WATERBURY, VT – Paul Wells of Enosburg has filed the first entry for “The People’s Race”, the 23rd annual M&M Beverage Enduro 200 on Sunday, July 29 at Barre’s Thunder Road. The Enduro is a 200-lap, no-holds-barred event where over 100 amateur drivers race virtually street-legal automobiles for a top prize of $2,000.<\/p>\n
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Wells won the race in 1996, and will try to duplicate the feat in a car considerably different than his
first winning mount. The 48 year-old will drive a compact 1993 Dodge Colt, much smaller than the full-sized Chevrolet Monte Carlo he drove to the win over a decade ago.<\/p>\n
“My crew chief, Steve Morriseau, talked me out of retirement,” said Wells with a chuckle. “We don’t care whether it goes well or not, we just want to have fun, which is really what it’s all about. At first, I wasn’t sure about that little Dodge Colt we’ve got, but a lot of the recent winners have been smaller cars. I guess it could do it.”<\/p>\n
In addition to his previous victory, history is on Wells’ side: Tad Kingsbury drove a Chevrolet Celebrity sedan to the victory last year, while Doug Turner won in 2005 in a mid-1990s Pontiac Grand Prix. Current NAPA Tiger Sportsman driver Matt White started his racing career with a win in the 2004 M&M Beverage Enduro, driving a tiny Dodge Shadow that he later converted into a Power Shift Junkyard Warrior machine. All three cars were front-wheel drive, and are considered to be on the “small” side in an Enduro field.<\/p>\n
Wells says that no matter what type of car an Enduro driver is racing, all you really need is luck.<\/p>\n
“Winning the Enduro is all luck,” said Wells. “Maybe if you’re still in the race with a shot to win in
the last 25 laps you need some strategy, but luck is the biggest part of it. I had a big piece of junk with an automatic transmission in 1996, this year I’ve got a little piece of junk and I’m trying it again.”<\/p>\n
To request an entry for the 23rd annual M&M Beverage Enduro on Sunday, July 29, call the Thunder Road office at (802) 244-6963, or send a request to P.O. Box 296, Waterbury, VT 05676. For more information, visit www.thunderroadspeedbowl.com<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WATERBURY, VT – Paul Wells of Enosburg has filed the first entry for “The People’s Race”, the 23rd annual M&M Beverage Enduro 200 on Sunday, July 29 at Barre’s Thunder Road. The Enduro is a 200-lap, no-holds-barred event where over 100 amateur drivers race virtually street-legal automobiles for a top prize of $2,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-canadian-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}