Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour heat winners Kaiden Fisher and Gabe Brown earned the front row of the New Hampshire Governor’s Cup 150 by each earning a +5 in qualifying action. After suffering with ignition issues all of Friday practice, Fisher made his presence known by leading the early circuits before Jimmy Renfrew Jr. got around him on the lap 7 restart. Renfrew kept pace ahead of the pack while the 32-car field spread out, easing the pressure on their Hoosier Racing Tires against the rough, aged surface of Lee USA Speedway.
A rough outing for rookie Holdyn Sullivan took a turn for the worse, spinning off of turn two and hard into the outside wall. Back under green, former Quebec champion Jonathan Bouvrette made a strong run to the front along with Gabe Brown as Brown took over the lead. With 50 laps remaining, Bouvrette continued to gain on lap times but lap traffic worked in Brown’s favor.
Stafford Motor Speedway hosted the 54th Annual NAPA Spring Sizzler®, “The Greatest Race in the History of Spring,” on Sunday, April 26th with Open Modified cars.
Ronnie Williams methodically worked his way towards the front of the field and he had to hold off a furious 2-way challenge from both Tyler Chapman and Austin Beers over the final 5 laps of the race to win the 54th Annual NAPA Spring Sizzler®.
The race took the green flag with Tyler Chapman and Ron Silk leading the field to the green flag. Chapman and Silk ran wheel to wheel for a lap before Chapman cleared to the lead on lap-2. Silk held off a challenge from Michael Christopher, Jr. to get in line in second with Teddy Hodgdon fourth and George Bessette, Jr. fifth. Silk made a move to the inside of Chapman on lap-4 to move into the lead. With 10 laps complete it was Silk leading Chapman, Christopher, Hodgdon, and Bessette. Ryan Newman was sixth followed by Jake Johnson, Dylan Izzo, Eric Goodale, and Jon McKennedy.
Stafford Speedway kicked off the 54th NAPA Spring Sizzler® with NAPA Opening Day festivities that saw the Granite State ProStocks in the Casagrande Builders 75 along with Stafford’s weekly Late Models, Limited Late Models, and Street Stocks in feature action. The SK Lights were also in action with a pair of 20-lap qualifying duel races that set the starting grid for their 30-lap feature on Sunday as part of the NAPA Spring Sizzler®.
In the Casagrande Builders 75 Granite State ProStock feature, Jeremy Sorel took the lead at the drop of the green flag but Dan Winter got into the frontstretch wall and Joey Kendall spun on the frontstretch to bring the caution flag out with 1 lap complete. Sorel took the lead ahead of Cory Casagrande, Eddie MacDonald, Jimmy Hebert, and Casey Call. The caution came back out with 2 laps complete for a multicar spin in turn 2 involving Adam Gray, Kevin Folan, and Matt Beers. Sorel took the lead on the restart with MacDonald taking over second. Casagrande was third but he did a 360 spin coming out of turn 2 to bring the caution flag back out with 3 laps complete.
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.
After a long and cold 6 months of hibernation, Wiscasset Speedway finally opened their doors again on Saturday afternoon for the track’s 2026 season opener featuring the T&L Automotive Pro Stocks, County Truss 4-Cylinder Pros, Davis Erector Group 207 Crate Modifieds, Thunder 4 Minis and the Darling’s Brunswick Ford Super Streets.
2025 Late Model champion Daniel Harding topped the leaderboard in practice for the Pro Stocks and pulled the #1 chip for the qualifying draw, starting on the pole in the heat race. Harding pulled away with the win while Wiscasset Speedway veteran Matt Beers took home the heat win in the second qualifier.
Matt Beers got a big jump over Daniel Harding in the spotlight 50-lap feature, pulling ahead with the early lead. Meanwhile, Nick Calvert got bent out of shape on lap 2 and went around, resulting in a caution. Daniel Harding got the upper hand on the restart, distancing himself from the competition. After a multi-lap side-by-side battle, Jamie Wright overtook third from Matt Beers on lap 13. Just as Wright was knocking on Josh St. Clair’s door for second, Kelly Moore joined the fray in the closing laps of the race, making a last-lap pass to close out the podium behind race winner Daniel Harding and multi-time track champion Josh St. Clair.
Former track champ Ben Poland won the 79-lap Outlaw Late Model main event Saturday at Claremont Motorsports Park. Midget car legend Randy Cabral topped the NEMA feature, and former speedway Pure Stock king Chris Chambers outran a 20-car field to win his opening day top event.
On a perfect April Saturday afternoon, the historic third-mile oval began its 79th consecutive season with a blockbuster eight-division Spring Fling event. And although day two of the scheduled weekend-long event was scrubbed due to rain, the Saturday biggie set the stage well for the oval’s 2026 Weekly Racing Series schedule that kicks off next Friday, April 24, with the green flag flying at 7 p.m.
Other winners Saturday at CMP included Chase Curtis, scoring his first career CMP victory in the Crown Vics, Michael Yeaton, who topped the Six Shooters, and Zach Martinez, a first-time speedway winner in the NEMA Lites. Powerhouse Andrew Harmon topped the New England Dwarf Car Series feature, and Kendall Whitehill was first under the checkers in the 603 Mini Cups.
