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Doiron Surges to PASS 400
Victory in
Final Segment
Joey Doiron finished just one
point ahead of Max Cookson in the overall standings
for the PASS 400 to close out the 2024 Pro All Stars
Series season. |
by Zach Evans of Racing America |
The PASS 400 came down to the narrowest of
margins at Oxford Plains Speedway, as Joey Doiron won
the three-segment event by one point over Max Cookson.
Despite nursing a broken foot, Doiron finished third
in the final two segments to push ahead of Cookson in
the final scoring. That one-point cushion nearly
disappeared on the final lap, as Doiron finished just
0.035 seconds ahead of Travis Stearns in a side-by-side
battle.
Cookson entered the final segment with a
seven-point advantage after finishing second and fourth
in the first two 100-lap segments. However, an incident
in the final segment put Cookson deep in the field,
giving Doiron the opportunity he needed to take the win.
"I knew we were going to need some unfortunate stuff
to happen to Max for us to have a good shot at it," said
Doiron. "He's been going good all day.
"We kind
of put ourselves in a hole in the first segment. My
radio broke, the battery broke in half when I pulled on
the track. Under the first caution, I pitted, and we had
to come from last in the first one. I think we got to
11th, then third [in the second segment]."
Doiron
had an opportunity to battle for the win in the final
segment, but knew the importance of protecting his spot
for the overall win.
"I don't know, I feel like I
had a chance to win this one, but the 09 [of Sylas
Ripley] was using the bottom really good. I couldn't
quite get in there. I knew I just needed to keep it in
one piece and think big picture for the overall."
Cookson cut down a tire after being collected in a
lap 83 incident in the final segment, dropping him from
the edge of the top 10 to 20th. While Cookson rallied to
a 12th place finish in the final segment, he needed two
more spots to win the overall PASS 400 title.
"Obviously, to finish second in this race, I'm real
happy about that," said Cookson. "It is hard to know how
good we were in the first segment, how good we were in
the second segment, and then the third segment, just
biding our time. I knew what the gap was to Joey and we
were fine if it stayed green there or we didn't get
smashed and blow a tire, come back out and get smashed
again.
"So close today, but I can't thank Tom
Abele, Sr., Tom Abele, Jr., all my guys today for
fighting hard for one last one. It sucks to come up so
short. I've also got to thank all my sponsors on my
personal race car for sticking with us this year through
a trying year. I was glad to come out today and really
have a really, really good race car.
"It sucks,
to say the least. We can't hang our head overly too
much. It's just one of those things where some days
you're the windshield and some days you're the bug. We
were just a little short today, but congrats to Joey and
his whole team. They've been really good here, just
missed the [Oxford] 250 for the sweep, so congrats to
those guys. Joey's great to race with, I've got a lot of
respect for him. It's a great day overall, just tough."
Unofficially finishing seventh in the overall
standings, D.J. Shaw wrapped up the season as both the
PASS North and PASS National Super Late Model champion.
Shaw was the runner-up in the second segment, but missed
out on the top 10 in the first and third segments.
Still, that was enough to secure the championships.
"It was a great season here for us," said Shaw. "The
odds were stacked against us today, and I feel like we
surprised ourselves a little bit with the run we had.
All in all, it was a great rebound day, good recovery
day for us."
Austin Teras appeared poised for a
dominant showing when the green flag dropped in Segment
One. Teras jumped to the lead from the front row and
lapped up to the top 10 before losing power and pulling
off the track with 23 laps to go.
Ripley, who
started on the pole for Segment One, inherited the lead
after Teras' misfortune and led the rest of the way to
score the first victory of the day. 2023 Oxford Plains
Speedway track champion Max Cookson finished second,
followed by Travis Stearns, Steve Chicoine and Cory
Hall.
The 25-car invert between segments placed
former ARCA Menards Series champion Austin Theriault on
the pole for Segment Two, with Scott Moore joining him
on the front row. Moore jumped out to the lead, losing
it briefly to Garrett Lamb before reclaiming the top
spot on lap 11.
Moore, along with Mike Hopkins,
broke away from the field as the front-runners from
Segment One charged through heavy traffic. Hopkins
finished 16th in the first segment but worked his way
from 10th to third within the first five laps of the
second segment.
