Chris Smyser picks up Night 1 win at Bolivar Speedway USA
by: Clint Brown

BOLIVAR, MO. (Oct. 6, 2006) - Chris Smyser found the high banks of Bolivar Speedway USA to his liking on Friday night as he grabbed the O'Reilly MLRA victory. The win came on night #1 of the Late Model Showdown which also saw the O'Reilly NCRA and O'Reilly TORA series in competition.

Smyser lead the field down to the green, but Justin Wells was able to power to the front from his outside row one starting position. The lead pair continued to spread the gap back to third running Alan Vaughn as the laps clicked off on the high banks. Wells began to encounter lapped traffic on lap eleven and that allowed Smyser to close the gap and shoot past for the top spot on lap 13. From that point on Smyser extended his lead and raced under the checkered flags picking up his first O'Reilly MLRA win of the year. Wells held on for second with Kelly Boen, Alan Vaughn, and eight row starting Terry Phillips rounding out the top five.

Up next for the O’Reilly MLRA is the final race of the 2006 Thunder Tour with night 2 of the Late Model Showdown at Bolivar Speedway USA on Saturday.

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Full Results
Bolivar Speedway USA
October 6, 2006

Heat 1
1) Jeremy Payne, 2) Alan Vaughn, 3) Brett LaFollette, 4) Reid Millard, 5) Terry Phillips, 6) , 7) Shad Badder, 8) Gary Billings, 9) Steve Kempt, 10) Jason Bodenhamer

Heat 2
1) Chris Smyser, 2) John Hampel, 3) Larry Jones, 4) Dane Daucus, 5) Delbert Smith, 6) Dewaine Hottinger, 7) CJ Lyle, 8) Shane Essary, 9) PJ Haskins, 10) Billy Murphy

Heat 3
1) Justin Wells, 2) Steve Rushin, 3) Jesse Stovall, 4) Jack Sullivan, 5) Larry McDaniels, 6) David Turner, 7) David Conkwright, 8) Leroy Johnson, 9) Eric Anderson

Heat 4
1) Al Purkey, 2) Kelly Boen, 3) Steve Kosiski, 4) David Barker, 5) Scott Drake, 6) Billy James, 7) Jeff Taylor, 8)

B Feature #1
1) Turner, 2) James, 3) Lyle, 4) Essary, 5) Kempt, 6) McDaniels, 7) Badder, 8) Johnson, 9) Murphy

B Feature #2
1) Bodenhamer, 2) Drake, 3) Hottinger, 4) Haskins, 5) , 6) Barker, 7) Taylor, 8) , 9) Conkwright, 10) Billings

A Feature
1) Smyser, 2) Wells, 3) Boen, 4) Vaughn, 5) Phillips, 6) Purkey, 7) Stovall,
8) Payne, 9) Smith, 10) Kosiski, 11) Drake, 12) Daucus, 13) Essary, 14) Bodenhamer, 15) Sullivan, 16) James, 17) Badder, 18) McDaniels, 19) LaFollette, 20) Jones, 21) Millard, 22) Murphy, 23) Turner, 24) Rushin, 25) Kempt, 26) Conkwright