{"id":1715,"date":"2009-06-14T07:48:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T07:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2009-06-14T07:48:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T07:48:26","slug":"chris-smith-victorious-in-budweiser-100-at-beech-ridge-motor-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2009\/06\/chris-smith-victorious-in-budweiser-100-at-beech-ridge-motor-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Smith victorious in Budweiser 100 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong>Chris Smith victorious in  Budweiser 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>Last season Chris Smith found himself wheeling a Pro Series car  at Beech Ridge and went on to be rookie of the year.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>The deal with that car was not renewed  for the 2009 season so Smith was helping out George Libby with his Sport Series  car this season.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Libby made the  decision to put Smith in his cat for Saturday nights Budweiser 100 and as they  say the rest is history as Smith was the winner.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><br \/><!--more--><br \/><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">Nate Leavitt led for the opening  15 laps until Frank Wear took over following a restart.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Wear would stay as the pacesetter for  the next 38 circuits when Russ Morse got to the inside and went to the  front.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Starting in the middle of  the field, Sally Gherardi and Chris Smith had made their way to the lead pack as  Morse and Wear were dicing for the lead.<span>&nbsp;  <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">Smith made the move to second  place on lap 60 and began to plan his attack on Frank Wear. It only took Smith 1  lap to move around Wear and into the lead as Wear, Gherardi and Don Morse were  having a battle for second spot.<span>&nbsp;  <\/span>Smith would stay in front with Wear second but Gherardi and Don Morse  spent the final 40 laps in a side by side race for third place.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>At the finish it was Smith and Wear with  Gherardi getting third<span>&nbsp; <\/span>and Don  Morse fourth.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Russ Morse made a  late race charge to finish fifth right on the heels of Don Morse and  Gherardi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">In other action Mike Rowe won his  first points race of the season but his second straight victory following last  weeks 100 lap win.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Steve Jones  nearly pulled off the upset as he led most of the race despite heavy pressure  from as many as 6 cars during the event.<span>&nbsp;  <\/span>Rowe took the lead on a lap 35 restart and went to victory lane with  Bradley Babb second and Jones a career best third.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Mike Maietta Jr and Bub Bilodeau were  fourth and fifth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">Mike Ramsey won the 30 lap  Wildcat feature race.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Ramsey took  the lead on lap 24 and beat his team mate Lewis Anderson for the win.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>David Wildes was third with Shawn  Gilpatrick and Dan Bean next across the finish line.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">Shawn Brackett was the winner of  the 20 lap Road Runner feature race.<span>&nbsp;  <\/span>Brackett led from lap 11 to the finish for the win with Ray Letellier  second and Matt Dow third.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Ed  Connolly and Brian Graffam were fourth and fifth.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Smith victorious in Budweiser 100 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway. &nbsp; By Dan Walker &nbsp; Scarborough, Maine-Last season Chris Smith found himself wheeling a Pro Series car at Beech Ridge and went on to be rookie of the year.&nbsp; The deal with that car was not renewed for the 2009 season so Smith was [&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-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beech-ridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","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=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}