Hopkins took the lead from Moore
on lap 61 and stretched out a lead of nearly two seconds
before Cory Hall spun on the frontstretch to bring out
the caution. On lap 88, a multi-car incident collected
several cars, starting with contact with Ripley and
Scott McDaniel battling for 18th.
Hopkins held on
for the win in the second segment on the following
restart, with D.J. Shaw second and Joey Doiron third.
With a fourth-place finish in segment two, Cookson moved
into the overall lead for the PASS 400.
Dan
Winter and Mike Scorzelli started on the front row for
the final 100-lap segment, with Scorzelli using the
outside line to pull out front. Meanwhile, the
calculators were already out determining who was in the
lead for the overall title.
Ripley's poor finish
in the second segment gave him a seventh-place starting
position for the final race, offering prime track
position and putting drivers such as Cookson, Gabe
Brown, and Joey Doiron on the offensive.
The
yellow flag flew on lap 83 as Scott McDaniel spun while
checking up after contact between Ripley and Stearns
battling for second. Mike Rowe stumbled on the restart,
allowing Sylas Ripley to jump out front with Trevor
Sanborn moving to second.
Nick Jenkins also spun
to bring out the caution, and in the aftermath following
that Corey Bubar slid up the track into Chicoine who
also collected Cookson. Cookson cut down a left-front
tire as a result, dropping him to 19th.
Sanborn
challenged Ripley for the overall win on the ensuing
restart, with Doiron and Stearns closely following. The
caution flew again with 10 laps to go as Scorzelli and
Dennis Spencer spun in turns one and two.
In the
10-lap shootout to the finish, Ripley held on to score
his second segment win of the day, while Doiron held off
Stearns for third. This proved pivotal as Cookson had
raced his way back up to 12th in the closing laps
despite his own misfortunes.
Sanborn took fourth
place in the overall event standings, followed by
Stearns. Brown, Shaw, Bubar, Johnny Clark and Brandon
Barker rounded out the top 10. |
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of the event will be the driver that accumulates the
lowest number of points between the 2 segments. Top 10
will be inverted for the 2nd 50 Lap race. In the event
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UNOFFICIAL RACE RESULTS -
10-20-24 |
1) 6 - Zach Bowie 2)
85 - Chanler Harrison 3) 34 - Spenser Morse 4) 1v
- Brandon Varney 5) 64 - Matt Sanborn 6) 83 - Dan
Brown 7) 66 - Jacoby Maines 8) 99 - Scott Trask
9) 63 - Thomas Oliver 10) 33 - Dan Morris 11) 7 -
Spencer Vaughan |
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25 - Shawn Knight 13) 4 - Cody Macomber 14) 32 -
Jacob Heatcoat 15) 87 - Chuck Colby 16) 41 - Mike
Nichols 17) 17 - Jim Bolstridge 18) 46 - Chad
Harrington 19) 0 - Alex Smith 20) 1st - Adam
Chadborne 21) 09 - Ryan Ripley 22) 3 - Joe Bessey |
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NON-WINNERS MAD BOMBERS - OPS
UNOFFICIAL RACE RESULTS -
10-20-24 |
1) 08m - Cole McIntire
2) 61 - Brandon Caron 3) 56 - Chris Foster 4) 66 -
Cam Weir 5) 11 - Ed Connolly 6) 6 - Mike Dekoning
7) 24 - Kenny Hoyt |
8) 31 - David Turner
9) 39 - Brad Wiseman 10) 85 - Jon Vargas 11) 3 -
Thomas Brackett 12) 7r - Phil Richardson 13) 53 -
Matt Wilson |
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Street Stocks
Overall (3 x 20 laps):
1. 4 Jordan Russell, 2. 36 Richard Spaulding, 3.
71 Chris Foster, 4. 2 Dale Lawrence, 5. 3 Joey
Israelson, 6. 67 Michael Haynes, 7. 99 George
Haskell, 8. 6 Cody White, 9. 36x Nate Leavitt,
10. 37r Cam Richards, 11. 10 Jimmy Childs, 12.
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THUNDER STOCKS |
Thunderstocks (25 laps):
1. 23 Jacob Michaud, 2. 46 Alex Mowatt, 3. 35
Tucker Haskell, 4. 90 Charlie Young, 5. 03 Doug
Kirk, 6. 4 Dustin Salley, 7. 6x Tyler Moore, 8.
