After breaking a year-long winless spell, Johnny Clark is making up for lost time.
The seven-time Pro All Stars Series champion made a statement last Saturday, fending off D.J. Shaw to win his second straight PASS North race in back-to-back weeks at White Mountain Motorsports Park.
And with one weekend remaining to settle the PASS championship battle, momentum is on Clark’s side.
Saturday’s PASS Spectacular, featuring the PASS Super Late Models, PASS Modifieds and Northeastern Midget Association’s NEMA Lites, would have been the penultimate showdown of the 2025 season for the Maine-based series, if not for a season-long shuffle of dates and procedures.
Originally scheduled for September 20, then moved a week to accommodate the Granite State’s NASCAR touring weekend at nearby New Hampshire Motor Speedway, the race weekend became part of a back-to-back Saturday spectacle when another WMMP event was rebooked after a rainout.
Clark, who entered the September 20 event riding a winless streak dating back to May 2024, now carried the momentum of his first win of the season to a repeat appearance at the North Woodstock, N.H. bullring. And while the Hallowell, Me. veteran seemed to struggle in the early laps, he just needed time for his car to come to life.
Jimmy Hebert controlled the middle of the race, losing the lead to D.J. Shaw on lap 104. As Shaw got away with the lead, Hebert fell into the clutches of Gabe Brown, racing once again for Star Speedway owner Bobby Webber. Brown and Hebert made contact, dealing significant damage to Hebert’s car and ultimately ending Brown’s evening early.
Joey Doiron and Austin Teras took advantage of the wreck up front moving up the leaderboard. But Clark was coming, taking second from Doiron on a lap-119 restart. Trouble for a visiting J.P. Josiasse brought out another yellow, which put Clark at Shaw’s door and in contention for the lead.
The championship rivals squared off on the restart, but Clark took the lead for good on lap 125, hanging on for a .367-second margin of victory at the stripe.
Shaw, who led the PASS North standings entering the evening, finished second for the fourth time this season. Doiron finished third with Oxford 250 winner Teras fourth. Title contender Trevor Sanborn finished fifth.
Ryan Kuhn held off rookie Sylas Ripley for sixth. Hebert rebounded from his mid-race incident to finish eighth, with Brandon Barker and Bobby Therrien rounding out the top ten.
Tracy Gordon, making his first PASS start of the year, ran in the top ten early before fading to 15th at the end.
Clark’s 52nd career PASS win tied him atop the sanctioning organization’s win list with fellow multi-time champion Ben Rowe. Rowe, a four-time PASS North, five-time PASS National Championship and one-time PASS South champion, has raced part-time since 2022, picking up his most recent win in 2023.
With the exception of a few part-time schedules, though, Clark has been a consistent contender, winning his seventh championship in 2021. Clark’s last winless season was a part-time campaign in 2019, and he has recorded multiple wins every year since with the exception of 2024.
Clark’s win whittled down Shaw’s meager advantage entering the evening, leaving the six-time and defending champion with an advantage of only nine points.
And PASS’ final weekend of the season threatens to scramble the standings with four races worth of points being awarded in three days. The rescheduled Kennebec Equipment Rentals 150 kicks off the season-ending PASS 400 Weekend at Oxford Plains Speedway on Friday, October 17. The titular PASS 400, previously run as a three-stage 300-lap event scored “Monza-style” similar to the Vermont Milk Bowl, was expanded earlier this year to a full 400-lap event. While Monza-style scoring will still determine the overall race purse payouts, each of the race’s three segments will earn full championship points.
While Clark carries the momentum of back-to-back wins in his back pocket, he returns to a track where he only has two PASS victories. Clark’s milestone win came in the 2020 Oxford 250. His only other PASS win at the track was in 2005. Clark has three top-four finishes at Oxford this year, but made an early exit in the Oxford 250.
Shaw, who won a PASS feature at Oxford in August, clinched last year’s title a week early.
This year, even with the tight battle between the top two racers, there will be nothing of the sort.
Unofficial Results
PASS North | PASS 150
White Mountain Motorsports Park, North Woodstock, N.H.
1. (54) Johnny Clark
2. (60) D.J. Shaw
3. (73D) Joey Doiron
4. (29) Austin Teras
5. (44) Trevor Sanborn
6. (72) Ryan Kuhn
7. (09) Sylas Ripley
8. (58VT) Jimmy Hebert
9. (88) Brandon Barker
10. (5X) Bobby Therrien
11. (94) Garrett Hall
12. (00) Jeremie Whorff
13. (18VT) Kaiden Fisher
14. (50) Jeremy Davis
15. (17G) Tracy Gordon
16. (18) Michael Scorzelli
17. (5VT) Pat Corbett
18. (32Q) Alex Quarterley
19. (24J) J.P. Josiasse
20. (12V) Brandon Varney
21. (47) Gabe Brown
22. (35) Bobby Nadeau
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