TJ Reaid Posts Season Best Second-Place
Finish in Gresham CRA Southern Six Pack Action
Back in His Family’s Car, Reaid Starts
From the Pole and Leads Much of Easy Racers 100
CONCORD, NC
(September 19, 2011) – TJ
Reaid was right where he wanted to be at the start of Saturday night’s
Second Annual George Elliott Memorial Easy Racers 100 at Gresham
Motorsports Park in Jefferson, Georgia.
He was back in
his familiar number-41 and at the front of the field.
After
qualifying seventh, the pill-draw inversion of seven put Reaid on the
pole for the 100-lap event and the Acworth, Georgia native led through
the first half of the event. Although winner Bubba Pollard wrestled
the lead from Reaid on a second-half restart, Reaid hung on for a
strong second-place finish.
"I had built
such a big lead that I could pick and choose how to run my car," said
Reaid. "I knew once Augie and Bubba got around us that I’d have to
push the car a little harder than I wanted to and it started getting a
little tight. All in all, we were in contention. I feel like if we
could’ve had a few more laps at the end of the race that we could’ve
gotten back to Bubba’s bumper and given him a shot for the win."
Reaid made his
second start of the 2011 season back in his family-owned number-41
Super Late Model. Reaid saw plenty of success and earned many
accolades in the family racer in recent seasons before hooking up with
NASCAR driver Kyle Busch for a ride with the KBM organization before
the 2010 season. Now, after more than a year and a half with that
organization, Reaid is back in the 41, a number that his father Tony
drove for many years around the dirt tracks of the Southeast, and
enjoying the home cooking.
"The last
couple races here we’ve had some bad luck. We’d have some good runs
put together and then fall short, getting cars torn up and all that.
It’s good to be back in the 41 car. I know my dad’s really pumped
about that. To get a good run tonight for him really means a whole
lot."
With a solid
runner-up finish behind him at one half-mile, Reaid will look to carry
that momentum with his 41 ride into Pensacola, Florida’s Five Flags
Speedway on Friday, September 23rd for the final round of
the Buddy’s Home Furnishings Blizzard Series.
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