Todd Stone Takes the Checkers at White Mountain
Woodstock, NH – Todd Stone of Middlebury, VT. took the checkers at the White Mountain 100 on Saturday night. In practice and the scuff sessions, veteran to the track, DJ Shaw of Center Conway, NH posted the fastest times. Wayne Helliwell Jr. of Dover, NH who has run well in the ACT Series posted some of the fastest times as well.
The feature saw Helliwell Jr. on the pole, and Luke Hinkley of Claremont, NH started on the outside to start the race. The early part of the race saw Helliwell take an early lead for the first twenty laps of the race. Eventually, Shaw would take the lead and hold it until lap 40 when the caution flew. Shaw and Hinkley made contact on the backstretch sending the 31NH car up the pit road in a wild ride with the car ending up on top of the pit wall, ending his night early.
On the restart, tone took the lead followed by Mike O’Sullivan of Springfield, MA. Shaw managed to fix his car and make his way back up the field, by lap 50 he was back in the top five. Barry Gray of Belchertown, MA the 2016 Granite State Pro Stock Series also managed to stay in the top five.
In the ensuing laps O’Sullivan stayed close to Stone, however, Helliwell was close behind, and passed O’Sullivan on lap 81 taking second. Helliwell made several bids to take the lead from Stone unsuccessfully as they crossed the finish line.
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Unofficial Finish
1 1X Todd Stone
2 08 Mike O’Sullivan
3 60 DJ Shaw
4 29 Barry Gray
5 7 Cory Casagrande
6 39 Nick Lascuola
7 96 Wyatt Alexander
8 01 Sammy Gooden
9 1VT Jeremy Davis
10 7oz Grant Aither
11 40 Mike Mitchell
12 4 Tommy O’Sullivan
13 72 Scott MacMichael
14 10 Jimmy Zullo
15 23 Glenn Martel
16 1NH Luke Hinkley
17 43 Devin O’Connell
18 93 Ryan Green
19 27 Wayne Helliwell *
* Disqualified to Unapproved Changes in a Pit Stop
Contingency Winner Car # Name
AR Bodies (Hard Luck): 31NH Luke Hinkley
O’Reilly Auto Parts (3rd Place): 60 DJ Shaw
O’Reilly Auto Parts (Last Car on the Lead Lap): 39 Nick Lascuola
Five Star Bodies 5th Place: 7 Cory Casagrande
Sunoco Heat Winner: 29 Barry Gray
Sunoco Heat Winner: 60 DJ Shaw
VDL Fuel 4th Place: 29 Barry Gray
Race Parts NH Hard Charger: 7 Cory Casagrande
Track: White Mountain Motorsports Park .25 mile Woodstock, NH
Race- White Mountain 100
Time of Race- 58:09.9
Best Lap Time- 12.285
Best Lap By- DJ Shaw
Cautions- (11) 21, 38, 40, 43, 45
Margin of Victory- 0.353
Lap Leaders- (3) Wayne Helliwell 20, DJ Shaw 20, Todd Stone 60
Sources: Mike Parks/GSPSS PR
Lin Mat Photo