{"id":10230,"date":"2012-07-17T12:30:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T16:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=10230"},"modified":"2012-07-13T20:23:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T00:23:09","slug":"thunder-roads-50th-milk-bowl-reaches-record-100000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/thunder-roads-50th-milk-bowl-reaches-record-100000\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Road\u2019s 50th Milk Bowl Reaches Record $100,000"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Historic Winnings Posted for Marquee Race<\/h2>\n

Thunder Road officials have announced that the 50th Annual People\u2019s United Bank Milk Bowl on Sunday, September 30th, will boast winnings exceeding $100,000 for competitors at \u201cThe Nation\u2019s Site of Excitement.\u201d It is the highest purse ever posted for the event deemed the \u201cToughest Short Track Race in America\u201d.<\/p>\n

The season-ending event for Barre\u2019s Thunder Road has long been a marquee for Northeast Auto Racing, but the 50th anniversary will be even more special. The weekend will include a \u201cReserve Milk Bowl\u201d for up to thirty competitors who do not qualify for the 50th People\u2019s United Bank Milk Bowl. It will be comprised of a two-segment feature event, as well as a $20,000 purse of its own, with $3,000 going to the winner.
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Long time track promoter Tom Curley feels the 50th anniversary is well worth it. \u201cFor over 50 years Thunder Road\u2019s Milk Bowl has garnered a reputation for racers and fans as one of the most difficult and competitive races in North America,\u201d said Curley. \u201cTo celebrate the 50th running of this event, we felt it was appropriate to raise the stakes and offer anybody who wants to enter an opportunity to race that weekend. The \u201cReserve Milk Bowl\u201d, with a purse of over $20,000, will give everybody that opportunity,\u2019\u201d he finished. <\/p>\n

The drivers were ecstatic to be racing for the most money in Milk Bowl history.<\/p>\n

\u201cWow, that\u2019s just awesome,\u201d remarked 2011 Milk Bowl Champion Brian Hoar. \u201cMost big races for other series are around that $20,000 mark. Man, this is what it\u2019s all about!\u201d<\/p>\n

2008 Track Champion Eric Williams was also taken back. \u201cWhoa, that certainly makes it worth my while,\u201d he grinned.<\/p>\n

Even Lt. Governor Phil Scott got in on the action saying, \u201cThat\u2019s some extra incentive for sure. It really doesn\u2019t get much better than that, everyone is going to want to run it!\u201d<\/p>\n

The 50th Annual People\u2019s United Bank Milk Bowl kicks off with qualifying on Saturday, September 29, and will begin with a 1:00pm post time on Sunday, September 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Historic Winnings Posted for Marquee Race Thunder Road officials have announced that the 50th Annual People\u2019s United Bank Milk Bowl on Sunday, September 30th, will boast winnings exceeding $100,000 for competitors at \u201cThe Nation\u2019s Site of Excitement.\u201d It is the highest purse ever posted for the event deemed the \u201cToughest Short Track Race in America\u201d. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[126,26,200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-england","category-thunder-road","category-vermont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}