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Claremont Motorsports Park 2024 January 25 Awards Banquet Story
CLAREMONT, N.H. – Claremont Motorsports Park honored its eight 2024 divisional champions and many other top achievers from last summer’s successful racing season, as a packed house filled Lebanon’s Fireside Inn banquet hall Saturday.
No fewer than three different competitors were honored for their first divisional championship at the historic 77-year-old oval. And on the other end of the spectrum, Aaron Fellows – the hot shoe widely known as the Superman – picked up his sixteenth speedway crown, those spaced across numerous divisions during the Croydon ace’s two-plus decade career.
With Fellows topping the Tour Type Late Model 2024 class, second-generation star Guy Caron was feted for his fifth CMP title, this one earned in last summer’s Outlaw Late Models. Bay State sizzler Nate Wenzel was applauded for his third consecutive track Modified championship, while both Mini Stocker Kyle Templeton and Six Shooter star Steve Miller Sr. earned their second CMP crown, Templeton’s won after an earlier Pure Stock title season.
First-time champions at the Thrasher Road speedplant are Matt Sonnhalter, 2024 king of the Super Streets, Super sophomore Keegan Tabor, who topped the Pure Stocks, and hometown hot shoe Aiden White, 2024 champion of the fledgling Ridge Runner class.
Honored as the top rookie drivers of 2024 were Haydon Grenier, Modifieds; Josh Ruel, Outlaws; Ryan Farewell, Super Streets; Colton Hull, Mini Stocks: Kyle Kenny, Pure Stocks; and Aiden White, Ridge Runners.
Special awards were presented to Chris Lindquist was presented the 2024 Track Sportsmanship award, Chester Clark received the dedication to Claremont Motorsports Park award , and Pure Stocker Kyle Kenny was presented the Tracks Iron Man award after competing in every event the Oure Stock Class ran in 2024. Guy Caron and Matt Sonnhalter each received $500 2025 tire credits from tri-track owner Ben Bosowski, while CMP General Manager Mike Parks thru his MDP Motorsports Promotions Company presented the same to Haydon Grenier and Robbie Streeter, and veteran Pure Stocker David Smith picked up a season-long pit pass.
Wenzel earned his third Asetex Tire and Auto 604 Modified crown by edging Brad Zahensky 538-520 for the top spot. Open-wheel titan Tyler Leary was third, rookie star Haydon Grenier fourth, and upstart Trevyr Young fifth.
Fellows was followed in the Tour Type Late Model 2024 top five by Ryan Currier, Brandon Gray, Craig Smith, and Ricky Bly.
In the Outlaws, Caron held off season-long foe Ben Poland to earn his newest title. Tyler Lescord was third on the summer, followed by hot shoe cousins Steve and Cory Bly.
Atop the RE Hinkley Fuels Super Streets, Sonnhalter edged out Robbie Streeter, 828-816, to win his first CMP championship. The Green Mountain State pilot also won an R&R Open Street Stock event here in 2024. Young gun Dylan Zullo was third in the 2024 points parade, followed by Brandon Gray and Chris Lindquist.
Templeton squeezed past Nolan McClay to top the Mini Stocks, 554-548. David Pratt II was third on the summer, just ahead of ageless veteran Pat Houle and rookie star Colton Hull.
Tabor nipped Andrea St. Amour 1,048-1,038 to earn the LaValley Building Supply Pure Stock crown. Top rookie Kyle Kenny was close behind at 1,010, with Gage Dillingham fourth, and Amy Jaycox fifth.
Grantham’s Miller family continued its dominance of the Avery Insurance Six Shooters in 2024, with Steve Sr. holding off his son, Steve Jr. – the 2023 champion – to win his second crown, the first earned in 2022. The elder Miller also earned the Krupski Award as top gun atop the division in speedway owner Ben Bosowski’s season-long tri-track series. Paul Colburn was third on the year at CMP, followed by Erin Vien and Rozwell Mason Jr.
And in the fledgling RaceDay TV Ridge Runners, hometown hot shoe Aiden White, a former Pure Stock star, won the division’s first CMP championship. James Rhodes was second on the summer, and Richie Marrocco third, with Seth Drown and Brian Caswell rounding out the 2024 top five.
ONLY FOUR WEEKS AWAY – While fans will still have to wait several months for the 2025 CMP Advance Auto Parts Weekly Racing Series competition to begin, CMP will open its doors for the first event of the new year on Saturday, February 22.
The speedway’s annual Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre event will feature a full afternoon of multi-divisional Enduro racing and more. Post time for this special February 22 event is 12 noon.
