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Persistent Smith Takes Lawton Feature
By: John Lemon
Lawton,
Oklahoma (August 14, 2010) – Persistence played a key role for Danny Smith tonight. To begin with,
Smith’s racecar hauler blew a tire enroot to Lawton Speedway for another stop on the 2010 Oil Capital Racing Series sprint car tour. Having over come that
hurdle and arriving at the track just in time for he and teammate Kyle Clark to get their hot lap
sessions in, Smith continued to put pressure on race leader Lee Jennings in the ‘A’ Feature event while
chasing Jennings for several laps and made the winning pass with two laps left
to go.
The
feature started with Jennings and Kyle
Cobb leading the field to green. The two were dead even at the completion
of lap one then Cobb took the position on the second go around with Smith
settling down into the third spot. Travis
‘Hollywood’ Jenkins would cross the line in fourth and OCRS points leader Jamie Passmore would follow Jenkins and
in doing so, he would hit the outside retaining wall at the start/finish line,
but he would continue onward. Joe Wood
Jr. would take Passmore’s spot away from him the next trip around Lawton’s
red clay oval. A spin by Fred Mattox
in turns one/two would bring out the first caution of the race.
Cobb
would keep control of the lead on the restart while Smith would keep an eye on
Jennings. On the seventh lap, Jennings would take the lead away from Cobb. Two
laps later, Whit Gastineau, who had
been moving slowly forward, worked his way around Jenkins for fifth with Sean McClelland charging as well. Wood
suffered misfortune when the “HogWagon” would spin to a stop in turn four on
lap seventeen of the 25 lap affair. On lap 21, Mattox would come to a second
stop thus bunching the field up for a short dash to the finish. While under
yellow, Tim Kent had worked his way
into the top ten but suffered a flat right rear tire and retired prior to the
track going back to going back to green.
Once
underway, Smith immediately began to put pressure on Jennings for the top spot,
Jennings ran a smooth and calculated race but on lap 23, Jennings made a
mistake and lost momentum and that allowed the persistent Smith to overtake him
for the lead. McClelland and Cobb would also work past Jennings to improve
their positions. Smith took the checkers for his second win of the season (two
of the last three OCRS events) in his “Same
Day Auto Repair” number 5$ mount. “I just bided my time at the start then
towards the end I knew I had to get moving” said the elated winner. “After the
problems we had just to get here, this is a good way to end the night,” said
Smith. Jennings took the results all in stride. “I knew how to run good laps. I
just messed up one time and it cost me” said the pilot of the Jennings Garage / Quality Tow sponsored
car. “Sometimes your on the good end and sometimes your not. We ran well and
although we wanted it (the win), we know we did run well.” McClelland took the
runner up spot with Cobb, Jennings and Gastineau taking the top five spots.
Completing the top ten were: Passmore, Andy
Shouse, Jenkins, T.J. Herrell
and Gary Owens.
Heat
races were won by Passmore, Smith, Cobb and Jenkins. Herrell took the ‘B’
Feature win with Kyle Ezell, Terry Easum
and Beau Gastineau earning transfer tokens to the ‘A’ Feature. The next
stop for the OCRS warriors will be next Saturday night at the famed Thunderbird Speedway in Muskogee
Oklahoma, It will mark the first time in several years that an open wheel event
has graced the large half-mile speedway.
OCRS RESULTS FROM LAWTON SPEEDWAY 8/14/10:
Heat 1: 1) Jamie Passmore 2) Andy Shouse 3) Fred Mattox 4)
Tim Kent 5) Kyle Ezell 6) Terry Easum 7) Brady Demeree 8) Nick Bates
Heat 2 1) Danny Smith 2) Joe Wood Jr. 3) Mike Goodman 4)
Rafe Essary 5) Stephen Davis 6) Jeff Garnett 7) Jeremy Allen 8) Shawn
Bloomquist
Heat 3: 1) Kyle Cobb 2) Lee Jennings 3) Sean McClelland 4)
Shayla Waddell 5) T.J. Herrell 6) Joe Bob Lee 7) Evan Sewell 8) Jeff Leep
Heat 4: 1) Travis Jenkins 2) Whit Gastineau 3) Gary Owens 4)
Frank Dittman 5) Kyle Clark 6) Beau Gastineau 7) Brandon Jennings
B Feature (Top 4 Transfer): 1) T.J. Herrell 2) Kyle Ezell 3)
Terry Easum 4) Beau Gastineau 5) Brady Demeree 6) Evan Sewell 7) Joe Bob Lee 8)
Jeff Leep 9) Jeff Garnett 10) Nick Bates 11) Stephen Davis 12) Kyle Clark 13)
Shawn Bloomquist (DNS) 14) Jeremy Allen (DNS) 15) Brandon Jennings (DNS)
A Feature (25 Laps): 1) Danny Smith 2) Sean McClelland 3)
Kyle Cobb 4) Lee Jennings 5) Whit Gastineau 6) Jamie Passmore 7) Andy Shouse 8)
Travis Jenkins 9) T.J. Herrell 10) Gary Owens 11) Terry Easum 12) Mike Goodman
13) Shayla Waddell 14) Kyle Ezell 15) Beau Gastineau 16) Tim Kent (DNF) 17)
Fred Mattox (DNF) 18) Joe Wood Jr. (DNF) 19) Rafe Essary (DNF) 20) Frank
Dittman(DNF)
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