{"id":23917,"date":"2018-08-18T09:22:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T13:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=23917"},"modified":"2018-08-19T09:22:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T13:22:57","slug":"monster-trucks-ready-to-rock-the-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2018\/08\/monster-trucks-ready-to-rock-the-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster Trucks ready to rock the \u2018Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/new-london-waterford-speedbowl-300x77.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"77\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/new-london-waterford-speedbowl-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/new-london-waterford-speedbowl.png 444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong>Monster Trucks ready to rock the \u2018Bowl<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WATERFORD \u2014 Mike Vaters Sr., a 37-year veteran of Monster Truck activity, said he\u2019s looking forward to Sunday\u2019s visit to the New London-Waterford Speedbowl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to rock the house,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The two Monster Trucks that will be in attendance, Higher Education and Overkill Evolution, probably will be rocking more than just the house \u2014 expect the ground also to start shaking.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHigher Education is the only Monster school bus that competes in racing,\u201d Vaters Sr. said. \u201cIt will be driven by Preston Perez.<br \/>\n\u201cOverkill Evolution, driven by Michael Vaters II, is the 2015 world champion. He also won the Young Guns event in Las Vegas in 2014, so he has back-to-back world titles.\u201d<br \/>\nVaters II said the trucks will be involved in two segments.<br \/>\n\u201cThe first time we\u2019re out, we\u2019ll be doing wheel competition,\u201d Vaters Sr. said, \u201cWheelies, traveling on two wheels, things like that.<br \/>\n\u201cThen when we come out for the second time, it will be freestyle. It will be huge. Pretty much anything goes.<br \/>\n\u201cThere will be big air, long jumps, Wheelies. And you could possibly see a tuck roll over, but not on purpose.\u201d<br \/>\nThere will also be Quad Wars \u2014 New York vs, Massachusetts.<br \/>\n\u201cThat interstate rivalry is always great,\u201d Vaters Sr. said. \u201cWe are expecting quite a night.\u201d<br \/>\nIn addition to the Monster Trucks, three Enduros will be held \u2014 a Pro Enduro, a Full-Size Enduro and a Compact\/Mid-Size Enduro. A popular Ski Race will open the festivities and there also will be Power Wheels and Big Wheel races for the kids.<br \/>\nThe grandstands open Sunday at 3 p.m. and the action takes place at 5 p.m. Admission is $25 for adults, $10 for youths 13-16 and $5 for children 12 and under. Senior admission is $22 and military members will be admitted for $20.<br \/>\nThe Monster Trucks, however, will be the crown jewel of the day\u2019s activity.<br \/>\nVaters Sr. is the head of Vaters Motorsports that promotes Monster Truck events all over the country.<br \/>\n\u201cWe \u2018re at the Essex County Fair Thursday and then we\u2019re in Greenfield, Mass. on Saturday,\u201d Vaters Sr. said. \u201cAnd then we\u2019re headed for Waterford. We\u2019ve been there before, so we are getting pumped up.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Speedbowl house is waiting to be rocked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monster Trucks ready to rock the \u2018Bowl WATERFORD \u2014 Mike Vaters Sr., a 37-year veteran of Monster Truck activity, said he\u2019s looking forward to Sunday\u2019s visit to the New London-Waterford Speedbowl. \u201cWe are going to rock the house,\u201d he said. The two Monster Trucks that will be in attendance, Higher Education and Overkill Evolution, probably [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-waterford-speedbowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23917","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=23917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23919,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23917\/revisions\/23919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}