2025 OPS SCHEDULE PRINT PDF- 2025 LICENSE APPLICATION PDF- 2025 OCS ROSTER UPDATES THROUGH 2024 OPS SEASON OPS ALL-TIME WIN LIST PDF OPS WINNERS BY SEASON PDF Tuesday, May 27th, 2025 Oxford ME - Oxford Plains Speedway is excited to announce another big midweek Super Late Model event added to the 2025 Season. The Inaugural…
Oxford ME – Oxford Plains Speedway is excited to announce another big midweek Super Late Model event added to the 2025 Season. The Inaugural Memorial Day Clash 200 will be held on Tuesday, May 27th and will be the first leg of the Oxford Crown Jewel Triple Crown.
In addition to the Clash, the legs of the Crown Jewel Triple Crown will be the Celebration of America 300, and the 52nd Annual Oxford 250. Awards for the top 5 in Crown Jewel points will be presented at the 2025 PASS banquet.
Kneeland-Hopkins Promotions have sponsored the event and created a unique format that deviates from traditional PASS and Oxford Plains Speedway procedures.
The first ever Clash 200 will utilize time trials to lock in the top 20 cars for the main event. The remaining cars will be divided up into heat races to set the rest of the 35 car field.
The event will also see a competition yellow for teams to change 2 tires. This competition yellow will be the first natural yellow falling between laps 100 and 125. Otherwise a scheduled caution will fly at the completion of lap 125.
The Memorial Day Clash 200 will be officiated by the Pro All Stars Series.
Tires: This Event will be a 6 tire event with teams who make it in through heat races eligible for 2 additional race tires.
Times, Ticket Prices, and Support Divisions TBA in the near future.
TUES. & WEDS., JULY 1st & 2nd, 2025
The 2nd Annual Celebration of America 300 at Oxford Plains Speedway will once again feature the PASS Super Late Models for 300 laps in what is sure to be a race filled with tire strategy and some very exciting racing with the top cars having to make their way back through the field after pit stops.
This year’s COA event will also highlight the Kennebec Equipment Rental PASS MODS as the headline event on Tuesday night. Several Oxford Championship Divisions will also join the card on Tuesday including the Richard Spaulding Roofing Street Stocks, the Dow Excavation Limiteds, and the 207 Brand Rebels.
The Street Stocks and the Limiteds will both have a 50 lap points race paying $1,000 to win. The Rebels will have a 25 lap $500-to-win points race. These events will use the weekly handicap procedures and use the same tire rule as all other weekly races.
Wednesday night’s event will of course feature the 2nd Annual COA 300 along with the NESS Supermodifieds. Also on the card for Wednesday night will be the Mad Bombers as they will compete in The Oxford Auto Salvage 50 Lap $1,000-to-win Main Event that will be a weekly points race for the division.
Rodney’s Auto Repair Cruiser’s will once again join the Championship Series card for the 2025 Season.
The division will however see a substantial change to the tire rule for the season while the Hoosier 790 will continue to be the tire the division compete on teams will be allocated 10 used Hoosier 790s for the season.
To provide for a level playing field for all competitors Oxford Plains Speedway will form stacks of 10 tires on opening day.
Cruiser teams will pay $10 a tire for their race tires which will be selected through a drawing with all teams present so no team has an advantage with tire selection.
Once a team has selected their set of tires those 10 tires will be the only tires allowed on the car during any heat or feature event.
Doiron Surges to PASS 400 Victory in Final Segment Joey Doiron finished just one point ahead of Max Cookson in the overall standings for the PASS 400 to close out the 2024 Pro All Stars Series season.
The PASS 400 came down to the narrowest of margins at Oxford Plains Speedway, as Joey Doiron won the three-segment event by one point over Max Cookson.
Despite nursing a broken foot, Doiron finished third in the final two segments to push ahead of Cookson in the final scoring. That one-point cushion nearly disappeared on the final lap, as Doiron finished just 0.035 seconds ahead of Travis Stearns in a side-by-side battle.
Cookson entered the final segment with a seven-point advantage after finishing second and fourth in the first two 100-lap segments. However, an incident in the final segment put Cookson deep in the field, giving Doiron the opportunity he needed to take the win.
“I knew we were going to need some unfortunate stuff to happen to Max for us to have a good shot at it,” said Doiron. “He’s been going good all day.
