STOCKTON — There were two celebrations along the front stretch at Stockton 99 Speedway on Saturday night — one at Kyle Keller’s No. 12 car, the other just past the flag stand at Sammy Solari’s No. 22 machine.

Keller’s party erupted after he went low into turn 3 on the 99th and final lap and nipped JoJo Stearns of Stockton by .228 of a second at the checkered flag to win the Pro Late Model main event. It was Keller’s only lead — two turns and the front stretch — and it earned him $10,000 for the win.

Solari’s gathering was calm by comparison but history-making. The Escalon driver became what is believed to be the first racer in the 77-year history of Stockton 99 to win two track championships in the same season. One week after claiming his second Stockton Late Model points title in a row and third overall in the division on Championship Night No. 1, Solari finished fourth in the main event to win the Pro Late Model crown on Championship Night No. 2, the season finale. Solari now has 10 total track championships in his legendary Stockton 99 career.

Solari mentioned his crew, his sponsors and supporters, the car owners – everyone he could think of, during his trackside interview.

“None of them ever say, ‘No, we can’t do that.’ That’s probably what makes all the success,” Solari said. “Who else got three championships in two years, huh? It’s crazy actually. People race their whole career and don’t win championships. Three of them in the last two years. That’s how dedicated our crew is.”

Starting sixth in the stout 17-car field, Solari dropped to eighth early and spent the rest of the race slowly and surely picking off one car after the other, finally passing Keller for third following a restart on lap 80. With the front pack bunched again, Solari made a go at Madera-born Joey Iest, who followed Stearns for most of the race. Solari and Iest made contact coming out of turn 2, sending Solari off the asphalt and allowing Keller to motor by Iest into second.

“I got into Joey; I didn’t mean to. I lost a bunch of spots,” Solari said. “Jojo was actually holding both of us up. And I don’t have patience, that’s my problem. I didn’t mean to get into Joey, and then I had to take the dirt highway back there to get back to it.”

Solari re-entered the track in fifth and passed Bubba Nascimento a second time to move into fourth.

Up front, Keller chased Stearns over the final nine laps. Keller, who won the CARS Tour West Pro Late Model race on April 18 at Stockton 99, said he noticed Stearns’ car “getting freer and freer” in the exits.

“I feel like I was one of the best cars on the bottom, and … I was working the bottom for a moment like that and then it happened, it came to me,” said Keller, who finished second in points in the CARS Tour West Southwest Pro Late Model class. “The 54 (Iest) and the 22 (Solari) got into it and I was like, ‘Man, this is my chance.’”

Keller’s crew sprinted from the infield – cheering and shouting – to the Las Vegas driver’s No. 12 machine parked on the front stretch, dousing the car with water while another crew member tossed what was left of his pack of cigarettes onto the hood.

“My guy Red said he’d stop smoking cigarettes if I won, and I won,” Keller said.

Stearns (.228), Iest (.609) and Solari (.664) all finished within a second of Keller.

Solari led Hans Beeler by 28 points going into the Pro Late Model finale. Minus winning the race, Solari knew going in how close he needed to finish behind Beeler to clinch the track title. But it never materialized. Beeler was involved in a crash with Chris Lyon on the front stretch on the 22nd lap and was towed to the infield.

“You never want to see anybody crashed up,” said Solari, who totaled nine victories this season in the two Late Model classes. “I had pretty good faith in myself we were gonna beat him fair and square and I’d rather beat him fair and square. I feel I had the car to beat here tonight.”

Pure Stock: Lodi’s Brandon Jones completed a perfect season by winning his ninth main event and claiming his third points championship at Stockton 99.

Jones gave Stockton’s Jeremy Tucker a tap on the back bumper in turn 4 of the second lap and passed him coming out of turn 2 on the third lap to take control in the 20-lap feature. Jones lapped four cars on four consecutive laps and beat Tucker by 5.604 seconds. Donnie Darter of Valley Springs, debuting a new car in his first appearance of the season, finished third. Jones’ dad, Brian Jones, finished fourth and gave his son a pat on the backside in victory lane.

“I worked my (tail) off all year to get this car where it’s at,” Jones said. “Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of competition, but I’m glad everybody showed up to the last race that we’ve raced with hard in past years. And it shows it. We came out on top, and I’ve never won every race in a season, so it was good.”

Trailer race: Timothy Esmond of Brentwood roared to victory in a fun, entertaining and destructive race that left boat and trailer wreckage and debris strewn throughout the oval and infield during the event. With Live Action Motorsports co-owner KC Prill riding shotgun and pumping his fists out the window, Esmond wheeled his 1990 Chevrolet C1500 truck around and through the massive field of 20 boat/trailer teams to earn his second this year. He also won in Roseville.

Spectator racing: Tom Calmese of Valley Springs successfully defended his victory in the July drags, earning another trophy in his 717-horsepower 2026 BMW M5 wagon. He celebrated with a smoke show to beat all smoke shows in the front stretch, leaving the crowd in a thick fog.