Here is what drivers had to say following the World Finals finale at The Dirt Track at Charlotte with the World of Outlaws Late Models:

Jonathan Davenport — Winner: “The outside is normally a little bit better here in some conditions especially when the race track gets really wide like that. We just fired off really well there. Just timed the start pretty good and didn’t let him get too good of a jump on us. Beat him to turn 1 and just I wanted to set the pace early and just kind of move around to where I could manage my tires and save them for the end.

I couldn’t really watch the video board. Every time they would show me, it would be zoomed in so much that I couldn’t tell if anybody was around me. Obviously, the lap traffic was going to hold me up too. So that let them close on them, but feel like I could move through them okay. I just didn’t want to get too excited through them and start spinning my tires. Once I felt a little pressure — I didn’t feel any yet — I would have picked the pace back up, but we felt okay.

We made big gains last night and then we could work on the rest of the car. I knew what we needed to do after last night after we got it steering a little better. So we had to tighten the back of the car up. And it was obviously really good tonight.

It’s always good to kind of end the season on a high note, for sure. Just proud of my guys. They do such a great job for me: Cory and Tyler. They just work hard for me all the time. Basically, them two runs this whole program by themselves. Just thanks for them. 

I always like racing close to home and so as soon as we come down here to the South, we’ve been a pretty on a pretty good speed spurt and been doing pretty well.”

Bobby Pierce — Finished 2nd: “First off, it’s an awesome run for us. I really feel like tonight we had a really good race car. Obviously, not enough to win the race, but super happy with it. I actually feel like I’m not going to be dreading coming here next year. So that’s good to know that we finally—. What led to this point was getting a good night one when I got third that night and then locking up the points yesterday allowed us to have a test day today and kind of be in that relaxed feeling actually helped us because we finally did some things to the car that kind of been wanting to do. And I kind of thought about some things and some of the guys thought about some things and we kind of did a mixture of stuff and it just it seemed to work out. Definitely felt good about that and just an awesome way to—. A second place here feels like a win for me. So awesome way to cap off the season.

It looked to me like JD probably started to feel like his tires was going away and I think he started being very cautious. I’m sure he knew he probably had a hefty lead. So he might have been backing off a little bit. The track was starting to really lock down. From the point we took the green flag, it wasn’t dirty at all. It was clean. And normally when this track’s clean like that, it’s not long until it rubbers up in the race. I did like the race track ’cause it was very smooth. In the beginning I made a pass on that restart to get to 2nd on the cushion. So it was there, it just wasn’t there all 50 laps and that’s the one thing I wish here at Charlotte, they would either run us before the Sprint Cars or give a freshly prepped race track. All-in-all, that’s normally what it is here and we’ve been challenged to get the car based around that and now tonight I feel like we finally kind of got the hang of it.

Now, you remind me, earlier in the weekend, you might have been asking me and other people were asking me like my goals for the weekend was, I said, ‘Maybe if I can sneak a win in there, but if I get some podiums, like Top 10s would be nice.’ So two podiums and a top 10, I mean it feels like I won every night here honestly. It’s pretty good.

This is our lovely trailer broom that we use to sweep the floor and everything else. So a little crowded out there. Figured we’d do it in here in the peace and quiet. It’d be nice if I could sweep the weekend at Senoia and maybe get the broom out there and maybe win the Flo points.”

Dallon Murty — Finished 3rd: “I don’t know. JD, they were both really good. JD was too. No, we’re just happy with that. Finally put a whole night together, I think. You always want to win, but for us, third’s awesome. Just thank the crew, thank everyone. Yeah, pretty cool.

It was a little worried because he’s probably the best at starting on the outside and always getting the jump. So I spun a little bit, but how good he was, he was probably going to find a way around. And it was good to follow him and I could kind of match his pace when he started to slow down to save a little tires. That helped me, probably in the long run keep the right rear up. Kind of grateful for that. But wanted to win, but third’s nothing we’re going to be mad about. 

I thought I was getting to him, but then I think I kind of realized he started backing his pace up and I tried to two laps just to kind of give it a little more and try to get to him, but I just started sliding. So I just kind of tried to match his pace ’cause if he was saving then I could save too. But yeah, he kept it a little more straighter than I and probably had a little more tire left there, but yeah, just super happy.

I didn’t want to put [Bobby Pierce] below me on the restart so I figured my best bet was to go to the bottom, but he got a pretty good jump then he got a good run through 1 and 2 and cleared me. So just tried to get back in line and try to protect and then he put me on the outside the next time. Thank God I was able to repeat it and just get back in line. That worked out, thank God.

I did on the restart in 1 and 2, you just tell you just wheel spin way too much and I kind of thought the right rear was going down the last five laps. It kind of started toting and vibrating a little bit. So I’m glad I didn’t ’cause it pry would’ve come apart. 

[My confidence is] pretty high, a lot higher than it has been all year. Thanks to my guys. They’ve worked really hard. Gave me a good car. This whole September to October through November has been really good to us. Just a lot of hard work and preparation, but it’s sure nice when you see a little success.

