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CLAREMONT, N.H. – Claremont Motorsports Park ushered in its busy 2025 racing season Saturday, April 19, with day one of its annual two-day Spring Fling spectacular.
No fewer than a dozen different drivers earned their first checkered flag lap of the summer Saturday, although only one was a repeat winner from last season’s Spring Fling event. Bay State Midget legend Randy Cabral, he of 73 series wins and five NEMA championships, duplicated his April 27, 2024 victory here, adding Saturday’s Midget win to a long list of Claremont victories.
Cabral took the lead from Mike Horne on a lap-ten restart and then blasted off into another time zone to win the Butch Walsh Memorial 25-lapper by a country mile. Paul Scally got up for second, Horne was strong in third, and 2024 series champ Avery Stoehr came home fourth.
Former track champ Ricky Bly edged ahead of two-time titlist Ben Poland on lap three of the Outlaw Late Model main and never looked back en route to victory. Poland pitted out of second on lap 18, with Baltimore, VT pilot Cam Curtis then moving up to second. Curtis, who started racing here in karts, moved to within five lengths of Bly but had to settle for second. Josh Ruel was strong in third.
Dylan Coutu took the lead from Braydon Egan on lap six of the NEMA Lites feature and held strong for victory. PJ Stergios, a factor all day, finished second, with Kyle Valeri third. Randy Cabral, gunning for his second win of the day, settled for fourth in the Lites.
With Pro 4 super star Rob Richardi not in Saturday’s starting field after suffering a garage fire, Craig Phillips took full advantage of his absence and rocketed off to a five-length victory over Randy Clark. Josh Badach earned the third-place hardware.
Veteran CMP pace car driver Leo Martin probably thought his weekend was ruined when he looked in his rear view mirror and saw a whole field of cop cars in pursuit. It was, however, only the starting lineup for CMP’s first-ever Crown Victoria race.
Chris Knight guided his former squad car to victory, earning a big $1,000 bonus compliments of Randy Rameau and Central Mass Tree Co. Bella Flaherty was strong in second, and Andrew Harmon came home third.
Steve Miller Jr. made a shrewd move in heavy traffic to take the lead from Brady Lamotte on lap 15 of the Six Shooter feature and then sped off to victory. The former track champ was joined in victory lane by Lamotte and his father, Steve Sr., last year’s CMP kingpin.
Former Pure Stock strongman Carlos Grenier made easy work of winning his first outing in the Ridge Runners. Former open-wheel pilot Trevyr Young was strong in second, and Windsor Hodgdon finished third.
Saturday’s Pro V8 Sportsman win went to Hudson regular Steve Dubois. Seth Laporte was second, and Aaron Thompson third.
Jase Mongeon blew away the field to win Saturday’s NELCAR: Legend feature by a landslide. Kevin Davis and Brandon Martinez finished a distant second and third. Grayson Day was the first of three 11-year-old racers under the checkers in the Bandolero feature, scoring his victory ahead of David Bernier and Andrew Cote.
Haydon Kingsley led all the way en route to a dominant victory in the 603 Mini Cup feature. Jaaon Romprey was the best of the rest, nipping Kendall Whitehill for second.
Saturday’s CMP event marked day one of the speedplant’s annual season-opening Spring Fling two-day event, with Modifieds, Super Streets, an Easter egg hunt, and much more still ahead on Sunday’s schedule.
The historic 78-year-old oval now moves into its opening night event of the 2025 NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Racing Series Friday night schedule on next Friday, April 25. Post time Friday is 7 p.m.
CLAREMONT MOTORSPORTS PARK SATURDAY, APRIL 19.
OUTLAW LATE MODELS: Ricky Bly, Cam Curtis, Josh Ruel
NEMA MIDGETS: Randy Cabral, Paul Scally, Mike Horne, Avery Stoehr, Matt O’Brien.
NEMA LITES: Dylan Coutu, PJ Stergios, Kyle Valeri, Randy Cabral, Brayden Egan.
PRO 4 MODIFIEDS: Craig Phillips, Randy Clark, Josh Badach, Steve Dumas, Kevin Ianella.
PRO V8 SPORTSMEN: Steve Dubois, Seth Laporte, Aaron Thompson, Don Rumrill.
SIX SHOOTERS: Steve Miller Jr., Brady Lamotte, Steve Miller Sr., Mike Casey, Keegan Tabor.
RIDGE RUNNERS: Carlos Grenier, Trevyr Young, Windsor Hodgdon, Seth Drown.
CROWN VICTORIAS: Chris Knight, Bellla Flaherty, Andrew Harmon, Sebastian Janowiec, Keegan Tabor.
NELCAR LEGENDS: Jase Mongeon, Kevin Davis, Brandon Martinez, Ryan Vanesse Jr., Jake Kelly.
NELCAR BANDALEROS: Grayson Day, David Bernier, Andrew Cote, Preston Day, Thea Meserve.
603 MINI CUPS: Haydon Kingsley, Jason Romprey, Kendall Whitehill.
