Brandon Gray Caps Off Record-Breaking Season with Oxford Win, Tri-State Series Crown

One last go-round for the ACT Flying Tiger Tri-State Series brought twenty-four Vermont and New Hampshire drivers over the border to the State of Maine for Saturday’s championship finale for the three-race series at Oxford Plains Speedway. While an end-of-season Flying Tiger showdown has been held annually at Oxford Plains since 2019, Saturday’s showcase became a first for ‘North America’s #1 Support Division’ with a point-counting event crowning a champion at the 3/8-mile Maine oval!

Three heat race qualifiers saw Jason Woodard, Brandon Gray and Sam Caron carry the checkers with twenty-three cars on the starting grid after a blown rear-end took Eric Johnson out of competition for the 75-lap main event. By virtue of a ‘+4’ coming from dead-last in heat three to claim fourth, Groton, Vermont’s Luke Peters brought the final Flying Tiger event of the 2024 season to green on Saturday. Drawn alongside former Thunder Road and White Mountain track champion Jason Woodard, Peters held his own throughout the opening quarter of Saturday’s showcase.

Sam Caron and Brandon Gray utilized the outside groove at Oxford to get around Peters, the two Thunder Road champions fighting door-to-door for the lead. The ‘big-one’ occurred just before the halfway point as Cam Gadue and Mike Clark got crossed-up in turn one to slow the field a second time. One last caution on lap 39 set up a thirty-six lap dash to the end with Brandon Gray slicing through the field. Woodard and Caron attempted to keep pace with Gray while across the racing surface drivers gave it all they had with laps winding down on the 2024 season.

Brandon Gray kept it glued to the bottom and claimed the Vacationland 75, lapping up to ninth-place in dominant fashion behind the wheel of his father’s throwback paint scheme! Jason Woodard came home second with a strong run alongside fellow front-runner Sam Caron to round out the podium. Luke Peters kept his nose clean to come home fourth overall with Logan Powers bringing his Jean-Paul Cabana inspired ride home fifth.

With the win, Brandon Gray swept the ACT Flying Tiger Tri-State Series with wins at White Mountain, Thunder Road and Oxford Plains Speedway to nab his 23rd Flying Tiger victory of the season and the first Tri-State Series Championship since 2011.

The American-Canadian Tour finishes off the 2024 season at the Seekonk Speedway in Seekonk, Massachusetts on Saturday, November 2 with the Haunted Hundred. Both the American-Canadian Tour champion and the Brookside Equipment Sales Triple Crown champion will be crowned at the Concrete Palace alongside the Monaco Modified Tri-Track Series and the Street Stock Open to round out the 2024 season!

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.

-ACT Media Press Release
-Photo credit: Alan Ward

The Vacationland 75
Oxford Plains Speedway – Oxford, ME
Saturday, October 19, 2024
OFFICIAL RESULTS

ACT Flying Tiger Tri-State Series – Vacationland 75 (75 Laps)
2024 ACT Tri-State Series Champion: Brandon Gray

1. 5VT Brandon Gray E. Thetford, VT
2. 36NH Jason Woodard Waterbury Ctr., VT
3. 07VT Sam Caron Milton, VT
4. 26VT Luke Peters Groton, VT
5. 5A Logan Powers Middlesex, VT
6. 15NH Brendan Moodie Wolcott, VT
7. 77x Issac Spaulding Wolcott, VT
8. 37VT Kyle Streeter Waterbury Ctr., VT
9. 23VT Matt Potter Marshfield, VT
10. 56VT Chris Laforest Barre, VT
11. 77NH Brandon Lambert Alton Bay, NH
12. 45VT Adam Maynard Milton, VT
13. 15VT Joey Laquerre E. Montpelier, VT
14. 9VT #Logan Farrell Barre, VT
15. 67VT Kevin Streeter Waitsfield, VT
16. 23NY Cam Gadue Highgate, VT
17. 3VT Michael MacAskill Williamstown, VT
18. 90VT Cameron Ouellette Barre, VT
19. 46x Aaron Maynard Lyndonville, VT
20. 26x Toby Peters Groton, VT
21. 77VT Issac Spaulding Wolcott, VT
22. 22WC Mike Clark Littleton, NH
23. 52VT Brad Bushey Fairfax, VT
DNS 2VT Eric Johnson Randolph Ctr., VT