While Gabe Brown has been dominant on the Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour in 2026, his outings with the Pro All Stars Series have been more about near misses.
For once, it turned out close was good enough.
A rules infraction uncovered at the tech shed following Sunday’s PASS North 150-lapper at Oxford Plains Speedway turned Brown’s third second-place finish into his first win of the season.
The Center Conway, N.H. contender is one of two drivers who have run every race between the Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour and the PASS North Super Late Model Series. Brown fields his own ACT entries from his family shop, while preparing cars for car owner Bobby Webber, Jr. in PASS. Five races in, Brown has three wins and a commanding lead in the ACT standings.
His PASS season, on the other hand, has been up and down. In four races entering Sunday’s rain-postponed showdown, two second-place finishes were offset by an early exit at White Mountain Motorsports Park and a heartbreaking finish at New Hampshire Motor Speedway where his alternator failed while leading with two laps to go.
The season’s first race at PASS’ home track, then, was a chance for Brown to close the deal. Brown honed his stock car skills at Oxford as a rookie, and earned his first career PASS and ACT wins there in 2022 and 2023.
Brown started on the pole and led the first 95 laps of Sunday’s race to set the tone. But Alexendre Tardif was hot in pursuit of the former ACT and Granite State Pro Stock Series champion. “Fireball,” a recent weekly feature winner at Oxford, took command of the race on lap 96, leaving Brown to fend off Joey Doiron for second.
After a lightning-fast 41-minute feature, Tardif celebrated what appeared to be his first career PASS North win. But just off turn two, the young Quebecer’s win was negated.
PASS’ usual policy is not to disclose cause for disqualifications, but unofficial indications were that the infraction was not mechanical in nature.
Brown, who crossed the line over six seconds back, was awarded the trophy instead.
Brown’s first PASS win of the year is his fifth career PASS North victory and his third at Oxford. It is also Brown’s first win for car owner Webber, who last won in PASS with driver Rusty Poland in 2024 at Star Speedway, the track Webber’s family has owned for the last four decades.
Doiron, who started ninth, inherited the runner-up slot for his best finish of 2026. Following a 16th-place run at New Hampshire Motor Speedway to start the PASS North schedule in April, Doiron has finished no worse than eighth as he seeks his first win of the year.
Johnny Clark was credited with a third-place finish, with D.J. Shaw fourth in the final results rundown. Connecticut’s Tom Abele, Jr. scored a career-best fifth.
Garrett Hall, Derek Griffith, Brandon Barker, Jimmy Renfrew, Jr. and Trevor Sanborn rounded out the top ten.
Sunday’s race, on the heels of a 125-lap Saturday-night feature won by Renfrew, comes as the series ramps up for next week’s Celebration of America 300, one of the longest races on the PASS calendar. Brown has won the PASS 400, a similar endurance race run under a different format, but has not checked off the 300-lapper on his list of superlatives.
A successful 150-lap practice can’t hurt his chances.
Unofficial Results
PASS North | PASS 150
Oxford Plains Speedway, Oxford, Me.
1. (47) Gabe Brown
2. (73D) Joey Doiron
3. (54) Johnny Clark
4. (60) D.J. Shaw
5. (32CT) Tom Abele, Jr.
6. (94) Garrett Hall
7. (12G) Derek Griffith
8. (32) Brandon Barker
9. (00R) Jimmy Renfrew, Jr.
10. (44) Trevor Sanborn
11. (29R) Cole Robie
12. (13R) Evan Roy
13. (12V) Brandon Varney
14. (10) Kate Re
15. (09R) Sylas Ripley
16. (60B) Tim Brackett
17. (41) Logan Melcher
18. (01C) Steven Chicoine
19. (56) Michaël Lavoie
20. (07W) Brody Whorff
21. (25) Shawn Knight
22. (5VT) Pat Corbett
DQ (21QC) Alexendre Tardif
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