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Mini Late Model Crown Decided in Victory Lane Tiebreaker
N. Woodstock, NH — The final Saturday night program of the 2024 season at White Mountain Motorsports Park started with the King of the Kids special for the Dads 4 By Tool & Supply Kid’s Division. Once again split into two 15-lap feature events with the large number of teams in the pit area, feature one saw Khloe Goodbout lead the troops from the onset with only one caution slowing her pace. The young native of Lincoln led all fifteen laps with renewed confidence en-route to her first-ever win in round one of the King of the Kids program presented by C.W. Gray & Sons Auctioneers Inc. with Chloe Doyle and Cooper Benoit rounding out the podium. Round two was lightning fast, flag-to-flag with Jackson Hunt holding off all comers to take his second win of the season followed by Hayden Bushey and Colby Stygles across the line.
The first of Saturday’s championship-crowning events brought the Wayne’s Market Dwarf Cars on track for their 20-lap main event. Point leader Andy Hill quickly took over the lead from top rookie Mitchell O’Brien with all eyes on the battle for third. Chad Dufour and Jeff Ainsworth swapped the third-place position seven times in their five minute showdown with a last-lap, by-inches pass giving Chad Dufour the podium third-place finish behind Jason Wyman in second and Andy Hill’s win officially securing his 2024 track championship.
While Brandon Gray already clinched the Fisher Auto Parts Flying Tiger championship last Saturday, he still had the goal of winning every event on the calendar to finish out the season. Starting just outside the top-10 in the expanded field, Gray methodically worked his way to the front, stalling out several times in side-by-side traffic as Nate Hamblett and Brandon Lambert showed the way early. Gray, with a rear-view mirror full of invader Brendan Moodie, nabbed the lead on lap 19 just before the field slowed for the Austin Sicard’s spin in turn four on lap 21. Two more quick spin cautions gave Moodie, Luke Peters and Matt Potter the opportunity but Gray prevailed to win all fourteen Fisher Auto Parts Flying Tiger events at White Mountain this season and cap his amazing title run. Moodie took home second place with Mike Clark coming home third.
The Woodsville Guaranty Savings Bank Strictly Stock Minis were next on the field with championship hopefuls Todd Derrington and Patrick Switser tied at the top of the chart following incredible qualifying competition. Their chief rival Jacob Roy would be taken out of contention with a hard lick against the turn two wall, leaving it to a two-car race in a fifteen car field. Switser took the advantage out front, claiming the lead on lap 13 while Derrington struggled to push his Cavalier through dense mid-pack traffic. Switser maintained the lead to the very end, taking his third win of the season and the track championship with Donnie Baumgardner and Tyler Thompson joining him on the victory lane podium.
Similarly tight, Nick Miller gained a two point advantage over Nick Anderson in qualifying for the Ammonoosuc Asphalt Mini Late Models with one final 40-lap feature event set to close their title chase. Outside pole sitter Jim Paquette almost took out the field with a first-lap spin, broadside in front of the field with Miller taking heavy right-side damage in the melee. Soldiering on, both Miller and Anderson marched in step through the field as Garrett Labounty launched ahead of the pack and stretched his lead away from the championship hot-shoes. In the final lap, with a year’s worth of effort on the line, both Miller and Anderson started making contact along the back straightaway and through the grass before returning to turns three and four, fighting for inches as Garrett Labounty took down the win ahead of them.
Nick Anderson’s second place finish placed him in a dead-heat tie with Nick Miller at 426 points each. Officials then moved to the tiebreakers based on year-long finishes in each of the Mini Late Model events at White Mountain in 2024. Both had two wins and both had one second-place finish, cancelling out the first two tiebreakers. By virtue of his third-place finish, Nick Miller earned two third-place finishes in 2024 compared to Nick Anderson’s lone third one week ago, breaking the points tie and giving Miller the 2024 Ammonoosuc Asphalt Mini Late Model championship.
The Foley Oil & Propane Late Models rounded out Championship Night at White Mountain with Rookie hopeful Thomas Smithers, VI and Oren Remick leading the charge under the green flag. Mechanical woes ended a great season for Mike Jurkowski during pace laps while Remick took charge early. The lone caution for Jaden Perry’s backstretch spin on lap 9 reset the field for the last charge of the season. Motoring his way up from an eleventh-place starting spot, defending track champion Kasey Beattie took the lead from Tyler Cahoon on lap 21 with Tanner Woodard following the former champ in hot pursuit. All seemed well for Woodard’s title hopes as Quinny Welch’s early speed fizzled into a holding pattern back in fourth.
Kasey Beattie took the championship night victory as Tanner Woodard claimed his King of the Mountain Foley Oil & Propane Late Model track championship with a second-place run. Woodard joins Barrington, New Hampshire’s Fulton Mountain as the only drivers to claim a track championship in White Mountain’s two top-tiered divisions and White Mountain’s seventeenth different King of the Mountain in thirty-two seasons. With a third place finish, Thomas Smithers, VI capped off the season with a podium spot and the 2024 Rookie of the Year title for the former Kid’s Division phenom.
White Mountain Motorsports Park will officially wrap up the 2024 season with the annual Banquet of Champions on Friday, November 15 at the Littleton Elks Club to celebrate the accomplishments of the top teams in all six divisions. Both hard-copy and online ticket ordering forms for teams are available online at www.whitemountainmotorsports.com/forms.
For more information, contact the White Mountain Motorsports Park offices at (802) 244-6963, media@acttour.com, or visit www.whitemountainmotorsports.com. You can also follow us on Facebook at @WhiteMtnMotorsports.
White Mountain Motorsports Park
Saturday, September 28, 2024
2024 Championship Night
UNOFFICIAL RESULTS
Foley Oil & Propane Late Models – (50 Laps)
2024 King of the Mountain Track Champion: Tanner Woodard
1. 45NH #Kasey Beattie St. Johnsbury, VT
2. 68NH Tanner Woodard Waterbury Ctr., VT
3. 60VI #Thomas Smithers, VI Gilmanton, NH
4. 78NH Quinten Welch Groveton, NH
5. 7NH Cody LeBlanc Berlin, NH
6. 38VT Tyler Cahoon Danville, VT
7. 17NH Kyle Goodbout Lincoln, NH
8. 00VT Brandon Gray E. Thetford, VT
9. 32NH Jeff Marshall Littleton, NH
10. 21NH Oren Remick Monroe, NH
11. 83VT Stacy Cahoon St. Johnsbury, VT
12. 54VT #Colin Cornell East Burke, VT
13. 1x Mike Bailey S. Barre, VT
14. 99NH Ben Belanger Whitefield, NH
15. 92VT Jaden Perry Hardwick, VT
16. 21VT Reilly Lanphear Waterbury, VT
17. 74VT Jerry Lesage Winooski, VT
18. 23VT Jason Picard Hyde Park, VT
19. 42NH Mike Jurkowski Claremont, NH
Fisher Auto Parts Flying Tigers – (35 Laps)
2024 Flying Tiger Champion:
1. 00VT Brandon Gray E. Thetford, VT
2. 15NH Brendan Moodie Wolcott, VT
3. 22WC Mike Clark Littleton, NH
4. 26VT Luke Peters Groton, VT
5. 23VT Matt Potter Marshfield, VT
6. 78VT Tyler Pepin Barre, VT
7. 43VT #Kyle Willis Derby Line, VT
8. 77NH Brandon Lambert Alton, NH
9. 92VT Jaden Perry Hardwick, VT
10. 36NH Nathan Hamblett Derby Line, VT
11. 26x Toby Peters Groton, VT
12. 4NH Richie Brown* Wentworth, NH
13. 49VT #Austin Sicard Gilmanton, NH
14. 77VT Ryan Field Wolcott, VT
15. 29VT #Owen Cheney Moretown, VT
16. 22VT Travis Patnoe Wolcott, VT
17. 55NH Laci Potter Danville, VT
18. 34VT Jim Paquette Alburgh, VT
*Sub Driver for Shane Sicard
Woodsville Guaranty Savings Bank Strictly Minis – (25 Laps)
2024 Strictly Mini Champion: Patrick Switser
1. 16x Patrick Switser Woodsville, NH
2. 18 Donnie Baumgardner N. Woodstock, NH
3. 51 Tyler Thompson Littleton, NH
4. 02 Dustin Wilson Bethlehem, NH
5. 36 Kodi Sabins Windsor, VT
6. 57 Todd Derrington Littleton, NH
7. 99 McKenna Merchant Waterford, VT
8. 17 Connor Rueda Barre, VT
9. 17NH Scott Senecal Lisbon, NH
10. 92 Jason Goodbout, Jr. Lincoln, NH
11. 3 Jason Ball Concord, VT
12. 69 Aiden Young Dalton, NH
13. 8 Jaiden Del Toro Barre Town, VT
14. 12 John Knight Franklin, NH
15. 1 Landyn O’Donnell N. Haverhill, NH
16. 11 Jacob Roy Danville, VT
DNS 31 Les Washburn Bethlehem, NH
Ammonoosuc Asphalt Mini Late Models – (40 Laps)
2024 Mini Late Model Champion: Nick Miller
1. 76 Garrett LaBounty Orleans, VT
2. 55 Nick Anderson Oxford, MA
3. 17NH Nick Miller Berlin, NH
4. 71 Kevin Boucher Grafton, NH
5. 15 #Chris Moulton Pepperell, MA
6. 31 Brett Jackson Bethlehem, NH
7. 7 Matt LeBlanc Berlin, NH
8. 93 Tim Paquette Bennington, NH
9. 66 Normand Raymond, Jr. Sherbrooke, QC
10. 82 Richard Stockwell Buzzards Bay, MA
Wayne’s Market Dwarf Cars – (20 Laps)
2024 Dwarf Car Champion: Andy Hill
1. 8 Andy Hill Waterford, VT
2. 88 Jason Wyman Easton, NH
3. 52 Chad Dufour Littleton, NH
4. 41 Jeff Ainsworth Bethlehem, NH
5. 16 #Mitchell O’Brien Deerfield, NH
6. 99 Chris King Bethlehem, NH
Dad’s 4 By Tool & Supply Kid’s Division – (15 Laps)
King of the Kids Round #1 –
1. 09 Khloe Goodbout Lincoln, NH
2. 19 Chloe Doyle Northfield, VT
3. 2 Cooper Benoit Washington, VT
4. 15x Brogan Roberts Williston, VT
5. 63 Clayton Houghton Concord, VT
6. 23 Madison Potter Marshfield, VT
7. 5 Sierra Wilds W. Topsham, VT
8. 17 Makenzi Sicard Gilmanton, NH
King of the Kids Round #2 –
1. 93 Jackson Hunt Derby Line, VT
2. 15 Hayden Bushey Fletcher, VT
3. 05 Colby Stygles Bradford, VT
4. 74 Kiptyn Aldrich N. Haverhill, NH
5. 45 Cameron Beattie St. Johnsbury Ctr, VT
