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CLAREMONT, NH – Hometown hot shoe Cody Schoolcraft stormed to his first Asetex Tire & Auto Outlaw Late Model feature win Friday at Claremont Motorsports Park, becoming the sixth different driver in as many 2026 events in the sizzling full-fendered division to grace victory lane at the fast third-mile oval.
Trevor Chamberlin had much to celebrate too under the lights Friday, winning his first career Pure Stock victory over a strong 18-car field on JS Automotive Fan Appreciation Night at CMP. Schoolcraft and Chamberlin were just two of seven different drivers soaking up cheers in Country Fuels VIctory Lane.
Top points man Stephen Donahue won in the Tour Type Late Models. In the R.E
Hinkley Super Streets, Robert Hagar earned his second victory lap of the summer, and Mini Stock kingpin Kyle Templeton won his third of the season in front of the large crowd at the Thrasher Road speedplant.
Michael Yeaton was first under the checkers in the Six Shooters Friday, and Trevyr Young was victorious in the Ridge Runners.
Tyler Lescord and Josh Ruel sat up front as the Asetex Tire & Auto Outlaw Late Models set sail on their high speed main event journey Friday. Lescord was quick to take charge, holding the top spot for the first nine laps until Schoolcraft, from the top groove, powered to the front.
Former track champ Ben Poland blasted into second on lap 14 but on this night had to settle for a well-earned second. Schoolcraft, who had dominated his earlier heat race, turned up the heat again in the feature, romping to an easy win. With Poland impressing in second, Lescord, Trevor Rocke, and Ruel rounded out the top five.
In the Tour Type Late Model feature, Allen Fellows took the lead from Seth Drown on lap four, then setting a fast pace the next ten laps until top points man Stephen Donahue charged through turn four to lead lap 14.
Once in front, Donahue never looked back, taking the checkers two lengths ahead of Fellows. With the elder statesman of the three-generation Fellows racing family second, he was followed by his grandson, Aaron Fellows Jr. a strong third, with Drown fourth and Craig Smith fifth.
Seven-time RE Hinkley Fuels Super Street winner Chris Riendeau never led in Friday’s 25-lap main event. But Green Mountain star Robert Hagar did, blasting to his second Super Street win of the season, along with a victory also scored in the Outlaws.
Hagar took the lead from Erik Smith on lap eight and soared off to a two-length victory over previous winner Joe Tetreault. Riendeau was third on the night, the first time in ten events he’d finished out of the top two, with Smith fourth, and Marc Laroche Jr. fifth.
Sean Lantas led the first four laps of Friday night’s Mini Stock feature, but then Kyle Templeton took over and blasted off to win with ease. Andrea St. Amour got up for second on lap 13, holding strong the rest of the way to score her best finish yet in the Mini Stocks. Lantas finished third on the night.
The LaValley Building Supply Pure Stocks served up a classic on Friday night, with wholesale position changes in the top five for all 25 laps, four lead changes, a first-time feature winner and, best of all, a three-wide finish that saw Trevor Chamberlin take the win from the middle groove, as he was flanked by Jeremy Ruggeri and Gage Dillingham at the checkers.
Tim Taft led early, then giving way to Chamberlin, who would trade the top spot mid-race with Ben Bushey before taking charge for good on lap 14. Ruggeiri, gunning hard for his second win of the summer, blasted into second on lap 15, with Dillingham claiming third the next go-round to set up the fantastic climax ten laps later.
With Chamberlin taking the checkers first from the center of the track, Ruggeri, at the bottom, was at his side, and Dillingham just as close in the top groove. Bushey, strong all night, was fourth under the flags, and Jimmy Zellman, from deep on the starting grid, was fifth.
Top Pure Stock points man Chris Chambers had a rough one Friday, tossed around mid-pack to finish out of the money but still comfortably atop the championship leader board.
It was a could-have, should-have night for Six Shooter points leader Meghan Bell Friday. She dominated her heat race and then held the top spot in the feature until a late caution gave ace Michael Yeaton all the chance he needed to claim the top spot.
Yeaton, from row four, had charged up to second on lap 19, but it was still Bell in the driver’s seat until a lap-22 caution brought Yeaton to her side. Taking the lead from the top groove, Yeaton then held strong to score his fourth win of the summer.
Steve Miller Jr., the winner of the previous two Six Shooter events, was second Friday, with Bell third, and Michael Casey fourth to stay just behind Bell in the points parade.
Jame Rhodes had his best run of the summer in the JP’s Trucking Ridge Runners but still went home empty handed Friday.
Rhodes, aboard his potent Firebird entry, led the first 18 laps until pitting out of the race during an unrelated caution on lap 19. Rhodes’ demise moved Lane Lantas to the top spot, but multi-time winner Trevyr Young wasn’t done yet.
Young took the lead on lap 22, then soaring away to his seventh 2026 win, Konner Janovsky equaled his best finish of the summer in second, with Lantas third on the night, Ethan Meyette fourth, and Raven Streeter fifth.
Claremont Motorsports Park returns to action next Friday, July 24, with the Pure Stocks battling in triple 20-lap main events atop a full card of NASCAR Local Racing Series presented by Lundgren Subaru action. Post time is 7 p.m. each Friday at CMP.
