It may have taken him longer than he wanted, but Ocala’s Ivedent Lloyd found a familiar place Friday night at Ocala Speedway. After a ten-year hiatus, Lloyd was back in track’s victory lane.

“We’d been working on this new car for a bit, and we got it running real good,” Lloyd said after winning the 25-lap late model feature. Rich Pratt finished second and Mike Bresnahan fell from an early lead to third.

Lloyd started near the rear of the 16-car field but found himself running third by lap 9. On lap 10, Lloyd used a lap car as a pick to pass Bresnahan and J.O. Nobles to take the lead. He led the remaining laps, surviving two late-race restarts and a late charge from Pratt.

“Running second to him is almost like a win,” Pratt said about Lloyd. “He’s the benchmark, but we’ve made big gains over the last few times we were here.”

Longtime asphalt ace Wayne Anderson brought his dirt late model to the track to make his debut, but he did not make a competition lap. During practice, Anderson spun on the slick surface and backed his car into the retaining wall.

Drivers afterward continued to talk about the track surface, which by the end of the evening became dry and tabletop slick.

“It’s slick and slow, but you can run side-by-side on it,” Lloyd said. “It definitely makes the racing pretty exciting.”