Night one of the North/South 100 is in the books
Tonight, it’s night one of a three-day show on the half-mile dirt track of Florence Speedway. The Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series unloads in Union, Kentucky for North/South 100 weekend. Saturday’s finale pays $50,000 to win.
View 2021 North South 100 results below.
Florence Speedway Menu: North/South
Aug 12 | Aug 13 | Aug 14
Kyle Bronson blew a tire in his heat race. Jonathan Davenport lost a driveshaft ahead of qualifying and then crashed in his heat race. Nick Hoffman also had heat race issues after qualifying 3rd in Group B. All those drivers were forced to a B-Main.
Tonight, the national dirt late model drivers battle for $10,000.
Main Event
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It’s a packed crowd of Kentucky dirt track fans. Lightning surrounds the race track in all angles, however, the rain has yet to fall.
Ricky Thornton Jr and Brandon Overton set the front row. 50 laps of dirt late model racing are up next…
Green flag, they run even into turn one. Thornton Jr gets the drive off the bottom and leads into turn three.
Lap 6, Thornton Jr to the cushion in turn one. Marlar drives it deep to the bottom. Side by side for the lead, Thornton Jr holds him off.
Lap 12, Stormy Scott slows and the caution is out.
Green, Thornton Jr leads. Overton takes 2nd away. Overton drives it deep on the outside of Thornton Jr into turn three and he wins the battle off turn four and completes the pass into turn one.
Josh Rice slows behind them, caution.
Green, Overton leads.
Marlar drives it deep to the inside of Thornton Jr for 2nd. They make light contact as they fight for space. Marlar has the spot.
Lap 15, Tim McCreadie is knocking the cushion and coming to the front behind them.
Lap 17, slow car, caution.
Green, Overton leads as Thornton Jr retakes 2nd.
McCreadie looks inside of Marlar for 3rd but can’t complete the pass.
Lap 21
Lap 21, Josh Richards slows, caution.
Green, Overton leads. Thornton Jr and Marlar slide each other and cross for 2nd. McCreadie sticks his nose in that battle, three wide for 2nd. Thornton Jr holds 2nd as McCreadie takes 3rd away.
Lap 30, Overton leads by 8 car lengths. Thornton Jr knocks the cushion as McCreadie rolls the bottom, lap after lap, side by side for 2nd.
Lap 35, Davenport has charged from the back of the field to 7th. He’s running lower than anyone, up over the inside berm in turn one.
10 to go, Overton has no trouble was lap traffic as he runs right through the middle.
Brandon Overton wins the North South Shootout!
Florence Speedway
Race Results
August 12, 2021
Lucas Oil Late Models
View full 2021 Lucas Oil results from the Kentucky dirt track below.
Practice
Hot Laps 1 : 1. 40B-Kyle Bronson, 00:16.244[6]; 2. 17M-Dale McDowell, 00:16.383[5]; 3. 14-Josh Richards, 00:16.466[2]; 4. 11B-Tommy Bailey, 00:16.604[10]; 5. 11R-Josh Rice, 00:16.753[1]; 6. 49G-Billy Green, 00:16.795[9]; 7. 18L-Trevor Landrum, 00:16.973[7]; 8. 20C-Duane Chamberlain, 00:17.036[3]; 9. 20TC-Tristan Chamberlain, 00:17.290[4]; 10. 17C-Jeremy Creech, 00:18.859[8]
Hot Laps 2 : 1. 20-Jimmy Owens, 00:16.172[9]; 2. 49-Jonathan Davenport, 00:16.339[1]; 3. 1-Earl Pearson Jr, 00:16.543[3]; 4. 16-Justin Rattliff, 00:16.551[8]; 5. 20B-Todd Brennan, 00:16.722[4]; 6. 66C-Matt Cosner, 00:16.889[5]; 7. 1ST-Johnny Scott, 00:16.929[6]; 8. 23T-Ethan Toedter, 00:17.245[2]; 9. 8A-Curt Addison, 00:17.896[7]
Hot Laps 3 : 1. 0H-Nick Hoffman, 00:16.005[9]; 2. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr, 00:16.011[3]; 3. 157-Mike Marlar, 00:16.087[2]; 4. 17D-Zack Dohm, 00:16.162[1]; 5. 97-Michael Chilton, 00:16.267[5]; 6. 75-Terry Phillips, 00:16.328[6]; 7. 22-Gregg Satterlee, 00:16.374[8]; 8. 15-James Rice, 00:16.380[4]; 9. 29-Darrell Lanigan, 00:16.536[7]
Hot Laps 4 : 1. 39-Tim McCreadie, 00:15.898[5]; 2. 76-Brandon Overton, 00:15.921[9]; 3. 25-Shane Clanton, 00:16.090[4]; 4. 71-Hudson O’Neal, 00:16.093[8]; 5. 83-Scott James, 00:16.166[1]; 6. 21H-Robby Hensley, 00:16.306[7]; 7. 8-Kyle Strickler, 00:16.710[2]; 8. 33-Jesse Lay, 00:17.155[3]; 9. 13-Vern Lefevers, 00:18.235[6]
Hot Laps 4 : 1. 1T-Tyler Erb, 00:16.000[3]; 2. 7R-Kent Robinson, 00:16.071[2]; 3. 11H-Spencer Hughes, 00:16.174[5]; 4. 12J-Jason Jameson, 00:16.254[1]; 5. 4G-Kody Evans, 00:16.345[7]; 6. 13W-David Webb, 00:16.365[8]; 7. 2S-Stormy Scott, 00:16.391[6]; 8. D8-Dustin Linville, 00:16.523[4]; 9. 1GK-Grant Garrison, 00:17.113[9]
Qualifying
Qualifying – Group A (2 Laps) : 1. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr, 00:15.839[22]; 2. 157-Mike Marlar, 00:15.947[21]; 3. 17D-Zack Dohm, 00:16.000[20]; 4. 11R-Josh Rice, 00:16.022[1]; 5. 14-Josh Richards, 00:16.048[2]; 6. 40B-Kyle Bronson, 00:16.051[6]; 7. 20-Jimmy Owens, 00:16.073[19]; 8. 1ST-Johnny Scott, 00:16.174[16]; 9. 17M-Dale McDowell, 00:16.222[5]; 10. 1-Earl Pearson Jr, 00:16.252[13];
11. 11B-Tommy Bailey, 00:16.338[10]; 12. 20TC-Tristan Chamberlain, 00:16.414[4]; 13. 15-James Rice, 00:16.423[23]; 14. 16-Justin Rattliff, 00:16.446[18]; 15. 49-Jonathan Davenport, 00:16.485[11]; 16. 18L-Trevor Landrum, 00:16.504[7]; 17. 20C-Duane Chamberlain, 00:16.537[3]; 18. 20B-Todd Brennan, 00:16.691[14]; 19. 49G-Billy Green, 00:16.733[9]; 20. 23T-Ethan Toedter, 00:16.752[12];
21. 66C-Matt Cosner, 00:16.781[15]; 22. 17C-Jeremy Creech, 00:17.731[8]; 23. 8A-Curt Addison, 00:17.834[17]
Qualifying – Group B (2 Laps) : 1. 76-Brandon Overton, 00:15.712[14]; 2. 39-Tim McCreadie, 00:15.977[10]; 3. 0H-Nick Hoffman, 00:16.013[5]; 4. 1T-Tyler Erb, 00:16.023[17]; 5. 11H-Spencer Hughes, 00:16.024[19]; 6. 83-Scott James, 00:16.043[6]; 7. D8-Dustin Linville, 00:16.060[18]; 8. 71-Hudson O’Neal, 00:16.079[13]; 9. 2S-Stormy Scott, 00:16.118[20]; 10. 25-Shane Clanton, 00:16.209[9];
11. 7R-Kent Robinson, 00:16.218[16]; 12. 97-Michael Chilton, 00:16.240[1]; 13. 22-Gregg Satterlee, 00:16.338[4]; 14. 33-Jesse Lay, 00:16.355[8]; 15. 29-Darrell Lanigan, 00:16.403[3]; 16. 75-Terry Phillips, 00:16.498[2]; 17. 12J-Jason Jameson, 00:16.502[15]; 18. 4G-Kody Evans, 00:16.528[21]; 19. 13W-David Webb, 00:16.598[22]; 20. 21H-Robby Hensley, 00:16.628[12];
21. 8-Kyle Strickler, 00:16.813[7]; 22. 1GK-Grant Garrison, 00:16.973[23]; 23. 13-Vern Lefevers, 00:17.926[11]
Heat Races
Heat 1 (8 Laps – Top 4 Advance) : 1. Thornton.R(Jr.) 2-Dohm.Z 3-Richards.J 4-Owens.J 5-McDowell.D 6-Rice.J 7-Bailey.T 8-Cosner.M 9-Davenport.J 10-Chamberlain.D 11-Green.B 12-Addison.C
Heat 2 (8 Laps – Top 4 Advance) : 1. Marlar.M 2-Rice.J 3-Pearson.E(Jr) 4-Scott.J 5-Rattliff.J 6-Bronson.K 7-Brennan.T 8-Landrum.T 9-Chamberlain.T 10-Toedter.E 11-Creech.J
Heat 3 (8 Laps – Top 4 Advance) : 1. Overton.B 2-Hughes.S 3-Scott.S 4-Lanigan.D 5-Linville.D 6-Satterlee.G 7-Robinson.K 8-Strickler.K 9-Jameson.J 10-Webb.D 11-Lefevers.V 12-Hoffman.N
Heat 4 (8 Laps – Top 4 Advance) : 1-McCreadie.T 2-Erb.T 3-O’Neal.H 4-James.S 5-Clanton.S 6-Chilton.M 7-Lay.J 8-Phillips.T 9-Evans.K 10-Hensley.R 11-Garrison.G
B-Mains
B Main 1 (10 Laps – Top 3 Advance) : 1. 15-James Rice[3]; 2. 40B-Kyle Bronson[4]; 3. 16-Justin Rattliff[2]; 4. 49-Jonathan Davenport[9]; 5. 18L-Trevor Landrum[8]; 6. 11B-Tommy Bailey[5]; 7. 66C-Matt Cosner[7]; 8. 20TC-Tristan Chamberlain[10]; 9. 23T-Ethan Toedter[12]; 10. 17C-Jeremy Creech[14]; 11. 17M-Dale McDowell[1]; 12. 20B-Todd Brennan[6]; 13. 8A-Curt Addison[15]; 14. (DNS) 20C-Duane Chamberlain; 15. (DNS) 49G-Billy Green
B Main 1 (10 Laps – Top 3 Advance) : 1. Shane Clanton; 2. Gregg Satterlee; 3. Dustin Linville; 4. Kent Robinson; 5. Robby Hensley; 6. Terry Phillips; 7. Michael Chilton; 8. Kyle Strickler; 9. Kody Evans; 10. Jesse Lay; 11. Grant Garrison; 12. Vern Lefevers; 13. Jason Jameson; 14. David Webb; 15. Nick Hoffman;
Florence
Feature Race Results
August 12 2021
A-Main (50 Laps – $10,000 to win):
Pos | Driver | Start Pos | Race Earnings
1. 76-Brandon Overton[2]
$10,000
2. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[1]
$5,600
3. 39-Tim McCreadie[4]
$3,500
4. 20-Jimmy Owens[13]
$2,700
5. 49-Jonathan Davenport[23]
$2,500
6. 157-Mike Marlar[3]
$2,300
7. 40B-Kyle Bronson[19]
$2,200
8. 71-Hudson O’Neal[12]
$2,100
9. 11H-Spencer Hughes[6]
$2,050
10. 17D-Zack Dohm[5]
$2,000
11. 1T-Tyler Erb[8]
$1,600
12. 16-Justin Rattliff[21]
$1,400
13. 1ST-Johnny Scott[15]
$1,200
14. 25-Shane Clanton[18]
$1,000
15. 1-Earl Pearson Jr[11]
$950
16. 2S-Stormy Scott[10]
$925
17. 15-James Rice[17]
$900
18. 22-Gregg Satterlee[20]
$875
19. 29-Darrell Lanigan[14]
$850
20. 83-Scott James[16]
$825
21. 14-Josh Richards[9]
$800
22. 7R-Kent Robinson[24]
$800
23. 11R-Josh Rice[7]
$800
24. 8A-Curt Addison[25]
$800
25. 13W-David Webb
$800
26. D8-Dustin Linville[22]
$800
Race Statistics
Entrants: 46
Lap Leaders: Ricky Thornton Jr (Laps 1 – 13); Brandon Overton (Lap 14 – 50)
Wrisco Feature Winner: Brandon Overton
Arizona Sport Shirts CJC – Presented by DirtOnDirt Feature Winner: n/a
Brandon Ford TV Challenge Feature Winner: Brandon Overton
Margin of Victory: 2.235 seconds
Stop Tech Brakes Cautions: Stormy Scott (Lap 12); Josh Rice (Lap 14); Kent Robinson (Lap 17); Josh Richards (Lap 21)
Series Provisionals: Jonathan Davenport
Fast Time Provisional: Kent Robinson
Series Emergency Provisionals: n/a
Track Provisionals: Curt Addison
Big River Steel Podium Top 3: Brandon Overton, Ricky Thornton Jr, Tim McCreadie
Penske Shocks Top 5: Brandon Overton, Ricky Thornton Jr, Tim McCreadie, Jimmy Owens, Jonathan Davenport
Optima Batteries Hard Charger of the Race: Jonathan Davenport (Advanced 18 Positions)
Midwest Sheet Metal Spoiler Challenge Point Leader: Tim McCreadie
Hot Rod Processing Most Laps Led: Brandon Overton (37 Laps)
Sunoco Race for Gas Highest Finisher: Brandon Overton
Eibach Springs Rookie of the Race: Ricky Thornton Jr
Dirty Girl Racewear Fastest Lap of the Race: Mike Marlar (Lap 3 –17.632 seconds)
Fast Shafts Tough Break of the Race: Josh Rice
Outerwears Crew Chief of the Race: Kent Fegter (Brandon Overton)
ARP Engine Builder of the Race: Clements Racing Engine
Miller Welders Chassis Builder of the Race: Longhorn Chassis
Dirt DraftFastest in Hot Laps: Tim McCreadie (15.898 seconds)
Time of Race: 23 minutes 21 seconds
Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series
Point Standings
Pos | Driver | Points | Earnings
1. Tim McCreadie
4240 | $138,055
2. Jonathan Davenport
4075 | $131,450
3. Hudson O’Neal
4050 | $146,505
4. Kyle Bronson
4000 | $128,610
5. Tyler Erb
3805 | $166,195
6. Jimmy Owens
3795 | $80,915
7. Ricky Thornton Jr
3760 | $89,600
8. Josh Richards
3730 | $89,325
9. Shane Clanton
3650 | $81,000
10. Mike Marlar
3570 | $78,530
11. Earl Pearson Jr
3245 | $57,225
12. Stormy Scott
3000 | $51,960
