BARRE, Vt. — The King of the Road honors came down to the 65-lap Maplefield/Irving Late Model feature to cap off the championship season at Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl.
Darrell Morin and Taylor Hoar led the charge, side-by-side at the head of the pack until Morin took full control of the field on lap 12. Shortly behind, Phil Scott and Chip Grenier’s battle for third began to break away with Justin Prescott, Jason Corliss and Marcel Gravel taking advantage on the outside groove. Kaiden Fisher, staring down his track championship, found himself mired in heavy traffic as Morin faced a heavy onslaught from Corliss.
With laps winding down, Morin held his own against the three-time former champion Corliss while Marcel Gravel looking to make up ground nearly a straight-away back.
Morin kept the hammer down to his third career Maplefield/Irving Late Model victory at The Road followed by Corliss and Gravel across the line. By taking the green, Fisher became the youngest King of the Road on record at just 16-years-old, overtaking Derrick O’Donnell’s 2013 Late Model championship as a 23-year-old and Joey ‘The Kid’ Kourafas’s 1974 championship at 21.
Fisher’s championship run also makes for just the third father/son King of the Road tradition, joining Joey Laquerre and Joey Jr. and Bobby and Scott Dragon on the 65-year-old list.
The Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tigers event saw Brandon Gray score his eighth win of the season. He clinched the title a week prior.
The Burnett Scrap Metals Road Warriors featured Neal Foster winning. Rk Miles Street Stock action saw Trevor Jaques win with Dean Switser Jr. scoring the championship.