{"id":16469,"date":"2014-08-01T23:10:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T03:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=16469"},"modified":"2014-08-01T21:10:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T01:10:35","slug":"mm-beverage-enduro-returns-thunder-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/mm-beverage-enduro-returns-thunder-road\/","title":{"rendered":"M&#038;M Beverage Enduro Returns to Thunder Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7785\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/troad.jpg\" alt=\"troad\" width=\"333\" height=\"91\" \/>Barre, VT \u2013 <\/em>This <span data-term=\"goog_1904663373\">Sunday, August 3<\/span> will see the 30<sup>th<\/sup> running of the M&amp;M Beverage Enduro 200 at Barre\u2019s Thunder Road. The \u201cPeople\u2019s Race\u201d as it has become known features 200 laps of thrashing and crashing with no cautions. Over 50 drivers have already signed up for the event, including several notable Thunder Road competitors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At 68 years of age, Don \u201cDipstick\u201d Tofani of Plainfield has become a staple of the \u201cPeople\u2019s Race\u201d and even won back in 1987. He has competed in every one of the 29 previous events and finished second in last year\u2019s race.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Other notable entries include two former Thunder Road Late Model competitors in Jeff Spooner of Essex and Bob Eldred of Waterbury. Eldred claimed a top 20 in the 2013 running of the event.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A host of Thunder Road Rough Riders have filed entries including the LaForest brothers of Barre. Chris and Kevin combined have won every Rough Rider event so far in 2014. Driver\u2019s education teacher Paul Dudley and fellow Rough Rider Mike Forsey have also sent in entries for the M&amp;M Beverage Enduro 200. Forsey won the 2011 edition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This <span data-term=\"goog_1904663374\">Sunday, August 3<\/span> will be the 30<sup>th<\/sup> running of the M&amp;M Beverage Enduro 200 plus the Allen Lumber Street Stock 50-lap specials. Post time is <span data-term=\"goog_1904663375\">6:00pm<\/span> with the front gates opening at <span data-term=\"goog_1904663376\">3:00pm<\/span>. Admission is just $12 for adults, $3 for kids (ages 6 to 12), kids under age 6 are free and a family ticket (2 adults, 2 kids) is just $25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barre, VT \u2013 This Sunday, August 3 will see the 30th running of the M&amp;M Beverage Enduro 200 at Barre\u2019s Thunder Road. The \u201cPeople\u2019s Race\u201d as it has become known features 200 laps of thrashing and crashing with no cautions. Over 50 drivers have already signed up for the event, including several notable Thunder Road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[],"class_list":["post-16469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thunder-road","category-vermont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16469","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}