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Jonathan Davenport Breaks Down The Lap 1 Wreck With Kyle Bronson At Ocala Speedway

February 27, 2026  ·
  John Trent

Jonathan Davenport went for a ride in the first turn of the opening lap of the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series feature at Ocala Speedway and he explained just what happened.

Davenport started on the outside pole above Kyle Bronson and as the two were heading through turn 1, Davenport got into the back of Bronson’s right rear quarter panel and sent both of them spinning up the track. 

The contact appeared to get Davenport’s car stuck on Bronson’s so as Bronson began spinning up the track it slingshotted Davenport around him and into the outside wall. The contact with the wall turned Davenport’s car into a bucking bronco as it got up on its two left side wheels. It came crashing down so hard the right side of the car got airborne before it eventually came to a stop.

Here’s another angle:

Davenport’s night would end, but somehow Bronson only suffered minor damage and was able to continue on and hold on for a podium finish in third. Bronson shared what happened from his perspective to FloRacing’s Ben Shelton, “It was definitely good to run good. Man, we had a dang good race car tonight. When the bumper got knocked off and the left front in the wall the first lap there-. I guess me and JD got tight there and maybe he just clipped my quarter panel on the way by. I don’t know I’ll have to watch a video. Hopefully, he’s okay.”

As for Davenport, he spoke with FloRacing’s Kyle McFadden after the race and put the blame squarely on himself, “I just didn’t get a real good initial start, but I got a good run down the front straightaway and I just misjudged.”

“I knew it was kinda black in the center where Kyle was going to turn in and there was a little bit more grip on the outside,” he explained. “It was just a race to the cushion off turn 2. I tried to get there before him and I just misjudged, honestly. 100% my fault.”

“Went down there and talked to him. Hope he ain’t too mad at me. I took out two basically good cars there that could have won the race. I hate it for him. It wasn’t none of his fault, wasn’t nothing he did. It was just a misjudgment on my part,” Davenport concluded.

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Author: John Trent