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Claremont Motorsports Park Friday, September 12,
CLAREMONT, N.H. – Claremont Motorsports Park closed out the Weekly Racing Series portion of its ambitious 78th season of oval track competition Friday, crowning eight different drivers as champions of their 2025 divisions, no fewer than four of them first timers atop their classes at the historic third-mile speedplant.
Of the eight, only 604 Modified king Brian Robie was able to end his title summer with a Friday night victory. The event also featured three first-of-the-season race winners, as Tyler Wheatley and Trevyr Young each earned his first 2025 victory lap, and Brandon Gray – the newly crowned king of the Super Streets, was victorious in the Tour Type Late Model season finale
With a huge crowd on hand for the speedway’s second Five Dollar Friday event this summer – this one presented by Casella Waste Management, celebrating its 50th year of business, rising from a single-truck operation to a seven-state giant of its industry – no one went home disappointed.
Crowned 2025 Kings of Claremont were Brian Robie, 604 Modifieds; Aaron Fellows, Tour Type Late Models; Cam Curtis, Outlaw Late Models; Brandon Gray, Super Streets; Kyle Templeton, Mini Stocks: Colton Hull, Pure Stocks; Carlos Grenier, Ridge Runners: and Steve Miller Sr., top dog in the Six Shooters.
Gray and Rucky Bly both scored feature wins in two different divisions this season, Gray winning six times in the Super Streets and then on Friday in the Tour Type Late Models, while Bly notched back-to-back victories back in April, topping a Saturday Outlaw feature and then returning the next day to earn the top spot in the Tour Type Late Models.
Robie, whose dominant run to the 2025 championship was capped with Friday night’s victory, scored eight 604 Modified wins this summer and also romped to victory in an MRS 75-lap main event at CMP.
Friday, he rocketed low into turn one to take the lead from Tyler Leary on lap 29 and then soared off to a nine-length victory ahead of the Bay State star to punctuate his latest milestone title at the popular Friday night speedplant. With Leary second, hometown hot shoe Andrew Brousseau was third in the Asetex Tire & Auto 604 Modified main event.
Aiden White, gunning for his first career win in the Tour Type Late Models, led the first 19 go-rounds of Friday’s feature race, then giving way to Thunder Road champ and hopeful CMP titlist Stephen Donahue. But when By made contact with White it also collected four other cars behind him, Aaron Fellows, the Superman, moved up to third and the title was his.
Gray powered to the front on lap 29, then blasting off to his first Tour Type victory. Donahue finished second, with Fellows content in third. The Croydon super star advanced his march toward 20 track championships with three victories on the summer. Donahue won four times but came up just shy of his first CMP crown.
Like Fellows, Cam Curtis was more than happy to finish short of victory Friday. The Baltimore, VT young gun, who not that many summers ago was winning in go-karts on the CMP infield oval, wrapped up his first championship by finishing second to two-time CMP champ Ben Poland.
It was Poland’s third win of the summer, and while Curtis only won two, he went home the champion. Robbie Streeter was third under the checkers Friday.
The R.E. Hinkley Fuels Super Street division was often a heavyweight matchup between Cody Schoolcraft and Brandon Gray this summer. Friday’s season finale was no different,
Schoolcraft took the lead from Joe Tetreault on lap nine and never looked back en route to his fifth 2025 victory. But Gray, up to second on lap 17, ended his first CMP championship summer with the title, aided by Schoolcraf’st tumble from the top a week earlier. Tetreault held strong to come home third Friday.
Mini Stock ace Kyle Templeton did what he’d done all summer Friday. Leading all the way to win the RaceDay TV Mini Stock finale, he finished a full straight ahead of rookie Andrea St. Amour, who finished just shy of last season’s Pure Stock championship and scored a career best second in Friday’s caution-free Mini Stock main.
Templeton, beaten only once all season, won for the ninth time. Sean Lantas was third Friday.
Tyler Wheatley put on a show in Friday’s LaValley Building Supply Pure Stocks, blasting to dominant wins in both his heat and feature events. But while the Brookfield, VT hot shoe basked in victory lane, nobody celebrated more than fellow Green Mountain Man Colton Hull, whose fourth-place run earned him his first CMP championship.
Hull scored three wins on his way to the title, outrunning four-time winner Kyle Kenny to his first track crown. Kenny was fifth on the night after climbing as high as third. Steady Gage Dillingham was second Friday, and two time winner Jimmy Zellman was third.
Trevyr Young scored his first career victory in the JP’s Trucking Ridge Runners Friday. Division champion Carlos Grenier was second on the night, with Ron Burgess Jr. third. It was the first time all season that the track-high 11-win Grenier had been beaten on-track.
Michael Yeaton blasted to his fourth CMP win of the summer in the Six Shooters, but fourth-place finisher Steve Miller Sr.celebrated his third championship.,Meghan Bell was third in Friday’s ten-car field. Miller, fourth Friday, edged his son,the race runner-up, former track champ Steve Jr., for the 2025 crown.
In a combined New England Antique Racers Modified and Sportsman feature, postponed by rain two weeks earlier, James Allen topped the NEAR Mods, and Berlin, VT’s Dave Manning was first in the Sportsmen,
For the second week in a row, the CMP fans chipped in with far more than $1600.00! to help the city’s Stevens High School athletic programs.
There’s still much to look forward to this year at Claremont Motorsports Park, While Friday night’s 2025 Championship Night event closed out the speedplant’s 78th consecutive Weekly Racing Series season, the oval’s annual three-day Fall Challenge weekend is yet to come.
For details on CMP’s October 17,18 and 19 Fall Challenge event, follow the track’s website and facebook page.
CMP CHAMPIONSHIP NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 12, TOP FIVES
604 MODIFIED: Brian Robie, Tyler Leary, Andrew Brousseau, Cole Littlewood, Jeff Murray.
OUTLAW: Ben Poland, Cam Curtis, Robbie Streeter, Chris Riendeau, Steve Bly.
TOUR TYPE LATE MODEL: Brandon Gray, Stephen Donahue, Aaron Fellows, Patrick Patten, Craig Smith.
SUPER STREET: Cody Schoolcraft, Brandon Gray, Joe Tetreault, Robert Hagar, Robbie Streeter,
MINI STOCK; Kyle Templeton, Andrea St. Amour, Sean Lantas, Bradey Lamotte, Dick LaMotte.
RIDGE RUNNER: Trevyr Young, Carlos Grenier, Ron Burgess Jr., James Rhodes, Brianna Buck.
