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Steve Kosiski put his name in the record books on Sunday night as he picked up the win in the annual Alphabet Soup Race at I-80 Speedway @ Nebraska Raceway Park for his first win of the O'Reilly MLRA 2006 Thunder Tour. The triumph was the fourth career O'Reilly MLRA victory for the Papillion, NE driver.
Kosiski came down the to the green flag on the outside of row one and battled with polesitter Kelly Boen throughout the first lap for the top spot. The pair battled side by side until Kosiski made a run coming off of turn two of the second lap and powered in front of the Henderson, CO driver to take the point.
The field was slowed for three caution periods by the time twenty laps were in the books, but Kosiski had found the line that would keep him at the front each time.
As the race approached the halfway point Kosiski and Boen had broken away from the rest of the pack and began to make their way through lapped traffic. Clint Smith began to reel in the leaders as he worked his way up from starting 17th and found himself in the thick of things as the trio worked through traffic with ten laps to go. On the final lap Smith would find himself working to the inside of Boen as the pair headed down the backstretch. Kosiski held on to race under the flag first with Boen just edging out Smith for the runner up position. John Hampel came across the line in fourth as Denny Eckrich held on to round out the top five.
Al Purkey, Ben Schaller, Alan, Vaughn, Kelly Boen, Brian Harris, Johnny Bone, Jr., and Chris Simpson were able to pick up the wins during the seven heat races held. Clint Smith, Jason Utter, and Bryant Goldsmith were able to move on to the feature event by virtue of the B feature wins.
In addition to the $5,000 winner's check that Kosiski received he also picked up a $5,000 bonus from Afco Shocks as the event was part of the Afco M2 $100,000 Challenge. The bonus is paid out at select events thru the 2006 season where the winner will pick up the bonus for utilizing Afco M2 shocks and Afcoil Coil-Over springs on all four corners of their race car. This Alphabet Soup race was the first of two O'Reilly MLRA events where the winner will be eligible for the bonus payout. August 5, 2006 at Junction Motor Speedway will play host to the second event.
Next up for the O'Reilly MLRA is a double event weekend as US 36 Raceway, in Osborn, MO, will play host on June 9 and then travel to Wheatland, MO for the grand opening of Lucas Oil Speedway on June 10.
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Full Results
I-80 Speedway @ Nebraska Raceway Park
May 28, 2006
Heat 1
1) Al Purkey, 2) Ed Kosiski, 3) Clint Smith, 4) Steve Boley, 5) Davey Nall, 6) Corey Zeitner, 7) Matt Furman, 8) Shad Badder, 9) Mike Danburg, 10) Bill Koons, 11) John Beaman, 12) PJ Haskins
Heat 2
1) Ben Schaller, 2) Denny Eckrich, 3) Trent Fullmer, 4) Delbert Smith, 5) Fred Miller, 6) Mark Wyman, 7) Charlie Randolph, 8) Bo Egge, 9) Jason Schobinger, 10) John Kuchar, 11) Chris Spieker
Heat 3
1) Alan Vaughn, 2) John Anderson, 3) Steve Kosiski, 4) Billy Murphy, 5) Mike Brown, 6) Clint Benson, 7) Brian Kenkel, 8) Jimmy Judd, 9) Marty Doner, 10) JT Botts, 11) Chris Persichetti
Heat 4
1) Kelly Boen, 2) Larry Clawson, 3) John Hampel, 4) Steve Kempt, 5) John Nicholson, 6) Chad Simpson, 7) Brady Johanneck, 8) Brett LaFollette, 9) Chad Frewaldt, 10) Dan Sheppard, 11) Scott Daly
Heat 5
1) Brian Harris, 2) Craig Preble, 3) Jason Utter, 4) Eric Pember, 5) Rob Moss, 6) David Barker, 7) CJ Lyle, 8) Chris Cox, 9) Jim Clifton, 10) Greg Larsen, 11) Jimmy Morris
Heat 6
1) Johnny Bone Jr., 2) Al Humphrey, 3) Dave Eckrick, 4) Joe Kosiski, 5) Kyle Berck, 6) Ron Tex, 7) Terry Boushee, 8) David Turner, 9) Ryan Vicker, 10) Junior Coover, 11) Scott Lewis
Heat 7
1) Chris Simpson, 2) Bryant Goldsmith, 3) Tommy Elston, 4) Jason Bodenhamer, 5) Todd Gehl, 6) Alonzo Grosse, 7) Garry Billings, 8) Todd Bell, 9) Scott Cimfl, 10) Jeff Tilley, 11) Josh Most
B Feature #1
