{"id":20140,"date":"2016-01-02T13:28:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T18:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=20140"},"modified":"2016-01-02T13:28:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T18:28:24","slug":"kart-racing-set-to-return-to-thunder-road-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/kart-racing-set-to-return-to-thunder-road-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Kart Racing Set to Return to Thunder Road in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kart Racing Set to Return to Thunder Road in 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barre, VT \u2013 Thunder Road has announced the formation of a new weekly Go-Kart racing series for the 2016 season. The Junior Champ Kart youth division for competitors ages 6 to 14 will run on Tuesday nights throughout the summer, marking the first time since 2010 that weekly Kart racing will be held on the Barre high banks.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-race series begins on Tuesday, June 21 and will run weekly through Tuesday, August 23, with a one-week holiday break on July 5. The gates will open at 4:30pm for all Tuesday events with racing beginning at 6:00pm.<br \/>\n <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A special event on Saturday, September 10 will close the Karting season. Racing for this event will begin at 1:00pm with the gates opening at 12:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>An informational meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 19 at 7:00pm at Nick Sweet\u2019s race shop on 307 South Barre Road in Barre, VT. Please email Cris Michaud at crism6@comcast.net with any further questions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2016 Thunder Road Junior Champ Kart schedule<\/strong><br \/>\n#          DAY                 DATE               Post Time       Gates Open<br \/>\n1          Tue                  Jun 21              6:00pm            4:30pm<br \/>\n2          Tue                  Jun 28              6:00pm            4:30pm<br \/>\n3          Tue                  Jul 12               6:00pm            4:30pm<br \/>\n4          Tue                  Jul 19               6:00pm            4:30pm<br \/>\n5          Tue                  Jul 26               6:00pm            4:30pm<br \/>\n6          Tue                  Aug 02             6:00pm            4:30pm<br \/>\n7          Tue                  Aug 09             6:00pm            4:30pm<br \/>\n8          Tue                  Aug 16             6:00pm            4:30pm<br \/>\n9          Tue                  Aug 23             6:00pm            4:30pm<br \/>\n10        Sat                   Sep 10             1:00pm            12:00pm<br \/>\nSubject to Change<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kart Racing Set to Return to Thunder Road in 2016 Barre, VT \u2013 Thunder Road has announced the formation of a new weekly Go-Kart racing series for the 2016 season. The Junior Champ Kart youth division for competitors ages 6 to 14 will run on Tuesday nights throughout the summer, marking the first time since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<strong>Kart Racing Set to Return to Thunder Road in 2016<\/strong>\n \nBarre, VT \u2013 Thunder Road has announced the formation of a new weekly Go-Kart racing series for the 2016 season. The Junior Champ Kart youth division for competitors ages 6 to 14 will run on Tuesday nights throughout the summer, marking the first time since 2010 that weekly Kart racing will be held on the Barre high banks.\n \nThe 10-race series begins on Tuesday, June 21 and will run weekly through Tuesday, August 23, with a one-week holiday break on July 5. The gates will open at 4:30pm for all Tuesday events with racing beginning at 6:00pm.\n <!--more-->\n\n\nA special event on Saturday, September 10 will close the Karting season. Racing for this event will begin at 1:00pm with the gates opening at 12:00pm.\n \nAn informational meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 19 at 7:00pm at Nick Sweet\u2019s race shop on 307 South Barre Road in Barre, VT. Please email Cris Michaud at crism6@comcast.net with any further questions.\n \n<strong>2016 Thunder Road Junior Champ Kart schedule<\/strong>\n#          DAY                 DATE               Post Time       Gates Open\n1          Tue                  Jun 21              6:00pm            4:30pm\n2          Tue                  Jun 28              6:00pm            4:30pm\n3          Tue                  Jul 12               6:00pm            4:30pm\n4          Tue                  Jul 19               6:00pm            4:30pm\n5          Tue                  Jul 26               6:00pm            4:30pm\n6          Tue                  Aug 02             6:00pm            4:30pm\n7          Tue                  Aug 09             6:00pm            4:30pm\n8          Tue                  Aug 16             6:00pm            4:30pm\n9          Tue                  Aug 23             6:00pm            4:30pm\n10        Sat                   Sep 10             1:00pm            12:00pm\nSubject to Change","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,26,200],"tags":[15771],"class_list":["post-20140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-thunder-road","category-vermont","tag-thunder-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20140","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=20140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}