8/19/2024
Monadnock Speedway
Super Street Summer Shootout to Riendeau at Monadnock
By Gary Dutton
WINCHESTER, N.H. – Super Street ace Chris Riendeau made the move of the night Saturday at Monadnock Speedway then held on to nip Geoff Rollins in the night’s main event, the 50-lap Super Street Summer Shootout at the storied high-banked oval.
Mad Dog Modified kingpin Nate Wenzel kept his repeat championship hopes alive, if barely on life support, by winning Saturday’s 40-lap nightcap for his fourth win of the summer, and Mini Stock hot shoe Erin Aiken did what she’s done for most of the summer, winning for the seventh time.
Andrea St. Amour boosted her championship chances Saturday, winning the Pure Stock feature in a loaner car, her stepdad Chris Chambers’ ride. With St. Amour’s own car heavily damaged two nights earlier at Claremont, Chambers, who entered Saturday’s competition third in points, surrendered his own 2024 title aspirations so that she might achieve hers.
On a night of repeat winners aplenty, Mad Pup Hunter Duquette won his fourth feature of the summer, and Michael Yeaton stayed perfect on the year as he scored his track-high tenth 2024 Six Shooter feature victory.
Robert Hagar and Hillary Renaud led the 15-car Super Street field to the green as the night’s 50-lap main event went green. Hagar blasted into the opening lead and by lap five had rock star Chris Riendeau riding in his shadow.
Hagar held his close advantage for 13 laps, with Riendeau frustrated over and over as the top of the track narrowed. Then, on a lap 14 restart, he made his second head-shaking move of the summer, swooping high into turn three, hammering the pedals, and then rocketing low under Hagar and Trevor Rocke to take the lead.
Geoff Rollins, making his first run of the summer on the high banks, has won numerous main events here in the past. He came fully prepared Saturday to add the Super Street Summer Shootout to that list. Up to third on lap 23, he charged into second on the 37th go-round and then finished under a blanket with Riendeau.
Saving his best for late in the race, Cabana Boy Justin Beecher impressed in third, with Rocke and Hagar rounding out the top five.
JT Cloutier – scoring his second fast time in as many weeks Saturday – and Kimmy Rivet sat on row one as the Mad Dog Modifieds went to war. Right behind them rode super rookie Colton Martin and Trevor Bleau; four talented chauffeurs each gunning for their first win of the summer.
It was Cloutier by inches on lap one, then Rivet, but a lap four restart worked perfectly for defending track champ Nate Wenzel. Blasting into the lead, he never looked back. If he had, he’d have seen Rivet glued to his bumper every inch of the way before scoring her season-best runner-up finish. Brad Zahensky, from row five, got up for third on lap 11, then held strong for his podium finish.
The Pure Stock feature was all Andrea St. Amour. Taking the lead on a lap-two restart, she never let up en route to victory aboard the Chris Chambers car and, with it, ending the night 14 markers atop the points parade over fifth place Jimmy Zellman.
Supersoph Dominick Stafford came up one spot shy of his second win of the season, with William Graham finishing at his bumper in third. Addison Brooks impressed on the fourth Saturday, with Zellman, on an off-night, coming home fifth.
Erin Aiken put on a clinic again Saturday, romping to her seventh Mini Stock win of the summer on the high banks. Defending track champ Louie Maher led the first eight laps, with Aiken then edging ahead. Maher stayed with her the next handful of laps, but by lap 19 she led by a full straight.
Her Saturday night victory – it was her 19th overall this season, coming in two different divisions across four unique tracks – gave her a 72-marker advantage atop the championship leaderboard. Maher was second on the night, and Kevin Clayton came home third.
Hunter Duquette won for the second week in a row in the 12- to 15-year-old Mad Pup division. It was his fourth victory of the summer. While Duquette won with ease Saturday, Markus O’Neil and Jordon Gonyea put on a great battle behind him, with O’Neil prevailing to earn the runner-up hardware.
Six Shooter king Michael Yeaton is still perfect on the summer, rocketing to his tenth victory in ten events Saturday. Garrett Barry, in perhaps a preview of things still to come, finished only two lengths behind Yeaton in Saturday’s 25-lapper.
Monadnock Speedway will roar back into action next Saturday, August 24, when JDV Productions opens the doors for Back To School Night presented by Savings Bank of Walpole. The thrilling Mad Dog Modifieds will lead a full six-division racing card on the high banks. Post time is 6 p.m.
MONADNOCK SPEEDWAY AUGUST 17 TOP PERFORMERS
SUPER STREET SUMMER SHOWDOWN 50 LAP: Chris Riendeau, Geoff Rollins, Justin Beecher, Trevor Rocke, Robert Hagar, JD Stockwell, Zach Zilinski, Erik Smith, Tim Wenzel, Hillary Renaud.
MAD DOG MODIFIED 40 LAP: Nate Wenzel, Kimmy Rivet, Brad Zahensky, Tyler Leary, Cory Plummer, Trevor Bleau, Colton Martin, Kevin Pittzinger, JT Cloutier, Adam Lapoint.
PURE STOCK: Andrea St. Amour, Dominick Stafford, Billy Graham, Addison Brooks, Jimmy Zellman, Owen Zilinski, Carlos Grenier.
MINI STOCK: Erin Aiken, Louie Maher, Kevin Clayton, Gordon Farnum, Eric Pomasko, Dylan Quinn.
MAD PUPS: Hunter Duquette, Markus O’Neil, Jordon Gonyea, Carter Conroy, Nathan Waterman, Sofia Rego, Ella Grabowski, Maya Bell.
SIX SHOOTER: Michael Yeaton, Garrett Barry, Eric Prescott.
Article Credit: Gary Dutton
Submitted By: Taylor Pelletier
