Sunday, August 10, 2008

Bill Rodgers back in Beech Ridge victory lane.

Bill Rodgers back in Beech Ridge victory lane.

By Dan Walker

Scarborough,Maine-Bill Rodgers headlined the NASCAR Whelan All
American Series winners list at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway on Saturday
night. Dave Lampron, Gary Babineau and Marc Sylvan also rook down race
wins.

The 40 lap Pro Series race got off to a duel between Steven Jones and
Mike Maietta Jr as they swapped the lead several time through the
opening laps. Maietta Jr moved to the front on lap 3 but Jones still
held the inside line as Bill Rodgers and Chris Smith were side by side
behind the leaders.

Rodgers made his bid for the lead on lap 13 pulling to the outside of
Maietta Jr but was unable to get to the front. Maietta set the pace
to lap 22 where Rodgers decided to give it another try for the lead
this time pulling off the pass.

Rodgers led the final 18 laps to take the win with T.J. Brackett
making a late race surge to finish second and Bub Bilodeau took the
third position. Dave Oliver and Mike Maietta Jr were fourth and fifth
at the finish.

Dave Lampron won the 35 lap Sport Series feature event after a race
long duel with Robert Emery. Emery and Lampron started on the front
row and swapped the lead 9 time throughout the race. In the end
Lampron was able to take the won with Emery second in one of the best
races of the season. Travis Buzzell had the best seat in the house
for most of the race as he watch the side by side race from third
position.

Finishing fourth was Jason Larrabee and Frank Wear was able to avoid
traffic and finish fifth after starting in the back by virtue of his
win last week.

Richard Randall led the opening laps of the Wildcat feature race but
could not hold off the hard charging Gary Babineau for the victory.
Babineau took over the lead from Randall following a lap 26 caution
and never looked back. Randall was second with Dan Bean third. Randy
Snow and Lyman McKeage were in a last lap crash at the start finish
line but with destroyed race cars took fourth and fifth positions.

Marc Sylvan made easy work of the Road Runner feature race. Dave
Cameron led the first 3 laps until Sylvan motored past and into the
lead. The race was caution free and Sylvan won by a comfortable
margin over David Palmer and Cameron. Finishing fourth was Trevor
Graffam and fifth was David Turner.

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