NASCAR Whelen All-American Series: Bobby Timmons
Beech Ridge Motor Speedway Race Report
SCARBOROUGH, Maine – Bobby Timmons III of Windham, Maine, finished 21st in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Pro Series 50 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine, on Saturday, June 8. Timmons was among several cars who were collected in a multi-car incident on a Lap 2 restart after a mid-pack car spun in front of the rest of the field. Timmons started 12th in the main event after a solid effort in both practice and qualifying earlier in the day, but saw his feature efforts thwarted with a wrecked race car before even getting a single full lap at speed.
WHO: Bobby Timmons III, Windham, Maine
TEAM: Mulkern Racing No. 48 Southern Maine Chrysler Dodge Jeep/Timmons Machine Dodge
CREW CHIEF: Bobby Timmons Jr., Windham, Maine
WHAT: NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Pro Series 50
WHERE: Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, Scarborough, Maine (.333-mile oval)
STARTED: 12th
FINISHED: 21st
NEXT RACE: June 15, NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Pro Series 50, Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, Scarborough, Maine (.333-mile oval)
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BOBBY, WHAT HAPPENED?
Just another Saturday night. There’s two types of guys – there’s guys who aren’t good and there’s guys who are good. And when the guys who aren’t good try and drive with the guys that are good, that’s what happens. It happened last week, it happened last year, and we were always very fortunate to stay out of it. Tonight just wasn’t our night.
There’s a big sign on the backstretch that Andy often reminds us is there, and it says, “Just Race.” It seems like nobody can do that.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT CAUSED THE WRECK?
We dropped the green and went down the backstretch, and the car in front of me just lost it. I tried to get away from him, but I drilled him. I had nowhere to go. Steve Berry might have hit me, and Brad (Babb) might have gotten into him. I don’t know. Needless to say, they didn’t get a lap in and and they got five race cars that are completely demolished.
It’s just another night at the races.
HOW GOOD WAS YOUR CAR?
It’s hard to tell. We were too tight in the heat, but that seems to always happen. In hot laps it seemed to go pretty good, and it was turning. You can’t always tell 100 percent from the hot laps, but I think we probably had a Top-5 car. I saw the Top-5 rundown and it seemed to be all cars that were around me that were fortunate enough to stay out of all the messes.
That’s the thing – it’s survival this year. I think they ought to change Car Wars to NASCAR Nites and turn NASCAR Nites into Car Wars. That’s what it seems like it is.
It’s not too badly damaged. We can obviously get it fixed. That’s not going to stop us. It just sucks to start Week 2 with a DNF. We’ll just start going week by week. It’s not the kind of night I wanted to have to start the year, but we can rebound.