{"id":1698,"date":"2008-06-22T16:24:47","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T16:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2008-06-22T16:24:47","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T16:24:47","slug":"steve-carrier-and-jason-gammon-headline-division-winners-at-beech-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2008\/06\/steve-carrier-and-jason-gammon-headline-division-winners-at-beech-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Carrier and Jason Gammon headline division winners at Beech Ridge."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong>By Dan  Walker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong>Scarborough,Maine-<\/strong>Steve  Carrier and Jason Gammon won Pro Series and Sport Series races Saturday night at  Beech Ridge Motor Speedway.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Gary  Babineau and David Turner were support division winners taking Wildcat and Road  Runner division wins respectively.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">Keith McKinnon led the opening 3  laps of the Pro Series 40 lap main event until Carrier took over.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>The only caution flag of the race waved  on lap 14 and after a quick realignment Carrier went back to the front.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">Chris Smith and T.J. Brackett  were second and third but all eyes were on the 5<sup>th<\/sup> place car of Bobby  Babb who was coming to the front like a man on a mission.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>With point leader Bub Bilodeau sitting  in the pit area with a broken race car Babb raced for the win as he trailed  Bilodeau by 19 points entering the evenings race card.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">Babb moved to second place at lap  29 and chased down Carrier who was 10 lengths in front.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Carrier had company on lap 34 as Babb  tried repeatedly to move around Carrier but ran out of race track each  time.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Carrier stayed in front to  the checkered flag with Babb second.<span>&nbsp;  <\/span>T.J. Brackett was third with Chris Smith and Dan McKeage fourth and  fifth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">Jason Gammon was a first time  Sport Series winner on Saturday night. Andy Field led briefly until lap 4 when  his car didn&rsquo;t take off on a restart giving the lead over to Doug Wolfe.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Wolfe appeared to be headed to his first  win but that changed on lap 32 following a restart when his car was slow to come  up to speed following a caution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">Gammon took over and led the  final 3 laps for the win with Wolfe second and Clyde Hennessey third.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Fourth place went to David Vaughn and  fifth was Reggie Leeman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">Gary Babineau won his second  Wildcat feature race of the season leading from the 5<sup>th<\/sup> lap to the  finish for the win.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>As of press  time the win was unofficial pending a post race technical inspection  ruling.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>Crossing the line  behind Babineau in second place was Paul Lund with Glenn Bradbury third.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>David Wildes and Cole Watson rounded out  the top 5 finishers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">David Palmer was awarded the Road  Runner victory after apparent winner Ed Pierce and second place finisher Marc  Sylvain failed a post race technical inspection.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Finishing second was Casey Corkum with  Dan Bernier third.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Shawn Brackett  and Mark Hill were the top 5 finishers after the adjusted finishing order.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span class=\"nav\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/board\/index.php\">The Racing Forum Index<\/a>&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/board\/index.php?c=2\">Maine Race Tracks<\/a>&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/board\/viewforum.php?f=3\">Beech Ridge Motor Speedway<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dan Walker &nbsp; Scarborough,Maine-Steve Carrier and Jason Gammon won Pro Series and Sport Series races Saturday night at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway.&nbsp; Gary Babineau and David Turner were support division winners taking Wildcat and Road Runner division wins respectively.<\/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-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beech-ridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","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=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}