Oxford, ME — With beautiful weather over Eastern Maine, forty-three teams entered Oxford Plains Speedway on Saturday with the American-Canadian Tour faithful running door-to-door in the Oxford 125 as part of the 51st annual Oxford 250 weekend. ACT officials confirmed all forty-three teams would start Saturday’s feature event and Derry, New Hampshire’s Erick Sands took the pole position by virtue of a +5 handicap earned in heat race Plus/Minus qualifying events.

Sands took off under the green flag with Legend car standout Devin Deshaies following close behind in his American-Canadian Tour debut. Flying in from a top-ten start, Cam Huntress and Gabe Brown looked to join the early sprint while D.J. Shaw battled hard on the outside lane farther back to join the top-ten. By lap 28, Sands also began to fight the outside groove around lapped traffic with Brown bearing down behind him.  A pair of caution flag periods around lap 50 proved again and again that Sands had the dominate car on the preferred lower groove.

Derek Gluchacki began to enter the picture in the fight around lapped traffic, battling hard with Tom Carey III to take over third place just prior to the lap 81 caution that saw Bobby Therrien spin sideways off turn four. Following another another green flag run the last caution flag would fall on lap 115 to set up the move of the race. The final restart saw Sands and Brown white-knuckle their wheels side-by-side one final time under the return to green. Moving up slightly entering turn three, Gluchacki jumped down and took the open lane in a three-wide dash around the Oxford oval with Gluchacki sliding away the lead.

Over the final laps, Sands pulled up to Gluchacki’s rear-bumper again and again in the corners, but Gluchacki put the power down on the straightaways and held on for his second win of the season on the American-Canadian Tour, the first repeat winner for the international circuit this summer! Erick Sands matched his career-best finish for the second time this summer in runner-up spot while Alexendre ‘Fireball’ Tardif earning the popular third-place run among the Quebec fans in force at Oxford Plains. Gabe Brown held on for fourth with a strong-running Marcel Gravel taking fifth.

Jesse Switser came back from an early caution to take sixth, Rowland Robinson, Jr. kept it clean to earn seventh and rookie Jeremy Sorel nabbed eighth. Cam Huntress held onto a top-10 finish for ninth with D.J. Shaw taking tenth.

The American-Canadian Tour is back in action on Sunday, September 1 with the 46th annual Labor Day Classic presented by NEFCU/VSECU at Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre, Vermont. The 200-lap affair will once again pit the best weekly warriors of the Nation’s Site of Excitement against the mighty touring teams as the international Tour hits the downhill slope in the championship chase! Post Time on Sunday, September 1 is set for 4:00pm with holiday weekend camping available at Thunder Road from Friday at Noon to Monday at Noon.

For more information about the American-Canadian Tour, contact the ACT offices at (802) 244-6963, media@acttour.com, or visit www.acttour.com.  You can also get updates on Facebook and Twitter at @ACTTour.

 

The Oxford 125

Oxford Plains Speedway – Oxford, ME

Saturday, August 24, 2024

UNOFFICIAL RESULTS

1.         03MA  Derek Gluchacki         Dartmouth, MA

2.         36NH   Erick Sands                  Derry, NH

3.         21QC   Alexendre Tardif         Notre Dame des Pins, QC

4.         47NH   Gabe Brown                Center Conway, NH

5.         86VT    Marcel J. Gravel          Wolcott, VT

6.         25NH   Jesse Switser               W. Burke, VT

7.         28ME   Rowland Robinson, Jr. Steuben, ME

8.         7MA    #Jeremy Sorel             Westfield, MA

9.         27NH   Cam Huntress             Rochester, NH

10.       04VT    DJ Shaw                       Center Conway,NH

11.       45NH   #Kasey Beattie             St. Johnsbury, VT

12.       5MA    Tom Carey III               New Salem, MA

13.       5VT      Bobby Therrien           Hinesburg, VT

14.       4NH     Jamie Swallow Jr.        Lancaster, VT

15.       78QC   Michael Lavoie            Chicoutimi, QC

16.       68NH   Tanner Woodard        Waterbury Ctr., VT

17.       92VT    Jaden Perry                 Hardwick, VT

18.       18VT    #Kaiden Fisher             Shelburne, VT

19.       27MA  Jaret Curtis                 Rutland, MA

20.       99NH   Ben Belanger              Whitefield, NH

21.       64RI     Devin Deshaies           Harrisville, RI

22.       77NH   Bryan Wall Jr.              E. Kingston, NH

23.       29NH   Aaron Fellows             Croydon, NH

24.       28NH   Ricky Bly                      Sunapee, NH

25.       73MA  #Cole Littlewood        Orange, MA

26.       92ME   Colby Meserve            Buxton, ME

27.       47MA  Justin Storace             Seabrook, NH

28.       72QC   Louis-Philippe Lauzier St-Pacome, QC

29.       22VT    Peyton Lanphear        Waterbury, VT

30.       2NH     Adam Lovejoy             Sanford, ME

31.       04NH   Shawn Swallow           Groveton, NH

32.       47ME   Brockton Davis            Whitefield, NH

33.       41QC   Jonathan Bouvrette   Blainville, QC

34.       01GC   Dylan Payea                Milton, VT

35.       98MA  Ryan Flood                  Sandwich, MA

36.       0NH     Jimmy Renfrew Jr.      Candia, NH

37.       49NH   Matt Anderson           Franklin, NH

38.       23ME   Dave Farrington, Jr.    Lewiston, ME

39.       33QC   Remi Perreault           St. Paul, QC

40.       21VT    Reilly Lanphear           Waterbury, VT

41.       39VT    Mike Foster                 Williston, VT

42.       69ME   Dave MacDonald        New Gloucester, ME

43.       11QC   Claude Leclerc             Lanoraie, QC