{"id":21833,"date":"2017-06-28T16:19:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T20:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=21833"},"modified":"2017-06-29T16:19:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T20:19:27","slug":"thunder-road-brewing-up-action-for-community-college-of-vermont-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2017\/06\/thunder-road-brewing-up-action-for-community-college-of-vermont-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Road Brewing Up Action for Community College of Vermont Night"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thunder Road kicks off an action-packed stretch of the 2017 racing calendar this Thursday, June 29 with Community College of Vermont Night. (Buzz Fisher photo)<\/p><\/div>\n

Barre, Vt.<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 The 2017 Thunder Road season kicks into high gear this Thursday, June 29 with Community College of Vermont Night. The program marks the first of three events in an eight-day span on the Barre high banks, and title aspirations will begin to get serious in the Late Models, Lenny\u2019s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tigers, and Allen Lumber Street Stocks.<\/p>\n

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In addition to a full card of action for all weekly divisions, the Community College of Vermont event will feature the 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Annual Vermont Brewers Cup. Craft beer brewers from around the state will compete in an event to determine \u201cThe Best Brewer on Wheels\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Defending \u201cKing of the Road\u201d Scott Dragon finds himself atop the Late Model standings once again after four races. The Milton veteran has posted consistent top finishes amidst some wild on-track action to stake a 13-point lead over Casella Night winner Kyle Pembroke of Montpelier, who is looking to establish himself as a title contender in his fifth season in the division.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe gotten some wins here and there, but we\u2019ve never really put together a full season before,\u201d Pembroke said. \u201cMost of the improvement we\u2019ve made is because of my team and how we\u2019ve grown. I think it\u2019s safe to say I have the youngest average age for a crew there, and it speaks to them \u2013 they\u2019ve just gotten that much better. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s all just me as a driver. A lot of it is the crew stepping up and taking bigger roles. But I can see myself being a contender this year \u2013 I think we\u2019ve proven we can at least be competitive with some of these top guys. If we can survive this stretch of three races now, I think we\u2019re going to be in good shape.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Barre\u2019s Jason Corliss vaulted to third in the standings with a win on North Country Federal Credit Union Night while Hinesburg\u2019s Bobby Therrien has offset some tough feature results with three straight semi-feature victories. Milton\u2019s Eric Chase completes the top-five.<\/p>\n

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In the Lenny\u2019s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tigers, former Champions Brendan Moodie of Wolcott and Dwayne Lanphear of Morrisville continue to lead the pack. Both drivers have finished inside the top-10 in each their five events this season. Waterbury Center\u2019s Jason Woodard used a pair of feature wins on North Country Federal Credit Union Night to catapult to third in the standings and will look for a third straight win\u00a0this Thursday<\/span>. Rookie Jaden Perry of Hardwick sits fourth in points followed by Craftsbury Common\u2019s Mike Martin.<\/p>\n

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Morrisville\u2019s Brandon Lanphear tops the Allen Lumber Street Stock standings, and like his father Dwayne, has a perfect record of top-10 finishes. Hardwick\u2019s Will Hennequin has used four straight top-five results to move up to second in the standings just two points in arears. Duxbury\u2019s Reilly Lanphear holds third with Fairfax\u2019s Alan Maynard and Tunbridge\u2019s Gary Mullen completing the top-five.<\/p>\n

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The action on Community College of Vermont Night begins at\u00a07:00pm<\/span>, with a full card of racing for the Thunder Road Late Models, Lenny\u2019s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tigers, and Allen Lumber Street Stocks plus the 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Annual Vermont Brewer\u2019s Cup. The pit gates open at\u00a04:00pm<\/span>\u00a0and the general admission gates open at\u00a05:15pm<\/span>. Admission is $12 for adults, $3 for kids ages 6-12, and $25 for a family of four (2 adults and 2 kids).<\/p>\n

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For more information contact the Thunder Road offices at\u00a0(802) 244-6963<\/a>,\u00a0media@thunderroadvt.com<\/a>, or visitwww.thunderroadvt.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Barre, Vt.\u00a0\u2013 The 2017 Thunder Road season kicks into high gear this Thursday, June 29 with Community College of Vermont Night. The program marks the first of three events in an eight-day span on the Barre high banks, and title aspirations will begin to get serious in the Late Models, Lenny\u2019s Shoe & Apparel Flying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thunder-road","category-vermont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21834,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21833\/revisions\/21834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}