Berry, Lanpher Score Top-10s at Southern National

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Race No. 1 Josh Berry opened the third week of racing at Southern National Motorsports Park similar to the way he ended the previous event. The 22-year-old driver advanced forward from his seventh-place starting position to take third in the opening 20 laps. From there, Berry held off challenges from veteran driver Tommy Lemons to take third in the night’s first 100 lap race. For Reid Lanpher, the night began with the Manchester, Maine-native earning a career-best fifth-place qualifying position. The race presented an uphill battle after contact from a competitor shuffled Lanpher’s No. 8 Chevrolet outside the top 10….

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Kennebec Journal : Lanpher gets his shot

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Here is an article released today about Reid’s first big race for JR Motorsports. By Bill Stewart Staff Writer Reid Lanpher is a little nervous, a little excited and a little impatient for the weekend to come. “It can’t come soon enough,” he said. “I can’t wait. I’m just really pumped.” Lanpher, 14 of Manchester, will make his long-awaited JR Motorsports debut this weekend with the first round of the “Dirty Dozen” Late Model series at Southern National Motorsports Park in Lucama, N.C. Lanpher signed with JR Motorsports — which Sprint Cup driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr. owns — in the…

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In The News: Kennebec Journal Article

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AUTO RACING: Earnhardt Jr. team hires Lanpher to drive By Bill Stewart bstewart@centralmaine.com Staff Writer When the phone call for his son came last summer, Scott Lanpher laughed it off as a prank from one of his friends. “But I called him back,” Lanpher of Manchester said, “and it was him. I couldn’t believe it. I was pretty embarrassed. He was laughing.” The caller was L.W. Miller, who runs a Late Model team for NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. And what Miller had to say was no joke. “Dale Jr. gives me free reign to run the…

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In The News: Speedtv.com Article

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CUP: Reid Lanpher Joins JR Motorsports Late Model Program The late model team owned by Dale Earnhardt Jr. will field two entries in 2013… Media Release | Posted October 17, 2012 Mooresville, NC Fresh off its first late model championship, JR Motorsports is adding a second team to the grass-roots program started by Dale Earnhardt Jr. a decade ago by hiring Reid Lanpher to drive in 2013. Lanpher, 14, will join reigning champion Josh Berry in filling the 2013 driver lineup for JR Motorsports. Both will compete for the title at Motor Mile Speedway in Radford, Va. Motor Mile is…

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