Barre, VT – Kyle Pembroke scored the surprise of the 2015 Thunder Road weekly season with his first career Late Model victory in the CVMC ExpressCare Trophy Dash on Sunday, July 2.
The St. Michael’s College student took the lead around the outside from veteran Shawn Fleury on lap 43 of the 50-lap event after a lengthy duel. Pembroke then pulled away in the final laps for his first win in a full-bodied stock car.
John Donahue rebounded from his rollover on Thursday night to edge Nick Sweet at the line for second place. Point leader Derrick O’Donnell finished fourth while Fleury faded to fifth Mike Bailey, Scott Dragon, Brett Gervais, Cody Blake, and Trampas Demers finished sixth through 10th.
Wolcott’s Brendan Moodie earned his third win Bond Auto Tiger Sportsman win of the season and 12th of his career. Moodie inherited the lead on lap 23 of the 35-lap event when Jason Woodard and Mike Billado spun racing for the top spot and cruised to the win.
Barre drivers Chris Pelkey and Cameron Ouellette finished second and third. Doug Crowningshield, Mike Martin, Jeffrey Bousquet, Derek Barker, Dylan Payea, Woodard, and Billado completed the top-10.
Bunker Hodgdon picked up his second win of the season in the Allen Lumber Street Stock feature. Hodgdon got the lead early in the 25-lap feature, then held off the pack of Jamie Davis, Donny Yates, and Matthew Smith for the victory.
Davis, Yates, and Smith finish second through fourth in that order. Kevin Streeter, Jaden Perry, Kyle Streeter, Chris LaForest, Marcel J. Gravel, and Will Hennequin rounded out the top-10. Thomas Merchant took a dominating win in the Marvin Johnson Memorial.