Gabe Brown Wins 64th Northfield Savings Bank Milk Bowl in Thrilling Final Segment Showdown with Teammate Kaiden Fisher
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Barre, VT – While certainly a contender, the fans who packed the stands at Thunder Road Sunday afternoon may not have had Gabe Brown as their top choice for the Vermont Milk Bowl win. Those that did celebrated alongside the team, those that didn’t may have been awe-struck, but everyone present had front row seats to one of the most thrilling Northfield Savings Bank Vermont Milk Bowls in recent memory.
Following the annual pomp and circumstance of driver introductions for the once-a-year-extravaganza, the opening 50-lap segment was stalled by two early cautions for the spinning Mike Rubalcaba on lap 2 and Keegan Lamson’s turn two dust-up three laps later. The remainder of the first segment was a dogfight between front-row starters Kaiden Fisher and Jason Corliss with Fisher taking the opening round.
The second segment, typically the most feared of the three with the full-field invert, went caution-free with former Oxford Plains Speedway champion Trevor Sanborn leading all fifty laps to pocket $2,500 in Lap Money and take the win in his first Milk Bowl start with Jimmy Hebert coming out with the lead in the overall with fourteen points. Gabe Brown and Brandon Gray both sat two points behind, tied with 16 points apiece ahead of the tied Fisher and Corliss who each earned 17, respectively.
It all came down to the final 50-lap segment in the Northfield Savings Bank Vermont Milk Bowl. Teammates Jesse Switser and Colin Cornell went toe-to-toe at the front of the pack until Switser took over with Gray, and brother/sister Justin Prescott and Taylor Hoar all under a blanket. It all reached a breaking point on lap 36 with Gray and Prescott making contact to call out the lap 36 caution that found both on the rear and cost Gray the Milk Bowl. With fourteen laps remaining, Brown and Fisher sat among the top-five and the two Factory 47 teammates left all caution to the wind in their tooth-and-nail fight to the end.
Brown came sideways across the nose of Fisher under the checkered flag earning the 64th Northfield Savings Bank Vermont Milk Bowl win and a $13,180 check to match! With the win, Brown became the first out-of-towner to take the Green Mountain State classic since Eddie MacDonald’s win in 2014 after twelve years of Vermont winners. Fisher took second-place in his career-best Milk Bowl finish with Jimmy Hebert’s third-place run a strong showing in just his second ACT Late Model start of the year.
The 64th Northfield Savings Bank Vermont Milk Bowl officially wraps up the 2026 season at the Nation’s Site of Excitement, Barre’s Thunder Road. The weekly warriors will be celebrated at the annual Banquet of Champions on Saturday, December 12 held at the Barre Auditorium. Ticket info for teams is available online at www.thunderroadvt.com/forms.
The Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour continues down the 2026 championship trail in two weeks at New Hampshire’s Center of Speed, Lee USA Speedway. The Oktoberfest 150 on Sunday, October 18 will set the stage for one final showdown at Seekonk Speedway for the annual Haunted Hundred championship event on Saturday, October 24.
For more information, contact the Thunder Road offices at (802) 244-6963, media@thunderroadvt.com, or visit www.thunderroadvt.com. You can also follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram at @ThunderRoadVT.
UNOFFICIAL RESULTS
Sunday, October 4, 2026
Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl – Barre, VT
64th Vermont Milk Bowl pres. by Northfield Savings Bank
Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour / Maplefields Late Models - 64th Northfield Savings Bank Vermont Milk Bowl (Three 50-Lap Segments)
(Finishing Pos., Starting Pos., Car #, Driver, Hometown, (Seg #1 Finish, Seg #2 Finish - Total))
1. (5) 51KB Gabe Brown Center Conway, NH (5, 11, 2 - 18)
2. (1) 18VT Kaiden Fisher Shelburne, VT (1, 16, 3 - 20)
3. (7) 58VT Jimmy Hebert Williamstown, VT (6, 8, 7 - 21)
4. (4) 48QC Raphael Lessard St-Joseph, QC (4, 18, 4 - 26)
5. (12) 86VT Marcel Gravel Wolcott, VT (10, 10, 9 - 29)
6. (2) 66VT Jason Corliss Barre, VT (2, 15, 12 - 29)
7. (17) 64VT Christopher Pelkey S. Barre, VT (13, 9, 8 - 30)
8. (8) 88VT Nick Sweet Barre, VT (7, 17, 10 - 34)
9. (9) 25NH Jesse Switser West Burke, VT (11, 23, 1 - 35)
10. (6) 48VT Taylor Hoar South Hero, VT (8, 22, 5 - 35)
11. (14) 68VT Brooks Clark Fayston, VT (9, 21, 6 - 36)
12. (3) 3VT Brandon Gray E. Thetford, VT (3, 13, 26 - 42)
13. (25) 04NH Shawn Swallow Groveton, NH (20, 5, 18 - 43)
14. (27) 51NH Trevor Sanborn Cornish, ME (23, 1, 19 - 43)
15. (20) 17VT Darrell Morin Westford, VT (16, 14, 14 - 44)
16. (29) 91CT Wayne Helliwell, Jr. Dover, NH (24, 4, 16 - 44)
17. (11) 55VT Keegan Lamson Berlin, VT (21, 2, 22 - 45)
18. (10) 41QC Jonathan Bouvrette Blainville, QC (12, 24, 11 - 47)
19. (15) 20VT Scott Dragon Milton, VT (17, 6, 24 - 47)
20. (21) 48K Kyle Streeter Waterbury, VT (15, 20, 13 - 48)
21. (28) 4NH Jamie Swallow, Jr. Lancaster, NH (19, 12, 17 - 48)
22. (19) 15VT Hayden Bushey Fletcher, VT (18, 7, 28 - 53)
23. (23) 9VT Chip Grenier E. Barre, VT (22, 3, 29 - 54)
24. (13) 04VT Justin Prescott Milton, VT (14, 19, 23 - 56)
25. (22) 33QC Remi Perreault St-Paul, QC (26, 27, 15 - 68)
26. (24) 10NH Colin Cornell East Burke, VT (27, 25, 21 - 73)
27. (18) 16VT Brandon Lanphear Morrisville, VT (29, 29, 20 - 78)
28. (26) 33VT Matt Sonnhalter Randolph, VT (28, 26, 25 - 79)
29. (30) 73MA Cole Littlewood Orange, MA (25, 28, 27 - 80)
30. (16) 26VT Stephen Donahue Graniteville, VT (30, 31, 31 - 92)
31. (31) 25VT Mike Rubalcaba Barre, VT (31, 32, 32 - 96)
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