“We kind of put ourselves in a hole in the first segment. My radio broke, the battery broke in half when I pulled on the track. Under the first caution, I pitted, and we had to come from last in the first one. I think we got to 11th, then third [in the second segment].”
Doiron had an opportunity to battle for the win in the final segment, but knew the importance of protecting his spot for the overall win.
“I don’t know, I feel like I had a chance to win this one, but the 09 [of Sylas Ripley] was using the bottom really good. I couldn’t quite get in there. I knew I just needed to keep it in one piece and think big picture for the overall.”
Cookson cut down a tire after being collected in a lap 83 incident in the final segment, dropping him from the edge of the top 10 to 20th. While Cookson rallied to a 12th place finish in the final segment, he needed two more spots to win the overall PASS 400 title.
“Obviously, to finish second in this race, I’m real happy about that,” said Cookson. “It is hard to know how good we were in the first segment, how good we were in the second segment, and then the third segment, just biding our time. I knew what the gap was to Joey and we were fine if it stayed green there or we didn’t get smashed and blow a tire, come back out and get smashed again.
“So close today, but I can’t thank Tom Abele, Sr., Tom Abele, Jr., all my guys today for fighting hard for one last one. It sucks to come up so short. I’ve also got to thank all my sponsors on my personal race car for sticking with us this year through a trying year. I was glad to come out today and really have a really, really good race car.
“It sucks, to say the least. We can’t hang our head overly too much. It’s just one of those things where some days you’re the windshield and some days you’re the bug. We were just a little short today, but congrats to Joey and his whole team. They’ve been really good here, just missed the [Oxford] 250 for the sweep, so congrats to those guys. Joey’s great to race with, I’ve got a lot of respect for him. It’s a great day overall, just tough.”
Unofficially finishing seventh in the overall standings, D.J. Shaw wrapped up the season as both the PASS North and PASS National Super Late Model champion. Shaw was the runner-up in the second segment, but missed out on the top 10 in the first and third segments. Still, that was enough to secure the championships.
“It was a great season here for us,” said Shaw. “The odds were stacked against us today, and I feel like we surprised ourselves a little bit with the run we had. All in all, it was a great rebound day, good recovery day for us.”
Austin Teras appeared poised for a dominant showing when the green flag dropped in Segment One. Teras jumped to the lead from the front row and lapped up to the top 10 before losing power and pulling off the track with 23 laps to go.
Ripley, who started on the pole for Segment One, inherited the lead after Teras’ misfortune and led the rest of the way to score the first victory of the day. 2023 Oxford Plains Speedway track champion Max Cookson finished second, followed by Travis Stearns, Steve Chicoine and Cory Hall.
The 25-car invert between segments placed former ARCA Menards Series champion Austin Theriault on the pole for Segment Two, with Scott Moore joining him on the front row. Moore jumped out to the lead, losing it briefly to Garrett Lamb before reclaiming the top spot on lap 11.
Moore, along with Mike Hopkins, broke away from the field as the front-runners from Segment One charged through heavy traffic. Hopkins finished 16th in the first segment but worked his way from 10th to third within the first five laps of the second segment.
Hopkins took the lead from Moore on lap 61 and stretched out a lead of nearly two seconds before Cory Hall spun on the frontstretch to bring out the caution. On lap 88, a multi-car incident collected several cars, starting with contact with Ripley and Scott McDaniel battling for 18th.
Hopkins held on for the win in the second segment on the following restart, with D.J. Shaw second and Joey Doiron third. With a fourth-place finish in segment two, Cookson moved into the overall lead for the PASS 400.
Dan Winter and Mike Scorzelli started on the front row for the final 100-lap segment, with Scorzelli using the outside line to pull out front. Meanwhile, the calculators were already out determining who was in the lead for the overall title.
Ripley’s poor finish in the second segment gave him a seventh-place starting position for the final race, offering prime track position and putting drivers such as Cookson, Gabe Brown, and Joey Doiron on the offensive.
The yellow flag flew on lap 83 as Scott McDaniel spun while checking up after contact between Ripley and Stearns battling for second. Mike Rowe stumbled on the restart, allowing Sylas Ripley to jump out front with Trevor Sanborn moving to second.
Nick Jenkins also spun to bring out the caution, and in the aftermath following that Corey Bubar slid up the track into Chicoine who also collected Cookson. Cookson cut down a left-front tire as a result, dropping him to 19th.
