Austin Teras Pockets $75,000 in Dominant PASS 400 Showing, D.J. Shaw Wins PASS Title

Austin Teras once again dominated at Oxford Plains Speedway, winning two out of three segments to secure $75,000 and the overall victory in the Spencer Group Paving PASS 400 on Sunday. With a second-place overall finish, D.J. Shaw wrapped his seventh PASS North championship.

Teras charged to the lead near the halfway mark of the first segment and led the rest of the way, picking up $25,000 to start the afternoon. After a fourth-place finish in the second 100-lap segment, he was the odds-on favorite to claim the $25,000 prize for accumulating the lowest score across all three segments in the event.

The Oxford 250 winner left nothing to chance, with a three-wide pass for the lead on lap 89 of the final 200-lap segment. Teras maintained the top spot the rest of the way, holding off D.J. Shaw through lapped traffic in the closing laps for another $25,000 segment win alongside the $25,000 points prize.

With all the twists and turns across three segments and 400 laps of Super Late Model racing, Teras could hardly recall everything that played out during Sunday's program. His early pit stop which gave him track position during the first half of the final segment was not by design, but an audible to change tires after nearly losing a lap early.

"There was so much stuff going on in the race," said Teras in victory lane. "We knocked the whole body off. My first set of tires, I don't know what happened to them, but they were terrible. I almost went a lap down.

"We tried to pit early. It wasn't really a strategy, but it was a cover-up for a bad set of tires. I guess it worked out. I have to thank D.J. for treating me fair, you know. He didn't take it from me, when he probably could have."

In the one segment Teras didn't win, he was battling power steering issues to a fourth-place finish.

"The servo was leaking in the second segment, and I was losing power steering fluid. We put a new one in for the last one. I've got to thank Tom Mayberry for putting this race on and everyone for being here."

Meanwhile, D.J. Shaw celebrated his seventh PASS North title and ninth PASS championship, adding to his legacy with the series.

Shaw entered the weekend in a nail-biting title fight with seven-time PASS North champion Johnny Clark. Clark narrowed the gap from nine points to four between Friday's Kennebec Equipment Rental 150 (also won by Teras) and a qualifying heat win on Saturday.

However, Clark went off track early in segment one, salvaging a 12th-place finish. With each segment counting for full PASS points, Shaw's consistency kept him ahead of Clark in the championship fight. The second-place overall result in the PASS 400 also earned him $12,000.

"Just perseverance, man," said Shaw. "This team is awesome. This car is awesome. I knew Friday, we only lost four points to him there. I knew we had a better bullet for today and just had to stay confident because Johnny was the fastest car all weekend in practice.

"He caught a little misfortune there in the start of the first one. All in all, he put up a hell of a fight this year. Congrats to them on their season, and congrats to all my guys, working their asses off and taking another one home."

Another PASS great, Ben Rowe, earned third-place honors in the PASS 400. He finished in the top 10 in all three segments, including fifth in the final two segments, with a new car at his disposal for the weekend.

"I've got to thank these guys, Tyson, and we brought my old crew chief Mark on for this weekend and really learned a lot about it," said Rowe of his new car. "We kept getting better and better and better all day yesterday. Kept getting better, just couldn't get up there where the money was. top fives, it's a right way in our program. I can't thank these guys enough."

Derek Griffith won the second 100-lap segment, picking up $25,000 and preventing a Teras sweep. After a disappointing first segment, the invert placed Griffith on the pole for segment two. The New Hampshire driver never looked back, leading flag-to-flag for the segment two win.

"We played our strategy to use our old tires first," said Griffith following the second segment. "Man, we were terrible that first run. We came in, made a huge change, and obviously it paid off. We put the four new tires on. It's been a long time since I've won a race at Oxford, so I can't thank the Spencer Group and the rest of the guys putting this deal on. It's cool to race for three $25,000 segments and then a $25,000 points fund is pretty damn awesome."

Alexendre Tardif unofficially placed fourth in the overall PASS 400, with Brandon Barker rounding out the top five.

With the 2025 PASS season officially in the record books, stay tuned for updates regarding the 2026 campaign for the series.

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Spencer Group Paving PASS 400 Unofficial Results

Unofficial Combined Score

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Segment Three