Story By: WHITE MOUNTAIN MOTORSPORTS PARK – NORTH WOODSTOCK, NH – With a massive crowd on hand for the 7th annual Milton CAT Midsummer Classic 250 at White Mountain Motorsports Park, the local racers competed with plenty of pride on Saturday evening.
The highlight of the summer season at New Hampshire’s Favorite Short Track started off with the Dad’s 4 By Tool & Supply Kids Division. Twelve strong, these racers of tomorrow kicked off feature racing action with Sophia Beer and Jackson Hunt leading the action to the first yellow for a mix-up between Madison Potter and Kiptyn Aldrich.
Hunt would lead on the restart and begin to grow his lead before the field was stopped for Aldrich’s hard lick into the turn four tire barrier. Jackson Hunt would fend off Connor Stygles and Hayden Bushey to take his first career win at the line.
In between American-Canadian Tour qualifying for the Milton CAT Midsummer Classic 250, the Fisher Auto Parts Flying Tigers took the field for their 35-lap main event. Rookie Austin Sicard brought the field to green with Nate Hamblett to his outside and fellow rookies Owen Cheney and Kyle Willis in tow. Pulling double duty on Saturday, point leader Brandon Gray made the long march to the front while Sicard looked like a seasoned veteran out front, leading until lap 18. Gray would round the rookie to take over the lead and only slowed once for the division’s lone caution with two laps remaining. Gray and Groton, Vermont’s Luke Peters duked it out for the green-white-checkered finish with Gray maintaining his win streak followed by Peters and Shane Sicard on the podium.
Likewise, the Woodsville Guaranty Savings Bank Strictly Minis saw a rookie lead the field, this time in the hands of young Landyn O’Donnell. The North Haverhill young-gun led the pack through the halfway point while Tyler Thompson, Kyler Davis and Patrick Switser cut their way through the pack. Unfortunately for O’Donnell a lap 17 caution for a stalled Scott Senecal with a flat tire proved to be his undoing with a missed shift on the restart taking away his chance for a first-time win. The final circuits proved some of the most entertaining of the evening as the pack maintained side-by-side battles to the end. Tyler Thompson narrowly edged out Jason Goodbout, Jr. for the win with Patrick Switser taking third in a three-wide-battle against McKenna Merchant and Kyler Davis at the line!
The American-Canadian Tour brought thirty-nine teams from across New England and Quebec for the Milton CAT Midsummer Classic 250, the first of two appearances for the international tour at White Mountain this summer. Following heat races, the consolation round and the Last Chance B-Feature carved the thirty-nine entries down to twenty-nine starters in the 250-lap main event. 2006 King of the Mountain D.J. Shaw and former White Mountain ACT victor Tom Carey III brought the field to green. With Shaw leading the early circuits, White Mountain standout Bryan Wall, Jr. kept up with the defending ACT champion out front.
Hard luck struck the White Mountain weekly teams starting with Jaden Perry going in the spin cycle to bring the first yellow on lap 25 before Tanner Woodard brought out the lap 42 caution after stopping on the top of turn two. After running strong in the opening half, nine-time track champion Quinny Welch lost all electrical power and shut down, ending his run early. Going against the grain, Wall’s Ford Platinum Series point leader Gabe Brown kept pace with Shaw at the head of the field for the majority of the 250-lap spectacular before everything went south as a piece of metal lodged in his right front tire, sending him out of a strong second-place run.
In the final circuits, 2023 White Mountain track champion Kasey Beattie, now leading the ACT Rookie of the Year battle, battled hard with D.J. Shaw for the win. Again and again, Beattie drew alongside Shaw on both the high side and down low, unable to get just the right momentum to make his #45NH stick. Beattie gave one final charge at Shaw on the final lap but it was not enough. D.J. Shaw became the first two-time Milton CAT Midsummer Classic 250 champion under the twin checkered flags with Tom Carey III sneaking around Beattie to take second.
White Mountain Motorsports Park returns on Saturday, August 10 for the rain-postponed Round #2 of the Central Asphalt Paving Triple Crown Series for the Fisher Auto Parts Flying Tigers! The Foley Oil & Propane Late Models, Woodsville Guaranty Savings Bank Strictly Minis, Ammonoosuc Asphalt Mini Late Models, Wayne’s Market Dwarf Cars and Dads 4 By Tool & Supply Kids Division are all back in action with a 6:00pm Post Time!
