Terry Phillips Grabs Night One of the Capital Federal Savings Late Model Showdown By Clint Brown September 29, 2006
By: Clint Brown

KANSAS, CITY, KS. (Sept. 29, 2006) - Terry Phillips wired the field as he powered to the Friday night win of the Capital Federal Savings Late Model Showdown at Lakeside Speedway with the O’Reilly MLRA.

Phillips motored to the front from the pole position as the green flag dropped and held off the early race challenge of outside starter John Hampel. Behind the front pair Johnny Bone Jr. had his hands full holding off both Alan Vaughn and Will Vaught for the third position.

Lapped traffic came into play on the seventh lap as Phillips opened up his lead to nearly a full straight as he went three wide to lap the machines of Kevin Kile and Dave Eckrich.

Alan Vaughn began his move forward as the powered into the third position on lap twelve and set chase for Hampel who continued to run in second. A pair of laps later Kyle Berck made his presence in the top five while Phillips had widened the gap to over a full straight away.

Vaughn continued to move forward as he moved past Hampel on lap twenty with Berck beginning to bear down on the pair. Lap twenty three would see Berck make the move past Hampel and take over the third spot.

With a seemingly insurmountable lead, Phillips continued to work lapped traffic only to have Vaughn begin to close the gap to less than a straight away from the leader. The laps wound down just too quickly as Phillips raced under the checkered flag for his ninth O’Reilly MLRA win of the 2006 season. Vaughn held on for the second spot with Berck, 20th starting Brian Harris, and 24th starting Denny Eckrich rounding out the top five positions.

A total of sixty-eight cars signed into the pits to compete in seven heat races where Scott Drake, Will Vaught, Joe Kosiski, Jeremy Payne, John Hampel, Terry Phillips, and Johnny Bone Jr. taking the wins. Ed Kosiski, Kelly Boen, and Dave Eckrich were able to grab the wins in the three B Features and continue their evening.

Two scary moments slowed the evening’s action with Kurt Kile flipping wildly on the front stretch at the beginning of the seventh heat race. Ray Guss Jr. rode out a violent flip during the first B Feature that destroyed his machine. Both drivers walked away from their incidents, but for each their night was done.

The Capital Federal Savings Late Model Showdown is co-sanctioned with the Polydome World Dirt Racing League.

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Full Results
Capital Federal Savings Late Model Showdown Night #1
Lakeside Speedway
Friday, September 29l, 2006

Heat 1
1) Scott Drake, 2) Mark Voigt, 3) Kelly Boen, 4) Chad Simpson, 5) Denny Eckrich, 6) Brian Harris, 7) Mike Wiarda, 8) Ryan Rairden, 9) Jeremy Grady,
10) Shad Badder

Heat 2
1) Will Vaught, 2) Larry Clawson, 3) Craig Preble, 4) CJ Lyle, 5) David Barker, 6) Troy Daly, 7) Bob King, 8) Randy Carder, 9) Grant Junghans, 10) Leslie Essary

Heat 3
1) Joe Kosiski, 2) Kyle Berck, 3) Jack Sullivan, 4) Dustin Mooneyham, 5) Brian Collins, 6) Mike Smith, 7) John Kuchar, 8) Bill Koons, 9) Al Humphrey,
10) Steve Foster

Heat 4
1) Jeremy Payne, 2) David Turner, 3) Dave Eckrich, 4) Trent Follmer, 5) Ken Schrader, 6) Eric Pember, 7) Brett LaFollette, 8) Bill Goodwin, 9) Todd Bell, 10) Jason Bodenhamer

Heat 5
1) John Hampel, 2) Steve Kempt, 3) Alan Vaughn, 4) Rob Moss, 5) Ray Guss Jr., 6) Ryan McAnninch, 7) Chris Simpson, 8) Karl Tipton, 9) Reid Millard,
10) John Anderson

Heat 6
1) Terry Phillips, 2) Steve Kempt, 3) Delbert Smith, 4) Al Purkey, 5) Sonny Findling, 6) Jason Utter, 7) Brian Kenkel, 8) PJ Haskins, 9) Jason Schobinger

Heat 7
1) Johnny Bone Jr., 2) Ed Kosiski, 3) Bryan Allison, 4) Jimmy Dowell, 5) Rusty Miller, 6) Mike Little, 7) Terry Melton, 8) Eric Anderson, 9) Kurt Kile

B Feature #1
1) Ed Kosiski, 2) Harris, 3) Schrader, 4) Essary, 5) Utter, 6) Collins, 7) Foster, 8) Denny Eckrich, 9) Mooneyham, 10) Haskins, 11) Schobinger, 12) Goodwin, 13) Dowell, 14) Rairden, 15) Kuchar, 16) Guss, 17) Chris Simpson

B Feature #2
1) Boen, 2) Sullivan, 3) Findling, 4) Moss,5) Pember, 6) Lyle, 7) Humphrey,
8) Smith, 9) Wiarda, 10) Millard, 11) Badder, 12) Miller, 13) Bodenhamer,
14) Carder, 15) Little, DNS - Kenkel, Anderson

B Feature #3
1) Dave Eckrich, 2) Purkey, 3) Follmer, 4) Chris Simpson, 5) LaFollette, 6) Tipton, 7) McAnninch, 8) Melton, 9) King, 10) Junghans, 11) Koons, 12) Anderson, 13) Bell, 14) Barker, 15) Grady, 16) Allison, 17) Daly

A Feature
1) Phillips, 2) Vaughn, 3) Berck, 4) Harris, 5) Denny Eckrich, 6) Hampel, 7) Bone, 8) Joe Kosiski, 9) Drake, 10) Boen, 11) Dave Eckrich, 12) Sullivan,
13) Payne, 14) Smith, 15) Preble, 16) Chris Simpson, 17) Badder, 18) Vaught,
19) Bodenhamer, 20) Ed Kosiski, 21) Kevin Kile, 22) Kempt, 23) Voigt, 24) Turner, 25) Clawson, 26) Purkey