{"id":1727,"date":"2010-06-20T12:46:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T12:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2010-06-20T12:46:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T12:46:29","slug":"ben-tinker-wins-budweiser-100-at-beech-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2010\/06\/ben-tinker-wins-budweiser-100-at-beech-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Tinker wins Budweiser 100 at Beech Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Scarborough,Maine-<span> <\/span>Ben Tinker made his first ever Sport Series win at Beech Ridge  Motor  Speedway a memorable one by capturing the biggest race of the season for  the  division.<span> <\/span>Tinker took the lead at  the drop of the green flag and led the opening 38 laps of the race  despite  challenges from Russ Morse and Chris Smith.<span> <\/span>Chris Smith  took over the lead on lap 39  as Corey Bubar moved to second place and Tinker dropped to third.<span> <\/span>A caution flag waved on lap 51 when the  fourth and fifth place cars of Sally Gherardi and Russ Morse made  contact with  both cars spinning in turn four.<span> <\/span>Smith would go  back to the front until another caution came out at lap 68.<span \/><br \/>\n<br \/><!--more--><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Corey  Bubar got the jump on the restart  and took the lead with Smith on his bumper.<span> <\/span>The lead pack  of Corey Bubar,<span> <\/span>Chris Smith,<span> <\/span>Ben Tinker and  Don Colpritt were racing  in close quarters with the laps winding down.<span> <\/span>Smith made a  move to the inside on Bubar  on lap 88 and the two drivers raced side by side for the lead over the  nest 7  laps.<span> <\/span>Smith Nosed in front on  lap 95 but Bubar was still to his outside with the sparks flying and  fenders and  doors grinding.<span> <\/span>Smith wrestled the  lead away on lap 96 as Bubar spun after contact with Colpritt.<span> <\/span>Tinker  moved to second place and charged  after Smith catching him on the final lap.<span> <\/span>Again the two leaders traded paint and headed for the checkered  flag with  Tinker getting the win after Smith nearly spun on the final turn.<span> <\/span>Colpritt was third with Russ Morse and  Doug Wolfe fourth and fifth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Steve Carrier won the NASCAR Pro Series 40 lap feature  event Saturday night at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway.<span> <\/span>Carrier  took the lead from Keith  McKinnon on lap 12 and led the remaining 28 laps<span> <\/span>for the  win.<span> <\/span>Dan McKeage was second with McKinnon  third.<span> <\/span>Trevor Sanborn and David  Oliver were fourth and fifth. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Alby Ovitt only led one lap on Saturday night but it was   the one that counted as Ovitt was victorious in the 30 lap Wildcat race.<span> <\/span>Linwood Varney led the first 3 laps  before Joe Morse took a turn in the lead.<span> <\/span>Morse would soon have a challenge from Rick Thompson for the lead   position but Morse was able to stay in front.<span> <\/span>David Wildes  moved to the outside lane  and took the lead at lap 24.<span> <\/span>Wildes  would lead until the final laps when he and Ovitt bumped while battling  for the  win.<span> <\/span>Ovitt was able to get to the  finish line first ahead of Wildes who was second just ahead of Thompson  in  third.<span> <\/span>David Vaughn and Dan Bean  were fourth and fifth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Ray Letellier put an end to the undefeated streak  of Matt  Dow by winning the 20 lap Road Runner race on Saturday.<span> <\/span>Nicole  Timmons paced the field to the  green flag and led for the first 5 laps until Marc Hill took over.<span> <\/span>David Turner and Ryan Phillips moved to  second and third with Dow stuck at the rear in a traffic jam.<span> <\/span>On  lap 11 the top 5 cars were in a great  battle for the lead as Letellier threaded his way to the lead on lap 15  with a  3-wide move.<span> <\/span>Dow was also moving  into contention after finally clearing traffic.<span> <\/span>Letellier  would hold on for the win as  Dow got to second place and Hill took third.<span> <\/span>Turner and Ed  Connolly rounded out the  top finishers.<span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scarborough,Maine- Ben Tinker made his first ever Sport Series win at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway a memorable one by capturing the biggest race of the season for the division. Tinker took the lead at the drop of the green flag and led the opening 38 laps of the race despite challenges from Russ Morse and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beech-ridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}