Brad Babb Wins 2012 NASCAR Championship
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 9.2.12
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Babb's father, Robert Babb Jr., is a five-time track champion at Beech Ridge, and his grandfather, Robert Babb Sr., is a two-time champion there. “It's incredible,” said the emotional 19-year-old Babb. “I couldn't ask for any more. It's the greatest feeling in the world.” Babb's night was not without its tense moments. He started 20 in the 45-lap main event on Saturday, and was joined by virtually every other championship contender in a multi-car incident on Lap 7. He emerged with only minor damage, but six laps later was off the track in Turn 4 when two other competitors got together ahead of the No. 4 Babb Wood Contractors/McGoldrick Bros. Blasting Chevrolet. His 11-point lead entering the feature seemed tenuous in the early going. “After I got run into that wreck there, I kind of was wondering (how the car would be) until we went green again,” said Babb, who won one feature and finished in the Top-10 in 11 of 12 races this season. “The car was pretty tight. I was just hoping to keep those guys in sight – Billy (Rodgers) and Aaron (Ricker) – and I knew at that point we'd have it.” The remainder of the race went virtually without further incident, handing Babb the title by a slim margin of less than 10 points. Babb joined Nick Cusack – who won his first career Wildcat championship earlier in the night – as a third-generation champion at Beech Ridge. Only the Babb family, however, has won all eight of its championships while racing in the track's top NASCAR Whelen All-American Series division. Babb will be crowned as NASCAR's track and Maine state champion at the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series banquet in Charlotte, N.C., in early December. “It hasn't even sunk in yet, and I'm on top of the world already,” Babb said. “We've won it all in the same division, and that's pretty neat. “I don't even know what to say.” To close out the racing season, Babb plans to compete in the PASS North Series 150 at White Mountain Motorsports Park next Saturday night and then in the PASS 300 at Beech Ridge on September 16. SOCIAL MEDIA Follow Brad Babb on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BradBabbRacing
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