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Eldora Speedway
Davenport
Sweeps Dream Weekend
Bloomquist Takes Checkered Flag But Is Disqualified
Giant Eldora Crowd Erupts When Bloomquist is Light at Scales; Davenport
Wins $100,000 After Last Lap Attempt Fails
ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 6, 2015) – Scott Bloomquist took the checkered
flag, but couldn’t get past the post-race weight scale and was
disqualified during Saturday night’s Dirt Late Model Dream XXI
presented by Ferris Commercial Mowers.
Jonathan Davenport, who led from lap 61 until a lap 91 restart, took
the victory after Bloomquist took his car to the scale and it was 25
pounds light. Thus he was disqualified and posted 28th.
Bloomquist went to the scale and the green light did not appear. He
backed up and tried one more time, but officials found his car to be
under the 2,300 pound minimum post-race weight requirement.
Davenport, from Williamston, South Carolina, won the A-Features on
Friday and Saturday night, so he brought out the broom as he swept the
weekend and collected $100,000 as the victor.
“I thought we had second-place to Scott (Bloomquist),” Davenport said.
“And then he gets over there and he’s light. This is definitely not the
way I want to win my first crown jewel. I wanted to actually beat that
guy. He’s so hard to beat. He’s so good around here. He’s good
everywhere.”
A winning car has never been light before in the previous 20 Dreams. In
the 2005 World 100, Shannon Babb won the race, but was light at the
scales and Dale McDowell was scored as the winner.
Bloomquist did not comment after the race.
“All those heartaches we’ve had, all the bad luck, all the little bitty
stuff that has happened here or at other places, all went out the
window,” Davenport said. “It’s a breath of fresh air.”
Dennis Erb Jr., from Carpentersville, Illinois, was third, while 2014
Dream winner McDowell was fourth. Shane Clanton was fifth.
Don O’Neal from Martinsville, Indiana, started on the pole and led the
first lap before being passed by Jared Landers from Batesville,
Arkansas. Landers led laps two and three before Clanton got by him.
Clanton, from Zebulon, Georgia led until lap 61 before Davenport
tracked him down.
It appeared the race would go green all the way, but on lap 89, there
was debris in turns two and four. Davenport was leading with Bloomquist
behind him and on the restart Davenport pulled away.
But a caution on lap 91 involving Matt Westfall and Gregg Satterlee
setup another double-file restart, and Bloomquist bested Davenport in
Turn 1 sliding in front of him to take away his preferred high line as
they rocketed off Turn 2.
Davenport gave it one more shot as the leaders took the white flag, but
the lapped car of Jimmy Owens got in his way as he attempted to pass
Bloomquist and he looked like he was going to be second.
“The second yellow I thought ‘Oh no, not again,” Davenport said. “I
survived one, but Scott is so good on those restarts especially in the
slick. And I tried to do the same thing and I spun the tires at the
flagstand. I could hear him and I’m like ‘Oh no, here we go.’ I
probably should have gone down a lane and tried to block him a bit, but
I tried to roll the top and I thought if he slid me, I could get him
back under him. I got a little aero loose when he went by and he got
away from me a bit.
“I got back to him at the white flag, there was Jimmy. I thought ‘Man,
I just lost my chance.’ Jimmy was out there and he went to the outside
and I tried to fit between them, but that didn’t work and I thought it
was over.”
It was not over as while Bloomquist took the checkered flag, he was
light on the scales and Davenport won the $100,000.
It’s another race that builds on the legend that is Eldora.
NKTelco presents Cometic Gasket Ohio Sprint Speedweek for the UNOH All
Star Circuit of Champions Sprint Car Series on Saturday, June 20 while
the DIRTCar UMP Modifieds and the Eldora Stocks will also join the
card.
