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Pontoon Beach, IL (September 24, 2006) Denny Schwartz took home $5,800 by winning the 2nd Annual Modified Mania at Tri-City Speedway. Schwartz took the lead on lap twenty-five and held on to earn in victory in one of the most exciting events of the season on the big half-mile oval.

1. 4J SCOTT WEBER 22.885 23.167 22.885
2. 1W RAY WALSH 23.016 22.895 22.895
3. 41G MATT GOULDEN 23.207 22.916 22.916
4. 9S TOM SEETS SR 22.956 23.035 22.956
5. 77 JIM SHERECK 23.082 22.976 22.976
6. G1 GABE MENSER 23.113 23.006 23.006
7. 41M BRENT MULLINS 23.010 23.109 23.01
8. 21S DENNY SCHWARTZ 23.024 23.210 23.024
9. 24 MIKE HARRISON 23.066 23.238 23.066
10. 3L JEFF LEKA 23.086 23.101 23.086
11. 22C VANCE WILSON 23.116 23.148 23.116
12. 444 MATT SIMPSON 24.060 23.167 23.167
13. 10 CURT RHODES 23.206 23.900 23.206
14. 1A STEVE MEYER JR 23.240 23.284 23.24
15. 0X STEVE PICOU 23.271 23.293 23.271
16. 94S CHRIS SMITH 23.560 23.410 23.41
17. 25P CHARLES PATRICK 23.517 23.432 23.432
18. 6M TERRY MCCLINTOCK 23.785 23.439 23.439
19. 16 TOMMIE SEETS JR 23.448 23.874 23.448
20. 55 MARTY SMITH JR 23.745 23.472 23.472
21. 11D KELLY DUVALL 23.519 23.480 23.48
22. T0 TIM HANCOCK 23.484 23.596 23.484
23. 3F ROB FUQUA 23.667 23.485 23.485
24. 12S ED SHAMHART 23.539 23.501 23.501
25. 1H EVERETT BRADHAM 23.514 23.711 23.514
26. 94E ED LENHARDT 23.528 23.622 23.528
27. 002 RICHARD KIMBERLING 23.924 23.595 23.595
28. 22M MATT MEVERT 23.614 23.602 23.602
29. 21M STEVE MYERS 24.104 23.602 23.602
30. 25K BRENT KEYES 23.900 23.654 23.654
31. 37 MIKE MONROE 23.683 23.735 23.683
32. 3 MARK LEUCK 23.869 23.714 23.714
33. 9K ROBERT KNAEBEL 23.787 23.905 23.787
34. 7 CRAIG SMITH 23.810 24.953 23.81
35. 15 KENNY COLLIER 23.970 23.824 23.824
36. 59W RICH WHALEY 23.964 23.926 23.926
37. 71 JAY HUGHES 24.243 24.042 24.042
38. 48 BOBBY MARTINTONI 24.505 24.052 24.052
39. 2H CODY HOOD 24.391 24.262 24.262
40. 14R TIM BUREDL 24.356 24.314 24.314
41. 11H JOHN STANTON 24.377 24.327 24.327
42. 10X ROB PENDERGRASS 24.349 24.767 24.349
43. 99 MARTY SMITH SR 24.437 24.391 24.391
44. 21S KENNY SHAW 24.546 24.418 24.418
45. 11G DANE GUNDAKER 24.435 24.677 24.435
46. 59E CHAD EVANS 24.679 24.464 24.464
47. 94K KEVIN GRAFF 24.499 24.885 24.499
48. 97 CHIP MORGAN 25.646 25.775 25.646
49. 23 COREY CARRIKER DQ DQ DQ
50. X JESSE SNYDER NT NT NT
51. 67 JOHN SEETS SR NT NT NT

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Pontoon Beach, IL (September 10, 2006) Tri-City Speedway hosted their Season Championship Night and four of the five divisions still had their points title on the line coming into the night's action. In the UMP Late Model division, Billy Laycock held a slim ten point lead over Bryan Collins as the night's racing got under way. After qualifying heat and the dash action, Collins had trimmed Laycock's lead down to only five points. Laycock and Collins lined up for the main event side by side on the front row. On the initial start, the two raced hard into turn one as they tried to beat each other to the turn. Laycock got into the first turn too hot and his car spun into the infield and brought out the caution. Tri-City Speedway's rules state that he had to restart on the rear for bringing out the caution. On the next restart, Jayme Zidar moved up to the front row, who was third in the point standings and only seventeen points out of first place, took the lead at the drop of the green flag. Collins faded all the way back to the sixth spot before he could get into the preferred groove. This allowed Steve Sheppard to move into the second spot as he gave chase to Zidar. Zidar would lead the first ten laps before Sheppard would slip by him on the low side. Sheppard would pull away in traffic to earn the victory. Zidar would come home in the second spot. Mark Voigt took the third spot and Bryan Collins moved back up to finish in the fourth position. Rusty Griffaw completed the top five. Laycock could only manage to get back to the eleventh spot and that gave Collins enough points to take over the lead and win the championship.

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Pontoon Beach, IL - (September 3, 2006) Craig Smith of Godfrey, IL won the biggest late model event of his young career as he captured the $2,000 top prize in the Gear Changer 50 at Tri-City Speedway. The unique event that featured ten laps on the big half mile oval followed by a required gear change in the rear end by the team's crew and then twenty-five more laps around Tri-City Speedway's quarter mile oval. The first ten lap segment on the half mile was claimed by Steve Sheppard which earned him a $500 bonus for leading at the end of that segment. The gear changing competition was won handily by the crew of Rickey Frankel as they completed the gear change and added five gallons of fuel in just over three minutes. The final stage of the event was the twenty-five laps around the quarter mile over and it was lined up in the order that the crews finished changing the gears. Craig Smith was 8th at the end of the 10 lap segment, and his crew gained him five positions by performing the gear change and fuel service on the car, which started him 3rd in the final segment. When the green flag dropped for the final twenty-five laps, it was Steve Sheppard taking the early lead from the outside front row. Sheppard led the first five laps before Mark Voigt found a faster line around the top and drove past Sheppard for the lead. Voigt led the next twelve laps as Smith worked his way through traffic to the front. Voigt's machine suffered mechanical problems with just eight laps remaining which turned the lead over the second place running Smith. Smith pulled away to a half-track victory. Tim Manville had one of his best finishes of the season as his strong performance yeilded him a second place finish. Steve Sheppard held on to the third spot. Jayme Zidar also came from the rear of the field and raced to a fourth place finish. Mike Bryant came home with a top five finish as he came from the back as well. Bryant had a great night as he won his heat race and the dash earlier in the night.