{"id":14768,"date":"2013-10-05T09:28:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T13:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=14768"},"modified":"2013-10-05T09:28:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T13:28:03","slug":"laperle-macdonald-enter-51st-milk-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/laperle-macdonald-enter-51st-milk-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Laperle and MacDonald Enter 51st Milk Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/NewEnglandRacingNews.com\" title=\"New England Racing News\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/act.jpg\" alt=\"ACT American Canadian Tour\" class='ngg-singlepic ngg-left'><\/a>Waterbury, VT \u2013 Quebec\u2019s Patrick Laperle and the \u201cOutlaw\u201d Eddie MacDonald from Rowley, MA are the latest entries in the 51st Peoples United Bank Milk Bowl, to be held at Thunder Road International Speedbowl on Saturday and Sunday, October 5-6, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Newly crowned ACT Champion Wayne Helliwell, Jr. from Dover, NH and his Bruce Bernhardt team have withdrawn their entry from the event. \u201cOur sponsor backed out so we don\u2019t have the money to make the Milk Bowl weekend,\u201d the 2013 Champion said.<\/p>\n<p>Laperle is a three-time winner of the \u2018toughest short track\u2019 race in North America and will seek his 4th win in the fall classic on Sunday, October 6, 2013. When the hard charging three time S\u00e9rie ACT and 2008 ACT US Champion was asked why he was coming to this year\u2019s Milk Bowl, Laperle said, \u201cThe money! Ten Thousand ($10,000.00) to win is a lot of money. I am excited to try out the new American Racer tire too.\u201d<br \/>\n <!--more--><br \/>\nMacDonald, fresh off his third Bond Auto ACT Invitational win at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway two weeks ago, will look for his first win when he tackles the high banks at the \u2018Nations Site of Excitement\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Booth Bros. \/Hood qualifying day is Saturday, October 5, 2013. All teams will qualify under the clock for starting positions in the traditional triple 50 lap qualifying races to be held Saturday. Thunder Road\u2019s Bond Auto Tigers and Allen Lumber Street Stocks will also have the unique experience of time trial qualifying for the \u2018mini Milk Bowls\u2019 to be held on Sunday, October 6, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty teams will make up the starting grid on the tricky quarter mile on top of Quarry Hill and will compete in three 50-lap dashes, with the final two segments inverted. Combined lowest scores of the three segments will win over $10,000.00 and hoist the milk can trophy before kissing the \u2018beauty queen\u2019, a genuine Vermont Ayrshire dairy cow.<\/p>\n<p>Gates will open both days at 10am. Post time each day is 1:00. Adult tickets for the Peoples United Milk Bowl are $30 for two days and $25 for Sunday only. Kids 12 and under are admitted free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waterbury, VT \u2013 Quebec\u2019s Patrick Laperle and the \u201cOutlaw\u201d Eddie MacDonald from Rowley, MA are the latest entries in the 51st Peoples United Bank Milk Bowl, to be held at Thunder Road International Speedbowl on Saturday and Sunday, October 5-6, 2013. Newly crowned ACT Champion Wayne Helliwell, Jr. from Dover, NH and his Bruce Bernhardt [&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":[55,14972],"tags":[15469],"class_list":["post-14768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act","category-touring-series-news","tag-laperle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14768","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=14768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}