9/21/2024
Monadnock Speedway
2024 Season Champions Crowned Friday at Monadnock Speedway
WINCHESTER, N.H. – Monadnock Speedway crowned its 2024 season champions Friday on the first day of a huge two-event weekend at the storied high-banked oval.
Mad Dog Modified ace Tyler Leary wrapped up his second speedway championship by winning Friday’s 40-lap main event. It was the Bay State pilot’s fourth win of the season.
First-time championship winners included Super Street superstar Chris Riendeau who, like Leary, won his Friday night feature; Erin Aiken, who dominated the Mini Stocks all summer, and Andrea St. Amour, who entered Friday’s season finale a point behind Jimmy Zellman.
Six Shooter rocket man Michael Yeaton won his second championship in a row, punctuating his perfect season by winning for the 13th time in as many 2023 events.
Tyler Leary entered Friday’s Mad Dog Modified final event four points ahead of 2023 champion Nate Wenzel. Keeping his throttle foot buried to the floor, he held Wenzel at bay to score his fourth victory of the season and, with it, won his second track Modified crown, a scant half-dozen points atop the outgoing champion.
Wenzel, a five-time 2024 feature winner, finished second Friday, with potent Brad Zahensky third. Fifteen-year-old sensation Colton Martin, fourth Friday, finished his rookie Modified summer third in the points parade.
Chris Riendeau, who provided fans with some of the most exciting racing of the summer this year, won for the ninth time Friday night in the Super Street feature. It wrapped up the veteran pilot’s first career championship. An oftentimes Claremont regular, Riendeau made Monadnock his 2024 home and dominated most of the way.
Tim Wenzel, the 2023 Super Street champion, powered to second Friday on the high banks, and two-time 2024 winner Hillary Renaud was third.
Second-year Pure Stock star Dominick Stafford closed out the season with a bang, winning his third straight four-holer main event Friday. But it was Andrea St. Amour doing the most celebrating.
The Chelsea, Vermont teen had entered Friday’s season finale a point behind Jimmy Zellman but cruised to fourth while Zellman struggled to win her first-ever high banks championship. Mr. Monadnock Chris Davis was second on the night, and Stafford’s capable teammate William Graham finished third.
Owen Zilinski, who started the summer as the dominant driver in the Mad Pups, closed out his sophomore season by winning his first career Mini Stock main event. Outgoing track champ Louie Maher was second Friday, with Kevin Clayton, victorious six days earlier, finishing third. Eight-time winner Erin Aiken had clinched her first Monadnock championship last week.
As it was all summer, Michael Yeaton and Garrett Barry finished one, two in the Six Shooters. While Yeaton finished perfect on the season in feature wins, Barry was twice a heat winner. Mike Comtois, aboard Yeaton’s team car, came home third Friday.
Visiting driver Matt Robinson won Friday’s V8 Sportsman feature.
Markus O’Neil won Friday’s Mad Pup main event, with Hunter Duquette and Jordan Gonyea joining him in victory lane. .O’Neil led the youth division with a half dozen 2004 victories.
Although Friday’s Championship Night event concluded Monadnock Speedway’s ambitious 2024 Weekly Racing Series season schedule, there was still one more major event to come, as the high-banked speedplant and JDV Productions was set to host the second annual Winchester Fair huge event featuring the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour battling in a 200-lap main event atop a full card of racing on Saturday, September 21.
MONADNOCK SPEEDWAY SEPTEMBER 20 TOP PERFORMERS
MAD DOG MODIFIEDS: Tyler Leary, Nate Wenzel, Brad Zahensky, Colton Martin, JT Cloutier, Andy Major, Adam LaPoint, Eric LeClair, Kyle Robinson Newell, Kimmy Rivet.
SUPER STREETS: Chris Riendeau, Tim Wenzel, Hillary Renaud, JD Stockwell, Jared Curtis, Erik Smith, Zach Zilinski, David Boisvert, Michael Lashua, Greg Williams.
MINI STOCKS: Owen Zilinski, Louie Maher, Kevin Clayton, Reagan Buffum, Eric Pomasko, Matt Lambert.
PURE STOCKS: Dominick Stafford, Chris Davis, William Graham, Andrea St. Amour, Teagan Edson, Carlos Grenier, Addison Brooks, Ron Burgess, Jimmy Zellman, Scott Zetourney.
SIX SHOOTERS: Michael Yeaton, Garrett Barry, Mike Comtois, David Bell.
MAD PUPS: Markus O’Neil, Hunter Duquette, Jordan Gonyea, Maya Bell, Sofia Rego, Ella Grabowski.
Article Credit: Gary Dutton
Submitted By: Taylor Pelletier
