1. Tires the concern after World 100 dominance?
Another crown jewel, another absolutely dominant performance by Jonathan Davenport, who weathered a challenge from Brandon Overton to score his fifth career win in Eldora’s World 100 and his second major victory at the track this season after taking the Eldora Million in June.
🏁 SEPTEMBER MEANS THE WORLD
🌎🌎🌎🌎🌎Jonathan Davenport wins another crown jewel race at Eldora, collecting his fifth #World100.
🥈 Brandon Overton
🥉 Chris Madden
📸 @EldoraSpeedway / Tyler Carr pic.twitter.com/DF4WKv15xe— Always Race Day (@AlwaysRaceDay) September 11, 2022
The good folks at DirtonDirt picked up on a thread that warrants more discussion in their Monday roundtable feature, with senior writer Kevin Kovac noting that he had heard many driver complaints about the weekend’s tires being unable to grip a slick Eldora surface that in turn made changing racing lines difficult Saturday night (Sept. 10).
Statistically, passing was not an issue at Eldora despite Davenport’s prowess up front (Dale McDowell scored a 17-spot improvement over the course of 100 laps). But this storyline is worth noting when one follows up on last week’s story that Hoosier Tire is slimming down its compound offerings for the 2023 season, tying at least the two top dirt late model series to a select compound beginning next season.
As discussed last week, there is merit to Hoosier’s tire planning for next year. But if tires truly were a concern in the first major late model race run since the 2023 rule was announced, it illuminates the major risk super late model racing may find itself dealing with come Speedweeks in February: What if Hoosier’s latest, greatest (and fewer) offerings aren’t up to snuff?
2. Ricky Weiss sits out World 100 after Friday DQ
Staying at Eldora, Ricky Weiss had an eventful Friday night in preliminary action, scoring an unlikely prelim feature win only to minutes later become the highest-profile victim of late model racing’s “droop rule” in recent memory. Weiss was disqualified and his win stripped after track officials found his decklid to be an inch outside of tolerance. The decision to DQ Weiss led to the Canadian driver and his self-owned team to skip B-mains Saturday and end their World 100 weekend.
Unfortunately — our weekend at the 52nd annual #World100 @EldoraSpeedway has come to an early end… 💔
After last night’s disqualification, our team has mutually…
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