31 Thomas Richards, 9. 60 Spencer Moore, 10. 22
Cody Billings, 11. 21 Derek Guptill, 12. 14 Bill
Sprague, 13. 69 Chris Youland, 14. 12 Mario
Ecrolani, 15. 28 Traver Michaud, 16. 63 Nathan
Morris, 17. 72 Justin Richards, 18. 3---, 19. 2
Billy Mcnulty, 20. 8 Esau Cooper
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RUNNIN' REBELS |
Rebels (20
laps): 1. 14x Adam Oneil, 2. 15 Nate
Dubuc, 3. 19 Greg Norton, 4. 7 Shane Webber, 5.
30 Derek Cook, 6. 77 Cam Childs, 7. 99 Michael
Phillips, 8. 84 Doug Degroat, 9. 39 Alec Brown,
10. 119 Jeff Farrington, 11. 00 Chris Giguere,
12. 25 Gunner Josselyn, 13. 7x Donnie Fletcher,
14. 1 Jeremy Farrar, 15. 42x Rick Austin |
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(80 laps): 1. 26 Corey Morgan, 2. 42 Tyler
Jalbert, 3. 11 Tyler Connolly, 4. 63 Adam Stearns, 5. 85
Jon Vargas, 6. 9 Jamie Heath, 7. 31 Shawn Brackett, 8.
14 Tyler Lerman, 9. 6 Mike Dekoning, 10, 1M Derek
McKeen, 11. 1 Cam Childs, 12. 77 Dustin Staples, 13. 53
Nick Wilosn, 14. 61 Brandon Caron, 15. 4 Cody Macomber,
16. 25 Josh Hodgdon, 17. 33 Michael Dearden, 18. 8
Michael Roe, 19. 56 Addie McDaniel, 20. 7d Seth Drown,
21. 66 Kam Weir, 22. 39 Brad Weismann 23. 18 Darin
Kilton 24. 68 Kassadie Munro, 25. 29 Mike Sanford, 26. 7
Kyle Richardson, 27. 24 Kenny Hoyt ,28. 08M Cole
McIntire DQ, 29. 3 Thomas Brackett DQ |
ACT Flying Tiger Tri-State Series
Vacationland 75 (75 Laps)
2024 ACT Tri-State Series Champion: Brandon Gray |
1. 5VT - Brandon Gray - E. Thetford, VT 2.
36NH - Jason Woodard - Waterbury Ctr., VT 3. 07VT -
Sam Caron - Milton, VT 4. 26VT - Luke Peters -
Groton, VT 5. 5A - Logan Powers - Middlesex, VT 6.
15NH - Brendan Moodie - Wolcott, VT 7. 77x - Issac
Spaulding - Wolcott, VT 8. 37VT - Kyle Streeter -
Waterbury Ctr., VT 9. 23VT - Matt Potter -
Marshfield, VT 10. 56VT - Chris Laforest - Barre, VT
11. 77NH - Brandon Lambert - Alton Bay, NH 12. 45VT -
Adam Maynard - Milton, VT |
13. 15VT - Joey Laquerre - E. Montpelier,
VT 14. 9VT - #Logan Farrell - Barre, VT 15. 67VT -
Kevin Streeter - Waitsfield, VT 16. 23NY - Cam Gadue
- Highgate, VT 17. 3VT - Michael MacAskill -
Williamstown, VT 18. 90VT - Cameron Ouellette -
Barre, VT 19. 46x - Aaron Maynard - Lyndonville, VT
20. 26x - Toby Peters - Groton, VT 21. 77VT - Issac
Spaulding - Wolcott, VT 22. 22WC - Mike Clark -
Littleton, NH 23. 52VT - Brad Bushey - Fairfax, VT
DNS 2VT - Eric Johnson - Randolph Ctr., VT |
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2024 Champion:
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RUNNIN' REBELS |
Rebels (20 laps):
1. 1f Jeremy Farrar, 2. 00 Chris Giguere,
3. 25 Gunner Josselyn, 4. 19 Greg Norton, 5.
