{"id":1074,"date":"2007-10-01T22:29:30","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T22:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2007-10-01T22:29:30","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T22:29:30","slug":"ziter-disqualified-from-apparent-runner-up-finish-at-thunder-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2007\/10\/ziter-disqualified-from-apparent-runner-up-finish-at-thunder-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Ziter Disqualified From Apparent Runner-Up Finish at Thunder Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;BARRE, VT &ndash; Stock car driver Mike Ziter of Williamstown has been disqualified from his apparent second-place finish in Sunday&rsquo;s 30-lap Allen Lumber Street Stock feature at Barre&rsquo;s Thunder Road. &nbsp;The event was run in conjunction with the 44th Annual Chittenden Milk Bowl for the American-Canadian Tour.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ziter was found to have illegal pistons in the engine of his Ford Mustang in post-race inspection. &nbsp;He has been stripped of all points and purse money earned in Sunday&rsquo;s race. &nbsp;The disqualification moves Mike Martin of Craftsbury Common into the runner-up position behind winner Bobby Therrien of Hinesburg, with Hardwick&rsquo;s Greg Adams, Jr. inheriting the third place finish. &nbsp;Rookie Vern Woodard of Burlington and Tommy Smith of Williamstown now complete the top five finishers.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Twenty year-old rookie Therrien clinched the Allen Lumber Street Stock Championship with the feature win. He becomes the first freshman driver in Thunder Road&rsquo;s &ldquo;modern era&rdquo; (since 1982) to win a division championship. The Chittenden victory was his sixth win of the season, also a new record.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Chittenden Milk Bowl was Thunder Road&rsquo;s 18th and final event of the 2007 racing season. &nbsp;For more information, call (802) 244-6963 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thunderroadspeedbowl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)\"><u>www.thunderroadspeedbowl.com<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>OFFICIAL FINISH &ndash; Allen Lumber Street Stock division<br \/>Chittenden Milk Bowl event (30 laps)<br \/>Thunder Road Int&rsquo;l Speedbowl &ndash; Barre, VT &ndash; Sunday, Sept. 30, 2007<br \/>1. Bobby Therrien, Hinesburg<br \/>2. Mike Martin, Craftsbury Common<br \/>3. Greg Adams, Jr., Hardwick<br \/>4. Vern Woodard, Burlington<br \/>5. Tommy Smith, Williamstown<br \/>6. Gary Mullen, Tunbridge<br \/>7. Ron Gabaree, Barre<br \/>8. Michael Moore, East Haven<br \/>9. Josh LaCourse, Barre<br \/>10. Tim Campbell, Topsham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;BARRE, VT &ndash; Stock car driver Mike Ziter of Williamstown has been disqualified from his apparent second-place finish in Sunday&rsquo;s 30-lap Allen Lumber Street Stock feature at Barre&rsquo;s Thunder Road. &nbsp;The event was run in conjunction with the 44th Annual Chittenden Milk Bowl for the American-Canadian Tour.<\/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-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-canadian-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","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=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}