Sanborn challenged Ripley for the overall win on the ensuing restart, with Doiron and Stearns closely following. The caution flew again with 10 laps to go as Scorzelli and Dennis Spencer spun in turns one and two.
In the 10-lap shootout to the finish, Ripley held on to score his second segment win of the day, while Doiron held off Stearns for third. This proved pivotal as Cookson had raced his way back up to 12th in the closing laps despite his own misfortunes.
Sanborn took fourth place in the overall event standings, followed by Stearns. Brown, Shaw, Bubar, Johnny Clark and Brandon Barker rounded out the top 10.
2 x 50 Lap PASS MODS Segments The PASS MODS $2,000 100 Lap event will use the following format. Event will be run in (2) 50 Lap Segments. Drivers will receive points after each segment – 1st place receiving 1 point, 2nd 2 points, and so on. The winner of the event will be the driver that accumulates the lowest number of points between the 2 segments. Top 10 will be inverted for the 2nd 50 Lap race. In the event of a tie, position goes to the car that finishes highest in the 2nd segment. Competitors must run the same for tires for heat and both features unless the tire is completely flat.
1) 6 – Zach Bowie 2) 85 – Chanler Harrison 3) 34 – Spenser Morse 4) 1v – Brandon Varney 5) 64 – Matt Sanborn 6) 83 – Dan Brown 7) 66 – Jacoby Maines 8) 99 – Scott Trask 9) 63 – Thomas Oliver 10) 33 – Dan Morris 11) 7 – Spencer Vaughan
12) 25 – Shawn Knight 13) 4 – Cody Macomber 14) 32 – Jacob Heatcoat 15) 87 – Chuck Colby 16) 41 – Mike Nichols 17) 17 – Jim Bolstridge 18) 46 – Chad Harrington 19) 0 – Alex Smith 20) 1st – Adam Chadborne 21) 09 – Ryan Ripley 22) 3 – Joe Bessey
OPS Mad Bombers 25 Lap Sun. Non-Winners Race Competitor cannot have won a Mad Bomber race or any equivalent division or higher division in the last 2 years. The car must qualify and compete in the Saturday 10/19 80 lap Mad Bomber event. –
We would like to thank everyone who made this 250 Weekend a success. It takes a lot of people to make this thing work. This year we had the challenge of Mother Nature during the 250. We want to thank all of the fans who waited patiently during the rain delay. And a huge thanks to our volunteer track drying heroes. Without your help the rain delay would have been really long. With your help we were able to get the race completed in a reasonable amount of time. Thank you so much!
When the checkered flag finally waved over the 51st Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Oxford 250, it was nine-time Oxford Plains Speedway track champion Jeff Taylor standing tall next to his No. 88 in Victory Lane.
After battling 41 other competitors and enduring a three-hour rain delay, Taylor won the Oxford Plains Speedway’s prestigious race for the very first time in 28 attempts.
It was a reflective and slightly shocked driver talking about his win afterwards.
“I honestly don’t know how we won,” the Farmington, Maine native shared. “I can’t believe this, we don’t run full-time like a lot of these other drivers. I can tell you one thing, that rain delay really helped this car out a lot.
“There are so many people who helped us out. We just threw a team of volunteers together to beat these other teams. It’s unbelievable, it really is something.
In the closing laps, Taylor withstood a fierce challenge from 2018 Oxford 250 winner Bubba Pollard. Taylor successfully defended the bottom lane to hold off Pollard for the win.
“We had the track position, and I’ve watched Bubba Pollard race enough to know I needed to just stay on the bottom. He had the outside to pass me if he wanted.”
Pollard came up one position short of repeating his 2018 Oxford 250 victory and appreciated how the race ended.
“It was good. I don’t like running second, but I’m okay with how it ended with Jeff winning.” Pollard said. “This is big for him, his family and team.
“This is what short track racing is all about. I love coming up here to Oxford. There were a lot of people who helped me get here this weekend, and I can’t thank them enough.”
The Oxford 250 starting line-up had 42 drivers taking the green flag, which guaranteed all kinds of action would take place around the 3/8-mile Oxford Plains Speedway. Adding in pit stops, tire strategy, race strategy and weather strategy made the event more interesting.
Leading the field to green was Ryan Kuhn and Joey Doiron in the front row. They took off and battled for the lead in the early going with Doiron taking the lead from Kuhn by lap six.
