{"id":1703,"date":"2008-07-13T18:00:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2008-07-13T18:00:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T18:00:28","slug":"steve-carrier-wins-and-crashes-after-checkered-flag-at-beech-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2008\/07\/steve-carrier-wins-and-crashes-after-checkered-flag-at-beech-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Carrier wins and crashes after checkered flag at Beech Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"1el2\" class=\"ArwC7c ckChnd\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong>Steve Carrier wins and crashes  after checkered flag at Beech Ridge.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong>By Dan  Walker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong>Beech Ridge Motor Speedway  release<\/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 crossed the finish line first on Saturday night at Beech Ridge Motor  Speedway but that also meant he was first to arrive upon a stalled car that had  just spun entering turn 1 on the final lap.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>The joy of victory was short lived for  carrier as he could not avoid the car of Bill Rodgers and suffered a head on  collision with both cars suffering extensive damage.<span> <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/><span> <\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">Once Carrier shook off the  cobwebs he walked to victory lane as his heavily damaged racer was hauled off to  the pit area.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Carrier had taken the  lead from Mike Maietta Jr on lap 10 of the 40 lap race and then had to face off  with current division champion Bub Bilodeau for a restart on lap 19.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Carrier was able to pull back in front  and stayed there to the finish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">Bilodeau finished second with  David Oliver winning the hard fought battle for third place.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Bobby Babb crossed the finish line  fourth with Maietta Jr posting the fifth position.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">Bradley Babb won his first Sport  Series feature race on Saturday night as the rookie driver had to survive 5  caution flags that plagued the race.<span>&nbsp;  <\/span>Babb went through intense challengers like Andy Field<span>&nbsp; <\/span>and Dalton Gagnon who all poked their  car into the lead briefly during the race.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">Babb was able to fight them all  off to take the win over Field in second and Corey Bubar another young driver in  third.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Doug Wolfe and Scott Dorr  rounded out the top five finishers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">Lyman McKeage won another Wildcat  feature race on Saturday night after he chased down race leader Steve Benincasa  on lap 16.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>McKeage would have to  deal with a lap 28 caution flag that set the stage for a 2 lap race to the  checkered flag which he handily took.<span>&nbsp;  <\/span>Benincasa was second with Shawn Gilpatrick third.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>The field scattered at the checkered  flag as a car spun but the finish saw Brian Caswell fourth and Lewis Anderson  fifth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">Ray Dinsmore won for the first  time in his career Saturday night taking the entry level Road Runner feature  win.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Kari Thibodeau had a great  showing as she led the first 14 laps of the race until Dinsmore went to the  front.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Mark Sylvain made a late  race charge to the front but had to settle for second place with Shawn Brackett  third.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>David Palmer and David  Cameron were fourth and fifth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Carrier wins and crashes after checkered flag at Beech Ridge. &nbsp; By Dan Walker Beech Ridge Motor Speedway release &nbsp; Scarborough,Maine- Steve Carrier crossed the finish line first on Saturday night at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway but that also meant he was first to arrive upon a stalled car that had just spun entering [&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-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beech-ridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","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=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}