{"id":14614,"date":"2013-09-21T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=14614"},"modified":"2013-09-21T04:13:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T08:13:41","slug":"51st-milk-bowl-returns-50-lap-segments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/51st-milk-bowl-returns-50-lap-segments\/","title":{"rendered":"51st Milk Bowl Returns to 50-Lap Segments"},"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 The 51st Annual People\u2019s United Bank Milk Bowl will return to its historic three (3) 50-lap segment format on Sunday, October 6 at Barre\u2019s Thunder Road. In recent years, the final two segments had been run with extended 75-laps. After listening to the fans, it has been decided that the shortened 50-lap segments will create more \u201cedge of your seat\u201d action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 50-lap segments were always more volatile,\u201d said Thunder Road Promoter Tom Curley. \u201cThe third and final segment was the highlight of the Milk Bowl, as drivers had to go flat out every lap. The 75-lap segments allowed drivers to relax and gave them too much time to work their way through traffic. That isn\u2019t what the Milk Bowl is about. It\u2019s about white-knuckled, up-on-the-wheel, three-wide for the win action. It\u2019s what makes the Milk Bowl the \u2018Toughest Short Track Event in North America\u2019.\u201d<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhile the shortened segments will bring the overall scores up, it should also put more drivers in a spot to win the overall, as they head into the third and final segment. The Milk Bowl uses a combined scoring system, with the winner of each segment receiving one (1) point, second two (2), etc. with the lowest combined score winning the Milk Bowl. The finishing order from each segment is partially inverted to line up the next segment.<\/p>\n<p>The 51st running of the People\u2019s United Bank Milk Bowl will commence on Sunday, October 6 with a post time of 1:00pm. Booth Bros. and H.P. Hood qualifying day will be on Saturday, October 5, with a 1:00pm start, as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barre, VT \u2013 The 51st Annual People\u2019s United Bank Milk Bowl will return to its historic three (3) 50-lap segment format on Sunday, October 6 at Barre\u2019s Thunder Road. In recent years, the final two segments had been run with extended 75-laps. After listening to the fans, it has been decided that the shortened 50-lap [&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":[189],"class_list":["post-14614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thunder-road","category-vermont","tag-milk-bowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14614","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=14614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}