ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 5) — Ethan Dotson wasn’t going to let a nightmarish Thursday outing define his visit to the Eldora Speedway for the 55th annual World 100. He had too many supporters along with him to give up on the weekend without a fight. | Complete World 100 coverage
“I had a lot of family and sponsors come here for this weekend that helped me out,” Dotson said after Friday’s preliminary program. “I didn’t want to go out there and do what I did last night and not have a backup plan to make it worthwhile for them to be here.”
Dotson, 26, of Bakersfield, Calif., could scarcely have made a better recovery for his backers. He labored through a difficult opening night that included two lowlights — his involvement in a heat-race tangle that bent the rear clip of his ASD Motorsports Longhorn Chassis and a scrape with leader Nick Hoffman in the first 25-lap semifeature as he was being lapped — but rebounded by driving his backup car to a third-place finish in Friday’s first preliminary…