KANSAS CITY, Kan. — After a longer than usual 12-race drought, Aaron Reutzel returned to Whiskey Myers Victory Lane at Lakeside Speedway on Friday night – scoring his 11th Interstate Batteries High limit Racing win of the year in his Ridge & Sons Racing No. 87.
Earning the pole with his 15th dash win, Reutzel lost the lead off the start as outside pole sitter Daison Pursley led the opening circuit. A Lap-1 caution created a restart, however, and the Texan ripped right back the Oklahoman to start Red River Rivalry weekend on top for the Longhorns.
From there, Reutzel led the remaining 24 laps and dominated for his 18th career win with the series – second-most in series history behind Abreu’s 33 victories.
It was his first score since August 31 when he topped a Roto-Rooter Midweek Series race at Oregon’s Douglas County Dirtrack.
With their win, the Ridge & Sons Racing No. 87 team moved back into the season-long runner-up spot and sits 89 points behind Rico Abreu and Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing with three races left in the championship chase.
Finishing second behind Reutzel was Daison Pursley aboard the NAPA Racing No. 9 for his second-straight High Limit podium. His runner-up drive marked a season-best effort in his inaugural campaign with Kasey Kahne Racing.
Rounding out the podium was Giovanni Scelzi aboard the Spire Motorsports, Chili’s Grill & Bar No. 77 for his sixth top-three finish in the last nine races. With that, he joins Reutzel in cutting down the High Limit championship deficit to under 100 points to Rico Abreu and TSR.
Closing out the top five at were Tanner Holmes and Tyler Courtney.
The finish:
Feature (25 Laps): 1. 87-Aaron Reutzel[1]; 2. 9-Daison Pursley[2]; 3. 77-Giovanni Scelzi[4]; 4. 13-Tanner Holmes[3]; 5. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[7]; 6. 9R-Chase Randall[5]; 7. 4-Kasey Kahne[6]; 8. 10-Ryan Timms[10]; 9. 26-Justin Peck[14]; 10. 5-Brenham Crouch[12]; 11. 55-Brady Bacon[18]; 12. 24-Rico Abreu[8]; 13. 45X-Ashton Torgerson[11]; 14. 24D-Danny Sams III[26]; 15. 17GP-Kerry Madsen[19]; 16. 42-Sye Lynch[21]; 17. 27-Carson McCarl[16]; 18. 7SL-Justin Henderson[20]; 19. 88W-Austin McCarl[17]; 20. 5P-Joel Myers Jr[24]; 21. 19-Brent Marks[9]; 22. 28-Jace Park[22]; 23. 88-Tanner Thorson[25]; 24. 44-Chris Martin[23]; 25. 21-Brian Brown[15]; 26. 80P-Jacob Peterson[13]