White Mountain Motorsports Park
Saturday, August 3, 2024
Milton CAT Midsummer Classic 250
UNOFFICIAL RESULTS
American-Canadian Tour – (250 Laps)
7th annual Milton CAT Midsummer Classic 250
1. 04VT DJ Shaw Center Conway, NH
2. 5MA Tom Carey III New Salem, MA
3. 45NH #Kasey Beattie St. Johnsbury, VT
4. 25NH Jesse Switser W. Burke, VT
5. 21QC Alexendre Tardif Notre Dame des Pins, QC
6. 47NH Gabe Brown Center Conway, NH
7. 18VT #Kaiden Fisher Shelburne, VT
8. 91QC Patrick Laperle St-Denis, QC
9. 77NH Bryan Wall Jr. E. Kingston, NH
10. 03MA Derek Gluchacki Dartmouth, MA
11. 97NH Joey Polewarczyk Hudson, NH
12. 36NH Erick Sands Derry, NH
13. 68VT Brooks Clark Fayston, VT
14. 7MA #Jeremy Sorel Westfield, MA
15. 53NH Jeremy Davis Tamworth, NH
16. 48QC Raphael Lessard St-Joseph, QC
17. 41QC Jonathan Bouvrette Blainville, QC
18. 33QC Remi Perreault St. Paul, QC
19. 27NH Cam Huntress Rochester, NH
20. 0VT Scott Dragon Milton, VT
21. 4NH Jamie Swallow Jr. Lancaster, VT
22. 10NH Bryan Mason Stark, NH
23. 58VT Jimmy Hebert Williamstown, VT
24. 11QC Claude Leclerc Lanoraie, QC
25. 68NH Tanner Woodard Waterbury Ctr., VT
26. 92VT Jaden Perry Hardwick, VT
27. 00VT Brandon Gray E. Thetford, VT
28. 01VT Stephen Martin Craftsbury Common, VT
29. 78NH Quinten Welch Groveton, NH
DNQ 73MA #Cole Littlewood Orange, MA
DNQ 29ME Cole Robie Windham, ME
DNQ 22VT Peyton Lanphear Waterbury, VT
DNQ 61NH Ryan Olsen N. Haverhill, NH
DNQ 32NH Jeff Marshall Littleton, NH
DNQ 2VT Stephen Donahue Graniteville, VT
DNQ 55VT Keegan Lamson Berlin, VT
DNQ 46x Brian Hoar S. Hero, VT
DNQ 04NH Shawn Swallow Groveton, NH
DNQ 21VT Reilly Lanphear Waterbury, VT
Fisher Auto Parts Flying Tigers – (35 Laps)
1 00VT Brandon Gray E. Thetford, VT
2 26VT Luke Peters Groton, VT
3 4NH Shane Sicard Barton, VT
4 78VT Tyler Pepin Barre, VT
5 62VT Jamon Perry Hardwick, VT
6 23NC Chandler Potter Plainfield, VT
7 23NH Michael Potter Plainfield, VT
8 43VT #Kyle Willis Derby Line, VT
9 29VT #Owen Cheney Moretown, VT
10 49VT #Austin Sicard Gilmanton, NH
11 34VT Jim Paquette Alburgh, VT
12 77VT Ryan Field Wolcott, VT
13 36NH Nate Hamblett Derby Line, VT
14 22WC Mike Clark Littleton, NH
Woodsville Guaranty Savings Bank Strictly Stock Minis – (25 Laps)
1. 51 Tyler Thompson Littleton, NH
2. 92 Jason Goodbout, Jr. Lincoln, NH
3. 16x Patrick Switser Woodsville, NH
4. 11 Kyler Davis* Berlin, VT
5. 99 McKenna Merchant Waterford, VT
6. 57 Todd Derrington Littleton, NH
7. 18 Donnie Baumgardner N. Woodstock, NH
8. 09 Jack Hayes Littleton, NH
9. 16VT Nate Brien Williamstown, VT
10. 02 Dustin Wilson Bethlehem, NH
11. 17 Connor Rueda Barre, VT
12. 12 John Knight Franklin, NH
13. 69 Aiden Young Dalton, NH
14. 1 Landyn O’Donnell N. Haverhill, NH
15. 17NH Scott Senecal Lisbon, NH
DNS 19 Dave Driscoll N. Woodstock, NH
*Sub Driver for Jacob Roy
Dads 4 By Tool & Supply Kid’s Division – (15 Laps)
1. 93 Jackson Hunt Derby Line, VT
2. 05 Colby Stygles Bradford, VT
3. 15 Hayden Bushey Fletcher, VT
4. 2 Cooper Benoit Washington, VT
5. 15 Connor Dow Georgia, VT
6. 17 Makenzi Sicard Gilmanton, NH
7. 99 Sophia Beer Lyndonville, VT
8. 19 Chloe Doyle Northfield, VT
9. 23 Madison Potter Marshfield, VT
10. 6 Connor Charbonneau Groveton, NH
11. 74 Kiptyn Aldrich Woodsville, NH
12. 09 Khloe Goodbout Lincoln, NH