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    Drivers race Thursday night at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, which is holding its last week of racing before closing for good.

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    Drivers watch as the lineup is written out on the whiteboard Thursday evening at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway.

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    Betty Nelson, second from left, talks with her crew, including her son Josh Nelson, center, about how they will set up her car for Thursday night’s race at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway. Nelson, who is from Limington, started her racing career in the late 1990s at Beech Ridge and said she had to come back to race there again.

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    Dan Lord talks to the driver of the car he is working Thursday. Lord, part of Boss Dog Racing, said he grew up just a few minutes from Beech Ridge and used to hear the cars rounding the track at night as a child. He came to the track for the first time in 1966, and said he has been involved ever since. “If I won megabucks today, I would own this place,” Lord said. “This is an experience, this is a life.”

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    Jeff Read and his son Jackson Read, 14, watch cars round the track before the start of racing Thursday at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough. Read, who lives in Somerville, said he had to come back to Beech Ridge for the last week of racing because it's where his father won three championships in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He began racing himself in Wiscasset after his father died.

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    Spectators fill the stands Thursday during the last week of racing at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway.

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    Drivers enter the track for their race Thursday at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway.

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    Drivers start the first race of the night Thursday at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway.

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