{"id":3214,"date":"2010-09-02T20:35:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T01:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2010-09-02T20:35:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T01:35:49","slug":"sweet-defends-home-turf-in-bond-labor-day-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/sweet-defends-home-turf-in-bond-labor-day-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Defends Home Turf in Bond Labor Day Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sweet Defends Home Turf in Bond Labor Day Classic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barre, VT \u2013 Barre\u2019s own Nick Sweet will defend his home turf at Thunder Road International Speedbowl against the ACT Late Model Tour stars in this Sunday\u2019s (September 5) 32nd running of the Bond Auto Labor Day Classic 200. The recently crowned 2010 \u201cKing of the Road\u201d will battle with the likes of current ACT Tour point leader Brian Hoar, Brent Dragon, John Donahue, who has won the last three Thunder Road Late Model features, and Joey Polewarczyk, Jr. among others.<\/p>\n<p>As the hometown favorite, Sweet has had one of the most outstanding seasons at the \u201cNation\u2019s Site of Excitement\u201d in recent memory. He has already captured two big wins this season with the Thunder Road season opening ACT Tour Merchants Bank 150 in May and the Carquest Governor\u2019s Cup 100 in June. In the 15 events held at Thunder Road this season Sweet has yet to finish outside the top ten. It is this consistency that helped him claim the 2010 Thunder Road Late Model Championship by just six points last Thursday (August 26).<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n\u201cI think you get a huge advantage running there (Thunder Road) weekly,\u201d said Sweet. \u201cIt\u2019s not just the big races, but the races throughout the year. The regulars will do well because they know what they want for the feel of the car. It\u2019s not about how fast you go, it\u2019s how you maintain it, which is why the feel of the car is so important,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt seems the Thunder Road weekly guys like Pembroke, Scott, Michaud, Donahue always finish well. Having experience at Thunder Road is a big advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sweet is not feeling the pressure as the 2010 champ heading into Labor Day weekend. \u201cI\u2019m not worried about it. We are going to look at it like every other race. Our first goal is to get into the race. Then if we do that we set our next goal a little higher. Once you accomplish each goal you set your next one higher,\u201d said the King of the Road.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet will once again look to hold off the stars of the ACT Late Model Tour and claim the $5,000 winner\u2019s share of the over $40,000 purse for the 32nd Annual Bond Auto Labor Day Classic this Sunday, September 5. Post time is 1:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.maineracer.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=51&#038;t=22826<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet Defends Home Turf in Bond Labor Day Classic Barre, VT \u2013 Barre\u2019s own Nick Sweet will defend his home turf at Thunder Road International Speedbowl against the ACT Late Model Tour stars in this Sunday\u2019s (September 5) 32nd running of the Bond Auto Labor Day Classic 200. The recently crowned 2010 \u201cKing of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,126],"tags":[15778],"class_list":["post-3214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act","category-new-england","tag-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214","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=3214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}