham[12]; 11. 69-Jon Hodgkiss[13]; 12. 10-Joseph Joiner[7]; 13. 89-G.R. Smith[10]; 14. 20C-Duane Chamberlain[14]
Heat #2 – (15)Laps – Top 3 Transfer 1. 1-Brandon Sheppard[3]; 2. 29-Darrell Lanigan[5]; 3. 22F-Chris Ferguson[4]; 4. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[6]; 5. 19R-Ryan Gustin[7]; 6. 91P-Jason Papich[9]; 7. 20M-Josh Morton[12]; 8. M27-Mike Provenzano[13]; 9. 97-Michael Chilton[10]; 10. 9-Devin Moran[2]; 11. 18-Shannon Babb[8]; 12. 17-Zack Dohm[1]; 13. 7R-Kent Robinson[11]
Heat #3 – (15)Laps – Top 3 Transfer 1. 76-Brandon Overton[2]; 2. 8-Kyle Strickler[3]; 3. 23-John Blankenship[6]; 4. 72-Mike Norris[8]; 5. 83F-Jensen Ford[1]; 6. 4G-Kody Evans[7]; 7. 4-Travis Stemler[10]; 8. 111-Steven Roberts[9]; 9. 11-Gordy Gundaker[12]; 10. 12-Jeff Curl[13]; 11. 3S-Brian Shirley[5]; 12. 0NH-Nick Hoffman[4]; 13. C9-Steve Casebolt[11]
Heat #4 – (15)Laps – Top 3 Transfer 1. 1ST-Johnny Scott[1]; 2. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[2]; 3. 44-Chris Madden[4]; 4. 22-Gregg Satterlee[3]; 5. 83-Scott James[9]; 6. 1G-Ryan King[10]; 7. 111V-Max Blair[8]; 8. 45-Kyle Hammer[7]; 9. 78S-Steve Stultz[11]; 10. 95-Jerry Bowersock[12]; 11. 354-Chris Nash[13]; 12. 2S-Stormy Scott[6]; 13. 71-Hudson O’Neal[5]
Heat #5 – (15)Laps – Top 3 Transfer 1. 32-Bobby Pierce[3]; 2. 7-Ricky Weiss[2]; 3. 14-Josh Richards[5]; 4. 25F-Jason Feger[10]; 5. 25Z-Mason Zeigler[9]; 6. 81-Jason Riggs[13]; 7. 17F-Billy Franklin[11]; 8. 5N-Dustin Nobbe[12]; 9. 157-Mike Marlar[4]; 10. 1T-Tyler Erb[8]; 11. 58-Mark Whitener[6]; 12. 99B-Boom Briggs[7]; 13. 25-Shane Clanton[1]
Heat #6 – (15)Laps – Top 3 Transfer 1. 0-Scott Bloomquist[2]; 2. 0E-Rick Eckert[1]; 3. 39-Tim McCreadie[3]; 4. 20-Jimmy Owens[4]; 5. 6-Ashton Winger[5]; 6. 23H-Cory Hedgecock[9]; 7. 25S-Chad Simpson[6]; 8. 1C-Alex Ferree[8]; 9. 18X-Michael Page[7]; 10. 48-Tim Lance[12]; 11. 0K-Freddie Carpenter[10]; 12. 10S-Garrett Smith[11]; 13. 29B-Caleb Burgess[13]
B-Feature #1 – (20)Laps – Top 3 Transfer 1. 11K-Austin Kirkpatrick[1]; 2. 72-Mike Norris[3]; 3. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr[7]; 4. 9-Devin Moran[20]; 5. 83F-Jensen Ford[6]; 6. 97-Michael Chilton[17]; 7. 4-Travis Stemler[12]; 8. 111-Steven Roberts[15]; 9. 26JR-Jimmy Sharpe Jr[10]; 10. 20M-Josh Morton[11]; 11. 11-Gordy Gundaker[18]; 12. 69-Jon Hodgkiss[19]; 13. 12-Jeff Curl[21]; 14. 3-Dale Markham[16]; 15. 4G-Kody Evans[9]; 16. 19R-Ryan Gustin[5]; 17. 32S-Chris Simpson[4]; 18. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[2]; 19. 151-Kyle Lear[13]; 20. 91P-Jason Papich[8]; 21. M27-Mike Provenzano[14]; 22. 10-Joseph Joiner[22]; 23. 18-Shannon Babb[23]; 24. 3S-Brian Shirley[24]
