WINCHESTER, NH - Eddie Gomarlo won his first career Modified victory on the high banks of Monadnock Speedway Saturday.
Other winners on the first round of Monadnock’s 2026 Triple Crown Series included Limited Late Model ace JD Stockwell, who won for the fourth time this season, Craig Smith, a first time winner in the Mini Stocks, and Michael Yeaton, who won a three-across thriller to stay perfect at three-for-three in the Pure Stocks.
Matt Robinson became the Pro V8 Sportsman’s third different winner this summer, and Young Gun dynamo Dylan Stati scored his track-high sixth 2026 feature win.
Cole Littlewood and Kimmy Rivet sat on row one as the 50-lap Allstates Materials Group 604 Modified main event went green. Littlewood wasted no time in seizing the lead, with previous winner Andrew Brousseau charging up to second as Rivet got hung outside in the top groove.
Brousseau took charge on lap ten, opening some breathing room as Ty Leclerc and Gomarlo battled for second behind him. Gomarlo claimed the deuce spot for good on lap 23 and immediately set his sights on Brousseau.
Gomarlo rocketed to the front from the top groove on lap 26, holding strong the rest of the way to earn his first Monadnock Modified feature by three lengths, as a wild finish behind him saw Leclerc explode out of the final turn to edge Modified points leader Tyler Leary for second. Brousseau was fourth under the checkers, with Ben Byrne fifth. Colton Martin, who’d won his Monadnock first a week earlier, was sixth.
JD Stockwell dominated the Twin State Truck Services Limited Late Models again Saturday, winning for the second week in a row and fourth time this season.
Michael Lashua and Wesley Stedt sat up front as the 40-lap LLM feature went green. Stedt, bringing previous winner Hillary Renaud with him, would lead the first 15 laps, as Stockwell, charging from row three, closed in. Stockwell rocketed into the lead on lap 16, with Renaud still good for second, and Robert Hagar closing in. While Stockwell would blast off into another universe to win with ease, the best battle in this one was waged for second by Renaud and Hagar. Hagar had taken the spot but Renaud, low along the backstretch, took it back on lap 36 and held strong to score the runner-up finish. With Hagar third, Lashua and Stedt completed the top five.
In one of a handful of wild finishes Saturday on the high banks, Michael Yeaton won by a foot in a three-wide charge to the checkers in a Brattleboro Towing and Recovery Pure Stock thriller. Rookies Linsey Wenzel and Josh Brigham started up front, with Wenzel setting a fast pace as Yeaton rocketed forward from row five. Yeaton took charge on lap nine, but Kyle Boniface was red hot too. Boniface got up for second on lap 17, bringing Jimmy Zellman with him, and the stage was set for excitement. A stout whack in the side moved Yeaton up-track on lap 24, and Boniface to the front. Yeaton, though, would have none of it. Going to work at the top of the track, sometimes finding it more than narrow up there, Yeaton refused to lose. He, Boniface, and Zellman hit the finish line three across, with Yeaton making it three wins in a row, Boniface second by less than a foot, and Zellman riding beside him to come home third and stay atop the points parade, Brigham and Dylan Zullo were fourth and fifth.
A pair of track champions, Jon Fultz the current and Louie Maher the former Keene Towing and Recovery Mini Stock speedway king, went head-to-head in their Triple Crown 30-lapper Saturday, but Craig Smith, in his maiden voyage aboard the Aiken Motorsports entry, had big plans of his own. Smith made a furious last-lap charge to steal the show Saturday. Fultz was second in the blast to the checkers, with Maher in his shadow for third. A pair of Tims, Paquette and O’Shea, completed the top five. Matt Robinson led all the way to score his first Beck’s Automotive Pro V8 Sportsman victory Saturday on the high banks. Aaron Thompson, gunning for his second score of the summer, was less lucky. Bouncing off the Stephen LaPlante ride on lap 19, Thompson went heavily into the turn four wall. Ron Burgess Jr., aboard his Bad Bumble Bee ride, was second on the night, and Stephen Dubois third. Dylan Stati continued his mastery of the Doug’s Auto Body Young Guns Saturday, soaring to his track-high sixth win of the season. Maeve Barry was second in the youth division 15-lapper.
Monadnock Speedway will roar back into action next Saturday, June 27, with its gigantic annual Firecracker 100 event. The ground-pounding 604 Modifieds will square off in a 100-lap main event atop a full card of NASCAR Local Racing Series action followed by the speedway’s famous Independence Day huge fireworks display. Post time is 6 p.m.
MODIFIED: Eddie Gomarlo, Ty Leclerc, Tyler Leary, Andrew Brousseau, Ben Byrne, Colton Martin, Cole Littlewood, Trevor Bleau, Nate Wenzel, Brian Chapin, Nancy Muni-Ruot, Eric LeClair, Joey Jarvis, JT Cloutier, Kimberley Rivet
LIMITED LATE MODEL: JD Stockwell, Hillary, Renaud, Robert Hagar, Michael Lashua, Wesley Stedt, Owen Zilinski, Erik Smith, David Boisvert, Kevin McKnight
MINI STOCK: Craig Smith, Jon Fultz, Louie Maher, Tinm Paquette, Tim O’Shea, Kevin Clayton, Dana Shepard, Nadine Coates, Stacey Zentak, Scott Grabowski,Craig Chaffee
PURE STOCK: Michael Yeaton, Kyle Boniface, Jimmy Zellman, Josh Brigham, Dylan Zullo, Kyle Begos, Linsey Wenzel, Colton Hull, Andrea St. Amour, Markus O’Neil, Addison Brooks
PRO V8 SPORTSMAN: Matt Robinson, Ron Burgess Jr., Stephen Dubois, Chris Kingsley, James Thompson, Hunter Duquette, Keith Nelson, Aaron Thompson, Reagan Buffum