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CLAREMONT, N.H.- Cory Plummer blasted his new Apex Racing Modified to victory lane Sunday at Claremont Motorsports Park, topping the Modified main event on the final day of the speedway’s 77th oval track season.
Brandon Gray was victorious in the Super Streets on the third and final day of the historic speedplant’s busy 2024 season. Kyle Goodbout capped three days of strong performances by winning the Outlaw Late Model feature, and 2024 track Mini Stock champ Kyle Templeton made it two in a row on the warm weekend.
Like Templeton, Pure Stock hot shoe Carlos Grenier punctuated his Saturday night win with another on Sunday afternoon, and Six Shooter ace Steve Miller Jr. did them one better, sweeping feature wins on all three Fall Challenge event days.
Circle tracker Alby Ovitt won his second CMP Four Cylinder Enduro of the summer, Earl Maxham topped a stout field of dirt track Sportsman Coupes, and 602 Dirt Modified pilot Roger Lebreche will have to figure out the exchange rate for himself when he takes his Sunday winner’s check north to his home in Quebec Province, Canada.
No fewer than 107 teams filled the pits Sunday, with a full card of racing promptly underway after the speedway’s 2024 Friday night champions were feted trackside. They are Nate Wenzel, Sportsman Modified; Matt Sonnhalter, Super Street, Guy Caron, Outlaw Late Model; Aaron Fellows, Tour Type Late Model; Kyle Templeton, Mini Stock; Keegan Tabor, Pure Stock; and Steve Miller Sr., Six Shooter.
Cory Plummer’s new Modified ride couldn’t have performed any better than it did Sunday. The Swanzey pilot swept both his Asetex Tire and Auto Sportsman Modified heat and feature races on the final day of CMP’s Fall Challenge, winning both with ease.
Two-time track champ Nate Wenzel was second on the day, with hometown second-generation star Andrew Brousseau shining in third, as he came back from a brutal wreck just six weeks earlier.
It’s been a while since CMP fans watched a Late Model feature and nobody named Fellows or Caron finished near the front. It happened Sunday.
Kyle Goodbout, a force all weekend, took the lead in the Tour Type Late Model 50-lapper from Allen Fellows on lap eight and never looked back. If he had, he’d have seen Thunder Road strong man Nick Sweet draped all over him. Lap after lap, the two raced inches apart, with Goodbout refusing to waver en route to victory.
Richard Brown was a force in third, while former track champ Ricky Bly finished fourth and newly crowned, and 16-time, champion Aaron Fellows struggled to seventh.
Milton Duran led the first four laps of the R.E. Hinkley Fuels Super Street feature, then giving way to rocket man Brandon Gray. Bay State ace Justin Beecher, victorious the night before, got up for second on lap 15 but Gray, by then, had already blasted off into another time zone. Robert Hagar was strong in third, edging 2024 divisional champ Matt Sonnhalter for the final podium spot.
Gray, along with Beecher and Friday night winner Cody Schoolcraft each earned Super Street victory laps on the Fall Challenge weekend.
Kyle Templeton took charge on lap 14 of the RaceDay TV Mini Stock feature and never looked back, winning for the second day in a row to put an exclamation point on his championship season. Tim Paquette was second, and veteran wheelsman Pat Houle came home third.
Carlos Grenier took the lead from Kyle Kenny on lap seven of the LaValley Building Supply Pure Stock feature and then pulled away to win for the second day in a row. A major frontstretch jingle on lap 14 sent four cars to the pits but did nothing to slow the front pair. Gage Dillingham steered clear of the carnage for a well-earned third.
Steve Miller Jr. lowlined into the top spot on lap 12 of the Avery Insurance Six Shooter feature and then held on to edge Bradey Lamotte for the win, his third in as many days. With Lamotte finishing at Miller’s bumper, it was the elder Miller, Steve Sr., completing his second championship season in third.
Canadian hot shoe Roger Lebreche led all the way in the Dirt Modified feature to score his third career CMP victory. Keystone Stater Jaff Parker was second on the day, and Keegan Tabor, the speedway’s 2024 Pure Stock champ, came home third in his open-wheeler.
Dirt track veteran Earl Maxham was first under the checkers in the Sportsman Coupe 20-lapper. Todd Buckwald rode in his shadow all the way to finish second, and Jason Gray fired into third on lap 17 to earn a podium finish.
Alby Ovitt won the speedway’s final event of the season, a Four Cylinder Enduro featuring 31 combatants. Ovitt took the lead from Cole Littlewood on lap 26, opened a comfortable lead, and then held on to win by three lengths. Freddy Rogers nipped Drake Nelson for third, and Bre Nelson completed the top five.
CLAREMONT MOTORSPORTS PARK OCTOBER 20 TOP PERFORMERS
SUPER STREET: Brandon Gray, Justin Beecher, Robert Hagar, Matt Sonnhalter, JD Stockwell, Trevor Rocke, Milton Duran, Jared Edson, Ryan Bell, Russ Hersey.
TOUR TYPE LATE MODEL: Kyle Goodbout, Nick Sweet, Richie Brown, Ricky Bly, Nathan, LeClair, Randy Cole Jr., Aaron Fellows, Cole Littlewood, Justin Littlewood, Chris Roberts.
SPORTSMAN MODIFIEDS: Cory Plummer, Nate Wenzel, Andrew Brousseau, Andrew Martell, Jason Bonnett, Travis Cass, Ty LeClerc.
MINI STOCK: Kyle Templeton, Tim Paquette, Pat Houle, Dana Shepard, Sean Lantas, Tim O’Shea.
PURE STOCK; Carlos Grenier, Kyle Kenny, Gage Dillingham, Jordan Gonyea, Eric Laurendeau, Travis Handt, Nathan Waterman, Addison Brooks, Kodi Sabins, Colton Hull.
SIX SHOOTER: Steve Miller Jr., Bradey Lamotte, Steve Miller Sr., Lincoln Herschel, Chris Bingham.
