Barre, VT – Two-time Thunder Road Champion Dave Pembroke earned his second Milk Bowl victory this past weekend in the 50th Annual People’s United Bank Milk Bowl, picking up a check worth over $14,000. The victory was well worth the wait for the family-run team.
“I’m psyched,” Pembroke told the media after the race. “No one else can win it. It will be 50 years before they have another anniversary one. It’s pretty cool to me.”
Austin Theriault: 50th Annual Milk Bowl
Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl Race Report
BARRE, Vt. – A broken suspension piece relegated Austin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, to a 15th-place finish in the 50th annual People’s United Milk Bowl at Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre, Vt., on Sunday, October 28. Theriault qualified fourth for the race back on September 27 before the race was rained out, and he finished 11th in a rough-and-tumble opening 50-lap segment on the banked quarter-mile. In the second segment of the race, a broken panhard bar stopped the No. 57 Pelletier Ford Ford Fusion’s march to the front. After working with interim crew chief Mitch Green, Theriault rallied to finish sixth in the final segment in the final Late Model event of the season in the northeast.
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Therrien, Pilotte Claim 2012 Championships
Barre, VT – Two-time Thunder Road Champion Dave Pembroke persisted through a wild 50th Milk Bowl to kiss the cow on a payday worth over $10,000 for the second time in his career. Eight-time ACT Champion Brian Hoar came up just short through a day of major adversity to finish second, and Maine’s Glen Luce earned third overall. 2012 ACT Champion Wayne Helliwell, Jr. battled to fourth, and 7-time ACT Champion Jean Paul Cyr rounded out the top five.
The day began with second place starter Brian Hoar blowing an engine in practice, with a new engine arriving from his Georgia, VT shop 45 minutes before the drop of the green. The RPM team changed the motor, and sent Hoar out just as the field fired for the pace laps to make the start. Hoar and Pembroke battled side-by-side for the first ten laps, before Hoar soared to the lead and began to slice through lap traffic. Just as Hoar began lapping the middle of the field, a nasty wreck involving ACT Champion Helliwell and others, developed directly in front of Hoar, but he slipped through the carnage to retain the lead. Hoar cruised to the segment win with Pembroke, 2012 King of the Road Nick Sweet, and multi-time Thunder Road Champion Cris Michaud on his heels.
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Waterbury, VT – American Canadian Tour officials have announced a major inaugural weekend event for the 2013 season: The International 500. The landmark event will be run at Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, NY on the weekend of July 20th and 21st.
The ‘500’ will be comprised of (300) three hundred laps for ACT Late Model Championship teams from throughout New England and Eastern Canada. The Late Model portion of the ‘500’ will be run similarly to Thunder Road’s famous Milk Bowl with (3) three 100-lap segments.
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Grudge Matches Settled at Historic Race
Barre, VT — The biggest race of the year, The 50th People’s United Bank Milk Bowl, has become the primetime focus for ACT teams across the region. 51 ACT Championship cars will enter Barre, VT’s Thunder Road, in an attempt to earn the lion’s share of a purse worth over $160,000.
With championship chases behind them, the race will serve as a grudge match for a series of 2012 duels. 2-time Thunder Road Champion David Pembroke will attempt to dethrone rival 2012 King of the Road Nick Sweet, after claiming the pole position in the race through time trials. Sweet, who dominated the Thunder Road Late Model division on his way to his second title, will start directly behind him in third.
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AT Racing: ACT Late Model Tour
Austin Theriault Airborne Speedway Race Report
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. – Austin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, finished second in the ACT Late Model Tour season finale, the Fall Foliage 200 at Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, N.Y., on Sunday, October 7. Theriault started 22nd in the 30-car field, charged into the Top-10 by Lap 50 and closed out the 2012 ACT campaign with his eighth Top-5 finish in 10 races. The driver of the No. 57 Pelletier Ford Ford Fusion was the only driver in the series to finish inside the Top-10 in every race on the 2012 schedule.
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