GRAY, RIENDEAU AND CHAMBERS MAY DAY WINNERS AT CLAREMONT
CLAREMONT, N.H. Chris Riendeau and Chris Chambers each scored there second win of the season Friday, May 1, at Claremont Motorsports Park. The victory kept Riendeau perfect on the young season at the Thrasher Road speedplant, while Chambers’ win was his second in three strong outings.
Joining the two Vermont aces in celebrating victories Friday were fellow Green Mountain Boys Brandon Gray and Trevyr Young. Only hometown hot shoe Kyle Templeton was able to prevent a Vermont sweep, as the two-time defending track Mini Stock champion romped to victory in his division’s first outing of the summer.
Stephen Donahue and Gray sat up front as the chilly night’s 50-lap Tour Type Late Model main event went green. Donahue, a close runner-up to 2025 titlist Aaron Fellows a summer ago, pounced on the opening lead, with Gray virtually glued to his bumper.
The dynamic duo raced under a blanket for 38 laps, with Gray – the reigning speedway Super Street champ – apparently aboard the faster car, while Donahue remained laser focused on holding a perfect line. But on that lap, Gray dove low and under Donahue in turn one, taking the lead along the backchute and then blasting off to win by a country mile in the caution-free event.
With the flying Vermonters taking the checkers far ahead of all others, hometown pilot Aiden White was atop the best of the rest, outgunning Allen Fellows for third. Seth Drown, wheeling his new Late Model as he makes the jump from Ridge Runners to Late Models, was fifth on the night.
Daniel Petrowicz and Joe Tetreault led the RE Hinkley Fuels Super Streets to the green Friday, with Petrowicz taking the lap one lead, with Chris Riendeau – firing from row two – soon to his bumper, as the Ascutney ace quickly set out to duplicate his victory of seven days earlier. To that goal, Riendeau low-lined to the front on the fifth go-round.
Heat race winner Robert Hagar elected to stay pitside for the night’s 25-lap feature, and potent Cody Schoolcraft joined him there after a single lap. That left Petrowicz, a Bay State veteran who had never trophied, to hold Riendeau accountable.
Never wavering, Petrowicz scored his first career podium finish, earning runner-up honors just two lengths behind the speedy Riendeau. Upper Valley hot shoe Joe Tetreault was third on the night, David Thibodeau fourth, and steady Andrew Merritt went home fifth.
The LaValley Building Supply Pure Stocks again showed up in force Friday at CMP, with a field of 17 top combatants taking the green. Starting up front, Chris Chambers again showed the muscles he had flexed here two weeks ago with his Spring Fling victory.
And, like in that winning performance, he was again strongly tested Friday.Travis Handt and Ben Bushey were Chamber’; chief persuers early, with Gage Dillinghaml and Carter Conroy, both aboard rocketships, mired in traffic mid-pack.
Dillingham advanced to second on lap eight, while Conroy made it into the top five on lap 11 and then third eight go-rounds later. Still, Chambers had the hot hand on this chilly Friday night, taking the checkers a full ten lengths ahead of Dillingham. With Conroy – the points leaders entering Friday’s battle – a close third, reigning Pure Stock champ Colton Hull was fourth and Tim Taft completed the top five.
In the Mini Stocks’ first outing of the season, division super man Kyle Templeton ran a one-man race to dominate both his heat and then feature races. Templeton picked up where he’d left off last autumn, winning by a half lap over Dick LaMotte, Sean Lantas, and Andrea St. Amour.
If last week was Lane Lantas’ showcase for dominance in the JP’s Trucking Ridge Runners, it was Trevyr Young’s time to shine Friday.
Young roared to easy victories in both his heat and feature races Friday, leaving no doubt that he’ll be a force to beat all summer. Lantas backed up his week two victory with a strong runner-up effort Friday.Kyle Buck, who raced Lantas wheel-to-wheel for many laps, impressed in third, with Ehan Meyette fourth, and Konner Janovsky fifth..
Claremont’s Ethan Weed blew away the field in the first outing of the 2026 CMP Spectator Racing series. He easily romped to victory over a six car field.
Claremont Motorsports Park returns to action next Friday, May 8, with an exciting full card of NASCAR Local Racing Series presented by O’Reilly Auto Parts oval track racing. Post time at CMP is 7:00 p.m. each Friday. —
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