NORTH WOODSTOCK, N.H. — The Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour brought 26 quality machines to battle for 250 laps Saturday night with Jake Johnson claiming the victory.
D.J. Shaw, the only multi-time winner of the Milton CAT Midsummer Classic 250, earned the pole position with Thunder Road hot-shoe Justin Prescott to his outside. Shaw led the majority of the early goings, slowed by several single-car spins en-route to the lap 100 competition caution for fuel only.
Following the fuel stop, every car except for Prescott and Brian Hoar jumped pitside for adjustments and fresh Hoosier Racing Tires with Shaw winning the race off pit road over Jake Johnson, Gabe Brown and Stephen Martin.
Prescott held the early advantage but Shaw again rocketed to the front on the return to green, fending off eight-time ACT champion Brian Hoar until once again running away on lap 109. In the meantime Jesse Switser joined the conversation out front, running side-by-side with Shaw and taking the lead on the lap 219 restart.
Switser looked to take another Milton CAT $10,000 check until his right front let go with just twelve laps remaining leaving Jake Johnson, Brandon Gray, Shaw and Kaiden Fisher to finish out the show.
Johnson ran away with the restart lead, keeping pace just ahead of Gray through the final 12 circuits to claim his first career Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour win in the Milton CAT Midsummer Classic 250. Brandon Gray took home second with Kaiden Fisher coming home third.
Luke Peters won the Flying Tiger feature and Lucas Sidney prevailed in the strictly mini class.
The finish:
Jake Johnson, Brandon Gray, Kaiden Fisher, D.J. Shaw, Jonathan Bouvrette, Justin Prescott, Ryan Kuhn, Brian Hoar, Christopher Pelkey, Stephen Martin, Aaron Fellows, Cole Littlewood, Jesse Switser, Gabe Brown, Kyle Goodbout, Justin Storace, Matt Anderson, Brandon Lambert, Geoff Rollins, Nick Sweet, Ryan Morgan, Remi Perreault, Derek Gluchacki, Marcel Gravel, Jeff Cote, Erick Sands.
