Dirt Racing’s Winning Moment: Kyle Larson prevailed in an absolute slugfest with Jonathan Davenport, taking the lead with 13 laps to go to win his own Late Model Challenge race Thursday night (April 6) at the Volunteer Speedway in Tennessee.
Davenport and Larson started on the front row and were almost immediately locked into a battle of slide jobs up front that saw the two swap the lead three times in a caution-free race. Davenport led the opening eight laps and then retook the lead from Larson in lapped traffic on lap 26, but a tight condition in Davenport’s car made it impossible for him to block the high-side line Larson eventually ran to victory.
Veteran Dale McDowell finished second, getting past Davenport with seven to go as Davenport burned up his right-rear tire.
Larson actually took the checkered flag with a flat tire after making contact with the lapped car of Kyle Busch on the white-flag lap.
Dirt Racing’s Dramatic Moment(s): Pick any of the lead changes between Larson and Davenport during Thursday’s 50-lapper. Flo Racing’s Dustin Jarrett dubbed Thursday’s feature “a banger at Bulls Gap” and that was no exaggeration.
Be it Larson,
Or Davenport, two of the best in the business bested each other cleanly. Big-time racing.
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Fifty green-flag laps, zero cautions, a fantastic race. There’s a reason the great James Essex remarks “please stay green” during every race he calls. Green-flag racing means comers and goers. Comers and goers means a show worth watching. Thank God short-track racing hasn’t forgotten that very simple formula.
Volunteer Speedway damn well better not close next week like they did after this race last year. If a racetrack can’t turn a profit drawing the type of crowd and field of cars that was in Bulls Gap on Thursday the business model is irrevocably broken.
Thank God the folks at Volunteer chose to front-load the program with getting all the super late model program done first. Volunteer’s “combination” late model class includes crate late models, and where there’s crates, there’s caution flags. And, in the case of Thursday’s nightcap support feature, two red flags as well.
Though on the flip side, seeing the drone shots of just how much traffic had to actually exit…
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