{"id":15969,"date":"2014-05-31T12:05:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T16:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=15969"},"modified":"2014-05-31T12:05:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T16:05:21","slug":"fairpoint-kicks-thunder-road-thursday-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/fairpoint-kicks-thunder-road-thursday-nights\/","title":{"rendered":"FairPoint Kicks Off Thunder Road Thursday Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/TRoad_Action.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/TRoad_Action-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Kyle Pembroke (27VT), Jason Corliss (66VT) and Eric Badore (4VT) will be among the Thunder Road competitors on hand for the first Thursday night event on June 5. (Photo by Leif Tillotson)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/TRoad_Action-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/TRoad_Action.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Barre, VT \u2013 A summer time of Thursday night action on the high banks of Barre\u2019s Thunder Road is set to kick off with FairPoint Communications night. This Thursday, June 5, the \u201cNation\u2019s Site of Excitement\u201d opens its gates for its 55th season of stock car racing Thursday night action. The Late Models, Bond Auto Tiger Sportsmen and Allen Lumber Street Stocks will all be racing. While the first two events of the season were among the biggest and most prestigious held at Thunder Road, it\u2019s the gritty Thursday night action each week where drivers win or lose titles.<\/p>\n<p>Barre\u2019s Jason Corliss sits atop the Late Model standings after his thrilling win in the Mekkelsen RV Memorial Day Classic. The division will run its first 50-lap feature this Thursday for their second point-counting event. Unlike the 100-lap Memorial Day event, weekly 50-lap features are sprint races that require drivers to be aggressive each and every lap. Two-time \u201cKing of the Road\u201d Nick Sweet will look to avenge his Memorial Day loss, while Cody Blake, Dave Pembroke and a host of others continue their title campaigns.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Jason Woodard of Waterbury leads the way in the Bond Auto Tiger Sportsmen division. Woodard enters 2014 as the only returning Tiger driver from last year\u2019s top five in the standings. He was an early favorite for the title, but Worcester\u2019s Jeff Bousquet threw himself into the championship picture with an opening day win and sits just four points out of the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Montpelier\u2019s Donny Yates paces the Allen Lumber Street Stocks with the help of his win on opening day. Sophomore driver Jaden Perry of Hardwick leaves him no room for comfort, just two points back.<\/p>\n<p>The championship battles heat up this Thursday, June 5 with FairPoint Communications Night. Post time is 6:30pm. Admission is just $12 for adults, $3 for kids (ages 6 to 12), kids under 6 are free, and a family ticket (2 adults, 2 kids) is $25. Front gate opens at 5:00pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barre, VT \u2013 A summer time of Thursday night action on the high banks of Barre\u2019s Thunder Road is set to kick off with FairPoint Communications night. This Thursday, June 5, the \u201cNation\u2019s Site of Excitement\u201d opens its gates for its 55th season of stock car racing Thursday night action. The Late Models, Bond Auto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15970,"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":[15541],"class_list":["post-15969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thunder-road","category-vermont","tag-fairpoint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15969","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=15969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}