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Claremont Motorsports Park Fall Challenge Day 3, October 19, event story
CLAREMONT, N.H. – Third generation hot shoe Jacob Perry won the Modified Racing Series season finale 75-lap main event Sunday afternoon at Claremont Motorsports Park, but it was a second third generation 24-year-old star who celebrated the most when the checkers had waved to end the rapid-fire event.
Brett Meservey, who drove a conservative race after entering the afternoon’s main event atop the MRS points parade, calmly rode home fifth on the day to earn his first career Modified Racing Series championship.
Other winners on the day at the storied third-mile oval included Brandon Gray, victorious in the Tour Type Late Models, Dick Lamotte in the Mini Stocks, Colton Hull in the Pure Stocks, and Stone Slattery in the Ridge Runners
With the dirt track cars in town to make their annual CMP Fall Challenge appearances, Vince Quenneville Jr. topped the dirt Modified feature, and veteran wheelsman Earl Maxham was victorious in the Bear Ridge Speedway Coupes. Oval track regular Albie Ovitt prevailed in the show-closing four cylinder 50-lap Enduro.
Perry and Ryan Doucette sat up front as the 17-car MRS field took the green for the final time of their 2025 season, with Doucette quickly pouncing on the top spot. Perry, though, was inches away.
Powering his Maurice Enterprises entry to the point on lap four, the 24-year-old ace took control and never looked back en route to his first MRS win of the year. Further back, Meservey, who’d entered Sunday’s main event with an 18-point advantage over Brian Rpbie in their season-long battle for the MRS 2025 championship, was content to take a Sunday ride, one spot behind Robie, with title soon in hand.
Doucette stayed strong in second over the final 70 go-rounds, and former CMP Weekly Racing Series Modified champion Nate Wenzel was solid in third. With Robie fourth and Meservey fifth, the championship hardware and bragging rights went home to Brewster, MA. Robie, the reigning CMP Friday night Modified champion, came up just shy of adding another crown to his extensive collection.
Batman Allen Fellows started up front and led the first five laps of Sunday’s Tour Type Late Model feature, but he needed to be pedaling fast because the dynamic duo of Brandon Gray and Nick Sweet were coming fast, incredibly fast!
Gray, the newly crowned king of the speedway’s R.E. Hinkley Fuels Super Stocks, was up to second from row three by the third lap, then taking the top spot two circuits later, and Sweet wasn’t far behind.
Over the last 40 laps, the potent pair raced wheel-to-wheel and side-by-side, Sweet patrolling the top of the track and Gray downstairs. Gray held a slim lead over the final six orbits to score the thrilling win. With Sweet an airtight second, Nathan LeClair completed the top three, Fellows was fourth, and Richard Brown came home fifth,
Sean Lantas led early in the RaceDay TV Mini Stock feature, giving way to Timmy Paquette on lap three. Charging from row four, Dick LaMotte was quickly up to the front, taking charge on lap six and soon enjoying a huge lead.
Jon Fultz, the reigning Mr. Monadnock took second from Paquette on lap 11, but LaMotte was almost out of sight. Wheeling the fastest car on the track, Fultz reeled LaMotte in but ran out of laps, finishing at the Green Mountain State driver’s bumper in second. Paquette held strong to take home the third-place hardware, with Andrea St. Amour and Kevin Boucher rounding out the top five.
Gage Dillingham had the lead for the first five laps of Sunday’s LaValley Building Supply Pure Stock feature but 2025 track champ Colton Hull was on a mission. After disappointing runs on both Friday and Saturday, Hull wanted it all.
Hull took the lead – charging all the way from row six – on lap five but soon had Andrea St. Amour, second the day before in triple 20s, glued to his bumper and she, in turn, had Kyle Kenny looming in her shadow.
The high flying trio raced under a blanket the rest of the way, with Hull prevailing, St. Amour second, and Kenny, victorious on both Friday and Saturday, third. Dillingham held strong to take the checkers fourth, and 2024 track champ Chris Chambers was fifth. Both Hi;; and Dillingham failed post race tech inspection.
Stone Slattery had the hot hookup in the JP’s Trucking Ridge Runners. Taking the lead from Trevyr Young on lap three, he never looked back. Travis Jurcik finished three lengths back in second, with Young third, Kenny Thompson fourth, and Kyle Dumas fifth.
Vince Quenneville Jr. made easy work of topping the Dirt Modified feature. Keegan Tabor, the CMP Pure Stock champ a summer ago, was second, and Michael Danforth third, Tanner Siemons, rudely bounced around early, rebounded for fourth, and Todd Buckwald was fifth.
In the Bear Ridge Sportsman Coupes, Earl Maxham inherited the victory after a last-turn scramble jostled the running order, Bentley Robbins was second, Todd Buckwald third, and Robert Shepard fourth.
Albie Ovitt took the lead on lap 39 of the nightcap Four Cylinder Enduro and then outran fellow oval tracker Brandon Gray to score the win. Trevor Jaques was third under the checkers, Andrew Lopes finished fourth, and longtime CMP Enduro racer Freddie Rogers came home fifth in the 29-car field.
