ATTICA, Ohio — Aaron Reutzel grabbed another gear the last 10 laps at Attica Raceway Park Thursday.
The Clute, Texas, driver took the lead with just five laps to go and drove to the $20,000 prize on the John Bores 20th Anniversary Celebration, his second such payday in three days. He also earned a $10,000 bonus for winning Tuesday at Fremont Speedway and Attica’s special race for a $50,000 week.
Teenager Aiden Price lead the first 19 laps of the 40-lap race on Baumann Auto Group/Kistler Engines/Burns Electric Night before Justin Peck used lapped traffic to take the point on laps 20 and 21. Price regained the top spot on lap 22 and 23 only to see 11th starter Tanner Thorson slip by on lap 24. Price drove back to the lead on lap 25 with Thorson regaining the lead on lap 26.
A caution on lap 29 set up a wild final 10 laps. Reutzel, who started fifth and hung around there until that caution, put the whip to the Ridge and Sons Racing No. 87 and drove into second on the restart and immediately jumped to the high side of the track and put pressure on Thorson. The duo traded the lead back and forth every lap at every corner.
Reutzel, the current High Limit point leader, used traffic, which was utilizing the bottom groove in front or Thorson and shot around him for the lead with just four laps to go and drove to his third career Attica win. Thorson, 15th starter Logan Schuchart, 13th starter Tyler Courtney and Price rounded out the top five.
“That’s absolutely incredible. Races we had no intentions of going to and saw what they were paying and might as well. I was hoping to win one…didn’t think we would win both. I was so tight early and I was racing like I was racing for points or something. Trying not to get crashed and this and that and I was back to eighth and I was like ‘what are you doing…it’s $30,000 to win you’re not racing for points and I just started sending it as hard as I could. I’m wore out..I was driving like I was 18 again. It was a blast…a lot of fun. This track was awesome,” said Reutzel.
The finish:
Feature (40 Laps): 1. 87-Aaron Reutzel[5]; 2. 88-Tanner Thorson[11]; 3. 1S-Logan Schuchart[15]; 4. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[13]; 5. 44-Aiden Price[1]; 6. 26-Justin Peck[6]; 7. 33W-Cap Henry[2]; 8. 11N-Darin Naida[7]; 9. 21H-Brady Bacon[10]; 10. 49X-Cale Thomas[3]; 11. 51-Ashton Torgerson[18]; 12. 09-Craig Mintz[14]; 13. 19-TJ Michael[4]; 14. 15C-Chris Andrews[12]; 15. 71-Parker Price Miller[8]; 16. 16C-Skylar Gee[21]; 17. 14-Zane DeVault[19]; 18. 101-Kalib Henry[16]; 19. 98-Ricky Peterson[24]; 20. 32-Bryce Lucius[17]; 21. 22S-Brandon Spithaler[20]; 22. 29-Zeth Sabo[22]; 23. 15K-Creed Kemenah[23]; 24. 7*-Tyler Street[9]