{"id":1336,"date":"2009-08-21T19:52:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T00:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2009-08-21T19:53:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T00:53:42","slug":"thunder-road-celebrates-final-thursday-night-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/thunder-road-celebrates-final-thursday-night-race\/","title":{"rendered":"THUNDER ROAD CELEBRATES FINAL THURSDAY NIGHT RACE WITH DAVID REGAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Waterbury, VT<\/em> \u2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup rising star David Ragan, driver of the UPS car for Rousch-Fenway, will race at Barre, Vermont\u2019s Thunder Road in the Vermont State Employees Credit Union (VSECU) 100-lap final Thursday summer event on August 27th<\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ragan, who represents the new generation of racers, joins NASCAR veterans Bobby Allison, Richard Petty and current point leader Tony Stewart who have made appearances during the 2009 season to help celebrate Thunder Road\u2019s 50th<\/sup> Anniversary. Ragan will drive a Pete Duto-prepared, Phil Scott Ford ACT race car, and will compete in the VSECU 100-lap event. Ragan plans to arrive early to get some seat time on the tricky high banks of Thunder Road.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Unadilla, Georgia\u2019s Ragan is an accomplished short track racer. \u201cI have heard so much about Thunder Road that I really jumped at the opportunity to race there this summer. I love the short tracks, and from what I hear, the atmosphere at Thunder Road is fantastic. I hope I get it figured out by the end of the 100 laps,\u201dsaid Ragan.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ragan is a supporter of the Shriners organization. He donates all the proceeds from the sale of his die cast Shriner\u2019s cars to the Shriner\u2019s Hospital. They will be on sale at the Thunder Road event.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The \u2018\u2019King of the Road\u201d title will also be settled at the VSECU 100 . Jean-Paul Cyr from Milton, VT, who is chasing his first Thunder Road title and sits in a comfortable first place going into the final event of 2009, has battled former track champions David Pembroke, Phil Scott, and Cris Michaud all season. Cyr, a seven-time American Canadian Tour Champion said, \u201c Our goal was to try and win the Thunder Road title. I sure didn\u2019t get off to a great start, but Jeff (Laquerre) and the guys have really gotten the car to work well lately. It is some different trying to win races at Thunder Road in 50 laps from what I have been used to on the ACT Tour over the years, but it has been fun and unbelievably competitive.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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The final Thursday night of the season will also be celebrated with the largest fireworks in Thunder Road history. In addition, over 100 \u2018old timers\u2019 will help bring the curtain down on the 50th<\/sup> year of Thursday night racing. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Post time for the VESECU 100 is 6:00 and front gates open at 3:00 for the VESECU 100. Adult tickets are only $12.00 and a family ticket for two adults and two children between 6-12 is only $25.00. Kids under 6 are free.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The American Canadian Tour (ACT) $40,000 Bond Auto Labor Day Classic 200 will take place over the Labor Day weekend, on Sunday, September 6, 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Waterbury, VT \u2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup rising star David Ragan, driver of the UPS car for Rousch-Fenway, will race at Barre, Vermont\u2019s Thunder Road in the Vermont State Employees Credit Union (VSECU) 100-lap final Thursday summer event on August 27th. Ragan, who represents the new generation of racers, joins NASCAR veterans Bobby Allison, Richard Petty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,126,26],"tags":[172,15771],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","category-new-england","category-thunder-road","tag-david-ragan","tag-thunder-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","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=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}