MacMichael takes Sportsman Modified Checkers at Monadnock Speedway

Posted by Wayne G. Barber

WINCHESTER—Thunder was rumbling down at Monadnock Speedway once again this past Saturday evening with all of the weekly Whelen All-American Series divisions featured as well as the special main event Granite State Pro Stock Series JBH 100. Last week was double features for the Sportsman Mods, Thunder Stocks, and Super Stocks, this week it was back to normal with heat races followed by features.
In Young Guns action it was 13 year old Dylan Morse in the #00 holding off Daniel Starkweather to capture his second win of the year.

“I heard him back there,” Morse said in victory lane, “I felt him a couple of times. But, I knew what I had to do, stay low and keep going.”
Justin Littlewood out maneuvered Jaret Curtis for third place, Chris Buffone, Shelby Avery, and Chase Curtis rounded up the field.
 In a Young Gun post-race inspection the win was given to Dan Starkweather.
 Lightning Stocks came out onto the track for their feature following the conclusion of the Young Guns. It was a tight race that featured #95 CJ Johnson racing hard with Kris Kristolaitis in the #28. With Kristolaitis leading, Johnson got to the inside of Kristolaitis with both making contact the #28 spun out of first place.

Johnson went on to win the race, with Kristolaitis finishing in fifth. Tim Leblanc in the #52 and Kyle Boniface in the #27 recorded podium finishes with 2^nd and 3^rd place respectively.
  The Lightning Stock finish is currently under review and the official results will be released by mid-week.
  Mini Stocks were out next and a wild race that resembled heavy traffic on the interstate saw Solomon Brow in the #33 take the green and lead the way all the checkered flag. “We started up front, and we ended up front,” Brow said following the win. #62 Julia Raymond came in 2^nd place ahead of points’ leader Eric Pomasko in the #71. Matt Gauffin put on another late charge in the #68 to get around Cameron Sontag’s #13 for 4^th place.
 Thunder Stocks rolled out next and they ran a fast, competitive, and clean race. Only once did yellow come out, and not for any significant wreck. The race saw a new winner in the series, #9 James Nowakowski.

 Nowakowski blew a motor last week, his new (old) motor proved to be the key to victory on Saturday.“It ran alright,” Nowakowski said, “enough to stay ahead.”
  Marshall Usher’s #11 wheeled home a 2^nd place finish. David Greenslit in the #20 used a last lap pass to capture 3^rd place from Paul Barnard in the #24. Ben Williams finished 5^th in the #7 car.

Super Stocks came on following the Thunder Stock feature. There wasn’t another new winner this week, however, the winner hadn’t won in a long time.

 #18 Ken Springer hasn’t been running a full schedule, but he came down and won on Saturday. His last win at Monadnock came on July 2, 2011.

“We’re just out here having fun,” said Springer.

“These tires are from opening day so these are pretty old tires,” Springer said in victory lane, “I’m surprised they stuck so well.”

Nancy Muni came home 2^nd in the #96 ahead of #15 Tyler Lescord. Dave Striebel rebounded from a wreck last week to bring home a 4^th this Saturday in the #71.

The final Whelen All-American Series event of the night was the Sportsman Modifieds. Caution graced the racetrack just 3 laps into the 30 lap main event. #8 Keith Carzello’s car got run into the wall, doing significant damage, bringing his day to a premature end.

It was a different story at the front of the pack, as Scott MacMichael shook off the spell of bad luck he’d been having with his motor, and brought the #7 back to victory lane for his third win of the year.

“This is great,” MacMichael said, “I really want to thank the Smith family and all the guys that helped me change the motors the last couple weeks, they stayed up late, there’s a million of them. There was over a hundred people really.

“I don’t know what happened in the back, but it was good up front,” said MacMicahel.

Brett Gonyaw in the #87 out ran the #43 of Bill Kimball for the 2^nd spot. #14 Dana Smith finished 4^th with Eric Leclair 5^th in the #84.

That cleared the way for the GSPSS JBH 100, the 100 lap feature main event.

The race saw several cautions in the first 50 laps, but the winning move came when Matt Frahm took the lead on lap 31.

Mike Parks made several runs at Frahm on the numerous restarts, but Frahm had what it took to hold Parks off for his third win all-time at Monadnock.

“This place feels like home,” Frahm said after his third win. “I love coming here, I love the fans here, it’s been good.”

“Mike’s car was a lot stronger on the outside than we thought he’d be,” Frahm said, “Our car was bottoming out really bad, it was actually getting worse.”

Larry Gelinas had a strong run to finish in 3^rd place, while Monadnock regular Scott MacMichael got passed late by Mike O’Sullivan for 4^th place.

Next week at Monadnock, the Sportsman Modifieds, Super Stocks, Mini Stocks, Lightning Stocks, and Young Guns will all be on the card for the 2 for $20 General Admission Special. Racing Starts at 6PM.

Young Gun Results: Dan Starkweather, Justin Littlewood, Jaret Curtis, Chris Buffone, Shelby Avery, Chase Curtis, Dylan Morse,

Lightning Stock Results (Unofficial) : CJ Johnson, Tim Leblanc, Kyle Boniface, Pat Houle, Kris Kristolaitis, Richard Whipple, Eric Silvernale, Craig Smith, Steve Fucile, Hillary Renaud, Mike McGoldrick, Kevin Carey, Tim Paquette

Mini Stocks Results: Solomon Brow, Julia Raymond, Eric Pomasko, Matt Gauffin, Cameron Sontag, Joel Monahan, DJ Lazelle, Matt Kimball, Mike Stebbins, Kevin McKnight, Scott Adams, Jarod Soucy, Louis Maher, Ethan Marsh

Super Stock Results: Ken Springer, Nancy Muni, Tyler Lescord, Dave Striebel, Joel Monahan, Dennis Stange, Scott Beck, Tyler Leary, James Thompson, Cole Littlewood

Sportsman Modifieds Results: Scott MacMichael, Brett Gonyaw, Bill Kimball, Dana Smith, Eric Leclair, Nathan Johnson, Dennis Charette, Russ Hersey, Kim Rivet, Trevor Bleau, Jason Barden, Casey Ouellette, Brian Robie, Keith Carzello

Michelle Cloutier
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