Negotiating lap traffic by lap 21 slowed Doiron and Kuhn down just enough to allow their competitors to close in. One driver taking advantage of it was Derek Griffith, running third at the time.
At the lap-50 mark, Griffith worked his way to second and began closing in on the leader of Doiron as they negotiated the slower cars. The first caution of the night took place on lap 52 to rerack the field.
Multiple teams hit pit road with some taking two and others four tires, while checking tire pressures to improve handling.
Doiron and Griffith led the way on the Lap 53 restart and quickly tried to separate themselves from the field. Kuhn was in third with a hard-charging Bubba Pollard working the high side.
After another restart on Lap 56, Pollard really let the leaders know he was there to race by taking over second place. After looking to the outside and inside of the leader Kuhn, Pollard powered his way past Kuhn with 181 laps to go.
From there, they raced side-by-side for multiple laps battling for the lead until a caution three laps later showing Doiron as the leader. With all eyes on the Senoia, Georgia native of Pollard to the outside of Berwick, Maine’s Doiron, the race resumed to see who would lead next.
With 34 cars still on the lead lap, Doiron continued to lead Pollard as Griffith now joined the top three. Pollard surrendered second to Griffith with 165 laps remaining, who then fell into the clutches of DJ Shaw who took over third place on lap 89.
Under two more cautions, Pollard and many other leaders hit pit road for tires, mostly two, and adjustments. The phrase “cautions breed cautions” was in full effect from laps 98 to 105.
On the ensuing restarts, Doiron worked the wheel holding off Griffith, Shaw and Sanborn. Behind them, their fellow competitors were racing two and three wide to gain positions.
After a long-green flag run, and just nine laps from the halfway point of the race, Mother Nature showed up as rain forced the field onto pit road.
After the three-hour rain delay, the 34 remaining cars tried to get a feel for the freshly washed surface. Doiron and Griffith set the pace from the front row when the green flag waved.
Behind them, a three-car pile-up happened on the frontstretch with them all coming to rest under the flag stand.
On Lap 122, a light rain started again bringing out the caution. This time, cars remained out to keep some heat in the track to continue racing sooner.
Once the Oxford 250 restarted, a 10-car wreck took place on Lap 124 in Turn 1 sending several cars pit side and done for the night. Until this point, the leader of Doiron had still not been to pit road.
Race strategy for his team was paramount as to when he would pit, and how many tires he’d take. Other teams were also paying attention, because the second-place car of Griffith had been passed and was back to fourth.
Garrett Hall and Mike Hopkins were now in second and third, respectively, and chasing down the leader of Doiron. With 113 laps remaining, the caution came out and this was when Doiron hit pit road taking four tires, fuel and adjustments.
Hall and Hopkins also came to the attention of their crew to take four tires. Griffith decided to remain out and take over the lead, Moltz would line up second for the restart.
Griffin would be passed for the lead by DJ Shaw with 95 laps remaining, who overtook him on the outside and quickly separated himself from the second to seventh positions.
On lap 175, Shaw had a 4.1-second lead over Griffith, Moltz and Pollard, who had returned to the top five running order after an earlier pit stop put him back to 28th place. Five laps later, Pollard had moved to second and was on the charge.
A caution 10 laps later allowed Griffith to finally pit for tires, but problems changing the left front cost him valuable track position. Also pitting was Pollard, giving up second place.
Shaw and Gabe Brown showed the way for the restart, which was followed by another caution. The pace of the race picked up with a long green flag run that included Pollard breaking back into the top five, Taylor taking over second, Brown to third and Pollard fourth.
With 43 to go, Pollard raced his way to third with the leader of Shaw working his way through lap traffic. Taylor started looking to the outside of Shaw with 35 laps remaining as Pollard closed in on them both.
The scoreboard showed 30 laps remaining when Shaw, Taylor and Pollard were running within .1 seconds of each other battling for position. Taylor took the lead five laps later, but now lap traffic was becoming a factor as Pollard leaped into second.
Pollard was filling the rearview mirror of Taylor as he chased him around the track. Looking to the inside and outside of the leader, Pollard was looking for a way to take the lead.
Taylor was looking for his first Oxford 250 victory, Pollard his second as he kept trying to the outside. That didn’t work, so Pollard backed off a bit to cool his tires.
Five laps remained when Taylor started to pull away from Pollard with a three-car length lead. When the checkered flag waved, Taylor took the win and his very first Oxford 250.
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