{"id":48674,"date":"2024-09-07T04:25:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T08:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dirtcar.com\/?p=48674"},"modified":"2024-09-07T04:38:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T08:38:22","slug":"world-100-friday-davenport-banks-eldora-win-no-21-oneal-goes-back-to-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dirtcar.com\/divisions\/dirtcar-late-models\/world-100-friday-davenport-banks-eldora-win-no-21-oneal-goes-back-to-back\/","title":{"rendered":"WORLD 100 FRIDAY: Davenport Banks Eldora Win No. 21, O\u2019Neal Goes Back-to-Back"},"content":{"rendered":"
The second night of preliminary action in the 54th edition of the World 100<\/em> featured a 21st career Eldora Speedway Feature win for Jonathan Davenport and a second-straight Twin 25 Feature win for defending event winner Hudson O\u2019Neal.<\/p>\n Davenport, the five-time World 100<\/em> globe trophy winner from Blairsville, GA, drove his DIRTcar Late Model from ninth on the starting grid and took the lead on Lap 21 to win the Group A Twin 25 main event. O\u2019Neal, who also won his Feature on Thursday night, made it back-to-back wins at the historic half-mile oval by leading every lap of the Group B Twin 25.<\/p>\n High-points driver Tim McCreadie \u2014 the 2018 World 100<\/em> winner from Watertown, NY \u2014 finished fourth in the Group A Feature, earning him the high-points driver honors. As the top event points getter over the two-day stretch, McCreadie earned the right to spin the inversion wheel to determine the invert for Saturday\u2019s Heat Races, which landed on a \u20183.\u2019 This means the top-three starters in each Heat Race will be inverted, giving McCreadie an inside Row 2 starting spot in Heat 1.<\/p>\n Group A Feature<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Starting ninth on the grid following a third-place run in the third Shootout Race, Jonathan Davenport was not going to let the lack of a top starting spot slow his pursuit of victory.<\/p>\n The Georgia racer worked his way through the top-10, and by the halfway point, trailed only leader Devin Moran. As Moran entered lapped traffic, Davenport was able to reel him in. With the slower cars working in his favor, Davenport threw a slide-job on Moran in Turns 1-2 to take the lead, and then used the caution flag the following lap to get in clean air and drive away with his 21st career Feature win of any kind at Eldora.<\/p>\n