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TJ Reaid Posts Season Best Second-Place Finish in Gresham CRA Southern Six Pack Action
Press Release“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.
For more on TJ Reaid, please visit his website at www.tjreaid.com.
- 51 Sports Press Release
Article Tags: Bubba Pollard, Buddy’s Home Furnishings Blizzard Series, Five Flags (Fla.) Speedway, Gresham (Ga.) Motorsports Park, KBM, Kyle Busch, Kyle Busch Motorsports, Super Late Model, TJ Reaid