7.Shane Webber, 6. 9 Noah Norton, 7. 15 Nate
Dubuc,8.94 Cody Childs,9.99 Michael
Phillips,10.84 Doug Degroat, 11. 44 Jeff Libby,
12. 96 Conrad Childs
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Champion:
William Barker
CRUISERS |
Cruisers (20 laps):
1. 28 William Barker, 2. 64 Matt Morneau, 3. 83
Lindsy Barker, 4. 4 Josh Cook, 5. 83me Doug
Churchhill, 6. 00 Larry Lizotte
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2024 Champion:
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ROOKIES |
Rookies
(15 laps): 1. 01 Rylee
Childs, 2. 58 Liz Newton, 3. 7 Destiny Williams,
4. 90 Rilee Young, 5. 24 Tucker Verrill
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Dustin
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THUNDER STOCKS |
Thunder Stocks (20 laps):
1. 33 Orion Tripp, 2. 11 Logan
Spencer, 3. 60 Spencer Moore, 4. 77 Dustin
Staples, 5. 4 Dustin Salley, 6. 3d Derek
Mccallister, 7. 21 Derek Guptil, 8. 35 Tucker
Haskell, 9. 90 Charlie Young, 10. 22 Cody
Billings, 11. 49----, 12. 6x Tyler Moore, 13. 8
Esau Cooper, 14. 46 Alex Mowatt, 15. 66 Joel
Butterfield, 16. 72 Justin Richards, 17. 63
Nathan Morris, 18. 95 Caleb Morris, 19. 8m----,
20. 31 Thomas Richards
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We would like to thank
everyone who made this 250 Weekend a success.
It takes a lot of people to make this thing work.
This year we had the challenge of Mother Nature
during the 250.
We want to thank all of the fans who waited patiently
during the rain delay.
And a huge thanks to our volunteer track drying
heroes. Without
your help the rain delay would have been really long.
With your help we were able to get the race completed in
a reasonable amount of time.
Thank you so much! |
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Jeff Taylor
Holds Off Bubba Pollard
for Elusive
Oxford 250 Triumph |
by Tim Packmsn - Racing America
News |
When the checkered flag finally waved over the
51st Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Oxford 250, it was
nine-time Oxford Plains Speedway track champion Jeff
Taylor standing tall next to his No. 88 in Victory Lane.
After battling 41 other competitors and enduring a
three-hour rain delay, Taylor won the Oxford Plains
Speedway’s prestigious race for the very first time in
28 attempts.
It was a reflective and slightly
shocked driver talking about his win afterwards.
“I honestly don’t know how we won,” the Farmington,
Maine native shared. “I can’t believe this, we don’t run
full-time like a lot of these other drivers. I can tell
you one thing, that rain delay really helped this car
out a lot.
“There are so many people who helped
us out. We just threw a team of volunteers together to
beat these other teams. It’s unbelievable, it really is
something.
In the closing laps, Taylor withstood
a fierce challenge from 2018 Oxford 250 winner Bubba
Pollard. Taylor successfully defended the bottom lane to
hold off Pollard for the win.
“We had the track
position, and I’ve watched Bubba Pollard race enough to
know I needed to just stay on the bottom. He had the
outside to pass me if he wanted.”
Pollard came up
one position short of repeating his 2018 Oxford 250
victory and appreciated how the race ended.
“It
was good. I don’t like running second, but I’m okay with
how it ended with Jeff winning.” Pollard said. “This is
big for him, his family and team.
“This is what
short track racing is all about. I love coming up here
to Oxford. There were a lot of people who helped me get
here this weekend, and I can’t thank them enough.”
The Oxford 250 starting line-up had 42 drivers
taking the green flag, which guaranteed all kinds of
action would take place around the 3/8-mile Oxford
Plains Speedway. Adding in pit stops, tire strategy,
race strategy and weather strategy made the event more
interesting.
Leading the field to green was Ryan
Kuhn and Joey Doiron in the front row. They took off and
battled for the lead in the early going with Doiron
taking the lead from Kuhn by lap six.
Negotiating
lap traffic by lap 21 slowed Doiron and Kuhn down just
enough to allow their competitors to close in. One
driver taking advantage of it was Derek Griffith,
running third at the time.
At the lap-50 mark,
Griffith worked his way to second and began closing in
on the leader of Doiron as they negotiated the slower
cars. The first caution of the night took place on lap
52 to rerack the field.
