{"id":11791,"date":"2013-08-30T13:01:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T17:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/?p=11791"},"modified":"2013-08-30T13:01:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T17:01:38","slug":"evan-beaulieu-leads-early-finishes-ninth-incident-beech-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2013\/08\/evan-beaulieu-leads-early-finishes-ninth-incident-beech-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Evan Beaulieu Leads Early, Finishes Ninth After Incident at Beech Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10721\" style=\"margin: 6px;\" alt=\"IMG_0330-1024x682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0330-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"424\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0330-1024x682.jpg 424w, https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0330-1024x682-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/>Durham, Maine \u2013 \u00a0Evan Beaulieu had a great night going during <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1268291493\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Saturday<\/span><\/span> night\u2019s Pro Series race at Beech Ridge Speedway and felt like it may finally be his night to get a victory. After struggling early in practice, the team dialed the car in for the final practice and Evan was able to drive away with his first heat win in a Super Late Model.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\">Starting from the pole position, Evan lead the races opening 22 laps, then contact from the 11 of Tyler King sent Evan\u2019s No. 56 around in turn three and left the young racer to charge from the back and salvage a highly respectable 9th place finish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\"><!--more-->For Evan, the top ten was bittersweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\">\u201cYou are always thankful when you can roll the car in the trailer at the end of the race in one piece,\u201d Evan said. \u201cBut this team deserves better. I really thought tonight was our night and we definitely had a top three car again. We\u2019ve learned so much in this first year and so many people have worked hard. This is not the first time Tyler King has raced us wrong. Some guys just have no respect I guess. It\u2019s very frustrating. I feel bad for our team and our sponsors but we\u2019ll regroup and go at it again <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1268291494\"><span class=\"aQJ\">this Saturday<\/span><\/span>, I want to end this season on a good note.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\">The final race of the season at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway will be this Saturday, August 31st. \u00a0Racing will start at <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1268291496\"><span class=\"aQJ\">6:30PM<\/span><\/span> and will include the championship night for all the Nascar Whelen All-American Series divisions. \u00a0Also this weekend, Evan will be back behind the wheel of the Legends Car on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1268291497\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Sunday, September 1st<\/span><\/span> for the Last Chance 150 event at Unity Raceway. \u00a0Racing will start at <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1268291498\"><span class=\"aQJ\">1PM<\/span><\/span>. \u00a0The week won\u2019t end there, as Evan will be showing the 56 Super Late Model as part of a Toys for Tots drive at the Portland Motor Club on Labor Day, <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1268291499\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Monday, September 2nd<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\">Follow Evan on Twitter (@ebeaulieu56) and on Facebook (<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/ebeaulieu56\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/ebeaulieu56<\/a>) and on his website at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/evanbeaulieu.com\/2013\/08\/evan-beaulieu-career-best-second-in-beech-ridge-pro-series\/www.evanbeaulieu.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.evanbeaulieu.com.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durham, Maine \u2013 \u00a0Evan Beaulieu had a great night going during Saturday night\u2019s Pro Series race at Beech Ridge Speedway and felt like it may finally be his night to get a victory. After struggling early in practice, the team dialed the car in for the final practice and Evan was able to drive away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[878],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-11791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maine-race-tracks","tag-evan-beaulieu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}