What won the race: Winning a thriller over previous race leaders Mike Marlar and Brandon Overton, third-starting Hudson O’Neal of Martinsville, Ind., stormed to the $10,000 victory in Wednesday’s Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series event at Davenport Speedway. He finished 0.589 of a second ahead of polesitter Overton with Marlar third on the track’s quarter-mile layout.

Quotable: "I feel a lot of emotions right now. It's no secret that this year hasn't been anything like last year and my team man, we just kept digging and kept digging. I've got an awesome support system behind me with (team owner) Roger Sellers and my whole team, Trevor, Eric, Mason, just everybody back at the shop, Tom Buckingham, the Sellers family," O'Neal said. "It's pretty amazing man. We just kept clawing and clawing and clawing and it's finally, finally starting to show, hopefully. Man, I'm just so, so excited. To get (to) July and just now get our first win, it's tested our patience a lot. But I have a hell of a team and we just never give up."

Key notes: Hudson O'Neal, who had six series victories last season, won his first of 2022 and first since Oct. 2, 2021, at Pittsburgh's Pennsylvania Motor Speedway. ... O'Neal led the first lap, then laps 33-40. ... Overton led laps 2-12. ... Marlar led laps 13-33. ... Two cautions slowed the action. ... Ross Robinson slowed for a lap-16 yellow. ... Tyler Erb slowed at halfway to draw a yellow. ... The national tour made its first visit to Davenport since June 21, 2005, when Muscatine's Brian Birkhofer grabbed a victory on the half-mile layout at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds. ... Modifiied ace Nick Hoffman piloted a Shannon Babb Racing Team Zero car, finishing 16th, while Babb was 20th in his Rocket Chassis. ... Justin Kay won the night's IMCA Late Model feature. ... The night's action was presented by HD Equipment.

On the move: Jimmy Owens of Newport, Tenn., started ninth and finished fourth.

Winner's sponsors: O’Neal’s Double Down Motorsports Rocket Chassis is powered by a Cornett Racing Engine and sponsored by Lazydays RV, O’Neal’s Salvage and Recycling, 2150 Enterprises, WR1 Sim Chassis, Smoky Mountain Speedway, VP Racing Fuels, Tarpy Trucking, Integra Racing Shocks, Matco Tools, Midwest Sheet Metal, FK Rod Ends and Lucas Oil.

Points chase: After Davenport: 1. Brandon Sheppard (4,150); 2. Tim McCreadie (4,120); 3. Ricky Thornton Jr. (3,950); 4. Tyler Erb (3,820); 5. Hudson O’Neal (3,735); 6. Earl Pearson Jr. (3,665); 7. Garrett Alberson (3,390); 8. Ashton Winger (3,220); 9. Daulton Wilson (3,185); 10. Spencer Hughes (3,130).

Current weather: Clear, 81°F

Car count: 37

Fast qualifier: Brandon Overton

Time: 13.617 seconds

Polesitter: Brandon Overton

Heat race winners: Brandon Overton, Hudson O'Neal, Mike Marlar, Earl Pearson Jr.

Consolation race winners: Ryan Gustin, Chad Simpson

Provisional starters: Ricky Thornton Jr., Daulton Wilson

Next series race: July 7, Deer Creek Speedway (Spring Valley, MN) $5,000