{"id":11833,"date":"2013-09-04T16:42:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T20:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/?p=11833"},"modified":"2013-09-04T16:42:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T20:42:46","slug":"evan-beaulieu-closes-rookie-season-first-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2013\/09\/evan-beaulieu-closes-rookie-season-first-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Evan Beaulieu Closes Out Rookie Season With First Win"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_0330-1024x682\"Scarborough, ME \u2013 In the final race of his rookie season, Evan Beaulieu lead every lap to take his first win in the 56 Hancock Lumber\/K&B Automotive Chevrolet in the Pro Series division at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway last Saturday night.\u00a0 With tears in his eyes in Victory Lane, Beaulieu realized just how big of a moment it was to win in the state\u2019s premier division. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is incredible and I\u2019m at a loss of words, I really can\u2019t describe how special this is,\u201d Beaulieu said jubilantly in victory lane, \u201cI\u2019m so proud of this, I\u2019ve had a great team behind me all year and we\u2019ve all been building up to this together, it hasn\u2019t been easy and there were many nights we struggled, but it makes this win that much more special and I can\u2019t wait to celebrate with them.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

After finishing second in his heat race earlier in the day, Beaulieu started first for the 40 lap feature.\u00a0 Beaulieu drove away early, but was challenged by the 11 of Tyler King for the top spot until a caution came out on lap 16.\u00a0 On the ensuing restart, Beaulieu was able to get the jump once again.\u00a0 Being challenged by the 72 of Charlie Colby, Beaulieu had to run a smooth line to keep the lead.\u00a0 At the finish, he was able to pull away from the stacked field of Super Late Model competitors en route to his first win. <\/span><\/p>\n

Beaulieu ended the season 11th\u00a0in the Pro Series point standings in his rookie season, grabbing five top ten finishes and that elusive win to close the season driving the Naughty Racing 56 for runner up in 2013 point standings, Dan McKeage. \u00a0The weekend wasn\u2019t over there though, as Evan and the team traveled to Unity Raceway on Sunday<\/span><\/span> to compete in the Nelcar Legends race. \u00a0He won his heat race and finished second in the feature. \u00a0As for the rest of the season, the driver is unsure where his next event will be, but wants to be behind the wheel as often as he can.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing I do know is we want to hit up a few of the final Legends Car races this year and they run into October,\u201d said Beaulieu talking about the rest of the season, \u201cWe would still like to run another Super Late Model race, possibly a PASS race, but we will have to wait and see what we can do.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Keep updated on Evan Beaulieu and the Beaulieu Racing team for the rest of their 2013 season on Twitter (@ebeaulieu56) and on Facebook (facebook.com\/ebeaulieu56<\/a>) and on his website at www.evanbeaulieu.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scarborough, ME \u2013 In the final race of his rookie season, Evan Beaulieu lead every lap to take his first win in the 56 Hancock Lumber\/K&B Automotive Chevrolet in the Pro Series division at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway last Saturday night.\u00a0 With tears in his eyes in Victory Lane, Beaulieu realized just how big of […]<\/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":[878,18],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-11833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maine-race-tracks","category-maine-racing-news","tag-evan-beaulieu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833","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=11833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}