Dream XXV – Friday (6.7.19)

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#	First	Last	Thu H	Thu B	Thu A	Fri H	Fri B	Fri A	TOTAL
1	49D	Jonathan	Davenport	200	0	496	197	0	500	1393
2	7W	Ricky	Weiss	200	0	500	200	0	492	1392
3	29	Darrell	Lanigan	197	0	500	197	0	488	1382
4	22	Chris	Ferguson	194	0	488	197	0	496	1375
5	25C	Shane	Clanton	194	0	480	200	0	500	1374
6	44	Chris	Madden	197	0	496	200	0	476	1369
7	17M	Dale	McDowell	200	0	488	194	0	480	1362
8	20	Jimmy	Owens	200	0	484	194	0	484	1362
9	39	Tim	McCreadie	200	0	484	192	0	472	1348
10	3S	Brian	Shirley	197	0	492	194	0	464	1347
11	7R	Kent	Robinson	192	0	456	197	0	496	1341
12	18	Chase	Junghans	194	0	448	200	0	488	1330
13	1T	Tyler	Erb	200	0	472	194	0	460	1326
14	8H	Jacob	Hawkins	197	0	492	190	0	444	1323
15	1	Brandon	Sheppard	192	0	464	194	0	472	1322
16	0B	Shannon	Babb	197	0	460	197	0	468	1322
17	28M	Jimmy	Mars	197	0	476	192	0	456	1321
18	87	Ross	Bailes	190	0	436	200	0	492	1318
19	18X	Michael	Page	190	0	448	200	0	480	1318
20	157	Mike	Marlar	194	0	468	194	0	456	1312
21	1S	Chad	Simpson	200	0	472	190	0	444	1306
22	40B	Kyle	Bronson	197	0	456	200	0	452	1305
23	71	Hudson	O'Neal	192	0	464	190	0	452	1298
24	22S	Gregg	Satterlee	194	0	476	192	0	424	1286
25	5	Don	O'Neal	190	0	412	197	0	484	1283
26	23B	John	Blankenship	190	0	432	197	0	464	1283
27	83	Scott	James	192	0	460	190	0	440	1282
28	1P	Earl	Pearson Jr.	200	0	480	192	0	408	1280
29	O	Scott	Bloomquist	190	0	428	194	0	468	1280
30	8S	Kyle	Strickler	188	0	432	194	0	460	1274
31	25Z	Mason	Zeigler	197	0	468	190	0	416	1271
32	14	Josh	Richards	188	0	408	197	0	476	1269
33	7M	Donald	Mcintosh	192	0	452	190	0	432	1266
34	88R	Andrew	Reaume	192	0	452	192	0	424	1260
35	28	Dennis	Erb Jr.	190	0	444	188	0	436	1258
36	50	Shanon	Buckingham	192	0	440	188	0	436	1256
37	16T	Tyler	Bruening	186	0	416	192	0	448	1242
38	17	Zack	Dohm	186	0	436	188	0	432	1242
39	C9	Steve	Casebolt	186	400	0	200	0	448	1234
40	99JR	Frank	Heckenast Jr.	188	0	416	190	0	440	1234
41	99RT	Ricky	Thornton Jr	190	0	420	184	0	428	1222
42	1ST	Johnny	Scott	192	0	420	188	0	420	1220
43	32S	Chris	Simpson	194	0	440	188	396	0	1218
44	24	Dylan	Yoder	194	0	412	192	0	412	1210
45	33	Jonathan	Henry	194	0	444	186	384	0	1208
46	B1	Brent	Larson	188	0	424	186	404	0	1202
47	9	Devin	Moran	184	400	0	188	0	428	1200
48	2	Brandon	Overton	190	0	428	182	400	0	1200
49	32	Bobby	Pierce	188	0	424	184	404	0	1200
50	12W	Ashton	Winger	186	392	0	186	0	420	1184
51	2H	Nick	Hoffman	188	0	408	184	404	0	1184
52	71R	Rod	Conley	180	396	0	186	0	412	1174
53	49T	Jake	Timm	188	404	0	186	396	0	1174
54	111	Steven	Roberts	182	380	0	192	0	416	1170
55	88	Trent	Ivey	182	384	0	190	0	408	1164
56	1V	Vic	Hill	186	396	0	184	396	0	1162
57	55	Jeep	Van Wormer	182	400	0	182	396	0	1160
58	18K	Brandon	Kinzer	184	392	0	182	400	0	1158
59	20C	Duane	Chamberlain	180	388	0	188	400	0	1156
60	51	Joey	Moriarty	184	404	0	178	388	0	1154
61	2X	John	Henderson	184	380	0	186	404	0	1154
62	OK	Freddie	Carpenter	184	400	0	178	392	0	1154
63	1GK	Ryan	King	184	396	0	186	384	0	1150
64	1N	Casey	Noonan	180	388	0	182	392	0	1142
65	4G	Kody	Evans	180	384	0	184	392	0	1140
66	48F	Colton	Flinner	182	384	0	186	388	0	1140
67	OO	Dalton	Polston	182	380	0	182	392	0	1136
68	12J	Jason	Jameson	184	388	0	180	380	0	1132
69	36V	Kyle	Hardy	180	392	0	184	372	0	1128
70	5N	Dustin	Nobbe	178	376	0	184	388	0	1126
71	21	Robby	Hensley	182	388	0	180	376	0	1126
72	14G	Joe	Godsey	182	372	0	184	388	0	1126
73	48	Tim	Lance	182	384	0	180	380	0	1126
74	6	Blake	Spencer	180	376	0	188	376	0	1120
75	31AUS	Paul	Stubber	180	372	0	180	384	0	1116
76	101T	Forrest	Trent	186	372	0	178	380	0	1116
77	15V	Kolby	Vandenbergh	178	376	0	180	380	0	1114
78	421	Anthony	Sanders	180	380	0	180	368	0	1108
79	14R	Jeff	Roth	178	368	0	178	376	0	1100
80	27	Jim	Yoder	178	372	0	178	372	0	1100
81	P3	Josh	Robertson	178	368	0	182	372	0	1100
82	5D	Bryant	Dickinson	178	376	0	176	368	0	1098
83	25H	Chuck	Hummer	176	368	0	178	364	0	1086
84	22F	Nick	Fenner	176	364	0	178	368	0	1086
85	2S	Stormy	Scott	0	396	0	178	400	0	974
86	OOS	Jesse	Stovall	184	392	0	180	0	0	756
87	1M	Mike	Mataragas	186	0	0	182	376	0	744
88	72	Michael	Norris	188	404	0	0	0	0	592
89	95J	Jerry	Bowersock	186	404	0	0	0	0	590
90	71C	RJ	Conley	0	0	0	182	384	0	566
91	8A	Rob	Anderzack	0	0	0	180	372	0	552

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

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