Trevor Sanborn: PASS North Series
Beech Ridge Motor Speedway Race Preview
Trevor Sanborn of Parsonsfield, Maine, returns to his home track at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine, for the PASS North Series 150 on Saturday, July 10. Sanborn has won two NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Pro Series feature events at the track already this season, and the two-time PASS South Series race winner hopes to notch his first career PASS North win this weekend. After leading three times for a race-high 99 laps when the series first visited Beech Ridge back in May, Sanborn finished fifth — the first of three top-5 finishes in five starts. He’ll take the same car back to the track this weekend that he led with in May.
WHO: Trevor Sanborn, Parsonsfield, Maine
TEAM: No. 44 Richard Moody Racing/Hancock Lumber/Walt Pugsley Logging Ford Fusion
BEST CAREER BEECH RIDGE MOTOR SPEEDWAY FINISH: 2nd (September 2006)
LAST RACE AT BEECH RIDGE MOTOR SPEEDWAY: 5th (May 2010)
WHAT: PASS North Series PASS 150
WHERE: Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, Scarborough, Maine. (.333-mile oval)
WHEN: 6 p.m., Saturday, July 10
PASS North Series
LAST RACE: July 3, Canaan Fair Speedway, Canaan, N.H. (4th-place)
NEXT RACE: July 13, Bastille 200, Lee USA Speedway, Lee, N.H.
POINTS POSITION: 3rd
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TREVOR, YOU MUST BE AS EXCITED AS ANYONE ABOUT HEADING TO BEECH RIDGE THIS WEEKEND.
Definitely. I can’t wait. I just feel like having my own car is going to be a good thing. I’m not saying that (Richard Moody Racing) doesn’t have good cars, because we do, but this car — I’ve raced it so much there and we’ve just got the right package in it for this track.
It’s like a safety net taking my car. We know it’s going to be good. I’m pretty confident that I can run up front and be right there for the win at the end of the night.
HOW CLOSE ARE YOU TO THAT ELUSIVE FIRST CAREER PASS NORTH WIN?
I thought it was coming (last week) at Canaan. I felt like we had the best car, but we just needed track position at the end or at least to restart on the outside, because the outside was so good.
We’re really close, though. We are. It’s always something weird that gets us — it’s not the cars. The cars are good, but we get somthing that happens on the race track or a mistake on a caution flag or something like that. But we’ll get it.
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO HAVE SUCCESS AT BEECH RIDGE, A TRACK THAT SEEMS TO HAVE SO MANY PEOPLE BAFFLED?
I think it’s all about riding it out and waiting to use your stuff up at the end. A lot of people think you can drive it like it’s White Mountain or something — go hard all the time and slide all around in the corners and still be fast.
It’s different at Beech Ridge, though. It’s a flat track. It’s all about the setup, and you need to maintain your stuff until the end. It’s a hard place to get that setup — I know I’ve been good there, but it’s not really me. It’s the setup we have under the car. It’s just a tough place, but it’s no different than Johnny (Clark) being good at a place like Wiscasset or Unity. It’s all about having the car figured out at those places.