{"id":13116,"date":"2013-06-14T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=13116"},"modified":"2013-06-14T08:20:51","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T12:20:51","slug":"kids-night-on-deck-for-thunder-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/kids-night-on-deck-for-thunder-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids Night On Deck For Thunder Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Kids.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Kids-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Children at Thunder Road prepare for a race car ride around the track in 2012.  Kids Night returns to Thunder Road this Sunday, June 16 complete with free admission, a free hot dog, and race car rides for children 12 and under.  (Photo Credit: David Heath)\" title=\"Children at Thunder Road prepare for a race car ride around the track in 2012.  Kids Night returns to Thunder Road this Sunday, June 16 complete with free admission, a free hot dog, and race car rides for children 12 and under.  (Photo Credit: David Heath)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Kids-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Kids.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Barre, VT \u2013 On Sunday, June 16, The Nation\u2019s Site of Excitement Thunder Road will open the gates with free admission for kids 12 and under with a full card of racing action and special events for the whole family.<\/p>\n<p>Racecars from Thunder Road\u2019s Late Model division, Bond Auto Tigers, and Allen Lumber Street Stocks will be lined up at 1:15pm to give rides around the quarter-mile oval to kids in attendance. Thunder Road will also be giving out a free hot dog to all kids.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nKids night at the races has become a tradition at the \u201cNation\u2019s Site of Excitement,\u201d dating back decades into Thunder Road\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember riding around the track with the great Stub Fadden,\u201d said Thunder Road fan Gary Chase. \u201cThat was by far the best kids night for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe used to have 15 kids hanging out of the Dragon Wagon!\u201d said fan Dan Hill, referring to the car of stock car racing legend Beaver Dragon. \u201cI\u2019m not sure we could get away with that these days,\u201d he laughed.<\/p>\n<p>The racers enjoy the unique Thunder Road event equally as much.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a very cool thing for our young fans at Thunder Road,\u201d said Nick Sweet, the defending Late Model Champion. \u201cFor some, it gives them a taste of what we do and puts the bug in them, for others it\u2019s just a cool experience. It\u2019s great to see their faces light up as we go around the track,\u201d he finished.<\/p>\n<p>Kids night comes to Thunder Road with free admission and free hot dogs for children 12 and under this Sunday, June 16 presented by Harvest Equipment. Kids rides start at 1:15pm. Post time is 4pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barre, VT \u2013 On Sunday, June 16, The Nation\u2019s Site of Excitement Thunder Road will open the gates with free admission for kids 12 and under with a full card of racing action and special events for the whole family. Racecars from Thunder Road\u2019s Late Model division, Bond Auto Tigers, and Allen Lumber Street Stocks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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":[26,200],"tags":[15771],"class_list":["post-13116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thunder-road","category-vermont","tag-thunder-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13116","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}