9/1/2025
Monadnock Speedway
LECLERC AND PATNODE TOP MODIFIEDS SATURDAY AT MONADNOCK
LECLERC AND PATNODE TOP MODIFIEDS SATURDAY AT MONADNOCK
Monadnock Speedway Saturday, August 30, event story
WINCHESTER, N.H. - Teen Ty Leclerc is for real and so too is a slightly older guy named Todd Patnode.The potent pair split a pair of 35-lap Modified main events Saturday night at Monadnock Speedway, with each backing up his dash to victory lane with a strong third-place performance in the second feature event.
Other winners Saturday on the high banks of the Great Race Place included Super Street hot shoe Zach Zilinski, who won for the second time this summer and Gordon Farnum, Farnum, who jumped into the Swanzey Oil ride mid-season, won for the third week in a row and fourth time this summer.
While points aren’t kept in the youth Young Guns division, 2025 will be remembered as the year of Hunter Duquette. The Bay State teen scored his track-high seventh win Saturday. And in the Six Shooters, defending track king Michael Yeaton moved to the top of the leader board with his second win of the summer.
Leclerc started up front alongside Andrew Brousseau as the Allstates Material Group 604 Modifieds went to war in the night’s first of two 35-lap features. The Taunton, Mass. star, who’d scored his first career win just three weeks earlier, jumped all over the opening lead and never looked back.
Top gun Tyler Leary raced most of the way in Leclerc’s shadow but could never find a path around the flying teen. Patnode was quickly up to Leary’s bumper but could advance no farther, settling for the bronze medal finish and setting his sights on a bigger prize in the nightcap.
With the top eight then inverted to start round number two, top points man Brian Robie, who entered Saturday night’s twins with four wins already this summer, took charge on lap two. Patnode, though, firing from row three, led by a foot as the two former champs hit the stripe on lap four and then held strong to beat Robie to the checkers by a single length. Leclerc, blasting off from row four, was strong in third.
While Robie was winless on the night, he and his potent Bar Harbor Bank and Trust ride still holds a commanding 64-point lead in the race to the 2025 604 Modified championship, with only two remaining races this season.
Michael Lashua, stronger and better every week, led the first eight laps of the Twin State Truck Services Super Street feature. Zach Zilinski, though, wasn’t about to let him get away, low-lining into the lead in turn two and then holding off a blockbuster cast to score his second win of the season.
Zilinski had to first hold off Erik Smith, and then JD Stockwell, as the presence of five-time winner Dylan Zullo moved closer and closer from his row four starting spot. Zullo rocketed into second on lap 16 but, on this night, had to settle for second, taking the checkers glued to Zilinski’s bumper as he continued his march toward a first-time title, Stockwell finished his strong night’s work in third, with two other previous 2025 winners, Chris Riendeau and Smith rounding out the top five.
Reigning Brattleboro Towing and Recovery Pure Stock champ Andrea St. Amour started up front in Saturday night’s 25-lap feature and immediately took charge. While she had a swarm of top contenders at her heels, the biggest thing to keep her from cruising into victory lane was coming like a heat-seeking missile from way back in row five.
Gobbling up positions from any lane he chose, Farnum took fourth on lap six, third on lap nine, and sailed past points leader Kyle Kenny two laps later. St. Amour was next. Taking the lead low along the front chute as lap 13 went into the books. He sped off into the sunset to win for the third week in a row.St. Amour and Carlos Grenier, staged a terrific battle for the second spot, with St. Amour prevailing to earn the runnerup hardware. Jimmy Zellman was fourth on the night, and fifth went to Addison Brooks.
Hunter Duquette made easy work of powering to win number seven in the Doug’s Auto Body Young Guns Saturday. Leading all the way in the caution-free 15-lapper, he romped to victory after earlier winning his heat. Ella Grabowski impressed in second, and Maya Bell was third.
Michael Yeaton and Travis Hollins were tied atop the Six Shooter leader board entering Saturday’s third outing of the season. Not anymore.Like he’d done a few weeks ago at Claremont, Yeaton, the reigning king of the Six Shooters on the high banks, blasted off to win by a country mile Saturday. Hollins was second, and first-timer Jeff Staiti came home third.
Monadnock Speedway will return to action next Saturday, September 6, with a huge night of racing as longtime sponsor Teddy Hebert brings his Teddy Bear Pools 2025 Triple Crown Series to town for the third and final event of the season’s three-event series.
Article Credit: Gary Dutton
Submitted By: Michelle Cloutier
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