Multiple teams hit pit
road with some taking two and others four tires, while
checking tire pressures to improve handling.
Doiron and Griffith led the way on the Lap 53 restart
and quickly tried to separate themselves from the field.
Kuhn was in third with a hard-charging Bubba Pollard
working the high side.
After another restart on
Lap 56, Pollard really let the leaders know he was there
to race by taking over second place. After looking to
the outside and inside of the leader Kuhn, Pollard
powered his way past Kuhn with 181 laps to go.
From there, they raced side-by-side for multiple laps
battling for the lead until a caution three laps later
showing Doiron as the leader. With all eyes on the
Senoia, Georgia native of Pollard to the outside of
Berwick, Maine’s Doiron, the race resumed to see who
would lead next.
With 34 cars still on the lead
lap, Doiron continued to lead Pollard as Griffith now
joined the top three. Pollard surrendered second to
Griffith with 165 laps remaining, who then fell into the
clutches of DJ Shaw who took over third place on lap 89.
Under two more cautions, Pollard and many other
leaders hit pit road for tires, mostly two, and
adjustments. The phrase “cautions breed cautions” was in
full effect from laps 98 to 105.
On the ensuing
restarts, Doiron worked the wheel holding off Griffith,
Shaw and Sanborn. Behind them, their fellow competitors
were racing two and three wide to gain positions.
After a long-green flag run, and just nine laps from
the halfway point of the race, Mother Nature showed up
as rain forced the field onto pit road.
After the
three-hour rain delay, the 34 remaining cars tried to
get a feel for the freshly washed surface. Doiron and
Griffith set the pace from the front row when the green
flag waved.
Behind them, a three-car pile-up
happened on the frontstretch with them all coming to
rest under the flag stand.
On Lap 122, a light
rain started again bringing out the caution. This time,
cars remained out to keep some heat in the track to
continue racing sooner.
Once the Oxford 250
restarted, a 10-car wreck took place on Lap 124 in Turn
1 sending several cars pit side and done for the night.
Until this point, the leader of Doiron had still not
been to pit road.
Race strategy for his team was
paramount as to when he would pit, and how many tires
he’d take. Other teams were also paying attention,
because the second-place car of Griffith had been passed
and was back to fourth.
Garrett Hall and Mike
Hopkins were now in second and third, respectively, and
chasing down the leader of Doiron. With 113 laps
remaining, the caution came out and this was when Doiron
hit pit road taking four tires, fuel and adjustments.
Hall and Hopkins also came to the attention of their
crew to take four tires. Griffith decided to remain out
and take over the lead, Moltz would line up second for
the restart.
Griffin would be passed for the lead
by DJ Shaw with 95 laps remaining, who overtook him on
the outside and quickly separated himself from the
second to seventh positions.
On lap 175, Shaw had
a 4.1-second lead over Griffith, Moltz and Pollard, who
had returned to the top five running order after an
earlier pit stop put him back to 28th place. Five laps
later, Pollard had moved to second and was on the
charge.
A caution 10 laps later allowed Griffith
to finally pit for tires, but problems changing the left
front cost him valuable track position. Also pitting was
Pollard, giving up second place.
Shaw and Gabe
Brown showed the way for the restart, which was followed
by another caution. The pace of the race picked up with
a long green flag run that included Pollard breaking
back into the top five, Taylor taking over second, Brown
to third and Pollard fourth.
With 43 to go,
Pollard raced his way to third with the leader of Shaw
working his way through lap traffic. Taylor started
looking to the outside of Shaw with 35 laps remaining as
Pollard closed in on them both.
The scoreboard
showed 30 laps remaining when Shaw, Taylor and Pollard
were running within .1 seconds of each other battling
for position. Taylor took the lead five laps later, but
now lap traffic was becoming a factor as Pollard leaped
into second.
Pollard was filling the rearview
mirror of Taylor as he chased him around the track.
Looking to the inside and outside of the leader, Pollard
was looking for a way to take the lead.
Taylor
was looking for his first Oxford 250 victory, Pollard
his second as he kept trying to the outside. That didn’t
work, so Pollard backed off a bit to cool his tires.
Five laps remained when Taylor started to pull away
from Pollard with a three-car length lead. When the
checkered flag waved, Taylor took the win and his very
first Oxford 250.
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