Aug 1, 2017 | Thunder Road, Vermont
South Burlington’s Trampas Demers (#85VT) now sits just 11 points behind leader Bobby Therrien heading into WDEV/Calkins Night this Thursday, August 3. (Buzz Fisher photo)
Barre, Vt. – Thunder Road motors into the month of August with WDEV Radio/Calkins Portable Toilets Night thisThursday, August 3. Four divisions of action will be on the card, with the Thunder Road Late Models, Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tigers, Allen Lumber Street Stocks, and Burnett Scrap Metals Road Warriors all set to do battle on the Barre high banks.
The championship chases tightened up considerably at the Times Argus Mid-Season Championships, setting up a thrilling home stretch for the 2017 season. In the Thunder Road Late Models, Hinesburg’s Bobby Therrien remains the point leader, but saw his lead over South Burlington’s Trampas Demers shrink to just 11 markers. Therrien bounced off the wall early in last Thursday’s double-points event and had to fight back from a series of pit stops to finish sixth, while Demers took second to cut into the deficit. It was Demers’ fifth straight top-five finish.
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Aug 1, 2017 | Devils Bowl, Vermont
Tremont Back-To-Back at Devil’s Bowl Dirt Track
Murray makes it three straight in Super Stocks
WEST HAVEN, Vt. – Kenny Tremont Jr. keeps stacking up victories at Devil’s Bowl Speedway. The veteran stock car driver put on a clinic at the 3/10-mile Dirt Track at Devil’s Bowl on Sunday, July 30, winning his second-straight NASCAR Whelen All-American Series race on Brown’s Quarried Slate/Brown’s Orchard & Farm Stand Night. Other winners during the event included Chris Murray, Chris Conroy, Aaron Mulready, and Bill Putnam. (more…)
Aug 1, 2017 | Bear Ridge, Vermont
Bear Ridge Speedway
Christensen edges out Horn for his second win in the USAC DMA Midgets
Bear Ridge Speedway’s 12th event of 50th season of racing.
R&R Property Care and State Farm Mike Estrada Ins sponsored the night actives which provided plenty of racing action for the once again packed house at the Ridge July 29th
Robert Tucker was waiting for Derek Graham to bobble and when he did in the Sabil & Sons DIRTcar Sportsman Modifieds he was ready to take the lead and to go on and score his third win of the season the only driver to have won more than once this season. Graham held on for second with Terry Williams coming home in third. Ryan Christian and Todd Buckwold completed the top five.
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Jul 28, 2017 | Devils Bowl, Vermont
Devil’s Bowl Speedway Adjusts Remainder of Asphalt Track Schedule
Sportsman Modified schedule scaled back
WEST HAVEN, Vt. – Devil’s Bowl Speedway has announced a list of changes to the remainder of the 2017 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series stock car racing schedule for its 1/2-mile Asphalt Track. Three divisions will alternate status as the weekly “headline” class for the balance of the season, in order to provide fans and race drivers with the best value for their dollar.
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Jul 28, 2017 | Thunder Road, Vermont
Barre, Vt. – Boomer Morris started the second half of the 2017 Thunder Road season in a big way with a win in the Times Argus Mid-Season Championships on Thursday, July 27. The hometown driver went wire-to-wire in the 75-lap Late Model feature to capture his first win of the season and the Maplewood Triple Crown.
Morris, who entered the event 17th in points after a number of hard wrecks in the first part of the year, started on the pole after winning his heat and the semi-feature. He drove away from the field for most of the event, holding on easily through four mid-race restarts as Montpelier’s Kyle Pembroke and Barre’s Cody Blake engaged in an extended battle for the second spot.
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