N. WOODSTOCK, N.H. — Thirty Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour Late Models entered the pits at White Mountain Motorsports Park on Saturday afternoon and all 30 started the 8th annual Milton CAT Midsummer Classic 250.
Former King of the Mountain track champion Kasey Beattie earned the pole in Plus/Minus qualifying with a +6 in heat three with eight-time ACT champion Brian Hoar to his outside. The two battled hard at the onset before Beattie took off with the lead in the early goings.
The lap-100 fuel stop quickly gave way to a mad dash to the pit area for fresh Hoosier Racing Tires with Beattie, Nick Sweet, Bryan Mason and Hoar opting to stay out and play the strategy game.
Sweet took off with the lead over Beattie following the break before Raphael Lessard powered up through the field to steal the lead on lap 120.
After the lap 154 caution, Kaiden Fisher entered the picture with the two young stars putting on one of the best side-by-side performances in recent memory on the White Mountain high banks.
Everything came unglued under the popsicle sticks on lap 248 as third-place runner Jesse Switser and Fisher made sliding contact to spin in turn three. It set up a green-white-checker finish between Lessard and D.J. Shaw with Lessard launching under the green flag and taking the $10,000 win over Shaw and Derek Gluchacki.
Jason Woodard won the Flying Tiger feature.
The finish:
Raphael Lessard, D.J. Shaw, Derek Guluchacki, Erick Sands, Nick Sweet, Jimmy Renfrew Jr., Jamie Swallow Jr., Kasey Beattie, Ryan Kuhn, Joey Polewarczyk, Kaiden Fisher, Jesse Switser, Jonathan Bouvrette, Brian Hoar, Alexandre Tardif, Jeremy Davis, Bryan Mason, Chase Curtis, Justin Storace, Shawn Swallow, Cole Littlewood, Christopher Pelkey, Jimmy Hebert, Remi Perreault, Justin Prescott, Tanner Woodard, Tom Carey III, Gabe Brown, Scott Dragon, Brandon Lambert.
