NORTH WOODSTOCK, N.H. – In one of the quickest 100-lap races of the season at White Mountain Motorsports Park, Derek Gluchacki took down the New Hampshire Governor’s Cup 100, race number two of the Wall’s Ford Platinum Late Model Series.
White Mountain rookie points leader Ryan Ware sat on the pole with six-time King of the Mountain and defending Governor’s Cup winner Stacy Cahoon on his outside. In third started Spring Board 100 winner Gluchacki, the Wall’s Ford Platinum Series point leader.
After taking the green flag, Ware and Cahoon took the first thirteen circuits side-by-side until Cahoon finally got out in front of the rookie on lap 14. After the first caution on lap 30 for the spinning Reilly Lanphear, Cahoon and Ware again set the pace, side-by-side until the second caution on lap 39 for Ben Belanger dangerously stranded on the pit road ramp.
The Cahoon verses Ware battle continued at the restart as Kasey Beattie joined the party in third, charging on the outside of Ware for second-place. As the White Mountain masters took off, Gluchacki once again found himself in the top three by the halfway point at lap 50.
The top-10 were nose-to-tail, inches apart from one another, as the world’s fastest freight train until Mike Foster went hard into the turn three tire barrier for the third caution of the event.
The restart introduced a new policy to the ACT Sanctioned as the Lucky Dog rule was first instituted for Reilly Lanphear, being the first lap down car on the track and being returned to lead-lap status.
This time the restart was Cahoon versus the young Beattie, neck-and-neck as they sped around the White Mountain high banks. Cahoon would lead lap 65, Beattie 66, before the two got a little too rambunctious and allowed Gluchacki to power up the outside groove around them.
Followed by multi-time track champion Quinny Welch, Gluchacki was far from in the clear. As the three-car-breakaway of Gluchacki, Welch and Beattie paced the field, they stayed glued to each other around the bullring until the final caution on lap 92 for the spinning Jesse Switser in turn four.
Gluchacki would choose the outside on the restart, Welch to his drivers-side and took off to claim the New Hampshire Governor’s Cup eight short laps later.
Gluchacki is now two-for-two and solidly the Wall’s Ford Platinum Late Model Series point leader while Quinny Welch would take second on the track followed by Kasey Beattie.
Shane Sicard scored the Wells River Chevrolet Flying Tigers feature, while Jack Hayes earned the Woodsville Guaranty Savings Bank Strictly Stock Minis victory.