{"id":1714,"date":"2009-06-07T07:24:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T07:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2009-06-07T07:24:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T07:24:05","slug":"mike-rowe-wins-coors-light-100-at-beech-ridge-motor-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2009\/06\/mike-rowe-wins-coors-light-100-at-beech-ridge-motor-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Rowe wins Coors Light 100 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mike Rowe wins Coors  Light 100 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway.<\/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>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong>Scarborough, Maine- <\/strong>Maine  racing legend Mike Rowe used his long distance race experience to full advantage  Saturday night to win the Coors Light 100 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>The story of the race was the  experienced Rowe versus the young charger D.J. Shaw for the win.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Dave Oliver and Mike Maietta Jr led the  field to the green flag with Maietta Jr taking the lead.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">D.J. Shaw moved to second  position on lap 5 and pole sitter Oliver was riding in third.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Oliver went to the outside lane and  picked off Shaw for second and then Maietta Jr on lap 21 to re-take the  lead.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>As the race hit the 25 lap  mark, Shaw began to look to challenge Oliver for the lead as they raced side by  side for the next 5 laps.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>On lap 30  Shaw went back in front but behind him was a fast closing Mike Rowe who had  moved from his 12<sup>th<\/sup> starting position into the third spot.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">Caution flags on lap 40 and then  lap 45 kept the field tight with Shaw in front and Rowe moving to second place  on lap 50.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>For the next 24 laps  Rowe applied pressure to Shaw looking inside and then outside as the wily  veteran was sizing up the situation to make his move, but Shaw was not falling  for any of it and held his line.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">Rowe made his move on lap 74 as  he went down the backstretch looking to the outside of Shaw as they raced into  turn 3.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Shaw moved up just a bit  exiting turn 4 and Rowe cut a hard left and got inside of Shaw as they hit the  front straight.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Rowe raced into  turn 1 with the lead and never looked back as he led the final 26 laps for the  win over Shaw in second and Oliver third.<span>&nbsp;  <\/span>Dan McKeage and Bradley Babb were fourth and fifth at the finish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">In Sport Series action Scott Dorr  became the first repeat winner this season as he won the 35 lap feature  race.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Dorr took the lead from Marty  Adams on lap 19 and sailed to the win.<span>&nbsp;  <\/span>Adams finished second with Don Morse,<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Nate Leavitt and Craig Smith the top  finishers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">The Wildcat 30 lap feature race  was a trip down easy street for Jesse Tolman as he led all 30 laps to win the  race.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Gary Babineau made a late  race charge to the front but settled for second place with Lyman McKeage  third.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Matt Hodgdon and Mike Ramsey  were fourth and fifth at the finish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">Ray Letellier won his first Road  Runner feature race as his rookie season is well underway.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Letellier took the lead from Brian  Graffam on the 11<sup>th<\/sup> lap and held off Shawn Brackett for the win.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Matt Dow was third with Graffam fourth  and David Turner fifth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Rowe wins Coors Light 100 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway. &nbsp; By Dan Walker &nbsp; Scarborough, Maine- Maine racing legend Mike Rowe used his long distance race experience to full advantage Saturday night to win the Coors Light 100 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway.&nbsp;&nbsp; The story of the race was the experienced Rowe versus [&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-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beech-ridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","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=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}