September 18, 2010. Ron Beauchamp and the #60 Mopar Parts\/Mobil 1\/Exide Batteries Dodge team continued their run of strong finishes at round number twelve of the 2010 NASCAR Canadian Tire Series season at Riverside Speedway near Antigonish, Nova Scotia on Saturday.\u00a0 After three consecutive top-ten finishes Beauchamp narrowly missed out on a podium result and claim a fourth place finish.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The day began with the #60 Mopar Parts\/Mobil 1\/Exide Batteries Dodge showing well during practice however qualifying was not quite as successful. Beauchamp would begin the 300 lap feature event from the tenth starting spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As the green flag waved to begin the event Beauchamp continued to struggle with the #60 Mopar Parts\/Mobil 1\/Exide Batteries Dodge.\u00a0 \u201cWe made some changes to the car to loosen it up a bit after practice and we just went a bit too far\u201d explained the driver.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the first yellow flag caution period the #60 Mopar Parts\/Mobil 1\/Exide Batteries Dodge team took the opportunity to make a pit stop for adjustments.\u00a0 \u201cWe knew we had a good race car and we didn\u2019t panic\u201d said Beauchamp.\u00a0 \u201cAs we made our scheduled pit stops the team worked on the car and it began to improve\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
After the changes were made to the #60 Mopar Parts\/Mobil 1\/Exide Batteries Dodge Beauchamp began to move forward in the field.\u00a0\u00a0 Following the final stop of the afternoon for tires and adjustments Beauchamp was up near the front of the field and was able to challenge.\u00a0 \u201cAfter the last stop I had the race car I wanted\u201d said the driver.\u00a0 \u201cAnd I was able to really able to battle with the leaders\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
In the closing stages of the race Beauchamp pushed the #60 Mopar Parts\/Mobil 1\/Exide Batteries Dodge and fought with the #3 and #4 cars for the final podium position.\u00a0 \u201cThere was a different car on the podium on just about every lap as we got near the end\u201d said the driver.\u00a0 \u201cI thought I was going to be able to get the #4 car on the last lap but it didn\u2019t quite work out\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
Beauchamp would take the checkered flag and score a fourth place finish for the #60 Mopar Parts\/Mobil 1\/Exide Batteries Dodge team, their fourth consecutive top-ten finish.\u00a0 Beauchamp is also seventh in the overall championship standings.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve got some real momentum going here in the last few races\u201d said Beauchamp.\u00a0 \u201cThe team has worked really hard and we\u2019re anxious to get to Kawartha next weekend, it\u2019s a track we should do very well at\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ron Beauchamp Jr. and the #60 Mopar Parts\/Mobil 1\/Exide Batteries Dodge Team conclude the 2010 season of competition on Saturday September 25th at Kawartha Speedway near Peterborough, Ontario.\u00a0 You can watch all thirteen series race on TSN, check for times and dates in your area.\u00a0 For more information about Team Mopar go online to www.mopar.ca and for series information check out http:\/\/www.nascar.ca\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a9 RIF | Todd Lewis<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 18, 2010. Ron Beauchamp and the #60 Mopar Parts\/Mobil 1\/Exide Batteries Dodge team continued their run of strong finishes at round number twelve of the 2010 NASCAR Canadian Tire Series season at Riverside Speedway near Antigonish, Nova Scotia on Saturday.\u00a0 After three consecutive top-ten finishes Beauchamp narrowly missed out on a podium result and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[41],"tags":[1770,2208,1785,2207,2209],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8442,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8441\/revisions\/8442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}