Silver Dollar Nationals Friday Preliminary Recap

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GREENWOOD, NE (July 17, 2015) Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series and Lucas Oil Midwest Latemodel Racing Association preliminary heats for Silver Dollar Nationals set an event record, with 60 cars entered for the Nebraska crown jewel event. Jonathan Davenport and Tad Pospisil will start on the front row of Saturday’smain event. There were two (2) rounds of six (6) heat races Friday night, with only LOLMDS point’s leader Jonathan Davenport able to win both his first and second round heats.

In the first heat of round one, Nebraskan, Tad Pospisil started off the night by coming from the 10th starting spot to take the win. The second heat went to Hall-of-Famer Billy Moyer, as he came from the fourth starting spot. Earl Pearson Jr. led all the way in heat three for the victory. Jared Landers charged from the outside of row one to take lead in a battle that lasted all 12 laps. Jason Utter swept heat five, and Jonathan Davenport came home the winner in the sixth and final heat race of round one.

In round two, Chris Brown narrowly grabbed the win of the first heat. It took Davenport a while to get to the front in heat two after starting eighth, but eventually he got the lead and went on for the victory. Scott Bloomquist; the defending Silver Dollar Nationals winner; was uncontested in winning heat three. R.C. Whitwell won handily in heat four. Jimmy Owens won a great battle to take heat five, and Dennis Erb Jr. nabbed the final heat win of the night.

Action on the track will get underway on Saturday with 2 B-Mains, followed by the Belt Bash Non-Qualifiers Race. The 80-lap Silver Dollar Nationals main event will cap off an exciting weekend of racing for the LOLMDS and MLRA.

In preliminary action, Tad Pospisil, Billy Moyer, Earl Pearson Jr, Jimmy Owens, Jason Utter, and Jonathan Davenport won their respective first round heat races. Chris Brown, Jonathan Davenport, Scott Bloomquist, RC Whitwell, Jimmy Owens, and Dennis Erb Jr. won their respective second round heat races. Jesse Stovall won the Cubby’s Chase to the Silver Dollar Nationals.

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Race Summary
Friday, July 17th, 2015
Silver Dollar Nationals
I-80 Speedway – Greenwood, NE

Eibach Springs FIRST ROUND Heat Race #1 Finish: Tad Pospisil, Terry Phillips, Chad Hollenbeck, Jason Feger, Dave Eckrich, Junior Coover, Jason O’Brien, Curt Drake, Robbie Andersen, Garrett Alberson

FK Rod Ends FIRST ROUND Heat Race #2 Finish: Billy Moyer, Chad Simpson, Gregg Satterlee, Matt Buller, Jesse Stovall, John Duty, Denny Eckrich, Andrew Kosiski, Randy Timms, Keegan Nordquist

Simpson Performance Products FIRST ROUND Heat Race #3 Finish: Earl Pearson, Jr., Chris Spieker, Eddie Carrier, Jr., Chris Simpson, Ben Schaller, Jeremy Payne, Mike Wiarda, Bill Koons, Brad Perdue, John Hampel

QA1 FIRST ROUND Heat Race #4 Finish: Jared Landers, Jimmy Owens, Rodney Sanders, Scott Bloomquist, Chris Brown, Ryan Gustin, Dennis Erb, Jr., Allan Hopp, JC Wyman, Bill Leighton, Jr.

Eibach Springs FIRST ROUND Heat Race #5 Finish: Jason Utter, Clay Daly, Jake O’Neil, Mike Collins, Brian Kosiski, Kyle Berck, Corey Zeitner, Ray Sveeggen, Cory Dumpert, Justin Duty

FK Rod Ends FIRST ROUND Heat Race #6 Finish: Jonathan Davenport, Don O’Neal, Brandon Sheppard, Jason Papich, Steve Francis, RC Whitwell, Jordan Grabouski, Mike Stadel, Austin Siebert, Bob Milander

Eibach Springs SECOND ROUND Heat Race #1 Finish: Chris Brown, Brandon Sheppard, Clay Daly, Ben Schaller, Jason O’Brien, Brad Perdue, Chad Hollenbeck, Bob Milander, John Duty, Keegan Nordquist-DNS

FK Rod Ends SECOND ROUND Heat Race #2 Finish: Jonathan Davenport, Gregg Satterlee, Ryan Gustin, Jason Papich, Garrett Alberson, Brian Kosiski, Cory Dumpert, Mike Wiarda, Curt Drake, Denny Eckrich

Simpson Performance Products SECOND ROUND Heat Race #3 Finish: Scott Bloomquist, Chad Simpson, Jason Feger, Rodney Sanders, Mike Stadel, Bill Koons, Junior Coover, Jake O’Neil, Justin Duty-DNS, Austin Siebert-DNS

QA1 SECOND ROUND Heat Race #4 Finish: RC Whitwell, Jeremy Payne, Jason Utter, Kyle Berck, Chris Simpson, Jordan Grabouski, Allan Hopp, Dave Eckrich, JC Wyman, Randy Timms-DNS

Eibach Springs SECOND ROUND Heat Race #5 Finish: Jimmy Owens, Jared Landers, Billy Moyer, Terry Phillips, Steve Francis, Andrew Kosiski, Chris Spieker, Corey Zeitner, John Hampel, Ray Sveeggen

FK Rod Ends SECOND ROUND Heat Race #6 Finish: Dennis Erb, Jr., Tad Pospisil, Jesse Stovall, Eddie Carrier, Jr., Don O’Neal, Earl Pearson, Jr., Mike Collins, Matt Buller, Bill Leighton, Jr., Robbie Andersen-DNS

Cubby’s Chase to the Silver Dollar Nationals Finish: Jesse Stovall, Chad Simpson, RC Whitwell, Ryan Gustin, Kyle Berck, Brandon Sheppard, Terry Phillips, Bill Leighton Jr., Brian Kosiski, Jason Utter, Corey Zeitner, Dave Eckrich, Ben Schaller, Tad Pospisil, Matt Buller, Jeremy Payne, Mike Wiarda, Jake O’Neil-DNS

Fast Shafts B-Main #1 Line Up:

Keyser MFG B-Main #2 Line Up:

Feature Line Up (After Heats):

Silver Dollar Nationals Passing Points Totals: