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MESERVEY, RIENDEAU AND FARNUM WIN SATURDAY AT MONADNOCK

Monadnock Speedway Saturday, August 16, event story

WINCHESTER, N.H. - Third-generation open-wheel ace Brett Meservey dominated Saturday night’s 75-lap MRS Modified main event at Monadnock Speedway, as the Bay State blaster - last summer’s series’ Rookie of The Year- led 63 of the last 64 laps en route to his first career MRS win.

With Saturday’s break-through victory, Meservey stayed atop the series’ air-tight 2025 championship points race - he came into the night’s event only four markers ahead of Brian Robie, third in Saturday’s 75-lapper - and, with the win, secured a guaranteed starting berth in Thompson Speedway’s Race Of Champions biggie set for later this season at the Nutmeg State oval.

Other winners Saturday on the high banks of Monadnock Speedway included Chris Riendeau, the quarter-mile speedplant’s reigning Super Street champion, who put his sluggish 2025 campaign back in high gear by soaring to his first win of the summer, and four-holer star Gordon Farnum, victorious for the second time this month.

Aaron Thompson rebounded from a mid-race drubbing to top the Pro V8 Sportsmen,

Young Gun dominator Hunter Duquette earned his sixth victory lap of the summer, and Hayden Kingsley won the visiting 603 Mini Cup series Saturday night feature.

Ryan Doucette and Joey Jarvis led the thundering Modified Racing Series field to the green Saturday, with Doucette immediately taking charge, Previous series winner Matt Kimball, from row two, was close behind and rocketed up to second on lap five.

Meservey, who’d started alongside Kimball, blasted to the deuce spot four laps later, but Kimball wasn’t done. Meservey took command on lap 11, with Kimball blasting back to second six circuits later. And the chase was on.

While the 24-year-old Meservey would be strongly tested most of the way, he never wavered en route to his first MRS feature win. Kimball inched ahead on a lap-18 restart but Meservey was soon back at the point and, once in clean air, was unbeatable on this Saturday night.

Brian Robie, the points leader in Monadnock’s weekly 604 Modified division, was up to third on lap 28 aboard a new tour car completed only earlier in the day but could advance no further as he settled for Saturday’s bronze medal finish behind Meservey and Kimball. Joey Jarvis, strong all night, finished fourth at his 2025 home track, and Brad Zahensky was fifth.

Michael Lashua, stronger and better every week, led the first five go-rounds of Saturday’s 30-lap Twin State Truck Services Super Street main event. Chris Riendeau, though, firing from row three, took charge on lap six and quickly opened a huge lead.

While Riendeau, fully shaking off his summer-long slumber, raced all alone, points leader Dylan Zullo, from way back in row five, passed Zach Zilinski for second but ran out of laps pursuing the blazing Riendeau.

With Zullo padding his 2025 championship points lead in second, Zilinski impressed in third, just ahead of Hillary Renaud. JD Stockwell, second in points entering Saturday’s event, finished the night as an infield spectator, credited with a disappointing 11th.

There were two levels of competition in Saturday’s Brattleboro Towing and Recovery Pure Stock feature. There was Gordon Farnum, and then far behind him, everyone else, with some terrific battles for position waged from green to checkers in the one-caution 25-lapper.

Farnum, from row two, took charge on lap three and rocketed off into another time zone to win for the second time this season. Behind him, early leader Addison Brooks, bidding for her first win, held a perfect line until being bumpered aside on the final lap.

Andrea St. Amour finished second, with Brooks inches behind in third. Jimmy Zellman, the winner a week earlier, was fourth, and points leader Kyle Kenny completed the top five.

Mikey Bollinger took the lead on lap four of the Pro V8 Sportsman feature, with Aaron Thompson soon glued to his bumper. Thompson, though, was ushered to the outside lane on lap 14, his hope for victory then suddenly in doubt,

Thompson low-lined back to the front on lap 17, taking the lead from Seth Lamotte and sailing off into the sunset to score a popular victory at his former weekly track. Lamotte held strong for second, and Wollinger finished third.

Racers in the speedway’s youth division Young Guns don’t compete for points but if they did, Hunter Duquette would be well on his way to the 2025 title town, The Thorndike, Mass. teen led all the way Saturday to score his track-high sixth win of the summer. Maya Bell, victorious a week earlier, was second, and Sofia Rego, shaking down a new ride, came home third.

In the visiting 603 Mini Cups, a division equally powered by motors from Harbor Freight, Hayden Kingsley won by six lengths over Jacob Raby, who rebounded from a mid-race thumping to come home second. Kendall Whitehill was third on the night.

Monadnock Speedway returns to action next Saturday, August 23, when New England’s fastest quarter-mile oval will host Back to School Night, with the SMAC Tour 350 Super Modified series making it second stop of the summer on the high banks, along with the exciting 604 Modifieds atop a big six division card of racing. Post time is 6 p.m.

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