Doiron steals GSPSS Oktoberfest 125 win, while Robie earns series crown

Last fall, Joey Doiron hobbled around the Lee USA Speedway infield in a walking boot.

This year, he stomped the field.

The two-time Granite State Pro Stock Series champion scored his second series win of 2025 Sunday evening with a dominant drive in the season-ending Oktoberfest 125.

And while Doiron celebrated his fifth touring win of the year, fellow Mainer Cole Robie was enshrined in the GSPSS record books as the series’ 12th different champion.

Sunday’s season finale, the headliner of the third day of Russ Conway’s Oktoberfest, capped off a ten-race battle for the GSPSS championship. Rookie Robie only needed to take the green flag to mathematically clinch the crown, no matter what heroics Evan Beaulieu could muster.

But the path to the race win went through a battery of ringers, headed by Doiron, who won the first of three races at Lee for the New Hampshire-headquartered series.

Lee is statistically one of Doiron’s best tracks. But last year, the Berwick, Me. veteran was sidelined by a broken foot, the result of a home mishap that kept Doiron out of the seat for a couple weeks.

This year, Doiron clocked in fourth in time trials, with Jeremy Sorel setting fast time on the board. Doiron quickly made his way to the front, with familiar foe Jimmy Renfrew, Jr. giving chase.

Renfrew, who dominated July’s Iron Sight 125 before fading late in the run, took advantage of an early-race skirmish to stay in contention, keeping Doiron honest in the middle of the race. The recently-crowned Lee track champion seemed poised to atone for the late-race error that cost him his first GSPSS win since 2022.

As Renfrew closed in on Doiron, Doiron picked up the pace, keeping his rival at bay.

Defending Oktoberfest winner Eddie MacDonald closed in on Renfrew in the final stages, using a late restart to slip by the New Hampshire native for second.

But “The Outlaw” had no answer for Doiron, who took the checkered flag 0.875 seconds ahead of MacDonald to pick up his second GSPSS win of 2025.

Renfrew held on for third, with Sorel’s fourth place finish marking the best Lee effort since 2022 for the Westfield, Mass. racer. Dave Farrington, Jr., who narrowly dodged disaster early in the race, secured a season-best fifth-place finish.

Joey Polewarczyk finished sixth after struggling two weeks ago in Lee’s Keen Parts 150. Ryan Green, piloting Doiron’s 2022 title-winning ride in his first race back from a grinding crash at Star Speedway earlier in September, matched his car number for the night with a seventh-place finish. Local racer Frankie Eldredge matched his best run of the year in eighth, with Robie and Cory Casagrande rounding out the top ten.

Doiron’s win was his ninth career GSPSS victory, tying him with Polewarczyk for second on the series’ all-time win list. Only multi-time PASS champion D.J. Shaw, who won at Claremont Motorsports Park, has more wins than the two former champions. Doiron also leads all GSPSS drivers with four wins at “New Hampshire’s Center of Speed.”

But while Doiron celebrated his own milestones, ninth-place Robie had a celebration of his own. In his first full GSPSS season, the Windham, Me. team came away with the season-long points championship, besting Beaulieu by 60 points in the final tally.

Robie entered the weekend with a 50-point lead, meaning he would have to fail to start the race – and Beaulieu would have to win – just to tie in the standings, at which point Beaulieu would have three wins to Robie’s one.

But the 17-year-old timed in fifth, securing his first stock car championship a year after earning a title with the NELCAR Legends, the series that also developed reigning champion Casey Call. Beaulieu’s 14th-place performance Sunday evening was altogether moot.

In ten starts, Robie picked up his first stock car win in July in a dominant performance at Monadnock Speedway. He notched three more podiums and only failed to finish on the lead lap once. Despite an early retirement in that race, he finished every race in the top ten.

Beaulieu won twice on the season, but Lee was the Durham, Me. veteran’s ultimate undoing. All three of Beaulieu’s finishes outside the top ten came in the season’s three Lee stops: an early crash in July that left him 21st, a lackluster 19th-place run in the Keen Parts 150, and Sunday’s 14th-place drive.

Call finished second to Robie in July, but that was the highlight of a rough title defense for the reigning champ. Armed with two fast cars and setup help from veteran crew chief Shane Tesch, Call’s team struggled to find speed all year. Call took the worst of the early-race incident Sunday, exiting the season finale after only 45 laps and handing third in the standings to part-timer Casagrande.

And so Robie, who earned criticism for his race craft as he adapted to full-size stock cars, developed consistency down the stretch to become the youngest champion in GSPSS history.

Robie also joins Doiron and 2023 series champ Travis Benjamin as the third Maine driver to win the GSPSS championship.

However, Robie’s racing legacy extends beyond the Pine Tree State. Robie’s grandfather Carleton, from Candia, N.H., was a journeyman competitor with the American-Canadian Tour in the 1980s, making a handful of starts with the NASCAR Busch North Series in the mid-1990s. Father Jarod had grander goals, racing Pro Stocks locally before ultimately reaching NASCAR’s defunct All Pro Series and even making a Truck Series start in 2003.

Years later, Cole has achieved the regional touring championship neither father nor grandfather were able to claim.

Cole could follow the regional path of his grandfather, the aspirational track of his father, or blaze an entirely new trail altogether.

Either way, time is certainly on his side.

Unofficial Results
Granite State Pro Stock Series | Oktoberfest 125
Lee USA Speedway, Lee, N.H.
1. (73D) Joey Doiron
2. (17MA) Eddie MacDonald
3. (00) Jimmy Renfrew, Jr.
4. (7) Jeremy Sorel
5. (23) Dave Farrington, Jr.
6. (97) Joey Polewarczyk
7. (7G) Ryan Green
8. (09) Frankie Eldredge
9. (29) Cole Robie
10. (7CT) Cory Casagrande
11. (32Q) Alex Quarterley
12. (5MA) Tom Carey III
13. (12X) Corey Bubar
14. (56) Evan Beaulieu
15. (8B) Angelo Belsito
16. (81) Dan Winter
17. (77) Cam Curtis
18. (82) Bobby Baillargeon
19. (40) Mike Mitchell
20. (8) Connor McDougal
21. (90NH) Casey Call

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