Joey Finishes as Runner-up at River Cities NLRA Run

EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. (June 10, 2025) - Joey Pederson scored his best finish of the 2025 campaign so far as he finished as the runner-up last Friday night with the NLRA Late Model series at River Cities Speedway in Grand Forks as the trio of Pederson Racing runners made their second NLRA start as a three-car team.

​Joey and Kelsi Pederson transferred to the main event from their heat races with Joey finishing second in his heat and Kelsi driving into a transfer spot after starting seventh and finishing fifth.

Tucker Pederson missed a heat race transfer spot but went on to score the win in the B-Main to grab the 21st starting spot with Joey starting fourth and Kelsi in 20th.

Joey went nearly three-wide with Shane Edginton and John Seng at the start of the 25-lap feature. Seng got a little loose on the bottom of turn four at the end of the fifth lap allowing Pederson to move into a podium spot.

With 10 laps to go, Pederson had a lapped car separating him from the lead duo as the leaders cycled around the quarter-mile for a handful of laps with the same traffic separating them.

Edginton headed to the infield with a flat right rear tire in the closing laps, moving Joey into the second spot but he ran out of time as the race went green-to-checkered, running just six minutes.

In those six minutes, Tucker Pederson passed eight cars to finish in the 13th spot with Kelsi finishing 22nd.

Another soggy weekend kept the team to just one race event but this week will see a return to River Cities on Friday night before heading west to Devils Lake Speedway for the $5000-to-win Golden Hammer Classic on Saturday night, an event won by Joey two seasons ago.

2025 Results:
Joey:
Races: 7
Wins: 0
Top Fives: 4
Top Tens: 6

Kelsi:

Races: 7
Wins: 0
Top Fives: 0
Top Tens: 3

Tucker:
Races: 7
Wins: 0
Top Fives: 1
Top Tens: 4


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