Joey Doiron was fast when it mattered most.

The driver from Berwick was nowhere near the top of the charts in single-car qualifying and had to drive his way into the feature of the inaugural North American Pro Stock Nationals at Lee USA Speedway on Sunday.

Doiron won the last-chance qualifier race, putting him 21st in the lineup for the 200-lap race at the New Hampshire track. With 75 laps to go, when a planned caution allowed teams to perform pit stops while keeping their running positions, Doiron was up to second. He took the ensuing green flag on the front row outside of top pole-sitter Derek Griffith, and was able to get around the New Hampshire native to capture the checkered flag and the $30,000 winner’s check.

Griffith faded to third, while Massachusetts’ Eddie MacDonald finishing was the runner-up.

MacDonald qualified 15th. Doiron was 23rd-fastest with a top lap time of 14.806 seconds — more than two-tenths of a second slower than Griffith’s pole-winning time of 14.561.

The top 20 qualifiers earned automatic spots into the feature. The top six finishers in the last-chance qualifier also made it into the show, along with two provisionals. Joining Doiron out of the LCQ was Corey Bubar, Mike Rowe, Charlie Buxton, TJ Watson and Dan Winter.

Griffith dominated the first half of the race. He was still in front at lap 100, with Max Cookson and Mike Hopkins in tow, and when the competition caution came out 25 laps later.

MILESTONE WIN FOR CLARK

There’s something about White Mountain Motorsports Park that brings out the best in Johnny Clark.

After winning twice and earning a runner-up finish at the track in 2023, Clark won again at the North Woodstock, New Hampshire, oval Sunday, topping the field in the 150-lap Pro All Stars Series feature.

It was a milestone victory for the Hallowell native and former PASS Super Late Model champion, giving him 50 feature wins in the division.

Clark was second-fastest in the final practice, behind runner-up finisher DJ Shaw. Gabe Brown, who topped Clark at the track last September to spoil Clark’s attempt at a season sweep of PASS SLM features, rounded out the podium Sunday.

In other PASS-sponsored action at the track Sunday, Ryan Ripley topped Spencer Morse and Ryan Hewins in the 50-lap PASS Mods feature, and Dan Bowes beat out Dave Duggan and the rest of the field in the season-opener for the New England Supermodified Series.

RAIN REIGNS AGAIN AT OPS

The on-again, off-again pattern continued Saturday at Oxford Plains Speedway.

Beginning with the originally scheduled season-opener on April 21 — which was changed to a practice day because the front parking lot at the track was unusable due to numerous rain storms — the speedway has alternated between running its scheduled weekly slates and canceling them because of inclement weather.

Saturday’s scheduled Oxford Championship Series action was the latest slate to be affected, following called-off events on April 21 and May 5. The April 28 Pro All Stars Series SLM race at the track also couldn’t be completed because of rain. That race was rescheduled to June 9.

Saturday’s action has been postponed to this coming Sunday, making it a doubleheader weekend for most of the Oxford Championship Series divisions. The Rebels and Cruisers will only run Sunday, which is also the first Motor Mayhem event of the season.