{"id":10882,"date":"2012-09-25T20:53:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T00:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=10882"},"modified":"2012-09-30T20:54:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T00:54:29","slug":"thunder-road-announces-50000-bonus-to-milk-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/thunder-road-announces-50000-bonus-to-milk-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Road Announces $50,000 Bonus To Milk Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Thunder<\/a>Barre, VT \u2013 Thunder Road Officials have announced a fifty thousand ($50,000) dollar bonus to be awarded to any competitor that can win all three segments of the 50th People\u2019s United Bank Milk Bowl on the weekend of September 29th and 30th.<\/p>\n

The $50,000 award is an added bonus to posted awards already exceeding $120,000, making the race one of the biggest sporting events in Vermont\u2019s history. In the Milk Bowl\u2019s long history, three drivers have completed the feat of winning all three segments: Larry Demar (1967), Dave Dion (1975), and Robbie Crouch (1986). Others have come dangerously close, and no one more than Williston\u2019s Brian Hoar.
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\nHoar, who has three Milk Bowl victories in his impressive racing resume, has won the pole starting position and two of the three segments in each previous Milk Bowl win. Now, with $50,000 on the line, extra pressure will be on the 8-time ACT Champion to complete the sweep.<\/p>\n

2012 King of the Road Nick Sweet, who put on one of the most dominating Late Model performances in recent memory in Thunder Road\u2019s weekly Late Model division, will also be a favorite for the bonus, along with former Milk Bowl Champion Joey Polewarczyk, Jr., Former Milk Bowl Champion and VT State runner up Brent Dragon, and American Canadian Tour point leader Wayne Helliwell, Jr.<\/p>\n

The bonus brings another added element to an event already complete with bands, tent dances, a champion\u2019s dinner, bonfires, fireworks, drill teams, and bagpipes, as well as a newly-added $3,000 to win \u2018Reserve\u2019 Milk Bowl with a $20,000 purse for non-qualifying ACT Late Model teams. Mini Milk Bowls will be run for Bond Auto Tiger Sportsmen and Allen Lumber Street Stocks as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are excited about the possibility of one of our teams running for a bonus of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to help celebrate the 50th annual Milk Bowl,\u201d said the President of ACT Tom Curley. \u201cIt sure will add some additional pressure on the entire Milk Bowl experience for both teams and fans.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 50th People\u2019s United Bank Milk Bowl kicks off all the festivities and the \u201cToughest Short Track Race in America\u201d on Saturday, September 29th for qualifying rounds and Sunday, September 30th. Post time for both days is 1pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barre, VT \u2013 Thunder Road Officials have announced a fifty thousand ($50,000) dollar bonus to be awarded to any competitor that can win all three segments of the 50th People\u2019s United Bank Milk Bowl on the weekend of September 29th and 30th. The $50,000 award is an added bonus to posted awards already exceeding $120,000, […]<\/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":[55,126,26,200],"tags":[189],"class_list":["post-10882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act","category-new-england","category-thunder-road","category-vermont","tag-milk-bowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10882","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=10882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}