Davenport Prevails Again At East Bay Winternationals

Jonathan Davenport beat out Scott Bloomquist for the win in Friday night’s Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series feature at East Bay Winternationals. Photo by Mike Horne

Jonathan Davenport passed Scott Bloomquist with ten laps to go and went on to win Friday night’s Winternationals event at East Bay Raceway Park in Tampa, FL.

The win is the second of the week for the Blairsville, GA racer in Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series competition at the “Clay by the Bay.”

Trailing Davenport and Bloomquist to the checkered flag were Darrell Lanigan, Don O’Neal and Tim McCreadie.

“Just like last night, I gave it all I had,” Davenport said. “I saved my equipment and my tires. We still have electrical issues with this motor. It was breaking up so bad, that I could only run three-quarters of the throttle until the end of the race. Lee Roy (Rumley) told me if it was skipping too badly, to pull it in. I only ran the first five laps with it skipping.”

Bloomquist took off and led the caution-plagued event until Davenport went by him coming to the flagstand on lap 40. Before that, Davenport had a hard-fought battle with Lanigan for second. He broke away from that and was able to challenge Bloomquist for the top spot.

“Kevin Rumley he has got this thing working great,” said Davenport. “With all of the stuff going on, we are as good as we were last year. With all the cautions, I don’t think it helped tire wear any. I couldn’t take off at the starts. It took a couple of laps to get the heat back in them.

“Darrell (Lanigan) and I had a pretty good race for a while. I kind of pinched him off going into turn one and got into the back of Scott (Bloomquist). I knew if could stay in front him (Lanigan) I would have a chance at Scott at the end of the race. Scott’s car was really good. He is the master of all of this stuff. Once I got going, he started to slow down going into one. I knew after that last restart that I was going to roll around him on the top.”

“I think everything went pretty well until the end,” Bloomquist said. “Last night I tore up the tires a little more. The black got a little icy tonight. We didn’t cut up the tire like we did last night. Our restarts weren’t what we are accustomed to. I would spin the tires, and he (Davenport) got too good of a jump.

“He (Davenport) ran really well tonight. Hopefully we learned some things for tomorrow night. Our car seemed really well balanced out there, but it was still a little bit tight. I had to 3-wheel brake the car to get it to turn.”

Lanigan is in his first full-year running the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series for Clint Bowyer Racing and was pleased with his third place finish.

“We had a good car early on,” he said. “The last ten laps, we sort of fell off a bit, but we’ve got a pretty good piece with this Georgia Boot/Club 29 car. It was good finish for the team with (Don) O’Neal getting fourth.

“It’s been so long since we have run here, well over 10 years ago, and a lot has changed with these cars and the track. We will keep working on it and hopefully do better tomorrow night.”

Completing the top ten were Brandon Sheppard, Jared Landers, Jimmy Owens, Devin Moran and Earl Pearson, Jr.

In preliminary action, Davenport set the overall fast time (Group B) amongst the 35 entrants, with a lap of 14.819 seconds. Bloomquist set the fastest time in Group A with a time of 14.829 seconds. Bloomquist, Landers, Davenport, and O’Neal won their respective heat races. Mason Zeigler and David Breazeale won their respective B-Mains.

For more information on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, visit LucasDirt.com.

Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series
East Bay Raceway Park – Tampa, FL
East Bay Winternationals – Feb. 12, 2016

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Race Statistics
Entrants: 35
Lap Leaders: Scott Bloomquist (Laps 1 – 40); Jonathan Davenport (Laps 41 – 50)
Cautions: Ricky Weiss, Sonny Conley (Start); Devin Moran (Lap 1); Justin Rattliff (Lap 2); Freddie Carpenter (Lap 2); Bobby Pierce (Lap 19); Gregg Satterlee (Lap 23); Steve Francis (Lap 36)
Fastest Lap of the Race: Scott Bloomquist (Lap #8 – 15.0525 seconds)
Most Laps Led: Scott Bloomquist (40 Laps)
Time of Race: 36 minutes, 56 seconds