1) Clint Smith, 2) Joe Kosiski, 3) Jason Bodenhamer, 4) Craig Preble, 5) Chad Simpson, 6) Eric Pember, 7) Matt Furman, 8) Steve Kempt, 9) Ron Tex, 10) Terry Boushee, 11) Bo Egge, 12) Scott Daly, 13) Garry Billings, 14) John Beaman 15) Todd Bell, 16) Marty Doner, 17) Ryan Vicker, 18) Bill Koons, 19) Josh Most, 20) Corey Zeitner, 21) Dan Sheppard
B Feature #2
1) Jason Utter, 2) Al Humphrey, 3) John Nicholson, 4) Mike Brown, 5) Todd Gehl, 6) Mike Brown, 7) Brett LaFollette, 8) Fred Miller, 9) Mike Danburg, 10) John Kuchar, 11) Jimmy Morris, 12) Scott Cimfl, 13) PJ Haskins, 14) Jimmy Judd, 15) Clint Benson, 16) Chris Cox, 17) Chad Frewaldt, 18) Alonzo Grosse, 19) Greg Larsen, 20) Chris Spieker, 21) Steve Boley
B Feature #3
1) Bryant Goldsmith, 2) Delbert Smith, 3) Kyle Berck, 4) Tommy Elston, 5) Mark Wyman, 6) Rob Moss, 7) Billy Murphy, 8) David Barker, 9) David Turner, 10) CJ Lyle, 11) Shad Badder, 12) Jim Clifton, 13) Brian Kenkel, 14) Jeff Tilley, 15) JT Botts, 16) Junior Coover, 17) Scott Lewis, 18) Jason Schobinger, 19) Warner, 20) Brady Johanneck, 21) Chris Persichetti
Pole Dash
1) Kelly Boen, 2) Steve Kosiski, 3) Alan Vaughn, 4) Brian Harris, 5) John Anderson, 6) Denny Eckrich, 7) Johnny Bone Jr., 8) Trent Fullmer
A Feature
1) Steve Kosiski, 2) Kelly Boen, 3) Clint Smith, 4) John Hampel, 5) Denny Eckrich, 6) Joe Kosiski, 7) Dave Eckrich, 8) Brian Harris, 9) Al Purkey, 10) John Anderson, 11) Davey Nall, 12) Alan Vaughn, 13) Al Humphrey, 14) Chris Simpson, 15) Kyle Berck, 16) Ben Schaller, 17) Jason Utter, 18) Mike Brown, 19) Charlie Randolph, 20) Bryant Godlsmith, 21) John Nicholson, 22) Trent Follmer, 23) Mark Wyman, 24) Larry Clawson, 25) Billy Murphy, 26) Delbert Smith, 27) Johnny Bone, Jr., 28) Chris Spieker, 29) Ed Kosiski, 30) Corey Zeitner
Kosiski came down the to the green flag on the outside of row one and battled with polesitter Kelly Boen throughout the first lap for the top spot. The pair battled side by side until Kosiski made a run coming off of turn two of the second lap and powered in front of the Henderson, CO driver to take the point.
The field was slowed for three caution periods by the time twenty laps were in the books, but Kosiski had found the line that would keep him at the front each time.
As the race approached the halfway point Kosiski and Boen had broken away from the rest of the pack and began to make their way through lapped traffic. Clint Smith began to reel in the leaders as he worked his way up from starting 17th and found himself in the thick of things as the trio worked through traffic with ten laps to go. On the final lap Smith would find himself working to the inside of Boen as the pair headed down the backstretch. Kosiski held on to race under the flag first with Boen just edging out Smith for the runner up position. John Hampel came across the line in fourth as Denny Eckrich held on to round out the top five.
Al Purkey, Ben Schaller, Alan, Vaughn, Kelly Boen, Brian Harris, Johnny Bone, Jr., and Chris Simpson were able to pick up the wins during the seven heat races held. Clint Smith, Jason Utter, and Bryant Goldsmith were able to move on to the feature event by virtue of the B feature wins.
In addition to the $5,000 winner's check that Kosiski received he also picked up a $5,000 bonus from Afco Shocks as the event was part of the Afco M2 $100,000 Challenge. The bonus is paid out at select events thru the 2006 season where the winner will pick up the bonus for utilizing Afco M2 shocks and Afcoil Coil-Over springs on all four corners of their race car. This Alphabet Soup race was the first of two O'Reilly MLRA events where the winner will be eligible for the bonus payout. August 5, 2006 at Junction Motor Speedway will play host to the second event.
Next up for the O'Reilly MLRA is a double event weekend as US 36 Raceway, in Osborn, MO, will play host on June 9 and then travel to Wheatland, MO for the grand opening of Lucas Oil Speedway on June 10.
For O'Reilly MLRA information call 816-650-5063 or 816-305-6572 or visit them on the web at www.mlraracing.com.
