{"id":1717,"date":"2009-07-04T09:28:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T09:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2009-07-04T09:28:19","modified_gmt":"2009-07-04T09:28:19","slug":"bradley-babb-makes-miller-lite-firecracker-50-first-pro-series-win-at-beech-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2009\/07\/bradley-babb-makes-miller-lite-firecracker-50-first-pro-series-win-at-beech-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradley Babb makes Miller Lite Firecracker 50 first Pro Series win at Beech Ridge."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Scarborough, Maine-<\/strong> Third generation driver  Bradley Babb was victorious on Friday night at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Babb secured his first win in the top  NASCAR division in one of the seasons more prestigious races the Miller Lite  Firecracker 50.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>Other winners  were Lyman McKeage in the Wildcat division and Ray Letellier in the Road  Runners.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>The Sport Series main  event fell victim to rain that moved in following the fireworks show and that  event will begin the race card this coming Saturday night.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><br \/><!--more--><br \/><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Ron Smith geared up first to lead the opening laps of the 40 lap Pro  Series race.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Smith stayed out front  through mid point of the race when Bradley Babb moved to second place but was a  full straight behind the leader.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;  <\/span>The only caution flag of the race waved on lap 30 setting the stage for a  Smith\/Babb battle for the lead.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Babb wasted little time as he quickly disposed of Smith pulling away to a  comfortable lead.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>There was a  heated battle going on for second place between Mike Rowe and Aaron Ricker.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>With the checkered flag waving in the  air, Babb was the winner with Rowe and Ricker second and third.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Bill Rodgers was fourth and Mike Maietta  Jr fifth.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Lyman McKeage won a hard fought battle for supremacy in the 35 lap  Wildcat feature race.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Brian Caswell  led the first lap until a mechanical problem sent him to the pit area handing  the lead to Bill Morris.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Morris had his hands full at the front with Steve Benincasa and then  Lyman McKeage and Lewis Anderson.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;  <\/span>Morris held on to the front until lap 26 when McKeage made the winning  pass for the win.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Dan Bean won the  scramble for second place with Matt Hodgdon getting third.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Richard Olin and Randy Snow were fourth  and fifth.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Ray Letellier won again in the 20 lap Road Runner feature race .<span>&nbsp; <\/span>It was the second win this season for  Letellier.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Dave Cameron led the  opening 13 laps until Letellier power played him on lap 14 taking over the top  spot.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Shawn Brackett chased  Letellier to the finish line for second place with Ed Connolly third.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Matt Dow and Dave Turner rounded out the  top 5 place finishers.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Scarborough, Maine- Third generation driver Bradley Babb was victorious on Friday night at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway.&nbsp; Babb secured his first win in the top NASCAR division in one of the seasons more prestigious races the Miller Lite Firecracker 50.&nbsp;&nbsp; Other winners were Lyman McKeage in the Wildcat division and Ray Letellier in the [&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-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beech-ridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","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=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}