{"id":1685,"date":"2007-08-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2007-08-04T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T01:00:00","slug":"bub-bilodeau-and-beaver-norton-headline-winners-at-beech-ridge-motor-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2007\/08\/bub-bilodeau-and-beaver-norton-headline-winners-at-beech-ridge-motor-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Bub Bilodeau and Beaver Norton headline winners at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\">Bub Bilodeau and Beaver Norton  headline winners at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway<\/font><\/h1>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong>Dan Walker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong>Beech Ridge Motor Speedway  PR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <strong>Scarborough, Maine-<\/strong>Bub  Bilodeau scored his second<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Pro  Series feature win of the season on Saturday night as part of the NASCAR Whelan  All American Series.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>Beaver  Norton ended his season long dry spell as the current division champion won for  the first time in 2007 in the 35 lap Sport Series main event.<span> <br \/><\/span><br \/><!--more--><br \/>Joining Bilodeau and Norton in victory  lane on Saturday were Matt Wyman for the Wildcat division and Patrick Thorne in  the Road Runners.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Mike Maietta Jr  led the opening laps from his outside pole starting position but this race would  be slowed by 4 caution periods beginning at lap 5.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Maietta regained the lead despite  another caution flag 2 laps later until finally some racing could take place.  Maietta Jr began to be challenged by T.J. Brackett at the front of the field  with Maine racing legend Al Hammond right in the mix as well.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Following a caution period on lap 16 Bub  Bilodeau moved around Maietta Jr and took the lead which he would hold all the  way to the finish.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Maietta Jr would  hold on for second with Brackett third.<span>&nbsp;  <\/span>Dan McKeage finished fourth and Bill Rodgers fifth.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Beaver Norton has had a rough season to  date as the reigning division champion had been shut out of victory lane through  the first 9 events.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Saturday night  Norton ended that spell with a hard earned win in the 35 lap feature race for  the Sport Series division.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Jeff  Cannell led early until Norton took over on lap 24 following a restart.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Cannell fought back to the outside of  Norton as the two drivers battled it out to the finish.<!-- D([\"mb\",\"u003cspan>\u00a0 u003c\/span>Norton got the win and Cannell had nsecond with Sally Gherardi third.u003cspan>\u00a0 nu003c\/span>Russ Morse and Don Colpritt were fourth and fifth place finishers.u003cspan>\u00a0 u003c\/span>Matt Wyman had the race of his life nSaturday night avoiding all of the crashes that marred the Wildcat feature nrace.u003cspan>\u00a0 u003c\/span>Doug Wolfe led from the start nbut a spin in the middle of the field on lap 3 separated the field into 2 ngroups.u003cspan>\u00a0 u003c\/span>Wolfe was hoping the race nwould stay green but that was not to be as on lap 11 the caution came out for a nhard wallbanger by David Wildes.u003cspan>\u00a0 nu003c\/span>Scott Grant took a turn at the front until Wyman made his move at lap 19 ntaking the front.u003cspan>\u00a0 u003c\/span>Several more ncaution flags slowed the race but Wyman held them all of for the win.u003cspan>\u00a0 u003c\/span>Cole Watson was second and Grant nfinished third.u003cspan>\u00a0 u003c\/span>Steve Coffin and nBuddy Poole rounded out the top 5 finishers.u003cspan>\u00a0 u003c\/span>Patrick Thorne won for the second time nthis season in the 20 lap Road Runner race.u003cspan>\u00a0 u003c\/span>Casey Corkum led the first 9 laps until nThorne took over and drove away from the field for an easy win.u003cspan>\u00a0 u003c\/span>Dave Cameron finished second with Tim nCaswell third.u003cspan>\u00a0 u003c\/span>Corkum finished nfourth and Bradley Babb took fifth. u003c\/p>u003c\/div>u003c\/div>n\",0] );  \/\/--><span>&nbsp; <\/span>Norton got the win and Cannell had  second with Sally Gherardi third.<span>&nbsp;  <\/span>Russ Morse and Don Colpritt were fourth and fifth place finishers.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Matt Wyman had the race of his life  Saturday night avoiding all of the crashes that marred the Wildcat feature  race.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Doug Wolfe led from the start  but a spin in the middle of the field on lap 3 separated the field into 2  groups.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Wolfe was hoping the race  would stay green but that was not to be as on lap 11 the caution came out for a  hard wallbanger by David Wildes.<span>&nbsp;  <\/span>Scott Grant took a turn at the front until Wyman made his move at lap 19  taking the front.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Several more  caution flags slowed the race but Wyman held them all of for the win.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Cole Watson was second and Grant  finished third.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Steve Coffin and  Buddy Poole rounded out the top 5 finishers.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Patrick Thorne won for the second time  this season in the 20 lap Road Runner race.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Casey Corkum led the first 9 laps until  Thorne took over and drove away from the field for an easy win.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Dave Cameron finished second with Tim  Caswell third.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Corkum finished  fourth and Bradley Babb took fifth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bub Bilodeau and Beaver Norton headline winners at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway &nbsp; Dan Walker Beech Ridge Motor Speedway PR &nbsp; Scarborough, Maine-Bub Bilodeau scored his second&nbsp; Pro Series feature win of the season on Saturday night as part of the NASCAR Whelan All American Series.&nbsp;&nbsp; Beaver Norton ended his season long dry spell as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beech-ridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}