BARRE, VT – Members of the local print, television, and radio news media are getting ready to tackle the high banks of Barre’s Thunder Road, for the first-ever “Media Madness” stock car race on Fisher\/Federated Auto Parts Night, Thursday, July 19. The soon-to-be-racers will strap into cars from the Power Shift Junkyard Warrior division with one goal: Survive!<\/p>\n
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“I raced once in a Warrior car at Thunder Road a few years ago,” said sportscaster Shawna Lidsky of WCAX TV (CBS Channel 3, Burlington, VT). “It was a little nerve-wracking. I guess it will be a little easier this time, racing against people that have never been on the track. I’m psyched up for it, I think I’ve got a much better chance at winning this time.”
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Planning to join Lidsky are WCAX Sports personalities Mike McGill and Mike McCune. “I don’t care if I win,” said Jamie Scavotto of WPTZ (NBC NewsChannel 5, Plattsburgh, NY), “I just have to beat the other TV drivers. I’m ready!”<\/p>\n
Like Lidsky, radio personality Lee Kittell of WDEV AM550\/FM96.1 in Waterbury, VT has one Warrior race under his belt, back in 2003. In fact, he netted a ninth-place finish in the event, “but that’s only because everyone else crashed,” he said. “I’m looking forward to it, and I think I can teach those other media folks a thing or two.”<\/p>\n
Norm Cote, a Maine native that pens regular articles for the nationally distributed Late Model Digest, has been scoping out the Warrior field at Thunder Road over the last couple of weeks.<\/p>\n
“I had an opportunity to race at Unity (ME) Raceway a few years ago and I never took it, but I won’t pass up a chance at racing Thunder Road,” he said. “I can’t wait! I think I have a couple of cars in mind that I want to drive, too, I’ve been paying attention.”<\/p>\n
Also expected for the Fisher\/Federated Auto Parts “Media Madness” race are representatives from The Barre-Montpelier (VT) Times Argus, Frank 107.1 FM (Barre, VT), and the Champlain Radio Group in Burlington, VT. Post time for Fisher\/Federated Auto Parts Night is scheduled for 7:00pm, with preliminary events beginning at 6:30pm. Late Models, Tiger Sportsmen, Street Stocks, and the regular Junkyard Warrior events will also be on tap. General admission is only $9 for adults, $3 for kids, and just $18 for a family of four. For more information, call (802) 244-6963 or visit www.thunderroadspeedbowl.com<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BARRE, VT – Members of the local print, television, and radio news media are getting ready to tackle the high banks of Barre’s Thunder Road, for the first-ever “Media Madness” stock car race on Fisher\/Federated Auto Parts Night, Thursday, July 19. The soon-to-be-racers will strap into cars from the Power Shift Junkyard Warrior division with […]<\/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-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-canadian-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","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=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}