Oxford Plains Speedway may be home base for the Pro All Stars Series, but the venerable oval has been the site of many upset victories for its weekly Super Late Model challengers.
Sunday was Austin Teras’ turn.
Teras fended off Garrett Hall to claim his first ever PASS North win in Sunday’s PASS SLM 150, the first series race in nearly a month and the fifth of the still-young season.
Success at the western Maine oval is nothing new for Teras, a three-time Oxford Legends champion with three SLM feature wins at his home track. But touring success has proven much harder to find for the youngster. Flashes of brilliance were offset by plenty of races in which the team did not make it to the checkered flag.
But Teras put that behind him Sunday afternoon, going the distance to score the biggest victory of his SLM career thus far.
Hall, a two-time PASS winner at Oxford as well as the winner of the Granite State Pro Stock Series’ only race there in 2017, came in a close second.
Days after a top-ten finish in the Money In The Bank 150 at Berlin Raceway, Trevor Sanborn wheeled Richard Moody Racing’s backup car to third, another stout run for the rejuvenated team.
Max Cookson, winner of the last two PASS races at Oxford, was fourth, with former Oxford winner Dennis Spencer, Jr. rounding out the top five.
DJ Shaw was third-best among the touring regulars, finishing sixth after starting mid-pack. Kyle DeSouza finished seventh in a three-wide battle, with Alan Tardiff eighth. Gabe Brown, winner of Saturday night’s Wall’s Ford Platinum Series Late Model feature at White Mountain Motorsports Park, was ninth with local Steven Chicoine coming home tenth.
Seven-time champion Johnny Clark was 13th at the finish, with mechanical woes dooming Joey Doiron to another finish well short of expectations. After five races, rookie Cookson and veteran Sanborn remain atop the heap, with eight drivers making all five starts so far.
Teras joined Cookson, Spencer, Dave Farrington, Jr. and Curtis Gerry among the list of Oxford regulars who have scored PASS wins at their home track. By the numbers, Teras’ win is far closer to upset territory. In 25 prior PASS starts, the Gray, Me. driver has seven top-ten finishes and only a single top-five, with most of that production coming in 2020.
Teras’ only other PASS start this year was in the PASS North opener at Thompson, where he came up ten laps shy of the finish. (STS/Jeff Brown)
The win was just as big, though, for car owner Jay Cushman. A renowned Ford enthusiast, Cushman has fielded equipment for drivers like Louie Mechalides, Trevor Sanborn, Scott Chubbuck, and fellow Blue Oval loyalist “Dynamite” Dave Dion, whose legendary #29 was regularly on Cushman’s car’s doors. Both Mechalides and Chubbuck won PASS races for Cushman, but Chubbuck’s 2006 victory at WMMP was the last time Cushman’s cars had won under the PASS banner.
Teras, Cushman’s son, took the reins of the Cushman Competition entry in 2018, fresh off his third-straight Oxford Legends title and the NELCAR Legends championship. The fifteen-year-old scored his first Super Late Model win at Oxford that season, supplementing his weekly schedule with select PASS starts.
The 2020 season was Teras’ best overall touring effort, with four top tens and a fourth-place finish in eight starts. But the long-distance races tested his equipment as much as his patience, with Teras failing to make the finish more often than not in 2021 and 2022.
On Sunday, the father-and-son tandem put the pieces together at last.
Unofficial Results
Pro All Stars Series North PASS SLM 150
Oxford Plains Speedway
1. (29) Austin Teras
2. (94) Garrett Hall
3. (44) Trevor Sanborn
4. (39) Max Cookson
5. (12) Dennis Spencer, Jr.
6. (60) DJ Shaw
7. (1) Kyle DeSouza
8. (9T) Alan Tardiff
9. (47) Gabe Brown
10. (01) Steven Chicoine
11. (7B) Travis Benjamin
12. (24) Mike Rowe
13. (54) Johnny Clark
14. (14X) Josh St. Clair
15. (20) Joe Pastore
16. (60B) Tim Brackett
17. (00) Jeremie Whorff
18. (38) Garrett Lamb
19. (36) Ryan Robbins
20. (81) Dan Winter
21. (50) Andy Shaw
22. (25) Shawn Knight
23. (19) John Rideout
24. (88) Brandon Barker
25. (14) Scott McDaniel
26. (73D) Joey Doiron
27. (61) TJ Brackett
28. (23) Dave Farrington, Jr.
29. (18S) Michael Scorzelli
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