Jonathan Davenport has faced a long haul across the past nine months, with a lot of tough nights now filed away in the memory banks. But with this weekend’s 32nd annual Red Buck Dirt Track World Championship at Portsmouth Raceway Park, the 27-year-old native of Blairsville, Ga. will clinch the 2012 Lucas Oil series Rookie of the Year crown.

It was a year of adjustment for Davenport. This was his first season as a full-time Lucas Oil regular, coming off a splendid late 2011 run that saw him win MORE