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Smith Ends Drought With
Humboldt
Win
By John Rittenoure
HUMBOLDT,
Kansas (July 30, 2010) - Danny Smith visited the
winners circle for the first time in almost a year with his
victory in the OCRS main event Friday at the Humboldt Speedway.
Smith drove off the pole and led all 25 laps to become the sixth
different winner in 13 events held so far this season.
"That is easy for an old man," smiled Smith.
"We had some really tough competition tonight, but Bill and Skip
dialed the car in and it was good to go tonight."
It may have been a start-to-finish run but
it was far from easy. Smith had series points leader Jamie
Passmore close behind in second and had to turn back a final
turn challenge from Passmore for the win.
"We had a flat tire on the right rear going
down," Smith said. "It only had about four pounds of air in it.
We were lucky there at the end. I could hear him (Passmore)
coming and I could tell the tire was flat. I was just wondering
how may laps we had to go."
With Smith's right rear losing air Passmore
did close up behind Smith in the final laps and tried to make a
run from the high side in turn four on the final lap. But Smith
held on for the win and what may have be the most fun he has had
all year.
"This is one of the most fun tracks we have
been too," said Smith of the D-shaped 3/8's mile oval. "This is
the second time we have been here and it is a great facility.
Everyone should come here and look at how they do it.
"Here we are in the dead of summer and the track preparation was
so good the track still had moisture in it."
In the opening laps Passmore had to battle
with Kyle Clark for the runner-up position before finally
winning the fight on lap three. Two laps later Mike Goodman
passed Clark for third. Lapped traffic came into play on lap 14
but neither Passmore of Goodman could take advantage. Clark
finished fourth and Tim Kent was fifth.
OCRS Sprints
HEAT 1:
1, Jamie Passmore. 2, Danny Smith. 3, Travis Jenkins. 4, Rafe
Essary. 5, Fred Mattox. 6, Terry Easum.
HEAT 2:
1, Tim Kent. 2, Matt Sherrell. 3, Shayla Waddell. 4, Zach Beeler.
5, Casey Wills. DNS: Brady Demeree.
HEAT 3:
1, Mike Goodman. 2, Kyle Clark. 3, Frank Dittman. 4, Kacee Frazier.
5, Kevin Risley. 6, Dean Drake, Jr.
A FEATURE:
1, Danny Smith. 2, Jamie Passmore. 3, Mike Goodman. 4, Kyle
Clark. 5, Tim Kent. 6, Matt Sherrell. 7, Travis Jenkins. 8,
Kacee Frazier. 9, Rafe Essary. 10, Fred Mattox. 11, Kevin Risley.
12, Frank Dittman. 13, Shayla Waddell. 14, Terry Easum. 15, Zach
Beeler. 16, Casey Wills. 17, Dean Drake, Jr. DNS: Brady Demeree.
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