Star Speedway has not been one of Garrett Hall’s best tracks.
But when Joey Doiron’s dominant drive came unglued, Hall was in position to pick up the pieces.
Hall held off Johnny Clark to win Sunday’s Pro All Stars Series North main event of PASS’ Father’s Day Special at the Epping, N.H. bullring.
The young season’s second visit to “The Place to Race” had redemptive opportunities for both Hall and Clark, neither of whom made the finish of May’s 150-lap tilt. Hall was taken out of contention by a flat tire under green, while Clark was eliminated in a hard crash a few laps later. Doiron, in a show of dominance, took his second PASS-sanctioned win of 2025.
Doiron had since put his new race car, two-for-two, under wraps for July’s Celebration of America 300. Armed with the car that did most of last year’s winning, Doiron would have to start outside the top ten to make his charge to the front.
Clark and Ryan Green led the 23-car field to the start, but calamity struck only three turns into the feature. Reigning Granite State Pro Stock Series champion Casey Call, in his PASS debut, went around while racing for fifth, collecting contenders Jeremy Sorel and Sylas Ripley. D.J. Shaw appeared to escape the incident with only body scars, but the reigning PASS titlist was sidelined for several laps while his crew tended to suspension damage.
While Shaw lost laps under green, Clark showed the way over Green and third-place starter Hall. After another spin for Sorel, Green was shuffled back through the top five, with Jimmy Renfrew, Jr. charging into second. Doiron picked his way through traffic, breaking into the top five with 25 laps complete as Hall pressured Renfrew for second.
Hall eventually got the best of Renfrew, but Doiron scooted past the two of them in pursuit of Clark. Fans expecting a repeat of the duo’s door-to-door battle at Star last fall were stunned as Doiron easily powered around Clark’s outside, taking the lead on lap 38.
Rookie Cole Robie’s lap-44 spin brought out the caution, allowing a few teams to head pitside for adjustments. When the green flag waved for Doiron and Clark, fifth-place Gabe Brown’s car bogged down, stacking up the field in his mirror. Brown coasted to the pits, while Dominic Curit peeled off with body damage. Outside polesitter Green limped around for several laps, hoping to catch another caution to make his own repairs.
Doiron held the point through a midrace caution, managing his gap over Clark so as not to burn up his tires too early. The seven-time PASS North champ was securely in second, but he could not close in on Doiron. Trouble for Eddie MacDonald and Michael Scorzelli, though, breathed new life into Clark’s hopes on lap 94.
As the green flag waved, Doiron’s car faltered, stalling out coming to the stripe. Renfrew drilled Doiron in the rear as Clark and Hall cleared the former leader on the outside. Doiron’s car eventually came up to speed, but he had lost significant ground to the leaders.
With Clark in command, Hall was relentless, testing the veteran for a weakness. Doiron, back up to full song, closed in on the lead battle. Hall finally found his opening with twenty laps to go, seizing the point from Clark on lap 131.
In their mirrors, Doiron was closing fast.
But only a few laps later, Mike Mitchell spun to the infield out of turn four, drawing the yellow. A low-drama spin quickly turned into big drama on the backstretch, as Mitchell came to a stop on the backstretch in front of Robie. Mitchell only hesitated a moment before reversing into the rookie’s car, coming to rest atop Robie’s hood with a burst of flame. His statement made, Mitchell drove back to the pits, while the track crew rushed to clean the mess on the backstretch.
Hall and Clark lined up door to door for the restart, with Doiron tucked in behind Hall. But once again, when the green waved, Doiron’s car sputtered. As the field split Doiron on the frontstretch, Hall and Clark edged ahead to settle the score themselves.
Hall shook free of Clark after a few laps, and from there, it was home free for the Scarborough, Me. native.
A six-time winner in PASS competition, Hall pulled away by half a second to take his seventh career PASS win and his first on a quarter-mile oval.
Clark, who greeted Hall with a handshake after the race, finished second for his best points-paying finish of the season. Second in May’s non-points Memorial Day Clash at Oxford Plains Speedway, Clark was looking to break a winless streak dating back to last spring.
Ripley, the rising teen star who was caught up in the first-lap fracas, persevered and picked up a third-place finish. Trevor Sanborn, who was also slowed by the early caution flag, came back to finish fourth. American-Canadian Tour and Thunder Road standout Bobby Therrien finished fifth, his first top-five PASS performance since 2018.
Doiron, incensed at the shifting snafu that cost him a sure victory, finished a frustrating sixth. Asked about the late restarts, Doiron was as yet unsure of the cause, saying the car had no power when he got into gear.
Angelo Belsito was seventh, with Sorel, Brandon Varney and Ryan Kuhn rounding out the top ten. Mid-race attrition helped Shaw climb back to 17th, 24 laps in arrears.
Hall’s win was his first since 2022, when he won at Thompson Speedway with longtime friend and fellow Beech Ridge Motor Speedway alum Doiron preparing his car. A winner in only his eighth career PASS start, Hall has not raced for points since 2018, but has been a consistent contender ever since, scoring wins at Thompson, Oxford, the defunct Beech Ridge, and Speedway 95 in Hermon, Me. Hall also has a pair of GSPSS victories, claiming the series’ debuts at Oxford and Speedway 95.
But missing from that list of feature wins are any of New England’s plentiful quarter-mile bullrings. Star is a particular source of frustration; aside from a sixth-place finish in 2019, Hall’s other five starts leading into Sunday had resulted in midpack finishes between 12th and 14th.
Hall has run every PASS-sanctioned event in 2025 with the exception of April’s Northeast Classic at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. In all but two, he has finished in the top five. The exceptions are a sixth-place finish in Oxford’s Memorial Day Clash, and his early exit at Star in May.
Suffice it to say, Star was not the venue where Hall expected to break a three-year dry spell.
But it was certainly as good as any.
Unofficial Results
PASS North | Star 150
Star Speedway, Epping, N.H.
1. (94) Garrett Hall
2. (54) Johnny Clark
3. (09R) Sylas Ripley
4. (44) Trevor Sanborn
5. (5X) Bobby Therrien
6. (73D) Joey Doiron
7. (8) Angelo Belsito
8. (7) Jeremy Sorel
9. (12V) Brandon Varney
10. (72) Ryan Kuhn
11. (81) Dan Winter
12. (17MA) Eddie MacDonald
13. (18) Michael Scorzelli
14. (29) Cole Robie
15. (40) Mike Mitchell
16. (00) Jimmy Renfrew, Jr.
17. (60) D.J. Shaw
18. (09D) Jeremy Davis
19. (93) Ryan Green
20. (5) Dominic Curit
21. (47) Gabe Brown
22. (90NH) Casey Call
23. (53) Tyler Fiscus
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