{"id":9971,"date":"2012-06-15T15:22:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T19:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9971"},"modified":"2012-06-15T15:28:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T19:28:54","slug":"crowded-thunder-road-points-battle-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/crowded-thunder-road-points-battle-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowded Thunder Road Points Battle Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Barre, VT \u2013<\/em>\u00a0Thunder Road\u2019s point leaders have never had it easy, but 2012 may bring more sleepless nights than ever for the three divisions\u2019 top talent. As it sits, the largest gap between first and second in season standings across all divisions at Thunder Road is a stunning one point, leaving point leaders nerve-wracked as the season continues this Sunday (June 17) at twilight.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Barre sensation Nick Sweet holds the one point advantage over Lt. Governor Phil Scott on the wings of a remarkable drive from 19th to 4th this past Sunday in the Late Model division.\u00a0 With two drivers tied for third, and two more tied for fifth, Sweet cannot find much comfort atop the standings.<\/p>\n

Hinesburg\u2019s Bobby Therrien leads the way in the Bond Auto Tiger Sportsmen over a two-way tie for second place.\u00a0 Jason Allen and Eric Badore both sit just one point back from the top spot, but in a division where the entire top ten is just 12 points out of the lead, no one is safe.\u00a0 Therrien will continue his charge for his first Tiger Championship this Sunday with a target on his back.<\/p>\n

The Allen Lumber Street Stocks saw Garry Bashaw take over the point lead, leaving 2011 Championship runner-up Nick Pilotte a single point shy of the spot that so narrowly avoided him last season.\u00a0 Bashaw has more than just Pilotte to worry about, as all-time win list leader Tommy Smith and Dan Lathrop sit just 3 and 7 points back respectively.<\/p>\n

The grinding championship battles continue this coming Sunday, June 17 at Thunder Road for Harvest Equipment night.\u00a0 Kids Rides in the racecars will start at 1:30pm; post time is 4:00pm.\u00a0 The show will also include the annual Trike Races for ages 3\/4 and 5\/6.\u00a0 Adult tickets are $10, family passes are $20, children 6-12 are $3, and Scouts and Little Leaguers in uniform and all Race to Read participants with the green bracelets will get in for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barre, VT \u2013\u00a0Thunder Road\u2019s point leaders have never had it easy, but 2012 may bring more sleepless nights than ever for the three divisions\u2019 top talent. As it sits, the largest gap between first and second in season standings across all divisions at Thunder Road is a stunning one point, leaving point leaders nerve-wracked as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thunder-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9971","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}