Scramble #1 – (5)Laps – Winner Transfers 1. 9-Devin Moran[1]; 2. 97-Michael Chilton[3]; 3. 83F-Jensen Ford[2]; 4. 4-Travis Stemler[4]; 5. 26JR-Jimmy Sharpe Jr[6]; 6. 111-Steven Roberts[5]; 7. 69-Jon Hodgkiss[9]; 8. 11-Gordy Gundaker[8]; 9. 12-Jeff Curl[10]; 10. 3-Dale Markham[11]
B-Feature #2 – (20)Laps – Top 3 Transfer 1. 6-Ashton Winger[6]; 2. 22-Gregg Satterlee[1]; 3. 157-Mike Marlar[17]; 4. 1T-Tyler Erb[20]; 5. 25S-Chad Simpson[12]; 6. 25F-Jason Feger[2]; 7. 95-Jerry Bowersock[19]; 8. 45-Kyle Hammer[13]; 9. 111V-Max Blair[10]; 10. 1G-Ryan King[7]; 11. 0K-Freddie Carpenter[24]; 12. 48-Tim Lance[21]; 13. 17F-Billy Franklin[11]; 14. 5N-Dustin Nobbe[14]; 15. 23H-Cory Hedgecock[9]; 16. 354-Chris Nash[22]; 17. 20-Jimmy Owens[3]; 18. 78S-Steve Stultz[16]; 19. 81-Jason Riggs[8]; 20. 25Z-Mason Zeigler[5]; 21. 83-Scott James[4]; 22. 18X-Michael Page[18]; 23. 1C-Alex Ferree[15]; 24. 58-Mark Whitener[23]
Scramble #2 – (5)Laps – Winner Transfers 1. 25S-Chad Simpson[2]; 2. 1T-Tyler Erb[1]; 3. 95-Jerry Bowersock[4]; 4. 25F-Jason Feger[3]; 5. 45-Kyle Hammer[5]; 6. 111V-Max Blair[6]; 7. 1G-Ryan King[7]; 8. 0K-Freddie Carpenter[8]; 9. 48-Tim Lance[9]; 10. 5N-Dustin Nobbe[11]
A-Feature – (100)Laps 1. 49-Jonathan Davenport[6]; 2. 157-Mike Marlar[26]; 3. 76-Brandon Overton[4]; 4. 39-Tim McCreadie[18]; 5. 22F-Chris Ferguson[14]; 6. 1-Brandon Sheppard[5]; 7. 17M-Dale McDowell[19]; 8. 44-Chris Madden[16]; 9. 66-Kyle Bronson[7]; 10. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr[25]; 11. 25S-Chad Simpson[28]; 12. 0E-Rick Eckert[12]; 13. 14-Josh Richards[17]; 14. 32-Bobby Pierce[2]; 15. 8-Kyle Strickler[9]; 16. 0-Scott Bloomquist[1]; 17. 23-John Blankenship[15]; 18. 1ST-Johnny Scott[3]; 19. 11K-Austin Kirkpatrick[21]; 20. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[10]; 21. 9-Devin Moran[27]; 22. 7-Ricky Weiss[11]; 23. 29-Darrell Lanigan[8]; 24. 11H-Spencer Hughes[13]; 25. 22-Gregg Satterlee[24]; 26. 72-Mike Norris[23]; 27. 6-Ashton Winger[22]; 28. 0NH-Nick Hoffman[20]
Photos by Joshua Carpenter, Paul Arch and Mike Campbell