Unadilla, Georgia\u2019s David Ragan will pull into Thunder Road for Thursday night\u2019s final race of the 50th season on a high after a morale boosting victory in Bristol, Tennessee this past weekend over Carl Edwards.\u00a0 The 23 year old prospect for NASCAR stardom won his second Nationwide series of the season after his victory at Talladega, Alabama earlier this summer.\u00a0 The 100 lap main event will put the \u201cscourge\u201d of Georgia short tracking up against Thunder Road\u2019s top talent.\u00a0 Along with his Nationwide series success, he\u2019s been a top ten finisher in the past NASCAR Sprint Cup Series 11 times, driving for John Henry (Red Sox Owner) and Jack Roush.\u00a0 He has already been signed for another year in their UPS car for Sprint Cup Racing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI am truly excited about the prospect of running at Thunder Road.\u00a0 Tony Stewart told me that seldom in his experience has he raced against guys that drive harder and are more respectful of each other than the guys at Thunder Road\u201d,\u00a0 he said.\u00a0 But he cautioned that you need track time to get in the rhythm of the famed Barre high banks.\u00a0 \u201cI intend to be there early and really work on what everyone tells me is as challenging a short track as one can find in the US\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ragan will be carrying his familiar number 6 but the car bears the livery of the Shriner\u2019s Hospitals for Children.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s a personal thing with me but I know a bit about their burn center and have made Shriner\u2019s my choice of cause in which I want to be involved.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ragan hopes with some precautions to challenge Thunder Road\u2019s best including Cris Michaud, Jean-Paul Cyr, Hurricane Fisher, David Pembroke and Phil Scott.\u00a0 This week\u2019s finale is 100 laps for 26 late model cars.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The largest fireworks show ever presented at Thunder Road will conclude the 50th annual Thursday night season leaving only the Bond Auto 250 for the Labor Day Weekend and the famed 47th Chittenden Milk Bowl Saturday, September 26th and Sunday, September 27th.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Post time for this Thursday night\u2019s race is 6:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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