BRUNSWICK, Ga. — After a topsy turvy 50-lapper at Golden Isles Speedway that capped Georgia-Florida Speedweeks on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, winner Devin Moran of Dresden, Ohio, had a reasonable question when climbing out of his No. 99 to collect his $25,000 paycheck.

"What the hell just happened?” the reigning series champ said, rousing the crowd while celebrating in victory lane.

What happened was that Moran rallied to become the fifth of five leaders after starting 22nd, leading the final four laps in capitalizing on an eye-bulging Trey Mills rollover wreck that denied the upset-minded Florida teen in his first bid for a national touring victory.

Moran, who notched his third Speedweeks victory, could scarcely believe he’d won after struggling while Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., swept the first three nights at Golden Isles.

"I think we were all in shock, honestly,” Moran said of his Double Down Motorsports team. “We've been struggling. We were decent the first night, OK the second night, and last night we were horrible, and we just kind of went back to the basics and we weren't good early, but my car really came to life there in the feature. We just found a good line that I could run (and) just made speed.”

Moran, who overtook tail-starting Max Blair of Centerville, Pa., on the 47th lap, took the checkers 0.826 of a second ahead of Blair while third- and fourth-place finishers Garrett Alberson of Las Cruces, N.M., and Clay Harris of Jupiter, Fla., rallied from midrace flat tires. Polesitter Brandon Overton of Evans, Ga. settled for fifth.

Davenport, who started 10th in his bid for a fourth straight victory after piling up $29,000 in first-place earnings, was never a factor in the finale, pitting midrace and electing to retire after 33 laps.

Mark Whitener led the first 14 laps from outside the front row, but the 17-year-old Mills got rolling from his seventh starting spot on the high side and swept into the lead. Looking for the richest victory of his career, Mills controlled the middle stages of the race, but the race came alive after a restart with 12 laps remaining when 19th-starting Hudson O’Neal challenged the leader.

That began a back-and-forth battle with Mills and O’Neal swapping slide jobs. O’Neal led the 40th lap, but Mills went back ahead and was trying to pull away when after completing the 42nd lap he got too high between turns one and two. With nowhere to go, O’Neal clipped the leader, sending his No. 14jr. into a rollover wreck with Mills ended up on his wheels outside the turn-two wall.

Mills was unhurt but eliminated along with O’Neal, handing the lead to Blair, who led laps 43-46 before Moran muscled past for the winning move in turns three and four and went on to an unlikely victory.

“It was just, unbelievable and definitely not what we expected after the week we've been having,” Moran said. "Honestly, until Trey and Huddy got into it, I was thinking, ‘Oh, we can get top three.’ I felt like I was better than Max. I've never really seen them guys up in front of me though because they were slicing and dicing. Then when they started sliding each other, I knew like, ‘Hey, if I put myself in the right position, we can do it.’

“And once they took themselves out, I just knew I needed to get a run. When Max uses the whole track like that — going from very top to very bottom — I had to use him up a little bit getting into (turn) three, but, you can't use the whole racetrack. You gotta have someone be able to pass you one way or the other.”

Blair, who ended the week with four top-five finishes after rallying each night, couldn’t find a way to hold off Moran for his first full-field Lucas Oil Series victory.

“He's one of the good guys, so it's hard to be mad or anything,” Blair said, alluding to the contact from Moran’s winning pass. “It just sucks. I thought maybe we had a shot at that one. I'd have loved to see him try to keep it off me like I did him on the next restart. I didn't do nothing stupid. I went in there and raced him through the corner, but he's one of the best there is, so congrats to them guys. He did what he had to do to win. There's absolutely no hard feelings and hopefully maybe we can, keep racing with him and then maybe I can beat him every now and then.

"I actually think my car was a little better tonight. I just missed both my (qualifying) laps because I was trying so hard because I knew how far I've buried us all week. I know we have a car capable of being out here all week long and we've just started too far back to make that happen. But it's a big shot in the arm, a boost going forward, and, hopefully we can keep the momentum rolling.”

Alberson reached the podium for his best Lucas Oil finish of the season in what he called a “crazy race” at the 4/10-mile oval.

“This is huge for our team right here and for Speedweeks. This has been one of my toughest tracks ever, historically, and this is by far our best night,” Alberson said. “I know it was unique conditions for Golden Isles. It's kind of more of like an Illinois track right there. But we actually had traction and we can move around, Yeah, what a crazy race, man. I'm just happy to be here.”

For Mills, whose touring victories include a DIRTcar Summer Nationals triumph last season at Macon (Ill.) Speedway, his car ended up in a heap, but the crowd gave him a big cheer when he emerged unhurt after his rollover crash.

“I was going for the biggest race of my career and I was giving Hudson everything I had. I just drove in too deep and got into the fence. I don’t know, somebody hit from behind but it just went over. My car was just so good. I just hate it for my guys. I feel like I should’ve won this race and I didn’t,” Mills told Ben Shelton moments after the wreck. “It means so much. It’s a dream, really, to win a Lucas Oil race. We’ve got a good car. We’ve just gotta keep coming back better and stronger and we’ll get us one eventually.”

Besides the red flag for the Mills crash, six cautions slowed the action, the first on second lap when Blair Nothdurft lost a right-front wheel and smashed the turn-one wall. Daniel Hilsabeck slowed for the second yellow flag just before halfway.

Alberson blew his tire at halfway with Harris having a flat tire a lap later and Dennis Erb Jr. slowed with 12 laps remaining. The final caution appeared with two laps remaining for Ethan Dotson’s departure.

Moran’s excitement doesn’t end with Speedweeks. His wife Lakia is due any day to deliver their first child, and Moran’s team planned an overnight journey back to Ohio in preparation.

"Now it's time to go home and have this baby,” Moran said, “so super, super excited about that.”

Notes: Moran, who leaves Speedweeks atop Lucas Oil points, notched his 25th career full-field Lucas Oil Series victory. … A dozen drivers completed 50 laps. … Because of the positioning of the wrecked Mills car just outside turn two, it couldn’t be removed during the race and remained there for the rest of the race. … Friday’s runner-up Tyler Erb retired after four laps.