TRAVIS BEALE TAKES WILD ROADRUNNER FEATURE AT 95
Hampden’s Travis Beale survived five restarts in the crash-marred 20 lap RoadRunner feature at Speedway 95 Wednesday night, and had to hold off a persistent William McCullough of Kenduskeag to pull off the win. McCullough kept his car right on Beale’s bumper for the entire distance, but was never able to gain the lead, despite opportunities on each restart following a red flag. The red flag flew each time for multiple car wrecks, reducing the 42 car starting field to just 19 running at the finish. McCullough finished second, followed by Bob Seger Jr. of Frankfort in third. Ken Ogden of Seal Cove drove a strong race to finish fourth, with Dixmont driver Rick Gomm finishing fifth. Ogden, Beale and Newburgh’s Dustan Durrell won the three heat races that set the field for the feature event
Zach Audet of Skowhegan passed Hampden’s Danielle Beale on lap 11 of the 20 lap caution free Modified Enduro feature and pulled away from the field to post his fourth win in a row. Beale finished second, only a few feet ahead of Dennis Burns of Carmel, who finished third. Fourth went to Rhonda Crain of Hermon with Scott Bonney of Stetson finishing fifth.
Marcus Dunn of Newburgh continued his domination of the Stars of Tomorrow by taking the lead from Nicholas Cota of Greenfield on lap 6 of the 20 lap feature and outrunning the field to the checkers. Cota finished second with Orono’s Cody Farnsworth finishing third. Fourth went to Scott Hunt Jr. of Glenburn with Jordan Kimball of Holden finishing fifth.
The night’s stunt race was a single elimination backwards drag race on the front stretch. Blaine Coffin of Hudson outraced Nicholas Werner of Hermon in the finale, with Ethan DeWitt of Levant finishing third after losing the semi-final to Werner.