When Jonathan Davenport gets out front at The Dirt Track at Charlotte, there’s usually no stopping him. That trend continued on Saturday night.

One year ago, “Superman” won twice at Dave Smith Motors World of Outlaws World Finals to surpass Jimmy Owens and become the winningest Late Model driver in the history of the event. This year, the goal was to keep piling on the trophies.

Davenport came into Charlotte in fine form having won his last two starts, including the final night of the World of Outlaws Late Model Series presented by DIRTVision debut at Modoc Speedway on Oct. 23 and the Blue-Gray 100 at Cherokee Speedway on Oct. 24. That momentum didn’t initially carry over into Charlotte, as Davenport came out of a Last Chance Showdown to finish 14th on Thursday, but he rebounded with a runner-up to Nick Hoffman on Friday.

When Davenport earned a front-row starting spot for a 50-lap Feature on a slicked-off Charlotte, it became clear that he was going to be the man to beat on Saturday. He shared the front row with someone on the opposite end of the experience spectrum in Dallon Murty, the Super Late Model rookie in his first trip to World Finals.

Davenport nailed the start and got a strong run through the middle of Turns 1 and 2, gaining enough ground to clear Murty exiting Turn 2. Murty did a respectable job of staying with the veteran throughout the race and was in position to capitalize on a mistake, but Davenport never made one. 2026 Series champion Bobby Pierce used a Lap 29 restart to take second from Murty and try his hand at passing Davenport, but the Blairsville, GA native never opened the door.

The win was Davenport’s ninth at World Finals and 20th of his career in World of Outlaws competition, tying him with Hoffman and Brandon Overton for 13th on the all-time list. In addition to extending his lead in the World Finals Late Model win column, Davenport is also tied with Donny Schatz as the winningest driver at the event across all three participating divisions.

“We were all a little worried about tire wear, obviously,” Davenport said. “Just being abrasive down here in the south, you always worry about that a little bit. But we cut our tires a certain way so they would mileage a little more. I just didn’t want to push too hard too early and kind of spin them off before the grip came back up. Just did that and tried to move around a little bit. I felt like a little bit higher was going to be a better line early, but I was bottoming out really bad. We went just a little bit too soft for the speed, I didn’t think it was going to be quite that fast. Then once it did start gripping back up, we could move back to the bottom there and really just back my corner up so I wouldn’t start bouncing so bad. That was the only thing I was worried about, just trying to find a smooth line so I wouldn’t be bouncing off the corner and spinning my tires.”

Pierce wrapped up his championship season in second ahead of Murty, who recorded a new World of Outlaws career best in third. Overton concluded his weekend in the Billy Franklin-owned Rocket Chassis in fourth, while Trey Mills secured the final MD3 Rookie of the Race Award of the year in fifth.

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RACE NOTES:

Dallon Murty won Heat 1.

Jonathan Davenport won STAKT Products Heat 2.

Ryan Gustin won Keyser Manufacturing Heat 3.

Chris Madden won Jarrett Rifles Heat 4.

Bobby Pierce won WIX Filters Heat 5.

Chris Ferguson won Heat 6.

Hudson O’Neal, Drake Troutman and Josh Rice won the Last Chance Showdowns.

Dallon Murty won the Bilstein Pole Award.

Ethan Dotson won the FOX Factory Hard Charger Award.

Trey Mills won the MD3 Rookie of the Race Award.

Bobby Pierce was the Air National Guard Second-Place Finisher.

Dallon Murty was the WIX Filters Third-Place Finisher.

Brandon Overton was the ARP Fourth-Place Finisher.

Trey Mills was the MSD Fifth-Place Finisher.

Ryan Gustin was the Swift Springs Sixth-Place Finisher.

Brandon Sheppard was the Penske Racing Shocks Seventh-Place Finisher.

Ethan Dotson was VP Racing Fuels Eighth-Place Finisher.

Max McLaughlin was the COMP Cams 10th-Place Finisher.

Chris Ferguson was the Quarter Master 11th-Place Finisher.

Tim McCreadie was the Cometic Gaskets 12th-Place Finisher.

Drake Troutman was the Quarter Master 13th-Place Finisher.

Tyler Erb was the ARP 14th-Place Finisher.

Dustin Sorensen was the Arizona Sport Shirts 18th-Place Finisher.

Feature (50 Laps): 1. 49-Jonathan Davenport[2]; 2. 32-Bobby Pierce[4]; 3. 13-Dallon Murty[1]; 4. 17-Brandon Overton[7]; 5. 14-Trey Mills[11]; 6. 19R-Ryan Gustin[6]; 7. 1S-Brandon Sheppard[12]; 8. 74X-Ethan Dotson[23]; 9. 9-Nick Hoffman[9]; 10. 8M-Max McLaughlin[13]; 11. 22-Chris Ferguson[3]; 12. 9M-Tim McCreadie[14]; 13. 5-Drake Troutman[20]; 14. 1-Tyler Erb[15]; 15. 40B-Kyle Bronson[22]; 16. 58V-Daulton Wilson[18]; 17. 44-Chris Madden[5]; 18. 19-Dustin Sorensen[26]; 19. 49M-Luke Morey[16]; 20. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[25]; 21. 55E-Eli Johnson[28]; 22. 8-Kyle Strickler[10]; 23. 09-Michael Leach[8]; 24. 81F-Jadon Frame[17]; 25. 11R-Josh Rice[21]; 26. T8-Steve Banal[24]; 27. 20TC-Tristan Chamberlain[27]; 28. 6-Hudson O’Neal[19]

This article was republished with permission from the World of Outlaws Late Models. The original article can be found here: https://worldofoutlaws.com/latemodels/davenport-captures-record-extending-ninth-charlotte-victory-in-season-finale/

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