21st Annual Dirt Late Model Dream by Ferris Commercial Mowers
June 6, 2015
DIRTcar UMP Late Models
Heat 1 - (15 Laps)
1. 6-Jonathan Davenport[3] ; 2. 20-Jimmy Owens[2] ; 3. 7R-Kent
Robinson[1] ; 4. 21JR-Billy Moyer Jr. [5] ; 5. 23B-John Blankenship[6]
; 6. 31-Nick Latham[7] ; 7. R1-Riley Hickman[9] ; 8. 1-Josh Richards[8]
; 9. 16-Austin Siebert[12] ; 10. 75P-Terry Phillips[10] ; 11. 28G-Kelly
Guy[11] ; 12. 95J-Jerry Bowersock[13] ; 13. 5*-Bryant Dickinson[14] ;
14. 21-Billy Moyer[4]
Heat 2 - (15 Laps)
1. 28-Dennis Erb Jr. [3] ; 2. 54-Matt Westfall[2] ; 3. 39-Tim
McCreadie[4] ; 4. 28M-Jimmy Mars[1] ; 5. 22S-Gregg Satterlee[7] ; 6.
33-Tim Manville[8] ; 7. 11S-Rusty Schlenk[6] ; 8. 28C-Eddie Carrier Jr.
[9] ; 9. 5N-Dustin Nobbe[13] ; 10. 14H-Rodney Hamblin[14] ; 11. 30-Mark
Voigt[12] ; 12. 157-Mike Marlar[5]
Heat 3 - (15 Laps)
1. 777-Jared Landers[4] ; 2. 22-Chris Ferguson[6] ; 3. 29-Darrell
Lanigan[2] ; 4. 32P-Bobby Pierce[1] ; 5. 99M-Devin Moran[5] ; 6.
55-Jeep VanWormer[3] ; 7. R5-Chris Simpson[7] ; 8. 16C-Matt Cochran[10]
; 9. 25Z-Mason Zeigler[9] ; 10. 18K-Brandon Kinzer[8] ; 11. 3c-Charlie
LaPlant[13]
Heat 4 - (15 Laps)
1. B5-Brandon Sheppard[2] ; 2. 17M-Dale McDowell[3] ; 3. C9-Steve
Casebolt[6] ; 4. F5-Garrett Alberson[9] ; 5. 81JR-Jason Riggs[7] ; 6.
99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr. [1] ; 7. 3s-Brian Shirley[5] ; 8. 68J-Jake
O'Neil[10] ; 9. 1G-Devin Gilpin[8] ; 10. 85D-Mark Dotson[12] ; 11.
11A-Austin Smith[11] ; 12. 4C-Ernie Cordier[13] ; 13. 3-Matt Miller[4]
Heat 5 - (15 Laps)
1. 25C-Shane Clanton[3] ; 2. 0-Scott Bloomquist[2] ; 3. 18-Shannon
Babb[4] ; 4. 83-Scott James[9] ; 5. 15-Steve Francis[1] ; 6. 11R-James
Rice[6] ; 7. 25S-Chad Simpson[5] ; 8. 20C-Duane Chamberlain[7] ; 9.
14M-Morgan Bagley[8] ; 10. 93-Jay Johnson[11] ; 11. 91-Tyler Erb[10] ;
12. 3G-Brian Gray[13] ; 13. 68-Dan Shepherd[12]
Heat 6 - (15 Laps)
1. 5-Don O'Neal[3] ; 2. 11JR-Josh Rice[5] ; 3. 1E-Earl Pearson Jr.[9] ;
4. 25-Jason Feger[2] ; 5. 76-Brandon Overton[6] ; 6. 48L-Tim Lance[8] ;
7. 1J-Davey Johnson[1] ; 8. 6m-Wendall Wallace[7] ; 9. 77-Cody
Mahoney[13] ; 10. 116-Randy Weaver[4] ; 11. 88-Andrew Reaume[10] ; 12.
