Story By: WHITE MOUNTAIN MOTORSPORTS PARK – NORTH WOODSTOCK, NH – In the days and weeks leading up to the annual Banquet of Champions, White Mountain Motorsports Park officials have been celebrating the 2023 season, highlighting each of the six divisions that call the North Woodstock, New Hampshire oval home throughout the summer.
We’ve climbed the ladder from the non-point Dads 4 By Tool & Supply Kids Division, the part-time Wayne’s Market Dwarf Cars and Ammonoosuc Asphalt Mini Late Models to the Woodsville Guaranty Savings Bank Strictly Stock Minis and the Fisher Auto Parts Flying Tigers.
Now it’s time to celebrate the Foley Oil & Propane Late Models on their 2023 journey to find the newest King of the Mountain!
The Foley Oil & Propane Late Models boasted 52 different drivers who made the trek to New Hampshire’s Favorite Short Track this season, beating out any other weekly, point-counting division at any other racetrack in the Granite State. Counting American-Canadian Tour events, 76 different ACT Late Models took on the highbanks throughout the 2023 season.
St. Johnsbury, Vermont’s Kasey Beattie started the season on high by taking the Spring Board 100 in May before Claremont, New Hampshire veteran Mike Jurkowski powered into the spotlight to kick off June. American-Canadian Tour frontrunner Gabe Brown made the short trip over the Kancamagus Highway just one week later to claim the $3,000 prize put up by top Late Model supporters Foley Oil & Propane of Belmont and Wall’s Ford in Salisbury, Massachusetts.
Nine-time White Mountain Motorsports Park ‘King of the Mountain’ Quinny Welch got back into his winning ways on a rain-postponed Sunday before North Haverhill’s Ryan Olsen took down a popular win during his outlaw summer schedule. Nothing stopped the Beattie kid after that, three consecutive wins in July and August helped predict the championship to come while Jesse Switser’s huge Milton CAT Midsummer Classic 250 win made him the first ever White Mountain Motorsports Park regular to steal away an American-Canadian Tour win at the North Woodstock oval.
Littleton’s Michael Clark took a dominant Leaf Peepers 100 win on Labor Day weekend after a rough and tumble season while Beattie and Welch returned to victory lane to split the final two events and Joey Polewarczyk Jr. returned to Fall Foliage 200 victory lane with the ACT Tour. After moving up from the Dads 4 By Tool & Supply Kids Division, hometown native Kyle Goodbout claimed the Rookie of the Year honors and two second-place podium finishes in his freshman season behind the wheel.
White Mountain Motorsports Park officially wraps up the 2023 season with the annual Banquet of Champions this Saturday, December 2, at the Littleton Elks Club. The 2024 Schedule of Events updated license forms and rule books for the 2024 season have been released by the ACT office.