{"id":14330,"date":"2013-08-29T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=14330"},"modified":"2013-08-28T21:35:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T01:35:15","slug":"amsoil-nelcar-legends-tour-reid-lanpher-beech-ridge-motor-speedway-race-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/amsoil-nelcar-legends-tour-reid-lanpher-beech-ridge-motor-speedway-race-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Amsoil NELCAR Legends Tour: Reid Lanpher Beech Ridge Motor Speedway Race Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lanpher<\/a>SCARBOROUGH, Maine \u2013 Reid Lanpher of Manchester, Maine, wrapped up the VIP Thursday Thunder season at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine, with a second-place finish in the 25-lap Amsoil NELCAR Legends Tour feature event last Thursday, August 22. It marked Lanpher’s third Top-2 finish in seven races at Beech Ridge this summer, and his fourth Top-5 over the same stretch. Lanpher had a late-race restart alongside the eventual winner, but the outside groove proved tough sledding and he settled in for the runner-up effort after starting 12th in the 19-car field. Lanpher started outside the Top-10 in all but two of the VIP Thursday Thunder series races.<\/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>: 12th
\nFINISHED<\/strong>: 2nd<\/p>\n

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REID, DID YOU THINK YOU HAD A SHOT TO WIN ON THE RESTART WITH FOUR LAPS REMAINING?<\/strong>
\nHonestly, it was kind of like a defensive game there. I knew that I didn’t really have anything for Matt (Bourgoine). Did I think I was as fast as him? Oh, definitely. I know just running alone I was as fast as him, but you have to be a lot faster than a guy to go around him on the outside. It’s four or five-tenths difference from the bottom to the top, so you’ve got to be selective of your moves and take advantage of the restarts.<\/p>\n

I just protected the bottom and held onto second. I’m super-pumped about that.<\/p>\n

WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE NO. 45 CAR EARLY IN THE RACE?<\/strong>
\nI got chopped pretty bad by a car that I guess didn’t have a left-side mirror, but it it what it is. He ended up wrecked, and I didn’t. It knocked the toe out pretty bad, but it was still good enough to come up through. I still managed a second-place finish, which I was really happy with after starting 12th.<\/p>\n

WAS THIS A GOOD WAY TO WRAP UP THE THURSDAY NIGHT SEASON AT BEECH RIDGE?<\/strong>
\nEverybody’s giving it all they have at the end of the year for the last TNT race. I’m really pleased with the finish for where we came from.I had a really good car at the beginning of the race. I was trying to get my way through, just kind of bottom-feeding, because the car wasn’t very good on the outside. I was making due with what I had.
\nI feel good about the finish. I’m thankful to everyone that’s helped me out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCARBOROUGH, Maine \u2013 Reid Lanpher of Manchester, Maine, wrapped up the VIP Thursday Thunder season at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine, with a second-place finish in the 25-lap Amsoil NELCAR Legends Tour feature event last Thursday, August 22. It marked Lanpher’s third Top-2 finish in seven races at Beech Ridge this summer, and […]<\/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":[4168],"tags":[15066],"class_list":["post-14330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nelcar","tag-reid-lanpher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14330","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=14330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}