Location: Scarborough, ME
Track: 1/3-mile semi-banked oval
Opened: 1949
# of ACT Races Held: 39
ACT Pro Stock Tour – 25
ACT Late Model Tour – 12
ACT Sunoco Regional Series, Region 1 – 2
Most Wins:
ACT Pro Stock Tour – Dave Dion, 5
ACT Late Model Tour – Eddie MacDonald/Brad Babb/Nick Sweet, 2 each
ACT Sunoco Regional Series – Ralph Nason and Mike Rowe, 1 each
A Brief History of Beech Ridge
Beech Ridge Motor Speedway opened its gates for the first time on May 20, 1949. Scarborough’s James B. McConnell owned a timber cutting and sawmill business – one that was surely very profitable, given the amount of trees in Maine – but his real dream was to bring auto racing to the state of Maine. In 1948, he began work on realizing that dream, carving a 1/3-mile clay track into the woods outside Portland with the help of about 15 other men. (Incidentally, real horsepower came along the following year when the Scarborough Downs horse racing track was constructed nearby.)
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