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WDEV/WLVB/Calkins Night

 Sweet, Allen, Pilotte Prepare for Porta-Potty Grand Prix

Competition Ready for WDEV/WLVB/Calkins Event

Championship point races at Barre’s Thunder Road remain tight as competitors prepare for a special event at WDEV//WLVB/Calkins night this Thursday, (August 2).  The race will feature the famous Porta-Potty Grand Prix at intermission, where point leaders from mid-season will engage in an all-out drag race with porta-potties down the front stretch of Thunder Road.

Midseason point-leaders Nick Sweet, Jason Allen, Nick Pilotte, and their respective race teams, will face off in the annual Porta-Potty Grand Prix on Thursday.  Sweet, the lone veteran of the race, feels great about his chances.  “I think we have a great shot at winning it, if my boys don’t get pooped,” he laughed.


We Dig Barre Night

Lambert Takes Big Win at Heritage 100

Wheeler, Eldred Claim Feature Victories

 

Northfield’s John Lambert claimed the upset victory in the Bond Auto Tiger Heritage 100-lap special on Sunday, July 29 at Barre’s Thunder Road.  Lambert was chased by late-charger Mike Martin and front-runner Scott Coburn who finished second and third respectively.

Side by side racing dominated the first 20 laps of the event, before Coburn finally broke free of the pack to claim the lead.  Coburn earned a large advantage over the 29 car field before hitting heavy lap traffic.  Lambert capitalized, slicing through the lapped cars and stripping Coburn of the lead on lap 53.  Lambert then broke away from Coburn, who had his hands full with ten laps to go with Bond Auto Tiger stars Mike Martin, Brendan Moodie Jr., and former champion Shawn Fleury.  Martin dove for a gutsy three-wide maneuver in the closing laps to steal second, but Coburn successfully held off others to come home third.  Fleury picked up fourth, and Moodie settled for fifth.  Eric Badore, Kyle Pembroke, Jason Corliss, Mike Ziter, and point-leader Jason Allen rounded out the top ten.

M&M Beverage Enduro
Don “Dipstick” Tofani Files First Entry to 28th M&M Beverage Enduro
 
Veteran Enduro racer Don “Dipstick” Tofani, of Plainfield, has filed the first entry to the 28th Annual M&M Beverage Enduro 200 on Sunday, August 5 at Barre’s Thunder Road. Tofani will pilot the Green Mountain Paving/Richard Bell Surveyor 1996 Oldsmobile Cutlass in the 200 lap, $3,000 to win, event. 
 
Over 100 nearly street-legal cars driven by amateurs will participate in the popular annual event. Known as “The People’s Race,” the Enduro is a 200-lap race for anyone over the age of 16 that runs non-stop with no cautions, only stopping the race for emergencies. Cars will line up on the front straightaway three wide and be sent off by a crowd countdown for an all out brawl with a $3,000 payday.   Tofani, who won the Enduro in 1987, is attempting to join Milton’s Doug Turner as the only drivers to have more than one win in the event. He finished second in last year’s event.