Golden Isles hosts the Lucas Oil-sanctioned Wieland Winternationals.
Key notes: The Lucas Oil Series-sanctioned Wieland Winternationals rolls on with Thursday’s 40-lap, $10,000-to-win second round at Golden Isles Speedway. … The four-night event continues with Friday’s 50-lap, $12,000-to-win third round before concluding with Saturday’s 50-lap, $25,000-to-win finale. … Jonathan Davenport led all 30 laps from the pole in Wednesday’s eight-minute non-stop opener. Davenport earned his first feature win of the season and first Golden Isles victory since 2016’s Edwin Coggins Memorial, worth $7,000. … Hudson O’Neal was hot on Davenport’s heels in Wednesday’s opener and enters fresh off two victories at Ocala (Fla.) Speedway, worth more than $35,000; O’Neal is a seven-time feature winner thus far. … Four-time winner this season Brandon Overton enters as a five-time Golden Isles winner, including his first career Lucas Oil victory there in 2017; he has amassed more than $70,000 in race winnings over that span. … Tyler Bruening earned his first series win there last year before the rest of the event rained out; Bruening returns to competition after getting banged up in a heat race crash at Ocala. … Mike Marlar topped 2024’s Deuces Wild event finale, worth $20,000, aboard a Skyline Motorsports entry. … Ricky Thornton Jr. won 2024’s Super Bowl of Racing finale, earning $25,000. … Crown Vics and 602 Crates are on the undercard. … Pits open at 2 p.m. and grandstands open at 3 with hot laps at 5:30, daily. … Watch live on FloRacing.
Who to watch: Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., chases his second straight Lucas Oil victory at Golden Isles.
Points chase: Before Golden Isles Thursday: 1. Hudson O’Neal (1,185); 2. Devin Moran (1,135); 3. Brandon Overton (1,045); 4. Brandon Sheppard (945); T5. Clay Harris (920); T5. Kyle Bronson (920); 7. Carson Ferguson (900); 8. Ricky Thornton Jr. (890); 9. Max Blair (870); 10. Dan Ebert (865).
Expected entrants: Among drivers expected to join the top 10 in series standings: Jonathan Davenport, Tyler Erb, Mike Marlar, Brian Shirley, Garrett Alberson, Mark Whitener, Cody Overton, Dennis Erb Jr., Garrett Smith, Ross Bailes, Josh Rice, Tyler Bruening, Cory Hedgecock, Dillon McCowan, Dallon Murty, Brenden Smith, Blair Nothdurft, Daniel Hilsabeck, Freddie Carpenter and more.
Next series race: March 6, Golden Isles Speedway (Brunswick, GA) $12,000
From staff reports
BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Live updates from Thursday’s Wieland Winternationals second round at Golden Isles Speedway, highlighted by a 40-lap, $10,000-to-win feature for Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series-sanctioned Super Late Models (results unofficial):
Thursday’s schedule
(All times local)
1:30 p.m. - Pits closed and cleared
2 p.m. - Pits reopen
2 p.m. - Tech and registration open
3 p.m. - Grandstands open
4:45 p.m. - Tech and registration close
5 p.m. - Drivers’ meeting
5:30 p.m. - On-track activity
- Late Model hot laps
- 602 Crate group qualifying
- Late Model time trials (2 laps)
- Crown Vic group qualifying
Opening ceremonies
- Late Model heats (8 laps)
- 602 Crate consolations (8 laps)
- Late Model consolations (10 laps)
- Crown Vic heats (8 laps)
Feature events
- Late Models (40 laps)
- 602 Crates (20 laps)
- Crown Vics (15 laps)
