{"id":1688,"date":"2007-09-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2007-09-08T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T01:00:00","slug":"champions-crowned-in-beech-ridge-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2007\/09\/champions-crowned-in-beech-ridge-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions crowned in Beech Ridge finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>hampions crowned in Beech Ridge season finales. <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">By Dan Walker<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">Beech Ridge Motor Speedway PR<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Scarborough, Maine- <\/strong>The  final night of the NASCAR Whelan All American Series at Beech Ridge Motor  Speedway resulted in a second title for Bub Bilodeau in the Pro Series and a  second title for Don Colpritt in the Sport Series division.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>First time championships went to Richard  Randall and Shawn Brackett for the Wildcat and Road Runner divisions.<span> <br \/><\/span><br \/><!--more--><br \/>The final races of the season were hotly  contested with Bill Rodgers winning his fourth Pro Series main event and Andy  Field winning his second Sport Series race of the season in dramatic  fashion.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Clayton Barker was a first  time Wildcat winner and Bradley Babb scored a career first win for the Road  Runner division.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>The Pro Series  main event rolled onto the track with Bub Bilodeau and Dan McKeage separated by  just 3 points following the heat races.<span>&nbsp;  <\/span>Steve Jones and Aaron Ricker shared the lead position for the early laps  of the 40 lap race but Bilodeau had found early racing room and moved into the  top 10 quickly.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>A caution flag on  lap 9 would tighten up the filed as Ricker and Josh Cantara began a 14 lap  battle for the lead that would see the two young drivers side by side with  Bilodeau anxiously waiting for something to give in front of him as he watched  from third place.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Finally Cantara  wrestled the lead away but only for 1 lap as Bill Rodgers went to the outside  and blazed to the front.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>A final  caution flag waved on lap 33 setting the stage for a 2 lap dash to the finish  but Rodgers held all of the aces and took the win.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Danny Bubar charged to finish second  with Bilodeau third and holding the season long championship.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Fourth place went to Cantara and David  Oliver was fifth.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Andy Field came  from stealth mode to steal the Sport Series feature win on Saturday night.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Travis Buzzell led from the start and  appeared to be on his way to an easy win.<span>&nbsp;  <\/span>The caution flag appeared on lap 33 taking away the big lead Buzzell had  enjoyed to that point.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>On the  restart with just 2 laps remaining, Buzzell went back in front but Nate Leavitt  suddenly went to the outside and took the lead.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>On the final turn of the final lap Andy  Field appeared out of nowhere and beat Leavitt back to the finish line to take  the win.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Don Colpritt finished  third to secure the division championship and Buzzell was fourth.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Beaver Norton took home the fifth place  position.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Clayton Barker looked  strong in his heat race and transferred that<span>&nbsp; <\/span>to the feature as he won his first  Wildcat race.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Barker led from the  pole and was never challenged until the final lap when he and matt Wyman came  upon slower traffic and Barker had to lift for a moment.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Wyman made a bonsai move to the inside  but Barker threw the block and was able to get to the checkered flag first ahead  of Wyman.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>David Wildes was third  with Lyman McKeage and Brian Caswell filling fourth and fifth.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Richard Randall is the division  champion.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Bradley Babb will forever  remember the first Road Runner feature win because he only led for the final 300  yards of the race.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Mark Hill led  from the start until lap 9 when Babb started to apply the pressure.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Babb would try low and Hill would block  and Babb would try high and Hill would block setting the stage for a  controversial final lap.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>As the 2  leaders headed down the backstretch for the final lap Babb got a nose to the  inside of<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Hill once again and Hill  tried to shut the door but this time Babb didn&rsquo;t lift and contact resulted in  Hill spinning and Babb saving his car and getting the win.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Tim Caswell was second and Ed Pierce  third.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Shawn Brackett took the  championship with his fourth place finish and Paul Lund was fifth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hampions crowned in Beech Ridge season finales. By Dan Walker Beech Ridge Motor Speedway PR &nbsp; Scarborough, Maine- The final night of the NASCAR Whelan All American Series at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway resulted in a second title for Bub Bilodeau in the Pro Series and a second title for Don Colpritt in the Sport [&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-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beech-ridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","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=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}