| Scott
Drake grabs first O'Reilly MLRA win of 2006
Clint Brown
August 12, 2006
Scott Drake took
advantage of an early race restart to take over the top spot
and held on for his first O'Reilly MLRA win of the 2006 season.
The green flag
waved with Larry Clawson on the pole, but it was Jason Bodenhamer
who powered around the outside of turns 1 and 2 to take command
of the field as they raced down the backstretch. Behind Bodenhamer
a flurry of action saw Scott Drake move into second from outside
of row two and quickly began to apply pressure to Bodenhamer.
The top two began running side by side with Drake utilizing
the low side and Bodenhamer riding the rim of the track. Chris
Smyser grabbed the third spot on lap three and quickly made
his presence felt with the top two. The caution flew on lap
4 and with Bodenhamer still out front and he was able to hold
onto the spot on the restart. Shane Essary slowed with a flat
right front tire on lap 7 where Drake was able to make that
low line to work on the restart to work past Bodenhamer and
take over the top spot. Drake moved out to a four car length
advantage as Smyser and Bodenhamer battled side by side for
second behind him as they began to work lapped traffic on
lap 11. The yellow waved on lap 12 for the slowing car of
Brett LaFollette and on the restart David Turner showed that
he would have to be reckoned with as well when he moved into
the third spot with Al Purkey following him through after
starting the feature in the twelfth position. A red flag waved
on lap a few laps later as the Smyser machine began a slow
spin in turn 2 which collected Jimmy Morris, Shane Essary,
and Kevin Coyne behind him. Essary and Smyser retired to the
pits while Coyne and Morris were able to continue on. On the
restart Drake opened up an eight car length advantage which
he held to the finish with Bodenhamer, Turner, Purkey and
17th starting Alan Vaughn rounding out the top five.
Three heat races
were run on the evening with Jimmy Morris, Jason Bodenhamer
and Scott Drake taking the wins and Alan Vaughn captured the
B Feature.
Up next
for the O'Reilly MLRA is a trip to the north and a stop at
Scotland County Speedway, in Memphis, MO, on Saturday, August
12.
For O'Reilly
MLRA information call 816-650-5063 or 816-305-6572 or visit
them on the web at www.mlraracing.com.
Full
Results |
Valley
Speedway |
August
11, 2006 |
| Heat
1 |
1)
Jimmy Morris, 2) David Turner, 3) Gary Webb, 4) CJ Lyle,
5) Bryon Allison, 6) Brett LaFollette, 7) , 8) Gary Billings,
9) Greg Choate |
|
| Heat
2 |
1)
Jason Bodenhamer, 2) Larry Clawson, 3) David Barker, 4)
Aaron Seabaugh, 5) Kevin Coyne, 6) Steven Clancy, 7) Randy
Reynolds, 8) Kevin Rogers, 9) Mark Evinger |
|
| Heat
3 |
1)
Scott Drake, 2) Chris Smyser, 3) Shane Essary, 4) Al Purkey,
5) Chad Clark, 6) Shad Badder, 7) Alan Vaughn, 8) Owen
Evinger, 9) Steve McDowell |
|
| B
Feature |
1)
Alan Vaughn, 2) Randy Reynolds, 3) John Binning, 4) Gary
Billings, 5) Kevin Rogers, 6) Steven Clancy, 7) Brett
LaFollette, 8) , 9) Greg Choate, 10) Owen Evinger, DNS
- Steve McDowell, Mark Evinger |
|
| A
Feature |
1)
Scott Drake, 2) Jason Bodenhamer, 3) David Turner, 4)
Al Purkey, 5) Alan Vaugn, 6) Bryon Allison, 7) Larry Clawson,
8) Gary Webb, 9) David Barker, 10, CJ Lyle, 11) Randy
Reynolds, 12) Chris Smyser, 13) Chad Clark, 14) Jimmy
Morris, 15) Aaron Seabaugh, 16) Kevin Coyne, 17) Brett
LaFollette, 18) Shane Essary, 19) Shad Badder, 20) Gary
Billings, 21) Owen Evinger, 22) John Binning |
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| Performance
Bodies Nose Piece: |
| Weld
Wheels Certificate: |
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