“We’ll be at the Dome and then I’ll be on tour next year. You kind of have to decide there after that Volusia race. We’ll just play it by that time and see what we got.”

Trey Mills — Finished 5th: “We’ve had a really fast car all week. Like I’ve been saying, the car was pretty much perfect for me all week long. Tonight, started 11th and just kind of rolled out there. We had a good car and I started 11th and just kind of bided my time at the beginning, just kind of rode around, and everybody was kind of getting bottled up in the bottom so I kind of started opening my corner up, not really running the top, but kind of a lane off of it, just making sure I kept my momentum up. And I was able to drive by a couple people that way.

Really my biggest thing was just I picked a couple cars off on restarts. And I knew it was going to eventually try to lock down a little bit and clean off of the bottom so I was just trying to get as many spots as I could before the track ended up locking down and managed to get to fifth and just kind of rode there for the rest of the race.

We had a really good car all weekend. Should’ve run third last night, run fifth tonight, sixth on Thursday. Qualified really good as well on Wednesday. Can’t say enough about my guys for all their hard work. My parents for giving me the opportunity and all my sponsors. We had a really good week for my first time ever running a Super here and can’t wait to be back.

It definitely stings a little bit knowing that tonight’s run would have gave me the win if I would have run third last night, but it is what it is. We had bad luck. Congrats to Daulton. He had a really good year as well. There was some points wherever I was on a hot streak and he was on a cold streak and then I was on a cold streak and he was on a hot streak. It just boiled down to Speedweeks really. He had a solid Speedweeks and I kind of struggled a lot and that just put him so far ahead of me that I was playing catch up the rest of the season. But, you know, we gave it our best effort and it is what it is.

It was obviously clean in the bottom and I think people just seen everybody in front of them was in the bottom so everybody was kind of a little timid to jump out of line and try it. But I figured after last night I had nothing to lose and I just went out there. I wasn’t driving hard at all, I was kind of riding, but I could just carry a little more corner speed than the guys in front of me. They were trying to wrap the bottom and, you know, it just was really working for me so I stayed out there. And then we had that caution and I got on the inside of Gustin on the restart and then I felt it really start kind of relaxing down so I just rode behind Brandon [Overton] the rest of the race there and brought it home with a P5 finish with a clean car to finish out the weekend and this is definitely a win for us.

The restarts were getting hectic. Just because everybody was trying to fight for the same line and everybody was trying to be aggressive so I was just trying to be smart, but also be aggressive at the same time. It was definitely interesting on the restarts, but the car was good enough to kind of go where I needed to and make the most of my opportunities and it just worked out for us.”

Ethan Dotson — Finished 8th: “Just kind of get tired being the Hard Charger. I don’t know, man. I can’t get qualified and it just makes for a long weekend. I qualified 19th and 20th Wednesday and just dread the rest of the weekend. Especially here, it’s kind of fast and hard to pass, but I was good tonight. My guys worked really hard and got the race car better. So finally was able to go forward, but it’d been nice to start a little closer to the front, try to race for a podium or something. But we’ll just keep on staying at it and hopefully next year figure out how to qualify better.

I run the top and got by some cars and then going into 1, Gustin kind of flared out and then I just lost the air on my nose, smacked the wall, and then it just toed the front end and knocked the spoiler off. Then whenever I tried to go to the bottom I was just super free and couldn’t turn. So I was just kind of married to the top at that point. I was either going to run up there—. I knew if I tried to go to the bottom I was just going to fade backwards. So just tried to go up there and get all I could and salvage the night.”

Nick Hoffman — Finished 9th: “Just kind of cruising there. Started ninth, was just methodical trying to save a little bit of tire and stuff and just got by Brandon over 10th and then run up to Madden there and we were dicing with lap traffic. Me and Chris, we just talked and it’s like we were just cruising at that point.

I think there was 22 to go and he kind of just bombed it off in there to get in front of Tristan [Chamberlain] just to make sure he got clear of Chamberlain there. And then Chamberlain decides he’s going to cross him and try to race him back down the back straightaway, and then parked it into 3. 

At that point, been in this situation many times. I was the third car in line in that deal and it’s like Chris shut her down to stay off of him and we just come together. Like I can’t slow down fast enough to stay off of him. We end up crashed. Yeah, it just sucks. 

I wasn’t mad at Chris. He wasn’t mad at me. It was just a horrible situation where a lap car was trying to race back for whatever reason. 

I just come in to get tires ’cause we knew we were going to be killing tires. So I at least come in to get tires to see if that could get me some more spots, and help me out if it got to a point where guys were blowing tires at the end, which obviously didn’t end up happening. So, yeah, it got me back to ninth. 

It was just kind of frustrating. I feel like—. I’m not going to win the race, but at that point I’m going to run prob 5th just depending on how things fall and stuff. It was kind of a frustrating way to end when I knew my car was good, but like I said I wasn’t going to win the race. I wasn’t going to beat probably the top three guys. But at least not have anything tore up and just finish the race. Not get wiped out by a lap car.

[Crap] happens and you die. It’s just part of life. We’ll go to Senoia next week and start our journey with Spire Motorsports.”

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