5/24/2018
Aaron Reutzel
Reutzel Ready for Four Race Memorial Day Weekend
Lonnie Wheatley, CLUTE, Texas (May 24, 2018) – Aaron Reutzel had his sights set on another possible All Star Circuit of Champions win last weekend only to have Mother Nature intervene.
With Reutzel, the current series points leader, set to start on the front row of Saturday night’s All Star feature aboard the Baughman-Reutzel Motorsports No. 87 Sprint Car at Wisconsin’s Plymouth Dirt Track, the skies opened up and wiped out the feature and continued on to wash out Sunday’s go at Angell Park Speedway as well.
The Folkens Brothers Trucking/Dissolvalloy Downhole Revolution Triple-X Sprint Car entry will see plenty of action this weekend with a set of All Star events on Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Ohio before a World of Outlaws tilt in Indiana on Monday.
This weekend’s slate of All Star Circuit of Champions events for the Precision Catalyst/Hollywood Blasting & Coating/Beard Equipment team begins at Attica Raceway Park on Friday before moving on to Wayne County Speedway on Saturday and then Waynesfield Raceway Park on Sunday. The Memorial Day weekend quadruple wraps up with the World of Outlaws at Lawrenceburg Speedway on Monday.
Reutzel raced to finishes of seventh at Attica and ninth at Wayne County in All Star action last month aboard the Nattress Construction/Momentum Racing Suspensions machine. Waynesfield and Lawrenceburg will both be fist-time venues for the Clute, TX, native.
Last Friday’s card at Wisconsin’s Plymouth Dirt Track kicked off with Reutzel setting an overall quick time of 11.571 seconds over a field of 47 entries before earning a Dash position after a fourth-place heat race finish.
“We were really good in qualifying,” Reutzel says. “We tried some stuff in the heat race knowing that we were locked in the Dash as long as we held on to a transfer position.”
Reutzel went on to win his Dash to secure the front row outside starting position for the feature only to have rain wash out the nightcap.
“We went back to what we had earlier and were really good in the Dash,” Reutzel recalls. “I would like to see what we could have done in the feature.”
That All Star weekend in Wisconsin simply wasn’t meant to be though. There will be four more opportunities to add to the win column on a busy Memorial Day holiday weekend.
2018 Quick Stats: 18 races, 2 wins, 7 top-fives, 9 top-tens.
Up Next:
Friday – All Star Circuit of Champions at Attica (OH) Raceway Park.
Saturday – All Star Circuit of Champions at Wayne County Speedway (Orrville, OH).
Sunday – All Star Circuit of Champions at Waynesfield (OH) Raceway Park.
Monday – World of Outlaws Sprint Cars at Lawrenceburg (OH) Speedway.
Keep Track: Keep track of Aaron Reutzel’s on-track action including schedule and results at http://www.aaronreutzelracing.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Aaron-Reutzel-Racing/117666254913127 or on Twitter at @AaronReutzel. You can also e-mail Aaron at aaronreutzel@yahoo.com.
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Article Credit: Lonnie Wheatley