NASCAR Cup Series Champion and NASCAR Hall of Famer Bobby Labonte is ready to take on Barre’s Thunder Road Speedbowl on Thursday, July 9th with a new 100 lap event scheduled for the Maplefields/Irving Late Models alongside the previously scheduled Flying Tiger $2K.
Thunder Road Speedbowl officials are excited to announce that 2000 NASCAR Cup Series Champion and NASCAR Hall of Famer Bobby Labonte will be making the trip to Barre, Vermont to compete on the famed highbanks of the Nation’s Site of Excitement on Thursday, July 9.
Bobby Labonte Night will now feature 100-lap events for both the Maplefields/Irving Oil Late Models and the Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tigers!
Hailing from Corpus Christi, Texas, Bobby Labonte has been a fixture in the NASCAR scene since the 1990s, having earned the 1991 O’Reilly Series championship before signing with Joe Gibbs Racing. Labonte piloted the iconic Interstate Batteries #18 to the 2000 NASCAR Winston Cup Championship and even added the IROC Series Championship to his resume in 2001.
Vermont Milk Bowl winner Jason Corliss of Barre lays a winning kiss on Aris, aka Miss Milk Bowl 2018. (Alan Ward photo)
Barre, VT – Jason Corliss made out like a bandit at Barre’s Thunder Road Speedbowl on Sunday, September 30 to win the 56th Vermont Milk Bowl presented by Northfield Savings Bank. The hometown racer dove underneath Hinesburg’s Bobby Therrien entering the final corner of the final lap, edging him out at the line to steal the victory in the “Toughest Short Track Race in North America”.
With the laps winding down in the third and final 50-lap segment, Therrien sat in fifth on the track with Corliss right behind him in sixth. The two entered the segment tied for the overall lead, and after closest challenger Cody Blake was eliminated in a hard frontstretch crash on lap 30 that also collected Trampas Demers, it would come down to which driver – Corliss or Therrien – finished better in the segment.
Waterville, ME’s Cody Leblanc grabbed the North East Mini Stock Tour event. (Alan Ward photo)
Barre, VT – Hometown racer Nick Sweet came out on top of a late-race battle with St-Denis, QC’s Patrick Laperle to take the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) 150 at the inaugural Northfield Savings Bank Milk Bowl Friday on September 28. The two former Milk Bowl winners went door-to-door for nearly 20 breathtaking laps to kick off the 56th Vermont Milk Bowl Weekend. But it was Sweet who prevailed to take his first Super Late Model win at his home track.
Sweet first grabbed the top spot on lap 36 of the 150-lap main event when he swung to the outside of Tamworth, NH’s Jeremy Davis. The 2-time “King of the Road” kept hold of the top spot until he came under fire from PASS point leader D.J. Shaw of Center Conway, NH.
Corliss lays a kiss on Miss Vermont Milk Bowl after capturing the 55th running of the event last October. (Alan Ward photo)
Barre, VT – One year after scoring the biggest win of his Late Model career, Jason Corliss is ready to do it all again. With just days remaining before the 56th Vermont Milk Bowl presented by Northfield Savings Bank, the hometown racer and his Burnett Motorsports team are hard at work preparing for this year’s edition of the “Toughest Short Track Race in North America”.
Many of the top American-Canadian Tour (ACT)-type Late Model racers will be in Barre on Saturday, September 29 and Sunday, September 30. But perhaps none has accomplished more than Corliss over the last two seasons, with his victory in the $10,000+-to-win Milk Bowl last October the crown jewel.
Scott Dragon (#16VT), Trampas Demers (#85VT), and Jason Corliss (background) sit just 10 points apart and will decide the “King of the Road” at Jet Service/Accura Night. (Alan Ward photo)
Barre, VT – The fight for the “King of the Road” title has come down to the final Thursday night event of the season — and it may come down to the final lap as well.
Thunder Road’s 2018 Maplewood/Irving Oil Late Model champion will be crowned Thursday, August 23 on Jet Service Envelope/Accura Printing Night. Scott Dragon, Jason Corliss, and Trampas Demers sit just 10 points apart in what has been one of the most compelling championship battles during the track’s 59-year history. Each will be going all-out to take home the title for themselves and for their team.
