Aug 5, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Thunder Road, Touring Series News
Yates, Belanger Earn Street Stock Special Wins
Barre, VT – Waitsfield’s Paul Dudley expertly drove his way to a $3,000 payday through the mayhem of the 28th Annual M&M Beverage Enduro on Sunday, August 5 at Barre’s Thunder Road. Dudley was followed by Terry Pearce, Jr. and Allen Lumber Street Stock driver Tyler McNally.
The first 160 laps of the event was dominated by Monson, MA’s Bill Davis, who at one point had a lead as large as five laps over second place. A heart-breaking blown tire for Davis on lap 167, however, relegated the lead to McNally. Davis returned to the track two laps down, only to see his day end on the front stretch just one lap later. McNally and Dudley then battled it out on the track for the win, surviving two rolled-over cars and three more engulfed in flame, with Dudley passing McNally late in the event after a spin. McNally attempted to spin Dudley on the final lap, but Dudley had already lapped him and went on to win his first Enduro.
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Aug 3, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Thunder Road, Touring Series News
Gonyaw, Smith Take Feature Victories
Barre, VT – Shelburne’s Dennis Demers showed his son, and the rest of the Late Model field, how it was done on WDEV/WLVB/Calkins night at Thunder Road on Thursday, August 2. Demers was chased by late charging Nick Sweet and South Barre’s Mike “Beatle” Bailey to the checkers.
Jeffersonville’s Joey Becker took the early lead from pole-sitter Bailey, but it only took until lap 12 for Bailey to find his groove in the outside lane and reclaim the lead. Bailey ran from the field while father-son duo Dennis and Trampas Demers stormed through the field nose to tail from mid-pack. By lap 20 the pair had reached second and third and engaged in a no-holds-barred family duel for the second position. Father Dennis Demers on the high side, son Trampas below, they battled it out until lap 30 when Dennis finally surged ahead. Seven laps later he slipped underneath Bailey for the lead, while point-leader Nick Sweet methodically picked off the top five one by one in the last ten laps of the race. Sweet broke up the family affair by claiming second in the closing laps, leaving Bailey to third place, Trampas Demers to fourth, and Brooks Clark to round out the top five. Three-time Champion Phil Scott finished sixth, and Becker, Chip Grenier, Eric Chase, and Cody Blake rounded out the top ten.
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Aug 1, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Thunder Road, Touring Series News
Competition Ready for WDEV/WLVB/Calkins Event
Barre, VT – 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.
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Jul 30, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Thunder Road, Touring Series News
Barre, VT – 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.
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Jul 28, 2012 | NE Racing News, Thunder Road
>Barre, VT – 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.
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Jul 27, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Thunder Road, Touring Series News
Barre, VT – Thunder Road International Speedbowl officials have announced the postponement of the “We Dig Barre” event scheduled for Thursday, July 26 due to rain. The “We Dig Barre” event, featuring the Bond Auto Tiger Sportsmen Heritage 100, has been rescheduled for Sunday, July 29 with a 4:30pm post time.
Though Friday is the normally scheduled rain date for “The Nation’s Site of Excitement”, co-owners Ken Squier and Tom Curley felt it was necessary to move the event to a twilight Sunday slot. “We did not want to interfere with the labor and effort made by Barre to celebrate their heritage,” said Squier, talking about Barre’s Heritage Festival which will take place Friday evening. “We wanted to make sure We Dig Barre gets the event it deserves, and we hope we can be of help by shifting to Sunday,” he finished.
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