{"id":2825,"date":"2010-07-21T21:00:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T02:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2010-07-21T21:00:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T02:00:02","slug":"brad-babb-leads-act-rookie-points-heading-to-hometrack-beech-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/brad-babb-leads-act-rookie-points-heading-to-hometrack-beech-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Babb Leads ACT Rookie Points Heading To Hometrack Beech Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brad Babb Leads ACT Rookie Points Heading To Hometrack Beech Ridge<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scarborough, ME – Windham, Maine\u2019s Brad Babb currently sits atop the ACT Late Model Tour Rookie Standings and will look to stretch his lead with a solid finish this Saturday, July 24 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, the track where he cut his racing teeth. The seventeen year old holds a slim five point lead over fellow Maine youngster Austin Theriault of Fort Kent.<\/p>\n

Babb has had a solid first half to his rookie season by qualifying for five of the first six races on the ACT Tour which is no small feat considering the Tour has been averaging well over 40 cars for each event. He has finished on the lead lap in four of these events with his only DNF (Did Not Finish) occurring at White Mountain Motorsports Park due to mechanical problems.<\/p>\n

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Babb has has picked up a couple top 15 place finishes to help his Sallie Bolduc team lead the Rookie chase at the halfway mark. It has been his first time visiting most of the tracks. In his first career ACT Late Model Tour start in last season\u2019s Oxford Plains Speedway finale in October he earned a sixth place finish.<\/p>\n

Car owner Sallie Bolduc is very pleased with the first half of Babb\u2019s rookie season, \u201cHe\u2019s having a very good rookie season, qualifying for all but one event. He was even running in the top ten at White Mountain before his swaybar broke and caused his only DNF so far.\u201d She continued about his chances at Beech Ridge, \u201cI think he will do well at his hometrack. He won a 50 lapper there earlier this month in the Pro Series and he\u2019s really excited to be heading back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bobby Babb is Brad\u2019s father and crew chief and had experience touring on the old ACT Pro Stock Series. \u201cWhen I started racing in the 80\u2019s I was 19 and didn\u2019t know what I was getting into. Now I know what we\u2019re getting into. He\u2019s 17 and has that advantage and while he hasn\u2019t raced at most of the tracks we\u2019ve been to he has seen them as Joey\u2019s (Doiron, 2009 ACT Late Model Rookie of the Year) spotter last year.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team is looking for a solid run at Beech Ridge to bounce back after a mediocre Oxford 250 finish (28th) last weekend. \u201cWe plan on redeeming ourselves after the 250. We want to be right up front. I think we can run up front and we are aiming for nothing less than a top five,\u201d continued Bobby.<\/p>\n

This weekend\u2019s 150 lap event at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway will be Babb\u2019s best chance at cracking the top five this season. He finished 6th in the Pro Series at the 1\/3 mile speedway in 2009, his rookie season, and already has a win there this month as he took the Pro Series checkers in the Miller Lite 50 on Saturday, July 3.<\/p>\n

Sixteen year old Austin Theriault has also been impressive in his rookie season. He sits just five points out of the lead in the rookie standings and has already earned his first two career top tens at Lee USA Speedway and Oxford Plains Speedway this season. He also earned a seventh in his first career start at Thunder Road International Speedbowl\u2019s Governor\u2019s Cup 100, although it was not an ACT Late Model Tour event.<\/p>\n

The top four in the ACT Tour Rookie Standings are separated by just ten points heading into the second half of the season. Milton, Vermont\u2019s Rick Paya and Ascutney, Vermont\u2019s Chris Riendeau still can\u2019t be counted out of the 2010 ACT Late Model Tour Rookie of the Year hunt and the $1,000 check that goes with it.<\/p>\n

The seventh event on the 2010 ACT Late Model Tour schedule is set for this Saturday, July 24 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, ME. Qualifying for the 150 lap event is scheduled to roll at 6:00pm. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brad Babb Leads ACT Rookie Points Heading To Hometrack Beech Ridge Scarborough, ME – Windham, Maine\u2019s Brad Babb currently sits atop the ACT Late Model Tour Rookie Standings and will look to stretch his lead with a solid finish this Saturday, July 24 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, the track where he cut his racing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[55,28,10,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act","category-beech-ridge","category-maine","category-new-england"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}