Cole Robie scores first stock car win in GSPSS Keen Parts 100

Cole Robie’s transition from Legends ace to full-bodied stock car racer has drawn plenty of attention over the past two years. And with attention has come plenty of criticism.

But at Monadnock Speedway, the third-generation driver was finally able to showcase his potential.

Robie put on a clinic to win the Keen Parts 100, stifling a late charge by close friend Casey Call to win his first stock car race under the Granite State Pro Stock Series banner.

“We finally came out and got a win,” Robie said. “We busted our ass for this.”

The fifth race of the GSPSS season returned the series to one of its original haunts, a track that had been missing from the schedule since 2022. With the speedway repaved in late 2023, those teams with experience in the several GSPSS races staged on Monadnock’s old surface found their notebooks wiped clean, putting the racers on a fairly equal slate.

Robie, with a recently-repaired car and a NELCAR Legends win at Monadnock in 2024, was ready to take advantage.

The Windham, Me. rookie bounced up and down the grid in qualifying, setting the pace in time trials, then nudged down the running order in his heat, only to return to the front row via the post-qualifying invert. Fellow Pro Stock rookie Connor McDougal, in only his second GSPSS start, rolled off on the pole with Robie alongside.

McDougal led the first few laps, but Robie drove around him to take the lead only five laps in. With the inside line promising the most speed, Robie hugged the curbs to show the way as Jeremy Sorel and others trapped in the outside line plummeted through the field.

Local racer Joe Kendall was the first driver to be bitten by “Mad Dog,” spinning in turn four with 20 laps on the board. Kendall recovered, but jammed up traffic as he pulled back onto the track, slowing Eddie MacDonald and jumbling the top five. A few laps later, Mike Mitchell lost it in the same corner, drawing the first caution of the evening.

Adam Gray, who had charged from ninth on the grid to third, peeled off for the pits under caution, moving McDougal back to third for the restart. McDougal kept pace with Robie and Casagrande, but a bobble on the backstretch and contact with the guardrail ended his promising night early.

As Robie set a quick pace out front, all eyes were on Call as he worked forward from an 11th-place starting position. The defending GSPSS champion ran down Casagrande for second, making the pass just before halfway. And as Robie caught the tail of the field, Call began chasing down his fellow Legends graduate.

Robie had the race well in hand in the closing laps when “Mad Dog” bit again, this time sending sixth-place Evan Beaulieu for a spin. Jeremy Sorel was caught up in the aftermath as the yellow flew with three laps to go.

Suddenly, Robie’s race-long advantage was erased, and Call was in position to steal his first GSPSS win since 2023.

But Robie jumped ahead at the start, and while Call could get close, it would take a bump to get past Robie.

Instead, the rookie held on for his first GSPSS win, his first victory in a full-sized stock car after making the move last season.

With Robie’s crew chief working with another driver at the IWK 250 in Nova Scotia, his road crew had put in the effort to be prepared.

“We came here Wednesday and tested, and got the car dialed,” Robie said. “We just trusted it. We trusted it all day. We didn’t do too much, we did a turn here, a turn here, nothing crazy. We were like, ‘The car’s gonna be good.’ We went out and the car was good. I can’t thank the crew enough, especially my dad for doing all this for me.”

Call’s runner-up finish was only his second top-five result of the year after a challenging start to his title defense.

“This year has just been rough for us,” Call said. “Shock problems were ultimately our biggest problem. We got our shocks redone, huge thanks to Jerry Babb for doing one set, and we had another guy out west…he fixed our shocks on the car we brought tonight, and it’s a huge turnaround in our program.

“We were about ready to throw the towel in for a little bit here, and we decided, let’s hunker down and figure this thing out. We never quit, and the don’t-quit attitude is what gives you the results. Without my dad, I definitely would not be where I am tonight.”

On fresh, slick pavement with passing expected to be at a premium, Call defied expectations with his charge through the field.

“Today we weren’t even great until feature time,” he said. “We threw the kitchen sink at it, and had to start 11th, which kinda hurt me a little bit, but worked my way through the field and got to second. That last restart, I decided to let it all hang loose with Cole, and had a really fun race. That was a good time.”

