As he was getting acclimated to the discipline, Rahmer raced most often at Lincoln Speedway and Susquehanna (now BAPS).
In 2016, a year that saw him branch out, he accomplished a personal milestone by winning his first 410 feature at Williams Grove.
Week by week he was getting better, and with two real seasons under his belt he was ready for a breakout year.
The 2017 campaign proved to be a year that was laced with a bit of magic. In August he won for the first time with the All Star Circuit of Champions at Grandview Speedway.
The victory was significant, as the track is close to his Salfordville, Pa. home, and is a place he particularly likes. “I like all the tracks when I‘m going well,” he said. “But Grandview is the track I really enjoy. It can be a crashy little joint, especially off of two, but it can get wide very quick. It can be really fun.”
More significantly, Rahmer won three times at Williams Grove, including the Pennsylvania Sprint Week date at the end of June.
His body of work enabled him to capture the overall track championship and the special Diamond Series title, which is based on select race dates at the Grove.
Naturally, in the early portion of the season, the quest was just to win races. Then, as the calendar continued to turn, Freddie was not afraid to admit that the point situation was on his mind.
“It would be dumb not to care,” he said. “I think it was a big deal to win that, especially since it was just my second year to run there full time.”
Winning a title at a premier race track immediately establishes your racing credibility. Now the younger Rahmer was faced with backing this up.
The 2018 season proved to be a great year in many respects. First, he graduated from college and began preparing for his life outside of racing. Then, while at the track, he burnished his growing reputation with several big wins.
Freddie won twice with the All Stars at two of the fastest tracks in the land. He climbed the top step of the podium at Williams Grove and then two weeks later did it again at Port Royal.
Those were big moments for sure, but they still paled in comparison to besting David Gravel and the World of Outlaws that July at Lincoln.
It was a Rahmer, at Lincoln Speedway, representing the PA Posse against the outside invaders. To no one‘s surprise, the place went crazy.
Fred and Freddie became the sixth father-and-son duo to win with the Outlaws.
When the day comes where Freddie can sit back and reflect on his career, he may discover that 2019 was his year of transition.
When you graduate from college it is clear that you are no longer a kid, but now are expected to do adult things.
“It‘s funny,” Freddie said. “When you are in high school, you hate it. All you want to do is get out. Now I think how I‘d love to be back. Then there was no worry at all in the world. All you have to do is be there from 7 (a.m.) to 3 (p.m.) and get the hell out. That‘s no big deal.”
Now things are different. Since graduation, Freddie has put his engineering skills to work. It is work he really enjoys.
“We do custom stainless steel work,” he said. “It can be anything from stuff in a hospital to kitchen trim work. I design things with Dean, who has worked there for 40 years, so with his experience and what I learned in school it is really starting to come together really well. We do AutoCAD and 3-D modeling, we have a water jet, and other CNC programs. So, it works out really well.
“What‘s nice is you start talking with the customer, you design the product, and then you stay with it through the whole process. Whereas if you work at someplace really big, you can design it but never really see it or know if it really works. It‘s really good.”
One additional plus to his job is that ownership understands, and appreciates, what he does during his off time.
“It is excellent,” Freddie said. “I love working there because I work for really nice people. They are real flexible with my racing, but I don‘t take advantage of them because they really take good care of me.”
This story will continue in “An Inside Look At Freddie Rahmer, Part II,” scheduled for release Monday afternoon on the Sprint Car & Midget website.