The World of Outlaws Super Dirt Late Models continued their race weekend on Saturday night for night 2 at Modoc Speedway. Last night, race fans in attendance saw a first time winner which was Cody Overton. C. Overton was looking to repeat his performance from Friday night when he led every lap and fended off Bobby Pierce.
However, Jonathan Davenport took his 19th career World of Outlaws Dirt Late Models Series victory (first of the season) after holding off Ryan Gustin in the waning laps.
“Good thing I don’t have a rear-view mirror,” Davenport jokingly said to Dirtvision in victory lane. “I didn’t know where they was that. I didn’t know where I was best at or worst at. What a phenomenal racetrack. I wasn’t in love with it last night, but it was better than old Modoc. Tonight I loved it. It was really good, you had to really hit your marks to where you were going to run on the racetrack. You could really slip and not get back going the other way. It’s just so icy slick. I remember a couple of times I thought I ran in (Turn) 1 way too hard, and I’m like, oh no, don’t do what Cody (Overton) did.
“It was pretty treacherous really. Finally that little bit left and I just moved back off of that. The wall is oddly shaped too. You’re against the wall and off the wall, and you get back on it, it’s real technical for sure. We moved back to the bottom, and I couldn’t really make up no ground on the lap cars where I was running, and floating to the middle to the top. I moved around. Cory (Fostvedt, Crew Chief) was trying to point up or down, I don’t know what he was doing. I think he was just trying to tell me do whatever you need to do.
“Just really cool to be able to move through the field. I felt like we had a really good car there when I got behind (Ryan) Gustin and started moving around to where he wouldn’t, and I could find a little speed there. I just needed everything to go right there, and I tried to slide him a couple of times in (Turns) 3 and 4 down there, and I just didn’t quite have him clear, so I just left him a lane up there. I was hoping he was going to do that to me later on if he had a run on me. Thanks to my guys. We just kept talking about this thing, and we really didn’t know what to do here.
“Obviously nobody did except Cody (Overton) it seems like. We just listened to the car instead of what we normally listen do. So we went a little bit different direction for the feature, and this thing was really good.”
Feature Race Recap – 60-Laps – $25,000 To Win
C. Overton started on the pole with Tyler Erb on the outside pole position.
Erb took the lead off Turn 2 from C. Overton and led Lap 1. The first caution flew at Lap 6 for Ethan Wilson who was in the Turn 2 wall. Meanwhile, B. Overton brought his machine in the infield to adjust on the right-rear. C. Overton began closing on the race leader of Erb and eventually passed Erb for the lead off Turn 2 at Lap 14. A few laps later at Lap 17, C. Overton brought out the caution off Turn 2 for a right-rear flat tire after making contact with Erb when trying to pass for the lead. Mike Marlar and Dustin Sorensen also brought their Late Models to the pit area for repair.
The race went back green with 44 laps to go. Davenport took the lead from Erb at Lap 22 off Turn 4 after using a slider. Two laps later the second caution flew at Lap 24 for Ethan Wilson. Tristan Chamberlain took his machine in the infield as well. Eli Johnson was in the infield for repairs.
Davenport led the field back to green with 37 laps to go. At Lap 36, second-place Gustin began to close in on the race leader of Davenport. but was unsuccessful in passing the leader of Davenport. With 10 laps to go, Pierce and Gustin swapped the second position with Pierce getting second. However, Pierce brought out the caution at Lap 56 for being off the pace after being in second.
The race resumed with five laps to go with Davenport as the leader. Davenport would hang on to win his 19th career World of Outlaws Super Dirt Late Model Series victory.
Heat Race Recaps – Top Four Transfer – 8 Laps A Piece
Prior to the heat races, there was a hot lap and qualifying session. Chris Ferguson was the fastest with a time of 16.605 seconds. In Flight A qualifying, C. Overton had the quick time of 16.771 seconds. For Flight B qualifying, Jonathan Davenport was the fastest, pacing the field with a time of 16.834 seconds.
Heat 1 – C. Overton was on the pole for the first heat. He would win the first heat, with Tim McCreadie, Trey Mills, and Chris Madden taking the top four.
Heat 2 – Pierce was on the pole for the second heat. Second place starter Hudson O’Neal took the lead from Pierce going into Turn 1 at the start. Nick Hoffman made his way into the second position by passing Pierce. Pierce drew the caution at Lap 6 as he was slow on the track. It was later determined that it was a broken oil pump on Pierce’s car.
O’Neal won the heat race and was followed by Hoffman, Carson Ferguson, and Chris Ferguson for the transfers.
Heat 3 – Davenport had the pole for the third heat. Erb won the heat with Davenport, Dustin Sorensen, and Ross Bailes for the top four.
Heat 4 – Gustin had the pole for the fourth and final heat. Gustin won the fourth heat with Mike Marlar, Daulton Wilson, and Eli Johnson taking the four transfer spots.
For those that missed the feature, you can watch the highlights below.
Ethan Dotson won the Last Chance Showdown with Kyle Strickler, and Pierce transferring. Additionally, Brandon Overton won the Last Chance Showdown 2 feature with Luke More, and Ethan Wilson also moved on.
Official Race Results Following Night 2 at Modoc Speedway
- Jonathan Davenport
- Ryan Gustin
- Hudson O’Neal
- Trey Mills
- Nick Hoffman
- Tim McCreadie
- Ross Bailes
- Tyler Erb
- Luke Morey
- Ethan Dotson
- Carson Ferguson
- Dennis Erb Jr
- Chris Ferguson
- Garrett Smith
- Logan Zarin
- Dustin Sorensen
- Daulton Wilson
- Bobby Pierce
- Mike Marlar
- Tristan Chamberlain
- Chris Madden
- Brandon Overton
- Eli Johnson
- Ethan Wilson
- Kyle Strickler
- Cody Overton
Up Next – With night 2 complete, the series now turns to championship week on The Dirt Track at Charlotte Motor Speedway. On Wednesday, November 4, the series will have hot laps and Thursday and Friday qualifying sessions. On Thursday night, they will have Last Chance Showdowns, which will be 10 laps each, and a 35-lap feature. For Friday, they will have heat races that’ll be 8-laps a piece and the redraw, and another Last Chance Showdowns. Saturday evening will determine the champion as the series again will have heat races, redraw, Last Chance Showdowns, and the 50-lap feature, all live on Dirtvision.
