Paul and the crew raced with heavy hearts last night at West Plains Speedway for both the Tracer family and the Grubbs family.

Paul managed to bypass Friday and Saturday night qualifying races after transferring into the main event on Thursday night. His fourth place success earned him a fifth row start for Saturday night. Paul worked the bottom of the track for fifteen laps as he battled with the 8H of Hughes for the ninth spot. He would finally take over after losing three positions getting sideways out of turn four.

The last twenty laps of the race went caution free as cars started to pull off the track. The right-rear tire eventually went away, but Paul managed to salvage it for a ninth place finish.

After the events that unfolded Friday night at Malden which resulted in a fatality, the team has decided to take some time off and recollect themselves. Any future races have not been fully determined, but fans will be notified of schedule changes via Facebook, Twitter, and ReederRacing.com.

Paul and the Reeder family would like to send their condolences to the Tracer’s and the Grubbs’ in their time of need.

Paul made the trip to West Plains yesterday for the first round of qualifying races for the Show-Me Championship set for Saturday night. He was one of the fastest cars in the feature among Terry Phillips, Josh, Jason, and Greg Hughes, Ashley Newman, Hunter Rasdon, Gary Stolba, and Randy Timms.

After starting on the pole in the third heat, Paul picked up the win with a straightaway advantage over Stolba, Newman, and Peyton Taylor. This would give him a second row start in the feature. He went through several position changes in the race, even dropping back to sixth at one point. He would soon regain fourth as he and the top three started to pull away from the rest of the field. Paul would finish fourth to give him a tenth place start in the $5000 to win main event.

Paul returned to the Malden Speedway this weekend after taking a weekend off. Seven other Modifieds were at the track as Paul picked up a last place start in the heat. Track conditions made it nearly impossible to make any ground on the other competitors. He finally found some luck as he made his way past two cars to finish sixth.

The in-car camera took a hard lick at the start of the feature. Paul didn’t make up a lot of ground on the points leader, but was able to take home a top five finish.

REMEMBERaVET.net Cheater Nation in-car camera hot laps, feature, and lens shatter. Captured at the Malden Speedway on July 16, 2010.