Casagrande held on for third, his best GSPSS result of 2025. Eddie MacDonald shook off his early trouble with lapped traffic to post a fourth-place finish in his second start of the year for car owner Dale Drew. Ryan Green, who pulled off his first GSPSS win last year at Riverside Speedway, was fifth.

Sixth went to Wayne Helliwell, Jr., who finished a GSPSS race for the first time since winning the season opener. Bobby Baillargeon was seventh. Beaulieu, who led the points entering the evening, limped his car home in eighth with suspension damage from his late-race spin. Fellow Mainer Josh St. Clair was ninth. American-Canadian Tour veteran and Monadnock alumnus Tom Carey III, making his first GSPSS start in a car purchased from David Gilliland Racing, rounded out the top ten.

Beaulieu’s bobble proved costly in the points standings, too, as Robie slipped ahead of last year’s championship runner-up by two points with half the season complete.

It’s another step forward for the sixteen-year-old who has earned both accolades and acrimony in the last year. While winning five NELCAR Legends races and the series championship last season, Robie tested the stock car waters, running ACT-style Late Model weekly features at Star Speedway. Robie finished third in his second career GSPSS start at Riverside Speedway last August. He also drew ire in Pro All Stars Series races at Star Speedway and White Mountain Motorsports Park, earning a time-out for his involvement in a grinding crash at WMMP.

This year, Robie has shown growth, again taking home top-five and top-ten performances in his GSPSS starts. He has also drawn criticism at times. The criticism came to a head at Star in June, when another driver backed over his car under caution in retaliation for earlier contact.

Robie’s winning car Saturday was the one that was cleaned out in dramatic fashion only a month ago.

“We had the PASS Star race,” he said of the incident. “The wreck happened at 4:56 in the afternoon. And by midnight, the car was stripped down in the trailer, ready to go to Canada the next morning. We got the car back and we’ve just been dialing it in ever since. I can’t thank the guys at King Competition enough for getting this car absolutely perfect for me.”

Call, the 2018 NELCAR Legends champion, was one of the first to celebrate with Robie at Monadnock.

“A lot of people rag on him and they don’t see what I see,” he said of Robie. “Cole’s out in the shop working on his own stuff. So I have a lot of respect for him. He’s never done me dirty. Dueling it out with him was an absolute riot. That was fun. There’s not a lot of people I want to do that with with two to go.”

A bump-and-run, then, was never in Call’s late-race playbook.

“For $30,000, yeah, I think I’d move my grandmother for $30,000,” he said, laughing. “But no. I won’t jack [Robie] up. There’s not a lot of guys I will. I don’t race that way. I was not raised to race that way. And Cole, I respect him a lot. I respect what he does. I’m a true believer in what goes around comes around, and I expect the same from him, unless there’s $30 grand on the line.”

In winning a touring series race, Robie is already a step ahead of the family legacy. Robie’s grandfather Carleton was a journeyman in ACT’s Pro Stock era, making 19 starts between 1994 and 1996 with the NASCAR Busch North Series. Robie’s father Jarod followed a similar path in the late 1990s, making a handful of starts in the Southeast with a NASCAR Truck Series start to his credit in 2003.

Neither earned a touring win in any of New England’s major series.

Robie has one already. Whether the second comes easily or not remains to be seen.

Unofficial Results
Granite State Pro Stock Series | Keen Parts 100
Monadnock Speedway, Winchester, N.H.
1. (29) Cole Robie
2. (90NH) Casey Call
3. (7CT) Cory Casagrande
4. (50) Eddie MacDonald
5. (93) Ryan Green
6. (27NH) Wayne Helliwell, Jr.
7. (82) Bobby Baillargeon
8. (56) Evan Beaulieu
9. (14) Josh St. Clair
10. (5MA) Tom Carey III
11. (77) Cam Curtis
12. (81) Dan Winter
13. (7) Jeremy Sorel
14. (48) Mike Mitchell
15. (8) Connor McDougal
16. (29MA) Adam Gray
17. (62) Joe Kendall

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