Please support these sponsors who support O'Reilly MLRA Racing
O'Reilly Auto Parts/Hoosier Race Tires/Hatfield Racing Engines/Larry Shaw Race Cars/GRT Race Cars/AFCO/Driveline Shop/ATL Fuel Cells/Sunoco/Simons Petroleum/Weld Wheels/Chase Race Decals/Gameday Trophy/Bodee's Race Bodies/Smitty's Racing Engines/Duralite Wheels/Holley/Lunati/Rod End Supply/Schoenfeld Headers/Kluhsman Racing Components/Performance Bodies
Full Results
I-80 Speedway @ Nebraska Raceway Park
May 28, 2006
Heat 1
1) Al Purkey, 2) Ed Kosiski, 3) Clint Smith, 4) Steve Boley, 5) Davey Nall, 6) Corey Zeitner, 7) Matt Furman, 8) Shad Badder, 9) Mike Danburg, 10) Bill Koons, 11) John Beaman, 12) PJ Haskins
Heat 2
1) Ben Schaller, 2) Denny Eckrich, 3) Trent Fullmer, 4) Delbert Smith, 5) Fred Miller, 6) Mark Wyman, 7) Charlie Randolph, 8) Bo Egge, 9) Jason Schobinger, 10) John Kuchar, 11) Chris Spieker
Heat 3
1) Alan Vaughn, 2) John Anderson, 3) Steve Kosiski, 4) Billy Murphy, 5) Mike Brown, 6) Clint Benson, 7) Brian Kenkel, 8) Jimmy Judd, 9) Marty Doner, 10) JT Botts, 11) Chris Persichetti
Heat 4
1) Kelly Boen, 2) Larry Clawson, 3) John Hampel, 4) Steve Kempt, 5) John Nicholson, 6) Chad Simpson, 7) Brady Johanneck, 8) Brett LaFollette, 9) Chad Frewaldt, 10) Dan Sheppard, 11) Scott Daly
Heat 5
1) Brian Harris, 2) Craig Preble, 3) Jason Utter, 4) Eric Pember, 5) Rob Moss, 6) David Barker, 7) CJ Lyle, 8) Chris Cox, 9) Jim Clifton, 10) Greg Larsen, 11) Jimmy Morris
Heat 6
1) Johnny Bone Jr., 2) Al Humphrey, 3) Dave Eckrick, 4) Joe Kosiski, 5) Kyle Berck, 6) Ron Tex, 7) Terry Boushee, 8) David Turner, 9) Ryan Vicker, 10) Junior Coover, 11) Scott Lewis
Heat 7
1) Chris Simpson, 2) Bryant Goldsmith, 3) Tommy Elston, 4) Jason Bodenhamer, 5) Todd Gehl, 6) Alonzo Grosse, 7) Garry Billings, 8) Todd Bell, 9) Scott Cimfl, 10) Jeff Tilley, 11) Josh Most
B Feature #1
1) Clint Smith, 2) Joe Kosiski, 3) Jason Bodenhamer, 4) Craig Preble, 5) Chad Simpson, 6) Eric Pember, 7) Matt Furman, 8) Steve Kempt, 9) Ron Tex, 10) Terry Boushee, 11) Bo Egge, 12) Scott Daly, 13) Garry Billings, 14) John Beaman 15) Todd Bell, 16) Marty Doner, 17) Ryan Vicker, 18) Bill Koons, 19) Josh Most, 20) Corey Zeitner, 21) Dan Sheppard
B Feature #2
1) Jason Utter, 2) Al Humphrey, 3) John Nicholson, 4) Mike Brown, 5) Todd Gehl, 6) Mike Brown, 7) Brett LaFollette, 8) Fred Miller, 9) Mike Danburg, 10) John Kuchar, 11) Jimmy Morris, 12) Scott Cimfl, 13) PJ Haskins, 14) Jimmy Judd, 15) Clint Benson, 16) Chris Cox, 17) Chad Frewaldt, 18) Alonzo Grosse, 19) Greg Larsen, 20) Chris Spieker, 21) Steve Boley
B Feature #3
1) Bryant Goldsmith, 2) Delbert Smith, 3) Kyle Berck, 4) Tommy Elston, 5) Mark Wyman, 6) Rob Moss, 7) Billy Murphy, 8) David Barker, 9) David Turner, 10) CJ Lyle, 11) Shad Badder, 12) Jim Clifton, 13) Brian Kenkel, 14) Jeff Tilley, 15) JT Botts, 16) Junior Coover, 17) Scott Lewis, 18) Jason Schobinger, 19) Warner, 20) Brady Johanneck, 21) Chris Persichetti
Pole Dash
1) Kelly Boen, 2) Steve Kosiski, 3) Alan Vaughn, 4) Brian Harris, 5) John Anderson, 6) Denny Eckrich, 7) Johnny Bone Jr., 8) Trent Fullmer
A Feature
1) Steve Kosiski, 2) Kelly Boen, 3) Clint Smith, 4) John Hampel, 5) Denny Eckrich, 6) Joe Kosiski, 7) Dave Eckrich, 8) Brian Harris, 9) Al Purkey, 10) John Anderson, 11) Davey Nall, 12) Alan Vaughn, 13) Al Humphrey, 14) Chris Simpson, 15) Kyle Berck, 16) Ben Schaller, 17) Jason Utter, 18) Mike Brown, 19) Charlie Randolph, 20) Bryant Godlsmith, 21) John Nicholson, 22) Trent Follmer, 23) Mark Wyman, 24) Larry Clawson, 25) Billy Murphy, 26) Delbert Smith, 27) Johnny Bone, Jr., 28) Chris Spieker, 29) Ed Kosiski, 30) Corey Zeitner