Claremont Motorsports Park Friday, May 22, event story
CLAREMONT, NH – Teen phenom Cole Robie soared to victory Friday under the lights at Claremont Motorsports Park, winning with ease as he pocketed the $5,000 winner’s purse for topping the Granite State Pro Stock Series 150-lap main event at the Thrasher Road third mile.
In the night’s Late Model feature, Green Mountain Boy Stephen Donahue improved on a handful of early season near misses by blasting to his first 2026 CMP victory. Chris Chambers, also from the west side of the Connecticut River, continued his domination of the Pure Stock division, outrunning a stout 18-car field to score his track-best fourth win of the season.
Meghan Bell, victorious a week earlier, made it two in a row in the Six Shooters, topping a colorful 25-lapper, and Lane Lantas, who won here back in April, scored his second win of the summer in the Ridge Runners. In the Karts, Abel Connolly won for the second time.
CLAREMONT, N.H/ – Brandon Gray won for the second time in as many weeks Friday night at Claremont Motorsports Park, roaring to a dormant victory in the Tour Type Late Model main event.
And if the East Thetford, VT star was red hot in making it two-for-two on the young season, so was another Green Mountain state ace, as Chris Riendeau made a thrilling last lap pass to win the Super Street feature and run his undefeated 2026 streak to three.
Chambers, Dillingham, Hull, Kenny, St. Amour, there have been many Vermont drivers basking in Pure Stock victory lane in recent seasons at the Thrasher Road speedplant, and Sunshine Town second generation hot shoe Carter Conroy has been there too.
Friday, Conroy scored one for the Granite Staters. The Newport driver won one for the home staters, topping a blockbuster 16-car field in his 25-lap feature event to bring bragging rights back to New Hampshire.
Chris Riendeau and Chris Chambers each scored their second win of the season Friday, May 1, at Claremont Motorsports Park. The victory kept Riendeau perfect on the young season at the Thrasher Road speedplant, while Chambers’ win was his second in three strong outings.
Joining the two Vermont aces in celebrating victories Friday were fellow Green Mountain Boys Brandon Gray and Trevyr Young. Only hometown hot shoe Kyle Templeton was able to prevent a Vermont sweep, as the two-time defending track Mini Stock champion romped to victory in his division’s first outing of the summer.
Stephen Donahue and Gray sat up front as the chilly night’s 50-lap Tour Type Late Model main event went green. Donahue, a close runner-up to 2025 titlist Aaron Fellows a summer ago, pounced on the opening lead, with Gray virtually glued to his bumper. The dynamic duo raced under a blanket for 38 laps, with Gray – the reigning speedway Super Street champ – apparently aboard the faster car, while Donahue remained laser focused on holding a perfect line. But on that lap, Gray dove low and under Donahue in turn one, taking the lead along the backchute and then blasting off to win by a country mile in the caution-free event.
CLAREMONT, N.H. – Nobody was happier in victory lane Friday, April 24, than Tyler Lescord. The popular second generation wheelsman ended an eleven-year winless drought by rocketing to victory in the night’s Outlaw Late Model main event.
Lescord, a 25-year veteran of oval track racing, took the lead on lap 22 of the night’s main event and charged off to his first career Outlaw Late Model feature win. Prior to Friday, his last victory came back in 2015 at Monadnock Speedway.
He was one of three drivers scoring there first win at the Thrasher Road speedplant Friday. Michael Casey earned his first CMP victory lap in the Six Shooters, and Lane Lantas dominated en route to his first in the Ridge Runners.
