Jonathan "SuperMan" Davenport to Make Truck Debut at Martinsville

Fresh off winning the30-K Carolina Crownat Lancaster (SC) Speedway, Jonathan Davenport will attempt to make the field for Saturday'sKroger 250CWTS event at Martinsville.....fromJayski's NASCAR Silly Season.....

.Davenport to debut with Advanced Electronic Services:

The #1 entry for the Kroger 250 at Martinsville Speedway will be piloted by Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Georgia. Advanced Electronic Services will be coming on board as the primary sponsor for the #1 Chevy. Advanced Electronic Service is a female owned, ISO Certified, Small Business that offers a full range of services from electronic component level repair and design, to providing worldwide depot level repair and logistics in support of sophisticated military electronic systems and components. This will be the first time Jonathan will attempt a Camping World Truck Series race. Davenport is a veteran dirt super late model racer with major victories all over the country. He has competed in all of the major series including the World of Outlaws and Lucas Oil Dirt Series. In 2013 Davenport has racked up four wins and eleven top five finishes in only nineteen races to start off the season. His most recent victory is at Lancaster Motor Speedway for the Carolina Crown, a $30,000 win.(Jonathan Davenport PR)(4-3-2013)

Jonathan Davenport in the #49 AES entry leads the #6 of Steve Shaver enroute to his $30,000 Carolina Crown win at Lancaster (SC) Super Speedway in this Laurie Ervin photo.

Here's Davenport at Green Valley (AL) Speedway's "Bama Bash" in this Heath Lawson photo.

Davenport's a wheel man.......wonder if this Martinsville debut will relate to the Eldora truck spectacular?

Didn't see it mentioned in the release, but Davenport is entered in a truck owned by MAKE Motorsports of Shelby, NC, which has had a somewhat spotty record in Nationwide and Trucks. Natalie Sather was scheduled to drive for them last year at the Martinsville and Rockingham truck races

From the owners' website:

About MAKE

Founded in 2010 by Mark Beaver & Tracy Lowe, diverse motorsports owners with 50 years combined in racing - MAKE Motorsports makes its natural progression into the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and then into the NASCAR Nationwide Series.

Mark Beaver has owned NHRA, IHRA, Super Late Model Dirt Series, Legends, SCCA Trans Am & SCCA World Challenge teams.

One of the only female team owners in racing, Tracy Lowe has owned or competed in Dirt Late Models & SCCA.

At the very least, this story has a definite 'old school' feel.....a dirt tracker getting a chance

Some youngsters with famous relatives looked really good in Martinsville Trucks practice:

Well, SuperMan didn't make the cut........

Got up to Madison a couple of times back in the early 80s when I lived in Greensboro. Its very high banks (at least they were then) were so different than what I'd been used to at Wilson, which drove more like asphalt. At Madison they threw the cars sideways BEFORE they ever got to the turns. It was a toatally different style of racing than eastern North Carolina dirt racing.

This is EXACTLY what Madison looked like back in the early 80s when I went as seen in this photo by our RR member Woody Delbridge posted on his page: