CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — Jack Lehner knew he had work to do in the off-season. “When it’s racing against (Mat) Williamson and (Matt) Sheppard and stuff, sometimes we can race with them, sometimes we can hang with them, but it always feels like they’re a little bit quicker than me,” Lehner said. After 10 laps of battling with Williamson for the lead, Lehner went into the final lap well ahead of his competitor. “Running the middle there, if you hit it just right, it’s fast,” Lehner said. “But, if you missed it a little bit, it was really slow. “I just put a lapped car between me and Williamson, what I thought. “It was building a lot of experience for me, running with those guys, being in that position, being the leader with a handful of laps to go in lapped traffic,” Lehner said.

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