{"id":1407,"date":"2010-04-08T19:25:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T19:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2010-04-08T19:25:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T19:25:10","slug":"thunder-road-2010-rookie-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2010\/04\/thunder-road-2010-rookie-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Road 2010 Rookie Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><span>Barre, VT &#8211; <\/span><\/em><span>The 2009-2010 off season has seen an impressive number of Thunder Road stock car drivers  make the jump to the next level of competition at the Barre highbanks. Nearly a  dozen drivers will take the next step in the development of their racing  careers at the \u201cNation\u2019s Site of Excitement.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" \/><span \/>\u201cIt\u2019s always exciting to see drivers progress through our development  divisions, and this winter has seen a lot of promising racers further their careers by transitioning to the next level,\u201d said Thunder Road Promoter Tom Curley. \u201cI can\u2019t remember the last time we\u2019ve had this many solid drivers advance across all of our divisions.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/><!--more--><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>The 2010 Rookie class will be led by 18 year old hometown star Cody Blake of  Barre, VT. Blake, who will be graduating from Spaulding High School in June, is  making the jump from the Bond Auto Tiger Sportsman division to the Late Models. He finished his second career Tiger season tenth in the 2009 final point  standings after earning six top tens, including one third place finish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>The Bond Auto Tiger Sportsmen will see three Rookies from last season\u2019s Allen Lumber Street Stock division. Jason Corliss of Danville, VT was the 2008 Allen  Lumber Street Stock Champion and finished fifth in last year\u2019s standings. He will be joined by four year Street Stock veteran Mike Martin of  Craftsbury Common, VT. Martin finished second in last season\u2019s final Street Stock standings, his third straight season in the top five. In addition, Jason  Allen of Northfield, VT has made the move to the Tigers after running the  majority of the 2009 Street Stock schedule. Also competing for Tiger Sportsmen  Rookie of the Year honors will be 16 year old Alex Ferno of East Montpelier, VT.  It will be Ferno\u2019s first experience in a stock car after running in the Northeastern Kart Club at Thunder Road and the Kid\u2019s Truck division at White Mountain Motorsports Park. Brian Gosselin of Littleton, NH has  past experience running in the Super Stock divisions at several tracks in the  region and will try his hand in a Tiger in 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>The Allen Lumber Street Stocks have four rookies making the jump from the Junkyard Warriors. The 2009 Junkyard Warrior Champion Donnie Yates of North  Montpelier, VT will be an early favorite, but he will have to compete with Warrior  veterans Alex Whitcomb of Montpelier, VT, Keith Fortier of Hinesburg, VT, and  Jayme Lee of Barre, VT. Mike Gay of South Burlington, VT will also compete as a  Rookie in the Allen Lumber Street Stocks after running just a couple events in  2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>The 2010 Thunder Road season opens on Sunday, May 2 with the 12<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Merchants Bank 150 at 1:00p.m. The annual downtown Barre car show will  be held on Saturday, May 1. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barre, VT &#8211; The 2009-2010 off season has seen an impressive number of Thunder Road stock car drivers make the jump to the next level of competition at the Barre highbanks. Nearly a dozen drivers will take the next step in the development of their racing careers at the \u201cNation\u2019s Site of Excitement.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s always [&hellip;]<\/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-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-canadian-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","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=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}