{"id":13612,"date":"2013-07-09T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=13612"},"modified":"2013-07-09T04:20:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T08:20:38","slug":"clint-bowyer-prepares-for-challengers-in-thunder-road-gov-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/clint-bowyer-prepares-for-challengers-in-thunder-road-gov-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Clint Bowyer Prepares for Challengers in Thunder Road Gov. Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/category\/vermont\/thunder-road\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/thunder.jpg\" alt=\"Thunder Road\" class='ngg-singlepic ngg-left'><\/a>Barre, VT \u2013 Race driver Clint Bowyer, whose next event is Thursday night at Barre, Vermont\u2019s Thunder Road, was part of a last lap charge this past weekend to win the Daytona 400. He wound up 4th in the 200 mph chase. But that charge has projected him to 2nd place in the NASCAR National Sprint Cup standings behind 5-time National Champion Jimmy Johnson.<br \/>\nThis Thursday night\u2019s 150 lap battle for the Vermont Lottery Commission Governor\u2019s Cup on the Barre high banks won\u2019t see the Daytona speeds, but promises to be just as great a challenge for Bowyer, with regional stock car stars eager to prove they can race with one of the nations very best. Barre\u2019s Nick Sweet, Montpelier\u2019s Dave Pembroke, and the three-time T-Road Track Champion Lt. Governor Phil Scott will be joined by Burlington\u2019s Trampas Demers, Chip Grenier, Brooks Clark and 16-year old Emily Packard. Some 30 ACT Championship Late Model cars are expected.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n\u201cYou hear a lot about the quarter mile oval up in Vermont and it sure sounds like my kind of short track. But this is \u201cbragging\u201d rights for the home towners and I\u2019m sure they won\u2019t cut me any slack,\u201d says the Emporia, Kansas speedster whose last major win was the 500 at Charlotte, North Carolina last fall.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Bowyer\u2019s toughest challenger will be 6-time American Canadian Tour Champion Jean-Paul Cyr of Milton, who signed on to run the full Thunder Road 2013 schedule. \u201cI have the experience and the team has given me a great number 32, just hope I have some luck cause you need a lot of that at the Road,\u201d said Cyr.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing for sure,\u201d concluded Bowyer, \u201cif we win at Barre\u2019s quarter mile oval I won\u2019t have far to walk to victory lane. Last year at the Charlotte 500 I ran out of gas crossing the finish line and that\u2019s a hike at a mile and a half track to find your trophy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thunder Road gates open at 3:00pm Thursday, July 11. Qualifying commences at 6:00pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barre, VT \u2013 Race driver Clint Bowyer, whose next event is Thursday night at Barre, Vermont\u2019s Thunder Road, was part of a last lap charge this past weekend to win the Daytona 400. He wound up 4th in the 200 mph chase. But that charge has projected him to 2nd place in the NASCAR National [&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":[55,26,200],"tags":[15351],"class_list":["post-13612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act","category-thunder-road","category-vermont","tag-clint-bowyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13612","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=13612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}