8/25/2025
Monadnock Speedway
JARVIS WINS FIRST IN MODS, SUPER STREETS TO ZULLO AT MONADNOCK
Monadnock Speedway Saturday, August 23, event story
WINCHESTER, N.H. - Add Joey Jarvis to the long list of first-time Modified feature winners at the Great Race Place.The second-generation hot shoe held off the best in the business to win Saturday night’s 604 Modified main event at Monadnock Speedway.
Super Street ace Dylan Zullo, also a generation star, moved closer to his first divisional championship by topping his Saturday night feature, and Super Modified blaster George Helliwell won his second SMAC 350 main event of the summer here on Back To School Night on the high banks.
Cameron Sontag won the Mini Stock feature, Gordon Farnum scored his third win of the summer in the Pure Stocks, and up-and-coming teen speedster Sofia Rego won for the first time in the Young Guns on Saturday.
Jarvis, no stranger to victory lane but still seeking his first Modified win at Monadnock entering Saturday’s 40-lap feature, comes from a storied pedigree of Green Mountain State racers. Following in the footsteps of dad Peter, and uncles Dwight and Victor, he led all the way Saturday to score the win with Brian Robie glued to his bumper.
To earn the win, he held off the all-out challenges of previous 2025 All States Material Group Modified winners Brousseau, Leclerc, Patnode and then Robie. Trying the top groove lap after lap, the speedway’s top points man had to settle for second, inches behind the first-time winner. Patnode’s big night aboard his Swanzey Oil ride brought him home third.
SMAC’s Helliwell, setting a Monadnock lap record for 350 Super Mods at a mind-bending 11.348 seconds, started the night’s 50-lap main event up front and rocketed off to win by a country mile.
“I hate to lose, and I’ve done a lot of it,” Helliwell quipped in victory lane. At Monadnock Speedway, though, all he’s done is win. Along with his Saturday speed record, he was perfect at two-for-two this summer on the high banks. Matt Seavey kept him in sight to finish second Saturday, and Matt Riley was third.
Erik Smith led early in the Twin State Truck Services Super Street feature but top gun Dylan Zullo, who’d settled for second a week earlier, wanted more. Charging to the front from the top groove on lap five, Zullo took the lead and quickly sped off into the night to solidify his spot atop the points parade.
Chris Riendeau, victorious seven days before, worked his way through the strong field to claim second on lap 24 but, by then, Zullo was far ahead. Smith finished his impressive performance in third, with JD Stockwell and Hillary Renaud completing the potent top five. After a post race inspection, Reindeau was disqualified for an upper control arm infraction placing Zilinski into fifth.
Kevin Clayton, and then Dick Lamotte, both set a fast pace early in the Fabian Fuels Mini Stock feature but Cameron Sontag took charge on lap 13 and never looked back en route to the top prize in the high speed rear-wheel versus front-wheel-drive battle for the win.
With Sontag making Saturday’s night’s win look easy, Owen Zilinski blasted into second on the final lap to edge Louie Maher for the runner-up hardware. Timmy Paquette was fourth on the night, and Kevin Clayton - he the division’s champ a quarter century ago - came home fifth.
Saturday night’s win moved Sontag up to second in the 2025 points chase, now only four markers behind John Fultz, who finished pitside for 14th on the night.
Markus O’Neil was first to the front in the Brattleboro Towing and Recovery Pure Stock feature, but Kyle Kenny - victorious with ease the night before at Claremont - was shooting for a weekend sweep, And, back in row four, Gordon Farnum had plans of his own.
Kenny took the lead on lap five, bringing Dominick Stafford with him, and Farnum seized third the next time around. Diving under a turn-four lapper on the 21st go-round, Farnum was back where he’d finished a week earlier, at the front and off to his appointed stop in victory lane.
With Kenny and Stafford both rock solid to complete the top three, 2024 high banks champ Andrea St. Amour rebounded from two in-race brush-ups to come home fourth, and Chris Chambers was fifth.
Sofia Rego, who wrecked a month ago in a Doug’s Auto Body Young Guns event, is getting used to her new ride. In fact, she has it fully figured out. Saturday, the teen pilot swept both her heat and feature races to score her first win. Previous 2025 winners Maya Bell and Hunter Duquette were second and third,
Monadnock Speedway returns to action next Saturday, August 30, with the 604 Modifieds going to battle in twin 35-lap main events atop a five-division card of racing. Post time at New England’s fastest quarter-mile oval is 6 p.m.
Article Credit: Gary Dutton
Submitted By: Michelle Cloutier
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