{"id":14021,"date":"2013-08-05T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=14021"},"modified":"2013-08-05T05:47:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T09:47:37","slug":"reid-lanpher-racing-lanpher-charges-to-nelcar-podium-at-beech-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/reid-lanpher-racing-lanpher-charges-to-nelcar-podium-at-beech-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"REID LANPHER RACING: Lanpher Charges To NELCAR Podium At Beech Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amsoil NELCAR Legends Tour: Reid Lanpher
\nBeech Ridge Motor Speedway Race Report<\/strong><\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH, Maine \u2013 Reid Lanpher of Manchester, Maine, finished second in the Amsoil NELCAR Legends Tour 25-lap VIP Thursday Thunder feature event at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine, on Thursday, August 1. The finish was the fourth consecutive podium finish for the 15-year-old Lanpher, who won at Wiscasset Raceway on July 13 and then finished second twice in a span of three days at both Beech Ridge and Oxford Plains Speedway. Lanpher started 19th in the 20-car field and deftly worked his way through traffic to the runner-up spot. With one lap remaining, Lanpher had pulled to the rear bumper of the race leader when the field was given the combined yellow\/checkered flags for a blown engine on another competitor’s car.<\/p>\n

WHO<\/strong>: Reid Lanpher, Manchester, Maine
\nTEAM<\/strong>: Team EJP No. 59 Eastern Township Docks\/Scott’s Recreation Coupe
\nCREW CHIEF<\/strong>: Bob Weymouth, Topsham, Maine
\nWHAT<\/strong>: VIP Thursday Thunder 25
\nWHERE<\/strong>: Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, Scarborough, Maine (.333-mile oval)
\nSTARTED<\/strong>: 19th
\nFINISHED<\/strong>: 2nd<\/p>\n

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REID, WERE YOU HOPING THE RACE WOULD BE RESTARTED WITH ONE LAP REMAINING?<\/strong>
\nI could have won it, maybe. It’s just one of those things that could have gone either way. It could have played against me or it could have played for me. I would have liked to see a caution, but that’s racing. We’ll take that. We started 19th and got all the way to second in 25 laps. I’m pretty pumped about that.<\/p>\n

Big thanks to everybody, really, that makes this possible. I just feel so fortunate to be a 15-year-old kid out here doing what I do. Big, big thanks to everybody.<\/p>\n

DID YOU THINK THE CAR WAS GOING TO BE THAT GOOD AFTER FINAL PRACTICE?<\/strong>
\nWe made some gains from the first practice, and we were selective in our adjustments. I think that worked out good. I was fairly confident going into the feature after the first practice session. Did I think we’d be good enough to get all the way to second? Maybe I’d have questioned that a little bit, but I’ll take it.<\/p>\n

It is what it is. It’s so frustrating to get second eight times this year, but I can’t complain. There were 18 other cars out here that would have liked to have finished where we did.<\/p>\n

HOW MUCH DID THE EARLY CAUTION FLAGS HELP YOU WITH TRACK POSITION?<\/strong>
\nNot being involved in the wrecks was big. I was going to take all the cautions I could get, to be honest, without being involved in any of them. I didn’t care if I had to restart on the outside lane or on the inside behind slow cars \u2013 I was going to take any cautions we could get and try and use them to my advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amsoil NELCAR Legends Tour: Reid Lanpher Beech Ridge Motor Speedway Race Report SCARBOROUGH, Maine \u2013 Reid Lanpher of Manchester, Maine, finished second in the Amsoil NELCAR Legends Tour 25-lap VIP Thursday Thunder feature event at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine, on Thursday, August 1. The finish was the fourth consecutive podium finish for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,10,4168],"tags":[15358],"class_list":["post-14021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beech-ridge","category-maine","category-nelcar","tag-reid-lanpher-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}