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THURSDAY, AUGUST 5
POST TIME 6:30PM

  BECKER, POTTER, MACASKILL AND SCHROEDER EARN FEATURE WINS ON WDEV/CALKINS NIGHT

 

 

  

WDEV/Calkins Night

Becker Wins Fourth Career Feature on WDEV/Calkins Night at Thunder Road

Jeffersonville’s Joey Becker eanred his fourth career Thunder Road Late Model feature win on WDEV/Calkins night on Thursday, July 29. Becker worked his way through the field from his seventh starting position to take the lead on lap 27 from rookie Cody Blake. He held off Senator Phil Scott and Nick Sweet through six more caution flags to earn the win.

Scott took second while Sweet finished third. Last week’s feature winner Rich Lowrey earned fourth and Cris Michaud rounded out the top five. Eric Chase took sixth, while point leader Dave Pembroke bounced back from an early spin to earn seventh. Matt White, Jay Laquerre and Brooks Clark completed the top ten.

The 50 lap feature was slowed by a total of eight cautions and was completed in just over forty minutes.

The Bond Auto Tiger Sportsmen completed their 35 lap feature with just one caution late in the event. Marshfield’s Matt Potter picked up his second career win after battling the entire 35 laps with rookie Jason Allen. Allen would hold on for a career best second while Bobby Therrien, Jimmy Hebert and Troy Gray completed the top five. Mike Ziter, David Finck, Derrick O’Donnell, George May and Joe Steffen rounded out the top ten.

Casella Waste Management Night

Lowrey Earns Casella Night Feature Win at Thunder Road

Charlotte’s Rich Lowrey earned his first feature win of the season and 8th career Late Model feature win at Thunder Road on Thursday, July 22. Lowrey came from the sixth starting spot to take the lead from rookie Cody Blake at the halfway mark. He then held off eventual runner-up finisher Nick Sweet on the final restart of the event on lap 29.

Lowrey and Sweet were followed to the line by Matt White, Phil Scott and Blake completing the top five. Point leader Dave Pembroke finished with a solid 6th with Reno Gervais, Cris Michaud, John Donahue and Joey Becker rounding out the top ten.

Middlesex’s Pete Ainsworth also took his first checkered flag of the season in the Bond Auto Tiger Sportsmen feature. It was also his 11th career Tiger Sportsman win. He started on the pole and held off Fairlee’s Troy Gray who settled for second and Brendan Moodie took third.

Tony Rossi and David Finck completed the top five. Point leader Eric Badore, Brian Delphia, Tom Therrien, Jimmy Hebert and Ricky Roberts rounded out the top ten. The Tigers ran their 35 lap feature with just one caution.

26th Annual M&M Beverage Enduro
26th Annual M&M Beverage Enduro $3,000 to Win

The 26th Annual M&M Beverage Enduro at Thunder Road International Speedbowl has posted a $3,000 top prize for the 100 plus novice competitors to shoot for. The 200 lap event will be a free-for-all with nearly street legal cars tackling the Barre highbanks for their chance to become a star of the “Nation’s Site of Excitement.”

Last year, Massachusetts native Bill Davis earned the grand prize for the 25th anniversary special. Over 150 drivers took a shot at the big paycheck in last season’s event, which saw several pile-ups and roll overs.

2009’s runner-up and veteran enduro competitor Don “Dipstick” Tofani was one of the first to file an entry already this year. He has been joined by 16 year old Cole Despault, grandson of Bond Auto Tiger Sportsman competitor Clem Despault, as well as former Allen Lumber Street Stock and Junkyard Warrior drivers Steve “Mudflap” Quenneville and Bryan Nykiel.

Drivers from all over Vermont have already filed entries, including wheelmen from Barre, Berlin, Braintree, Colchester, Essex Junction, Fairfax, Milton, Waterbury, and Plainfield, among others. They will be joined by entries from all over New England with representatives from New Hampshire, Maine, New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut.