Davenport Caps Wild West Shootout Title with $11k Score
USA Raceway – Sunday Wild West Shootout Report
TUCSON, Ariz. (January 17, 2016) – Jonathan Davenport put an exclamation point on his Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout presented by Black Diamond-Club 29 Race Cars Super Late Model championship by topping Sunday night’s $11,000-to-win series finale atop the 3/8-mile USA Raceway.
Davenport raced into the lead just past the midway point of the 50 lapper en route to picking up the winner’s share that was boosted by AR Bodies. It was his third win of the six-race series aboard the TS Crane Service/Sundance Services No. 6 Longhorn-chassis.
While Davenport battled .500 atop the Tucson clay, another pair of drivers picked off their first Wild West Shootout wins of 2016 with Jake Gallardo earning Modified accolades and Donovan Flores taking the X Mod win.
Joining Davenport as Wild West Shootout champions were Todd Shute in Modifieds and Grant Southworth in X Mods.
With Davenport gridding the 50-lap Super Late Model feature seventh, pole starter Darrell Lanigan gunned into the early lead and set the pace until contact with a lapped car exiting turn four sent him spinning into the infield after eight laps. Lanigan was done with left front suspension woes.
California’s Jason Papich assumed command and set sail with Billy Moyer, Jr., and Terry Phillips battling for second in his wake.
Meanwhile, Blairsville, Georgia’s Davenport was on the move forward, racing by both Moyer, Jr., and Phillips on the 13th round to take over second.
Davenport reeled in Papich over the ensuing round, even scraping the turn three wall at one point as he ran the extreme high-side of the track.
“That’s about as close to the wall as you can run, the cushion was just a couple of inches off the fence,” Davenport said. “I got a piece of it that one time, the car wasn’t quite as good after that.”
It was good enough though, as Davenport battled past Papich for the point on the 26th lap and led the rest of the way to take the win.
Ricky Thornton, Jr., took over second on the 31st lap and tried to chase down Davenport, but to no avail.
Thornton, Jr., settled for second with Ryan Gustin charging from 18th to take over third in the closing rounds. Papich was fourth with Steve Francis rounding out the top five.
Jake Gallardo fought off fellow New Mexico shoe Stormy Scott over the final rounds to capture his first Border International Modifieds presented by MVT win of the series.
Gallardo narrowly beat Scott to the line to become the fourth different Modified winner of the week with Iowa’s Todd Shute putting the championship away with a third-place run. Darron Fuqua was fourth while Blake Jegtvig rallied from 21st to round out the top five.
Las Cruces’ Donovan Flores raced from the front row outside to become the fifth different winner in six Wild West Shootout RealTruck.com X Mods presented by Polar Industries main events.
Flores raced to the line ahead of Brandon Farrington with Jimmy Ray, Tyler Peterson and Grant Southworth rounding out the top five. The fifth-place run was just enough for Bloomer, Wisconsin’s Southworth to capture the Wild West Shootout championship, as he edged Ron Schreiner on a tiebreaker with Peterson just one point behind that duo.
Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout presented by Black Diamond-Club 29 Race Cars Results
USA Raceway – Sunday, January 17, 2016
Super Late Models:
Heat Races – Top 15 in passing points advance to “A” Main, balance to 3 “B” Mains
Heat One (8 Laps): 1. 33x-Ricky Thornton, Jr., 2. 86-Kyle Beard, 3. 93-Ray Moore, 4. 18-Chase Junghans, 5. 28m-Jimmy Mars, 6. 44-R.C. Whitwell, 7. 91T-Tony Toste, 8. 71-Dustin Strand, 9. 37-Scott Ward.
Heat Two (8 Laps): 1. 21jr-Billy Moyer, Jr., 2. 32-Chris Simpson, 3. 91p-Jason Papich, 4. 15s-Donny Schatz, 5. 98-Jason Rauen, 6. 99-Scott Lewis, 7. 17p-Craig Parker, 8. 22g-Paul Guglielmoni, 9. H30-Bill Holler.
Heat Three (8 Laps): 1. 15x-Steve Francis, 2. 7w-Ricky Weiss, 3. R30-Robert Odegard, 4. 10n-Rob Sanders, 5. 14m-Morgan Bagley, 6. B5-Brandon Sheppard, 7. 43-Dave Deetz, 8. 23-Brad Williams, 9. 7k-Jason Krohn.
Heat Four (8 Laps): 1. 15d-Justin Duty, 2. F5-Garrett Alberson, 3. 15-Darrell Lanigan, 4. 17x-Billy Franklin, 5. 58-A.J. Diemel, 6. 6T-Terry Carter, 7. 10-Junior Coover, 8. 24x-Rick Ortega, 9. 5x-John Duty.
Heat Five (8 Laps): 1. 20-Rodney Sanders, 2. 0-Jake O’Neil, 3. 21-Billy Moyer, 4. 91-Tyler Erb, 5. 19r-Ryan Gustin, 6. 11-Pat Doar, 7. 18h-Ronnie Lee Hollingsworth, 8. 11k-Jeremy Keller, 9. 40f-Dana Fite.
Heat Six (8 Laps): 1. 75-Terry Phillips, 2. 16-Austin Sievert, 3. 6-Jonathan Davenport, 4. 5-Don O’Neal, 5. 32b-Clay Daly, 6. 17-Larry Childress, 7. 14-Sean Bray, 8. R5-Hunter Rasdon.
“B” Mains – Top 3 from each advance to “A” Main
First “B” Main (12 Laps): 1. 16-Austin Sievert, 2. 14m-Morgan Bagley, 3. 28m-Jimmy Mars, 4. 15s-Donny Schatz, 5. 11-Pat Doar, 6. 14-Sean Bray, 7. 71-Dustin Strand, 8. 32b-Clay Daly, 9. 24x-Rick Ortega, 10. 17x-Billy Franklin, 11. 11k-Jeremy Keller, 12. 7k-Jason Krohn (DNS), 13. H30-Bill Holler (DNS).
Second “B” Main (12 Laps): 1. 5-Don O’Neal, 2. 44-R.C. Whitwell, 3. 86-Kyle Beard, 4. 58-A.J. Diemel, 5. 10n-Rob Sanders, 6. 98-Jason Rauen, 7. 99-Scott Lewis, 8. 17-Larry Childress, 9. 37-Scott Ward, 10. 43-Dave Deetz, 11. 5x-John Duty, 12. 10-Junior Coover, 13. R5-Hunter Rasdon (DNS).
Third “B” Main (12 Laps): 1. 19r-Ryan Gustin, 2. 0-Jake O’Neil, 3. B5-Brandon Sheppard, 4. 18h-Ronnie Lee Hollingsworth, 5. 93-Ray Moore, 6. 91-Tyler Erb, 7. 23-Brad Williams, 8. 6T-Terry Carter, 9. 40f-Dana Fite, 10. 91T-Tony Toste, 11. 22g-Paul Guglielmoni, 12. 17p-Craig Parker.
“A” Main
“A” Main (50 Laps): 1. 6-Jonathan Davenport, 2. 33x-Ricky Thornton, Jr., 3. 19r-Ryan Gustin, 4. 91p-Jason Papich, 5. 15x-Steve Francis, 6. 32-Chris Simpson, 7. 86-Kyle Beard, 8. 75-Terry Phillips, 9. 16-Austin Sievert, 10. 21jr-Billy Moyer, Jr., 11. 14m-Morgan Bagley, 12. R30-Robert Odegard, 13. 0-Jake O’Neil, 14. 15d-Justin Duty, 15. 44-R.C. Whitwell, 16. F5-Garrett Alberson, 17. 18-Chase Junghans, 18. 5-Don O’Neal, 19. 21-Billy Moyer, 20. 20-Rodney Sanders, 21. 7w-Ricky Weiss, 22. B5-Brandon Sheppard, 23. 15-Darrell Lanigan 24. 28m-Jimmy Mars.
Border International Modifieds presented by MVT
Heat Races – Top 16 in passing points advance to “A” Main, balance to 2 “B” Mains
Heat One (8 Laps): 1. 6p-Travis Perry, 2. 87-Darron Fuqua, 3. 91-Joe Duvall, 4. 98-Alex Stanford, 5. 30-Justin Rexwinkle, 6. 44-Christy Georges-Barnett, 7. 1sx-Scott Bintz, 8. 86-Kyle Beard, 9. 51T-Tim Thomas, 10. G17-Fito Gallardo, 11. 2J-Blake Jegtvig.
Heat Two (8 Laps): 1. 5-Todd Shute, 2. 10c-Chad Olsen, 3. 23-Matt Gilbertson, 4. 71-Phillip Houston, 5. 29d-Brad Dierks, 6. 15-Ryan Mikkelson, 7. 26-Shawn Fletcher, 8. 97-Greg Chesluy, 9. 13-Jeff Hartley, 10. 6T-Corky Thomas.
Heat Three (8 Laps): 1. 2s-Stormy Scott, 2. 20-Rodney Sanders, 3. J17-Jake Gallardo, 4. 30L-Matt Leer, 5. 59-Bob Salmman, 6. 23J-Greg Jelvik, 7. 5a-Daniel Anders, 8. L8-Brian Schultz, 9. 49-Duane Murphy, 10. 9k-Kent Arment.
“B” Main – Top 8 advance to “A” Main
“B” Main (12 Laps): 1. 44-Christy Georges-Barnett, 2. G17-Fito Gallardo, 3. 97-Greg Chesluy, 4. 23j-Greg Jelvik, 5. 2j-Blake Jegtvig, 6. 13-Jeff Hartley, 7. 5a-Daniel Anders, 8. 1sx-Scott Bintz, 9. 86-Kyle Beard, 10. L8-Brian Schultz, 11. 59-Bob Salmman, 12. 51T-Tim Thomas, 13. 6T-Corky Thomas, 14. 49-Duane Murphy, 15. 9k-Kent Arment.
“A” Main
“A” Main (25 Laps): 1. J17-Jake Gallardo, 2. 2s-Stormy Scott, 3. 5-Todd Schute, 4. 87-Darron Fuqua, 5. 2J-Blake Jegtvig, 6. 23-Matt Gilbertson, 7. 91-Joe Duvall, 8. 71-Phillip Houston, 9. 30L-Matt Leer, 10. 26-Shawn Fletcher, 11. 98-Alex Stanford, 12. 10c-Chad Olsen, 13. 44-Christy Georges-Barnett, 14. 1sx-Scott Bintz, 15. 13-Jeff Hartley, 16. 6p-Travis Perry, 17. 5a-Daniel Anders, 18. 29d-Brad Dierks, 19. 23J-Greg Jelvik, 20. 97-Greg Chesluy, 21. G17-Fito Gallardo, 22. 20-Rodney Sanders, 23. 15-Ryan Mikkelson, 24. 30-Justin Rexwinkle.
RealTruck.com X-Mods presented by Polar Industries
Heat Races – Top 16 in passing points advance to “A” Main, balance to 2 “B” Mains
Heat One (8 Laps): 1. 9-Jimmy Ray, 2. 49-James Binkley, 3. 1r-Joey Rowell, 4. 93-Greg Gorham, 5. 36-Ryan Cousins, 6. 82-Sherman Barnett, 7. 44-Eric Winemiller, 8. 14T-Ricky Whitwell (DNS), 9. 71-Jesse Hoskins (DNS).
Heat Two (8 Laps): 1. 50F-Brandon Farrington, 2. 188-A.J. Huebner, 3. 55-Mike Brandon, 4. 1tpo-Tyler Peterson, 5. 74x-Dana Boatright, 6. 17s-Lance Schill, 7. 6-Casey Skyberg, 8. 16-Kyle Callanan.
Heat Three (8 Laps): 1. 57x-Chad Horst, 2. 07-Donovan Flores, 3. 35-Grant Southworth, 4. 20x-Jesse Horst, 5. 5c-Preston Carr, 6. 7g-Dennis Gates, 7. 11k-Bryan Kakela, 8. 10c-Chad Olsen.
Heat Four (8 Laps): 1. 1s-Scott Bintz, 2. 5-Ron Schreiner, 3. 7-Ken McCleskey, 4. 88c-Brian Clark, 5. 32-Eric Hauglane, 6. 71-Jesse Hoskins, 7. 3-Dick Gorham, 8. 14T-Ricky Whitwell, 9. 56-Terry Bahr, 10. 22k-Mark Kohaykewych.
“B” Mains – Top 2 from each advance to “A” Main
First “B” Main (12 Laps): 1. 17s-Lance Schill, 2. 71-Jesse Hoskins, 3. 10c-Chad Olsen, 4. 20x-Jesse Horst, 5. 44-Eric Winemiller, 6. 3-Dick Gorham, 7. 36-Ryan Cousins, 8. 14T-Ricky Whitwell (DNS), 9. 22k-Mark Kohaykewych (DNS).
Second “B” Main (12 Laps): 1. 32-Eric Hauglane, 2. 74x-Dana Boatright, 3. 11k-Bryan Kakela, 4. 82-Sherman Barnett, 5. 6-Casey Skyberg, 6. 16-Kyle Callanan, 7. 7g-Dennis Gates, 8. 56-Terry Bahr.
“A” Main
“A” Main (20 Laps): 1. 07-Donovan Flores, 2. 50f-Brandon Farrington, 3. 9-Jimmy Ray, 4. 1tpo-Tyler Peterson, 5. 35-Grant Southworth, 6. 55-Mike Brandon, 7. 5-Ron Schreiner, 8. 188-A.J. Huebner, 9. 88c-Brian Clark, 10. 1r-Joey Rowell, 11. 74x-Dana Boatright, 12. 32-Eric Hauglane, 13. 57x-Chad Horst, 14. 7-Ken McCleskey, 15. 5c-Preston Carr, 16. 17s-Lance Schill, 17. 1s-Scott Bintz, 18. 49-James Binkley, 19. 71-Jesse Hoskins, 20. 93-Greg Gorham.
Final Wild West Shootout Points after Night Six of Six:
Late Models
1
6
Jonathan Davenport
390
2
15
Darrell Lanigan
292
3
5
Don O’Neal
287
4
15x
Steve Francis
271
5
91p
Jason Papich
261
6
32
Chris Simpson
252
7
25
Shane Clanton
210
8
f5
Garrett Alberson
202
9
21
Billy Moyer
197
10
20
Rodney Sanders
194
11
b5
Brandon Sheppard
181
12
7k
Jason Krohn
179
13
58
A.J. Diemel
174
14
19r
Ryan Gustin
169
15
21jr
Billy Moyer, Jr.
161
16
86
Kyle Beard
158
17
14m
Morgan Bagley
157
18
33x
Ricky Thornton, Jr.
151
19
28m
Jimmy Mars
150
20
75
Terry Phillips
148
21
44
R.C. Whitwell
144
22
15s
Donny Schatz
138
23
18h
Ronnie Lee Hollingsworth
125
24
71
Dustin Strand
106
25
16
Austin Sievert
94
26
91
Tyler Erb
86
27
18
Chase Junghans
79
28
14L
Brad Looney
77
29
0
Jake O’Neil
73
30
r5
Hunter Radson
56
31
7w
Ricky Weiss
55
32
93
Ray Moore
53
33
10n
Rob Sanders
52
34
r30
Robert Odegard
48
35
15d
Justin Duty
46
36
99
Scott Lewis
44
37
91T
Tony Toste
44
38
11
Pat Doar
39
39
32b
Clay Daly
37
40
98
Jason Rauen
35
41
37
Scott Ward
34
42
14
Sean Bray
28
43
17x
Billy Franklin
25
44
17
Larry Childress
25
45
6T
Terry Carter
19
46
1
Doug Blashe
18
47
11k
Jeremy Keller
16
48
42s
Don Shaw
16
49
3
Brad Whitfield
15
50
5x
John Duty
14
51
24x
Rick Ortega
14
52
10
Junior Coover
13
53
51
Joey Moriarty
12
54
43
Dave Deetz
11
55
40F
Dana Fite
10
56
22g
Paul Guglielmoni
10
57
17p
Craig Parker
8
58
23s
Bucky Andrews
8
59
89
James Laing
8
60
33
Vic Hil
7
61
23
Brad Williams
6
62
2
Bobby Hogge
5
63
54
Carlos Ahumada
4
64
h30
Bill Holler
2
65
7
Marshall Miles
2
66
12
Greg Jelvik
1
Modifieds
1
5
Todd Schute
309
2
71
Phillip Houston
275
3
87
Darron Fuqua
272
4
30L
Matt Leer
264
5
23
Matt Gilbertson
256
6
2s
Stormy Scott
237
7
19r
Ryan Gustin
216
8
29d
Brad Dierks
198
9
26
Shawn Fletcher
187
10
2J
Blake Jegtvig
185
11
197
Cade Dillard
178
12
20
Rodney Sanders
177
13
15
Ryan Mikkelson
176
14
10c
Chad Olsen
173
15
36
Danny Bayor
148
16
J17
Jake Gallardo
144
17
44
Christy Georges-Barnett
136
18
O5
Jake Hartung
136
19
86
Kyle Beard
126
20
98
Alex Stanford
121
21
131
Royal Jones
115
22
91
Joe Duvall
110
23
30
Justin Rexwinkle
110
24
6p
Travis Perry
109
25
g17
Fito Gallardo
102
26
20rt
Ricky Thornton, Jr.
98
27
1sx
Travis Sauers
90
28
9r
Jimmy Ray
79
29
23J
Greg Jelvik
69
30
9k
Kent Arment
69
31
2
Bobby Hogge
67
32
51T
Tim Thomas
65
33
13
Jeff Hartley
53
34
97
Greg Chusluy
47
35
59
Bob Salmman
44
36
1sx
Scott Bintz
42
37
5a
Daniel Anders
41
38
6T
Corky Thomas
41
39
48
Brent Dutanhoffer
41
40
65x
Carlos Ahumada, Jr.
16
41
55ak
Scott Sluka
13
42
90
Casey Skyberg
13
43
9
Mykel Atkinson
12
44
31
Daryl Fisher
10
45
49
Duane Murphy
7
46
34
Mickey Lassiter
7
47
1x
Steve Streeter
5
48
17s
Stoney Kruk
4
49
3
Brad Whitfield
3
50
5c
Dallas Caldwell
3
51
23h
Terry Haven
3
52
L8
Brian Schultz
2
53
37x
Joey Price
2
54
81
Scott Ward
2
55
43
Chad Falco
1
X-Mods – *
1
35
Grant Southworth
340
2
5
Ron Schreiner
340
3
1tpo
Tyler Peterson
339
4
50F
Brandon Farrington
317
5
49
James Binkley
287
6
88c
Brian Clark
269
7
57x
Chad Horst
269
8
1r
Joey Rowell
248
9
9
Jimmy Ray
222
10
10c
Chad Olsen
222
11
17s
Lance Schill
213
12
32
Eric Hauglane
208
13
5c
Preston Carr
199
14
188
A.J. Huebner
198
15
1s
Scott Bintz
166
16
55
Mike Brandon
151
17
O7
Donovan Flores
149
18
7
Ken McCleskey
142
19
20x
Jesse Horst
117
20
11k
Brian Kakela
101
21
93
Greg Gorham
94
22
36
Ryan Cousins
82
23
17e
Neil Eckhart
75
24
6
Casey Skyberg
63
25
71
Jesse Hoskins
53
26
82
Sherman Barnett
49
27
74x
Dana Boatright
42
28
13
Jeff Hartley
39
29
96
John Wills
18
30
3
Dick Gorham
17
31
7g
Dennis Gates
16
32
22k
Mark Kohaykewych
14
33
44
Eric Winemiller
12
34
17
Harlan Morhart
8
35
56
Terry Bahr
6
36
7m
Wes Meeks
6
37
10c
Cole Haugland
6
38
111
Johnny McCarty, Jr.
5
39
15d
David Harrington
5
40
16
Kyle Callanan
4
41
14T
Ricky Whitwell
4
42
8
Doug Meeks
4
43
4x
Shannon Briscoe
4
44
81
Morgan Ward
3
45
22m
Adam Mendoza
2
46
93ar
A.R. Smith
2
* – Grant Southworth earned the championship via a tiebreaker. While both drivers had one win and one second-place finish, Southworth had one third-place finish to none for Schreiner
Sources: Lonnie Wheatley/USA Raceway PR