{"id":1718,"date":"2009-07-19T20:50:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T20:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2009-07-19T20:50:53","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T20:50:53","slug":"mike-rowe-victorious-again-at-beech-ridge-motor-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2009\/07\/mike-rowe-victorious-again-at-beech-ridge-motor-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Rowe victorious again at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Scarborough,Maine- <\/strong>With approximately 200 career  victories to his credit, Mike Rowe used his experience to foil the youth  movement on Saturday night at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Rowe won the Pro Series 40 lap main  event as the NASCAR Whelan All American Series was in action at the Maine  oval.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Keith McKinnon led the field to green and jumped out front at the  start.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Bub Bilodeau moved to second  place on lap 5 and quickly set out to take the lead position.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Bilodeau took the lead on lap 9 with  rookie Bradley Babb moving to second.<span>&nbsp;  <\/span>Aaron Ricker and Mike Rowe moved to third and fourth at this point in the  race also becoming factors.<\/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\">The caution flag waved on lap 15 and a very interesting running order was  in place for the restart.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Veteran  and multi time track champion Bilodeau was leading with rookie Babb second and  young Ricker third followed by Rowe.<span>&nbsp;  <\/span>On the restart, Bilodeau went to the front but Babb was hanging to his  outside.<\/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 would pass Bilodeau on the outside for the lead on lap 28 and Rowe  moved from fourth to second 2 laps later.<span>&nbsp;  <\/span>Babb and Rowe were just beginning a battle for the lead on lap 33 when  the caution flag flew again.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>On the  restart Babb and Rowe went side by side for 2 laps before Rowe was able to go in  front and secure the win.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Babb  finished second with Bilodeau third, David Oliver and Jay Sands 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\">Justin Cusack won the 35 lap Sport Series feature race which was his  second win in the last 3 starts for the rookie driver.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Cusack bolted from the pole position  with former champion Don Morse running second.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>The only caution flag of the race waved  on lap 9 but was not enough to slow Cusack as he maintained his lead to the  finish.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Morse finished second with  Doug Wolf third.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Craig Smith and  Nate Leavitt 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\">Brian Caswell shook off the demons that have plagued his season and won  the 30 lap Wildcat race.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Matt Gain  led the first lap and then Caswell put the power down and took over command of  the race on lap 2.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>The caution free  race worked to Caswells advantage despite the efforts of Gain late in the race  to take the win.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Gain settled for  second with Bill Morris third.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Matt  Hodgdon and Lyman McKeage 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\">Shawn Brackett continued his hot streak with another Road Runner feature  race win.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Kari Thibodeau led the  first 2 laps until Clayton Loubier took his turn at the front.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Brackett blasted into the lead on lap 13  and cruised home for the win.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Ray  Letellier was second with David Turner third.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Matt Dow and Taylor Lampron were fourth  and fifth.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scarborough,Maine- With approximately 200 career victories to his credit, Mike Rowe used his experience to foil the youth movement on Saturday night at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway.&nbsp; Rowe won the Pro Series 40 lap main event as the NASCAR Whelan All American Series was in action at the Maine oval. &nbsp;<\/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-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beech-ridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","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=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}