Gabe Brown’s weekend started with an early exit and a last-place finish. But he turned that around Sunday afternoon.
The reigning Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour champion picked up his first Pro All Stars Series win since 2023, dominating the Super Late Model portion of White Mountain Motorsports Park’s PASS Spectacular program.
PASS took over the North Woodstock, N.H. quarter-mile for a rare Sunday show at WMMP, featuring the PASS Super Late Models as well as the PASS Modifieds and New England Supermodified Series.
Brown, who has focused on his ACT title defense in 2025, shook down his Super Late Model in a Friday-night Granite State Pro Stock Series feature at Claremont Motorsports Park. But long before halfway, Brown was sidelined and finished dead last in the 13-car field.
The Center Conway, N.H. native regrouped for Sunday’s showdown at WMMP, only his third PASS attempt of the season.
Jeremy Davis got out to an early lead, seeking his first PASS win since 2015. However, rookie Sylas Ripley drove to the point fifty laps in, looking to make the most of a doubleheader weekend that saw him race in the Carolinas on Saturday.
When Bobby Therrien’s flat tire brought him to a stop to draw the first and only caution flag of the day, though, Brown had worked around Davis and into second. And he went to work on the teenaged Ripley on the restart, getting around the youngster and setting off on a long green-flag run as Davis fell out of the running.
Defending PASS champion D.J. Shaw would slip past Ripley for second in the final 50-lap stretch, but could not get to Brown’s bumper to challenge him for the win.
Instead, Brown held on for his first PASS win since the 2023 season finale at Oxford Plains Speedway, and his second PASS win at WMMP.
Shaw, the winner of Friday’s GSPSS tilt at Claremont, came one position short of sweeping the weekend’s Super Late Model action, finishing second for his third runner-up finish of 2025.
Ripley’s podium performance was his fourth-straight third-place finish in PASS dating back to last October, also clinching a podium sweep for Dale Shaw Race Cars-designed chassis.
Seven-time champion Johnny Clark was fourth at the finish, with Jimmy Renfrew, Jr. fifth in the final rundown.
Alexendre Tardif racked up another strong PASS result in sixth, with Maine’s Mike Hopkins the last car on the lead lap in seventh. Trevor Sanborn and Ryan Kuhn were each a lap down, with Michael Scorzelli rounding out the top ten.
Despite not winning yet this season, Shaw holds a scant three-point advantage over Sanborn in the points race, with the top five racers all within fifty markers of the lead.
In something of an anomaly for PASS, Sanborn is the only of the title contenders to visit victory lane this season. In addition to Brown, Derek Griffith, Joey Doiron, Mike Rowe and Garrett Hall have all won features this season. None of the other four were racing at WMMP.
The second half of the season includes three trips home to Oxford Plains Speedway, two to WMMP and a final run at Star Speedway in September. The Oxford 250, no longer a points-paying event, rounds out the seven races that close out this year’s truncated PASS itinerary. And with six winners in six points-paying races so far, no clear favorite has emerged for the second half of the year.
Brown is more likely to be a bit player, lending to his full-time ACT campaign. He does have plans for additional PASS races, though at least the Oxford 250 will be in a car owned by Bobby Webber, not the car he campaigned Sunday.
But Brown has the speed, and he surely has the confidence, whenever he might pop up.
Unofficial Results
PASS North | PASS Spectacular 150
White Mountain Motorsports Park, North Woodstock, N.H.
1. (47) Gabe Brown
2. (60) D.J. Shaw
3. (09R) Sylas Ripley
4. (54) Johnny Clark
5. (00R) Jimmy Renfrew, Jr.
6. (21QC) Alexendre Tardif
7. (15) Mike Hopkins
8. (44) Trevor Sanborn
9. (72) Ryan Kuhn
10. (18) Michael Scorzelli
11. (5X) Bobby Therrien
12. (58VT) Jimmy Hebert
13. (01) Jet Decker
14. (12V) Brandon Varney
15. (09) Jeremy Davis
16. (5VT) Pat Corbett
17. (5M) Dillon Moltz
18. (53) Tyler Fiscus
19. (20) Richie Brown
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