Checkers, finally

For the first time in his young career, Trevor Sanborn didn’t have to cross the Mason-Dixon Line to win a Pro All Stars Series race.

Sanborn celebrated his initial win in PASS North last Saturday night, leading the final 69 laps of the Summerfest 150 at Riverside Speedway in Groveton, N.H.

“What an unbelievable feeling,” Sanborn said. “I’ve run a ton of races up here. I’ve led a lot of  laps. I’ve always liked Riverside. I’m just so glad I finally won.”

The only caution flag of the event flew on lap 80 and gave Sanborn a shot at the leader — Travis Benjamin, Sanborn’s teammate with Richard Moody Racing — on the restart.

Perhaps it was some type of cosmic payback. In a bizarre scene at the same 1/4-mile banked oval three seasons ago, Sanborn had a spacious lead wiped out when the track lights briefly extinguished and halted the race.

Kelly Moore took advantage of that restart and overtook Sanborn for the win.

Sanborn has two wins on the companion PASS South circuit. He also won the first two Pro Series features of this season at his home track, Beech Ridge Motor Speedway.

“I thought even when (Benjamin) was leading that I would just save the car, and when I got the lead I could just pull away,” Sanborn said. “At the end I was just praying there wasn’t going to be a caution, and thankfully there wasn’t.”

In it for the long Hall

Ten years of persistence paid off Wednesday night for Charlie Hall.

Hall, who turns 26 on Sunday, was one of the first drivers to tackle Oxford Plains Speedway’s midweek Acceleration Series when it was introduced.

Wednesday’s victory in the six-cylinder Renegade division was Hall’s first checkered flag after a decade of dabbling in every men’s division the series has to offer.

“I had the best week ever,” said Hall. “It is awesome.”

Hall had been knocking at the door all season since purchasing a car from former Renegade champion and current point leader Jamie Heath.

Other winners were Kyle Treadwell and Brady Romano (Runnin’ Rebel); Jay Wilkins, Guy Childs and Josh Childs (Outlaw); Ryan Farrar (Sport Truck) and Vanna Brackett (Ladies).

Front to back

D.J. Shaw’s bid for his first career NASCAR K&N Pro Series East win at Lee (N.H.) USA Speedway last Friday night ended in frustration.

The 20-year-old Shaw was running second to TD Bank 250 champion Eddie MacDonald with 61 laps remaining in the race when he spun after contact from Ryan Truex, the teenage brother of Sprint Cup driver Martin Truex Jr.

“I got wrecked. We probably had the second-place car. It was a bad day for me,” Shaw said. “I hadn’t even started going yet. I felt like I could have passed Eddie at any time on a long run, and if Ryan had been patient he probably would have won that race.

“He wasn’t patient. It doesn’t fix my day that he (Truex) is sorry.”

Shaw rallied from 20th position to salvage a 12th-place finish.

Darrell Wallace Jr., 16, used a three-wide pass of Truex and MacDonald to swipe the win on the final circuit. Truex, apparently irked by Wallace’s aggressive move, spun him out on the cooldown lap.

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