444-Brian Ligon[12]
B-Main 1 - (20 Laps)
1. 99M-Devin Moran[6] ; 2. 28M-Jimmy Mars[2] ; 3. 23B-John
Blankenship[4] ; 4. 22S-Gregg Satterlee[5] ; 5. R5-Chris Simpson[12] ;
6. 31-Nick Latham[7] ; 7. 21JR-Billy Moyer Jr. [1] ; 8. 55-Jeep
VanWormer[9] ; 9. 11S-Rusty Schlenk[11] ; 10. 32P-Bobby Pierce[3] ; 11.
25Z-Mason Zeigler[18] ; 12. 18K-Brandon Kinzer[19] ; 13. 16C-Matt
Cochran[15] ; 14. 30-Mark Voigt[20] ; 15. 3c-Charlie LaPlant[24] ; 16.
14H-Rodney Hamblin[21] ; 17. R1-Riley Hickman[10] ; 18. 28C-Eddie
Carrier Jr. [14] ; 19. 1-Josh Richards[13] ; 20. 16-Austin Siebert[16]
; 21. 95J-Jerry Bowersock[23] ; 22. 5N-Dustin Nobbe[17] ; 23. 28G-Kelly
Guy[22]
B-Main 2 - (20 Laps)
1. 83-Scott James[2] ; 2. F5-Garrett Alberson[1] ; 3. 76-Brandon
Overton[6] ; 4. 25S-Chad Simpson[11] ; 5. 20C-Duane Chamberlain[14] ;
6. 88-Andrew Reaume[21] ; 7. 81JR-Jason Riggs[4] ; 8. 6m-Wendall
Wallace[15] ; 9. 14M-Morgan Bagley[17] ; 10. 15-Steve Francis[5] ; 11.
99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr. [7] ; 12. 25-Jason Feger[3] ; 13. 68J-Jake
O'Neil[13] ; 14. 85D-Mark Dotson[19] ; 15. 48L-Tim Lance[9] ; 16.
444-Brian Ligon[24] ; 17. 3G-Brian Gray[25] ; 18. 4C-Ernie Cordier[26]
; 19. 1J-Davey Johnson[12] ; 20. 11R-James Rice[8] ; 21. 3s-Brian
Shirley[10] ; 22. 1G-Devin Gilpin[16]
Dirt Late Model Dream - (100 Laps)
1. 6-Jonathan Davenport[6] ; 2. 1E-Earl Pearson Jr.[18] ; 3. 28-Dennis
Erb Jr. [5] ; 4. 17M-Dale McDowell[10] ; 5. 25C-Shane Clanton[2] ; 6.
11JR-Josh Rice[12] ; 7. 777-Jared Landers[4] ; 8. 5-Don O'Neal[1] ; 9.
20-Jimmy Owens[7] ; 10. 25S-Chad Simpson[28] ; 11. 29-Darrell
Lanigan[15] ; 12. 23B-John Blankenship[25] ; 13. 116-Randy Weaver[19] ;
14. 18-Shannon Babb[17] ; 15. B5-Brandon Sheppard[3] ; 16. 22S-Gregg
Satterlee[27] ; 17. 7R-Kent Robinson[13] ; 18. 54-Matt Westfall[8] ;
19. 76-Brandon Overton[26] ; 20. F5-Garrett Alberson[24] ; 21. 22-Chris
Ferguson[9] ; 22. 39-Tim McCreadie[14] ; 23. C9-Steve Casebolt[16] ;
24. 157-Mike Marlar[20] ; 25. 83-Scott James[22] ; 26. 28M-Jimmy
Mars[23] ; 27. 99M-Devin Moran[21] ; 28. 0-Scott Bloomquist[11]
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About Eldora Speedway:
Since carved from a cornfield in the natural amphitheater that existed
between the Eldora Ballroom and the Wabash River by bandleader Earl
Baltes in 1954, Eldora Speedway has grown to be a frontrunner in
motorsports growth and stability. Celebrating its 62nd season in 2015,
Eldora hosts the biggest events in short-track racing including the
21st annual Dirt Late Model Dream by Ferris Mowers; the 32nd annual
Kings Royal Weekend; the third NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
1-800-CAR-CASH Mud Summer Classic; and the 45th annual World 100. The
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