May 18, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Thunder Road, Touring Series News
Thunder Road Teams Up With Troy Kingsbury to Fight Illiteracy in Vermont
RaceToRead.jpg – The hood of Troy Kingsbury’s #39 Street Stock is already adorned with dozens of signatures from Race To Read participants. (Photo by Alan Ward)
Barre, VT — With the rise of technology and a new generation, illiteracy in the U.S. becomes a critical problem. It is harder and harder to find ways to get kids interested in reading with all the other options in today’s society, but it remains just as important. Thunder Road has teamed up with Allen Lumber Street Stock driver Troy Kingsbury, of Waitsfield, VT to try and help with the issue here in Vermont. The program is called Race to Read.
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May 16, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Thunder Road, Touring Series News
Pembroke.jpg – Dave Pembroke celebrates his third Mekkelsen RV Memorial Day Classic win in 2010. (Photo by Eric LaFleche)
Barre, VT – As the month of May winds down, the race teams of Barre’s Thunder Road prepare for the Mekkelsen RV Memorial Day Classic, the first race of the Vermont State Late Model Championship Series. After a three-week break, the event is the second point-counting race for the Bond Auto Tigers and Allen Lumber Street Stocks, but for the Late Model Sportsmen it serves as their first. It represents the beginning of a grueling summer-long battle for track championships, but in 2012 the Mekkelsen RV Memorial Day Classic has a special number attached.
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