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Overton, Davenport win Dream prelims; Corey Day gets first USAC midget win | DIRTRACKR Daily 6/10/21
It is Thursday, June 10th, two thousand and twenty one. Welcome into DIRTRACKR Daily. I'm Justin Fiedler.
Today we are talking about last night's racing at Eldora and Circle City, there is news from Senoia, today's streaming schedule, and more. Let's jump in.
If you were to look at the results from last night's opening prelim features for the double Dream week you'd say that things went pretty much how most folks thought. Brandon Overton took the night's first 25 lapper, and Jonathan Davenport won the second feature and $10k. But as we watched it last night, things didn't quite go that easily. The heartbreak of the night award goes to Stormy Scott. Since winning at East Bay with Lucas back on January 28th, Stormy hasn't been in the spotlight, that was until last night. He was quick time in his group, picked up a transfer spot in his heat race, and sat on the pole of the first feature. It was one of those nights where things were going really well until they went really bad. He led the first 21 laps of the feature, but was under pressure late from fourth starting Brandon Overton. Into turn one with four to go, Stormy slipped up on the highside and ended up in the wall, ending his night. He later admitted to Joshua Joiner that he was watching the big screen trying to see where Overton was and just missed his entry a bit. Now he'll need to replace some front suspension pieces and get his car back into shape to try and march his way into tonight's Dream feature. Overton went on to win the race, with Kyle Bronson, Chad Simpson, Ricky Weiss, and Chris Ferguson all in the top five. Drivers with less than stellar results included Brandon Sheppard in 12th, Chris Madden in 16th, Dennis Erb Jr. in 19th, Darrell Lanigan in 22nd, and Hudson O'Neal was out early with overheating problems and finished 24th. Guys like Kyle Strickler and Ross Bailes did not make it out of the B main. The second feature was dominated flag-to-flag by Davenport, with Jimmy Owens, Jacob Hawkins, Mike Marlar, and Brian Shirley rounding out the top five. Kyle Larson ended up 8th in the second feature after getting an earlier heat race win and running top five through the opening stretch of the race. Scott Bloomquist was one of the notables who didn't transfer from the second B main. Looking ahead to tonight, heat race lineups were set by last night's results based on points and a two car invert. Heats will be 15 laps with the top three making the big show. Kyle Larson, Jacob Hawkins, Dale McDowell, Brian Shirley, Chad Simpson, and Brandon Sheppard are the pole sitters for the six heats. Following heats we'll get two 20 lap consolation races, followed by two five lap scrambles. Then we'll go racing for 100 laps and $127,000 to win. Night one certainly didn't change my mind about what to expect for tonight. I still think that Davenport, Overton, and Larson are really in good positions, with Superman looking like the favorite. He looked nearly untouchable last night going quick time and getting the heat race win before the feature domination. 100 laps is obviously a long race that will include cautions and restarts and seeing the track change from start to finish, but barring some sort of bad luck, I don't know how you bet against Davenport. Hot laps begin at Eldora tonight at 6:30 with heat races scheduled to go green at 8. If you can't be there, watch the action live on FloRacing. Drop me a comment below or on social and let me know who you are picking to win tonight.
I am debating about doing a live stream tonight for another watch party. Drop me a note and let me know if you're down for that. We could go live on YouTube and watch the Dream and Indiana Midget Week.
About two hours to the southwest of Eldora last night, Indiana Midget Week was in action at Circle City Raceway in Indianapolis. The USAC midget competitors were back racing after a two day break following the first four nights. It was the debut for midgets at the new track and when the dust settled at the end, we were treated to a first time winner and the youngest winner in the history of the series. California's Corey Day was super impressive, starting on the outside front row and leading all 30 laps en route to the win. At 15 years and 6 months old he's now the youngest driver to ever win a USAC midget feature, beating the previous record held by Zeb Wise at 15 years, 8 months. Day is competing this week with Clauson Marshall and through the first four nights had been solid, but hadn't yet shown race winning pace. He's been good out in California so far in 2021, doing a lot of sprint car racing, but last night was definitely a coming out party for him. I've had a few people tell me recently that he's one to watch, and he will definitely be on people's radar going forward. One of the people hanging around victory lane last night was past World of Outlaws champion Jason Meyers, who Day drove for earlier in the season. That's one hell of a mentor to have if you're a young driver. As for the battle for the weeklong title, Chris Windom extended his points lead last night even though he finished 12th. Buddy Kofoid ended up tipped over on lap 19 and he finished 19th, and the trouble has seen him slip to third in the points. So with three nights still to race, Windom leads Logan Seavey by 17 points, with Kofoid third, Daison Pursley fourth, and Justin Grant in fifth. Windom has also taken the points lead in the season long championship chase, now leading Kofoid by seven markers. With the top ten streaks busted for both Kofoid and Grant last night, Daison Pursley has the now longest current top ten streak at five races. Indiana Midget Week continues tonight at Lincoln Park Speedway. Windom and Kyle Larson split wins there in 2020. If you can't attend, watch live on FloRacing.
When I had Jacqueline Rumley on an episode of Conversations back in early April, she made mention of the improvements happening at Senoia Raceway in Georgia, and the track took a big step forward today with the announcement of a big money weekend coming up later in the year. On November 12th and 13th the track will host an unsanctioned super late model event celebrating their 52nd year of racing that will pay $10,000 to win on Friday night and a very nice $52,000 to win on Saturday night. With the Pollard family now back in control of the race track and veteran racer Clint Smith helping run things, this event and all the work that has been completed show the commitment of keeping this track thriving. Both nights will be streamed live on Flo and I'm sure it will attract a fantastic field of cars. The track will release more details on the event soon.
There are seven shows on the streaming schedule for today. Fast Four has the continuation of Sooner 600 week at Creek County, FloRacing has night two of the dreams, Indiana Midget Week from Lincoln Park, and weekly IMCA action from Kossuth County. Speed Sport has micros from US24 and IMCA racing at Thunder Mountain. To see the full daily streaming schedule with links to watch, visit dirtrackr.com/watchtonight.
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