{"id":25378,"date":"2019-06-26T06:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T10:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=25378"},"modified":"2019-06-26T06:13:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T10:13:04","slug":"late-models-doing-double-on-ccv-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2019\/06\/late-models-doing-double-on-ccv-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Models Doing Double on CCV Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Late Models Doing Double on CCV Night<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barre, VT<\/em> \u2013 School may be out for the summer, but Barre\u2019s Thunder Road is ready to give some lessons in high-speed excitement this Thursday, June 27 at Community College of Vermont (CCV) Night. The final event of June includes double the action for the Maplewood\/Irving Oil Late Models as they kick their championship battle into high gear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Late Model stars have two features on Thursday as they open the night with their 50-lap Casella Waste Systems feature that was rained out two weeks ago. They then turn around quickly for a full round of qualifying and their CCV main event. A good night could kick-start a championship run or be a quick remedy to early-season blues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For several top runners, the Casella feature is a chance to double down on last week\u2019s success and close on point leader Jason Corliss. Last week\u2019s winner Scott Dragon of Milton, runner-up Marcel J. Gravel of Wolcott, and others who had strong runs this past Friday get two chances on Thursday to gain more ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe key to the first one is just being smart,\u201d Gravel said. \u201cYou basically have two nights of racing ahead, and you always want to be smart when you\u2019re out there on the track, but I like to think everybody goes into that first race with the same mentality \u2013 let\u2019s keep it caution-free, take what our cars will give us, then go put on a show in the second race\u2026I\u2019ve got a good starting spot, and I really want to go for it, but you also try to keep a level head for the first feature so you don\u2019t ruin your whole season by not even getting to race in the second one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a fantastic opportunity,\u201d Gravel went on. \u201cAs on as (Corliss) has been this year, this is a great opportunity for us to capitalize. I\u2019m going to be cautiously aggressive in that first race, if that makes sense, because you have to go out there and go for the win. That\u2019s just our mentality this year. We\u2019ve been safe and cautious most of my Late Model career, and it\u2019s paid off in some ways, but this year I\u2019m not settling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gravel is part of a large group trying to catch the early top dogs in the division. Barre\u2019s Corliss has surprised no one by sitting atop the overall standings. His consistent excellence, with no finishes outside the top-five so far, has been tough to match. Another hometown driver, Cody Blake, now sits second in points after two straight podium finishes in his own right. Things are tight from third on back, with third-place Kyle Pembroke and eighth-place Gravel separated by just nine points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday night\u2019s event will also feature full championship action for the Lenny\u2019s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tigers and Allen Lumber Street Stocks. In the Flying Tigers, a rookie leads the pack after five events. Craftsbury\u2019s Stephen Martin became the youngest champion in track history last year when he captured the Street Stock title. He\u2019s adapted to eight-cylinder cars in a big way and now holds a 19-point edge over two-time champion Jason Woodard of Waterbury Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But plenty of other racers have been fast in the Tigers this year and could vault to the top. Former point leader Tyler Austin of E. Calais still sits third overall despite an early incident in last week\u2019s second feature. Nine points divide fourth-place Joe Steffen and eighth-place Kevin Streeter with Kelsea Woodard, Micheal MacAskill, and Brandon Lanphear sandwiched between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barre\u2019s Jeffrey Martin continues to expand his lead in the Allen Lumber Street Stock ranks. Martin hasn\u2019t finished worse than fourth in the last four events and not sits a relatively comfortable 34 points ahead of 2014 champion Tommy \u201cThunder\u201d Smith of Williamstown. Youngsters Kasey Beattie and Kasey Collins remain strong in third and fourth with veterans Dean Switser Jr. and Jamie Davis not far behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Thursday night action at Thunder Road begins at 7:00pm on June 27 with Community College of Vermont Night. Double features for the Maplewood\/Irving Oil Late Models are on the schedules as they start the evening with their 50-lap Casella Waste Systems make-up race. The Lenny\u2019s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tigers and Allen Lumber Street Stocks are also in-class. The pits open at 3:30pm and the front gates open at 5:15pm. Admission 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":"

Late Models Doing Double on CCV Night Barre, VT \u2013 School may be out for the summer, but Barre\u2019s Thunder Road is ready to give some lessons in high-speed excitement this Thursday, June 27 at Community College of Vermont (CCV) Night. The final event of June includes double the action for the Maplewood\/Irving Oil Late Models […]<\/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":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25378","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\/25378","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=25378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25379,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25378\/revisions\/25379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}