LOUDON, N.H. – He may have finished fifth but Cherryfield’s Andy Santerre had a smile on his face after the New England 125 Busch North race at New Hampshire International Speedway on Friday.

That’s because Grizco Racing teammate Mike Stefanik claimed his second trip to victory lane in four races this season.

The 47-year-old Stefanik crossed the finish line 0.435 seconds ahead of Brian Hoar of Colchester, Vt.

Scarborough’s Ryan Moore, who captured his first Busch North win last weekend, finished third with his father, Kelly, coming home fourth.

Ryan Moore will make his Busch Series debut Saturday in the New England 200. The 21-year-old will drive for Dale Earnhardt Inc.

“This was a great day for Grizco Racing,” said Santerre, who manages the team in addition to driving for it.

The third member of the team, Brad Leighton of Center Harbor, N.H., finished 11th.

The other Maine driver in the 36-car field, Sanford’s Mike Gallo, was sixth.

“When you get a car like that, you’ve got to capitalize because you just don’t get them every day,” said Stefanik. “The car has been strong at other tracks but not as strong as it was today.”

“The car was great when we came here for testing, we were real good in practice yesterday and today was the icing on the cake,” added Windham’s Jerry Babb, Stefanik’s crew chief. “The car was great all day. We had to run the car hard just two laps today.”

Babb said he was 20 minutes away from taking a crew chief job for Joe Gibbs Racing in their development program when Santerre called and asked him to be Stefanik’s crew chief.

“I’m so glad I made this decision,” said Babb, who with Stefanik feels the cooperation among the three teams has been exceptional.

“It has been working great. It has been very, very advantageous to us,” said Babb.

Santerre said his car was four-tenths of a second slower than Stefanik’s.

“The car was good. We didn’t get a lap on it today [in practice] because we put a different front end under it this morning,” said Santerre, the three-time defending Busch North points champ who moved up from third to second in points behind leader Stefanik. “We didn’t have a clue what we had for a race car.”

Santerre was running third when he pitted for right-side tires and fuel on lap 63 and was 20th on the restart but managed to maneuver his way up to fifth by passing Gallo on lap 111.

“I didn’t have a lot [for the cars in front of me] so I stayed where we were,” said Santerre.

The Moores were disappointed with their finishes.

“We came to win. That’s the only reason we came,” said Kelly Moore, who leads Busch North with 26 career wins but was making just his first start this season because he is helping his son with his career.

“The car got a little tight. We pushed the left front in when Ted Christopher got loose and I got into the back of him [on lap 26]. That killed our down force and killed the car for the day. That was my fault. I felt bad for my guys,” said Kelly Moore.

Ryan Moore said his car was “all right” but a decision to change tires on lap 16 prevented him from challenging Stefanik.

“The car was tight after that and kept getting tighter and tighter,” said Moore. “Everyone pitted too early. We had to come in because all of the leaders came in.”

“We weren’t good enough. It’s disappointing. This wasn’t what we wanted. We should have won. We had the car to win in practice. We just messed it up,” said Ryan Moore.