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Jonathan Davenport in victory lane at Eldora Speedway. (Julia Johnson photo)

Davenport Hits PayDirt At Eldora

ROSSBURG, Ohio — Jonathan Davenport continued his Eldora Speedway dominance on Wednesday night with a $20,000 Castrol FloRacing Night in America late model victory.

Davenport led all 50 laps from the outside-front-row starting spot for his first win of year with the miniseries and the fourth of his career with the tour.

Davenport took the checkered flag 7.211 seconds in front of Devin Moran with Ricky Thornton Jr., Hudson O’Neal and Bobby Pierce.

“It may have looked easy but I didn’t feel as comfortable in the car as I would’ve liked, and somehow I managed to hit the wall again,” Davenport quipped. “This car is so good, and I love it and worry about it even sitting in the show because I never want anything to happen to it. I know the end of the feature that the groove got a little narrow, but man this track crew did a great job getting it from where it was on Sunday to where we had it tonight. I know they’ll keep grinding on it, and we’ll have a great track for the World 100 weekend.”

The finish:

Feature (50 Laps): 1. 49-Jonathan Davenport[2]; 2. 99-Devin Moran[5]; 3. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[6]; 4. 71-Hudson O’Neal[7]; 5. 32-Bobby Pierce[8]; 6. 93-Carson Ferguson[11]; 7. 30-Ryan Gustin[9]; 8. B5-Brandon Sheppard[10]; 9. 11R-Josh Rice[16]; 10. 1-Tim McCreadie[1]; 11. 11-Brandon Overton[19]; 12. 1T-Tyler Erb[15]; 13. 19M-Spencer Hughes[21]; 14. 23-Cory Hedgecock[18]; 15. 28C-Tyler Carpenter[12]; 16. 87-Ross Bailes[23]; 17. 20-Jimmy Owens[20]; 18. 25-Jason Feger[25]; 19. 18D-Daulton Wilson[3]; 20. 58-Garrett Alberson[14]; 21. 28E-Dennis Erb Jr[26]; 22. (DNF) 12-Jason Jameson[17]; 23. (DNF) 74X-Ethan Dotson[13]; 24. (DNF) 14-Wil Herrington[22]; 25. (DNF) 9-Nick Hoffman[4]; 26. (DNF) 22S-Gregg Satterlee[24]