LOUDON, N.H. – The Busch North Series race at New Hampshire International Speedway was beginning to look like a father and son shootout by the Moore family from Scarborough.

Latecomer Dale Quarterley spoiled the expected fireworks.

Quarterley took the lead on Lap 107 and then won a five-lap shootout to the checkered flag Saturday to win the Siemens 125.

The victory was the first for Quarterley on a superspeedway and gives him a rare triple crown in Busch North, with victories also on short tracks and road courses. The best previous finish for the Westfield, Mass., driver at NHIS was fourth in 2000.

Kelly Moore, who has more top five finishes at NHIS than any other driver in Busch North history, finished second. His 20-year-old son Ryan ended up fifth, but not before he and his father ran 1-2 for much of the race.

The two Moores combined to lead 93 of the 125 laps.

“I think Ryan and I had a little too much fun up front there,” Kelly Moore said.

Jerry Marquis passed two drivers on the final lap to claim third, while Maine native and two-time reigning series points champion Andy Santerre nipped Ryan Moore at the finish line for fourth.

Santerre extended his Busch North points lead to 32 points over polesitter Mike Olsen, who finished eighth.

Quarterley, who never reached the top two until Lap 106, credited the battle between Moore father and son with allowing him to catch the leaders.

“Those guys never stopped racing one another,” said Quarterley. “So I thought no problem. I’ll just run them down.When I get to them I’ll be all set because anyone who knows Kelly, he’s not going down. It could have been his wife driving the car and he still would have ditched her into the wall.

“All I needed to do was to get there. He was going to do everything he could to get by his son. The second they started racing, they were done. I think I got them both in one lap.”

Rumored to being groomed for bigger and better things, Ryan Moore started the race with a new engine provided to him by DEI (Dale Earnhardt, Incorporated). Moore, who has yet to win a race during his brief Busch North career, started eighth and slowly worked his way up to second place by lap 65. He then challenged his father and slipped beneath him going into Turn 1 on lap 81.

His father then tested him for the next 25 laps.

“I saw we had a large lead over the rest of the field,” said Kelly Moore. “We were up 8-10-12 car lengths most of the time. I didn’t want him just backing up and start saving anything so I kept pushing it as hard as I could.

“He’s still in the learning process. I kept diving inside of him, outside of him, and seeing what he would do. He held up OK. He passed the grade.”

Olsen led the first five laps before Kelly Moore first nosed ahead. Brian Hoar ran out front for three laps before Moore regained the advantage on lap 16, which he held until making a pit stop under caution on lap 31. The yellow came out when Santerre spun out Mike Gallo in Turn 1 of lap 29.

Santerre, looking for his third consecutive Busch North points championship, began the day clinging to a 14-point lead over Olsen and starting 15th after struggling in qualifying. More work the past couple of days didn’t fix the problem at first.

“This morning we went out in the first part of of the half-hour session and we weren’t very good,” said Santerre. “We threw some different things in it and it came around. Luckily, we just hit in one 15-minute practice. After that we put in on the scales, changed two springs and a sway bar. We took a shot in the dark and it really brought the car to the front.”

Santerre slowly inched his way through the field before taking advantage of a quick pit stop to move from 11th to seventh.

Santerre and Marquis waged a fierce fight with Ryan Moore for third place late in the race before Matt Kobyluck hit the wall in Turn 3 on lap 114. The race was then red flagged five laps later to allow safety crews to clear the track. This set up the five-lap shootout to the finish. Kelly Moore took a shot at Quarterley on the first lap after the race returned to green, but he had to ease up when the leader shut the door.

“Dale kept his composure,” said Moore. “He got down into the turn just about right and got away from me and I couldn’t quite get the mustard to get back up with him.”

Ryan Moore tap his father’s car from the rear, but his worn tires didn’t allow him to move back into second. As he started losing position, Marquis and Santerre quickly ran him down. Marquis passed both drivers on Turn 2 of the final lap, before Santerre pulled up along side of Moore and nosed ahead of him at the finish line.