{"id":22254,"date":"2017-09-07T08:49:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T12:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=22254"},"modified":"2017-09-07T08:49:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T12:49:40","slug":"thunder-road-champions-set-to-be-crowned-on-community-college-of-vermont-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2017\/09\/thunder-road-champions-set-to-be-crowned-on-community-college-of-vermont-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Road Champions Set To Be Crowned On Community College of Vermont Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Thunder Road Champions Set To Be Crowned On Community College of Vermont Night<\/strong><\/p>\n

Barre, Vt. \u2013 The final point-counting event of the season at Barre\u2019s Thunder Road is set for this Friday, September 8 at 7:00pm with Community College of Vermont (CCV) Championship Night. The Thunder Road Late Models, Lenny\u2019s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tigers, and Allen Lumber Street Stocks will all crown their champions at the Friday night affair that was previously postponed due to weather.<\/p>\n

As part of the CCV Championship Night special, all three divisions will run extra-distance features. The Late Models will cap the night with a 65-lap main event, while the Flying Tigers and Street Stocks will run 50 and 35 laps, respectively.
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Hinesburg\u2019s Bobby Therrien leads a two-man battle in the Thunder Road Late Models to become the 2017 \u201cKing of the Road\u201d. Therrien has a 31-point lead over South Burlington\u2019s Trampas Demers and would become the first driver in the track\u2019s modern era to win championships in three different divisions. He previously won the Allen Lumber Street Stock championship in 2007 and the Lenny\u2019s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tiger title in 2012.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would mean the world to me to get all three championships for the ladder system that Thunder Road has built,\u201d Therrien said. \u201cGoing into the summer, (the Late Model title) was our goal, but it was a very high goal that we set, and we\u2019re on the verge of being able to do it. To be able to get a championship not only for myself, but for the team, would mean a lot. We just have to continue doing what we\u2019ve been doing. We\u2019ve gotten in this position by having a strong second half of the season, so going into Friday night, we\u2019re going to have the same attitude as the rest of the summer. We always show up to win, but we have a bigger picture in mind, so hopefully we\u2019ll be able to have another solid night and be able to wrap it up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Therrien opened the season with a win in the Mekkelsen RV Memorial Day Classic on May 28 and has remained at the top of the standings for most of the summer, bolstered in part by five Maplewood Semi-Feature victories. Demers emerged as a serious title contender with his victory in the VP Racing Fuels Vermont Governor\u2019s Cup on July 13 and has stayed near the front thanks to a division-leading seven podium finishes.<\/p>\n

The fight for the rest of the top-10 in points is hotly contested as well. Barre\u2019s Jason Corliss leads a three-way clash for third between fellow Barre racer Cody Blake and Milton\u2019s Scott Dragon with the trio separated by 31 total points. Other drivers such as Wolcott\u2019s Marcel J. Gravel and Westford\u2019s Darrell Morin are looking to secure career-best final points positions with strong runs on Friday.<\/p>\n

In the Lenny\u2019s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tigers, former champions Jason Woodard of Waterbury Center and Brendan Moodie of Wolcott will decide the 2017 title. Woodard has a 24-point advantage over Moodie on the strength of four feature victories, which is tied with Hinesburg\u2019s Trevor Lyman for the division lead. Moodie led the standings for much of the season after winning the Memorial Day opener and has remained in the hunt by posting a division-leading 12 top-five finishes.<\/p>\n

Morrisville\u2019s Dwayne Lanphear is 74 points back of the lead in third and would need Woodard to miss the feature on Friday in order to keep his title hopes alive. Lyman is 16 points behind Lanphear in fourth, while Myers Container Service Triple Crown Champion Mike Martin completes the top five.<\/p>\n

The Allen Lumber Street Stock championship duel is one of the closest in recent memory as four drivers sit within 13 points of the top spot. It is also a highly diverse contest with two division veterans going against two teenage competitors in their sophomore seasons.<\/p>\n

Wolcott\u2019s Jamie Davis, the 2015 Street Stock champion, currently holds a two-point lead over 19-year-old Cooper Bouchard of Hinesburg. Longtime contender Alan Maynard of Fairfax rides five points behind Davis in third. Sixteen-year-old Kelsea Woodard of Waterbury Center rounds out the quartet in a bid to join her father Jason Woodard as Thunder Road champions.<\/p>\n

The final round of the 2017 Thunder Road championship bouts goes to post at 7:00pm this Friday, September 8. The pits will open at 3:30pm and the front gates will open at 5:15pm. Admission for CCV Championship Night is $12 for adults, $3 for kids ages 6-12, and $25 for a family of four (2 adults, 2 kids).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thunder Road Champions Set To Be Crowned On Community College of Vermont Night Barre, Vt. \u2013 The final point-counting event of the season at Barre\u2019s Thunder Road is set for this Friday, September 8 at 7:00pm with Community College of Vermont (CCV) Championship Night. The Thunder Road Late Models, Lenny\u2019s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tigers, […]<\/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-22254","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\/22254","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=22254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22255,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22254\/revisions\/22255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}