2019 Thunder Road Season: By the Numbers

It’s time for one of our favorite things of the year: the 2019 Thunder Road By the Numbers! This is where we get into some of the most important numbers of the past season and why they’re so meaningful. It’s not just who won the most races. Who has a win in the most consecutive seasons? Who’s climbing up the all-time lists? Which of the many racing families at Thunder Road was the best racing family this year? And don’t look now, but early next season, we’ll be reaching another major milestone – 1,000 total events! Check out the numbers we’ve come up with below and let us know which numbers mattered most to you in 2019!

(All statistics include non-point-counting events unless otherwise noted.)

1 – Kyle and Kevin Streeter were the only family duo to both win features at Thunder Road in 2019 – and they did it on the same night. Son Kyle won a make-up Flying Tiger feature on June 21 while dad Kevin won the regularly scheduled Tiger feature later that night.

2 – Jason Woodard joined Shawn Fleury as the only two drivers in the modern era to win three Flying Tiger championships. Of the five total multi-time champions in those 38 years (Jimmy Young, John Donahue, and Reno Gervais are the other three), Woodard is the only one who hasn’t gone back-to-back.

3 – Total number of championships for Woodard in 2019. He won the Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tiger track championship, the Myers Container Services Triple Crown championship, and the White Mountain Motorsports Park Flying Tiger Triple Crown championship.

3 – Brian Putney won three Road Warrior features. It was the second straight year a Putney was a three-time Road Warrior winner – Brian’s cousin Frank won three features in 2018.

4 – Number of wins each for Scott Dragon, Jason Woodard, and Tyler Pepin, tied for the most of any driver at Thunder Road.

5 – Number of drivers that led the Flying Tiger points at some point during the season, more than any other division. (They were, in order: Micheal MacAskill, Brandon Lanphear, Tyler Austin, Stephen Martin, and Jason Woodard.)

6 – Six of the first-time winners at Thunder Road this year went on to win at least one more feature before year’s end. Three of them – Colin Cornell (Flying Tigers), Nate Brien (Road Warriors), and Eric Chase (Road Warriors) – went back-to-back.

6.0 – Average finish for “King of the Road” Jason Corliss in point-counting events – which was actually worse than his 5.5 average in 2018 when he finished second in points.

7 – Scott Dragon and Jason Woodard tied for the most podium finishes with seven each.

8 – Number of drivers age 21 or younger who won at least one Thunder Road feature in 2019: Cooper Bouchard, Colin Cornell, Kasey Beattie, Keegan Lamson, Cooper French, Kyle MacAskill, Haidyn Pearce, and Kylar Davis.

8 – Winning score by Bobby Therrien (1, 2, 5) in the 57th Vermont Milk Bowl. It was the second straight year that the winning score was eight points. Prior to 2018, it had been 19 years since the Milk Bowl had seen a single-digit score.

8 – Number of consecutive years in which Jamie Davis has won at least one feature event – the longest active streak at Thunder Road. He now stands alone after Joe Steffen was unable to win a feature in 2019.

9 years, 10 days – Amount of time that passed between Scott Weston’s first career Street Stock win (August 12, 2010) and his second Street Stock win (August 22, 2019).

10 – Number of different Late Model winners at Thunder Road. It was the fourth straight year the division had double-digit winners.

10 – Brooks Clark extended his longest-active streak of consecutive Vermont Milk Bowl starts to 10 straight. The runner-up finish was his second straight podium result after just one top-10 finish in his first eight Milk Bowls.

11 – Number of top-5 finishes for Jason Woodard, the most of any driver.

14 – Consecutive top-10 finishes for Trampas Demers (including the non-point Community Bank N.A. 150) to open the Late Model season.

15 – A pair of Jason’s – Corliss and Woodard – tied for the most top-10 finishes at Thunder Road with 15 each.

17 – Corliss became the 17th driver to win a Late Model championship since the division was created in 1992.

18 – Number of first-time winners across all regular Thunder Road divisions: 1 Late Model, 5 Flying Tigers, 5 Street Stocks, and 7 Road Warriors.

26 – Combined top-10 finishes for Jason and Kelsea Woodard, the most of any family duo at Thunder Road. Stephen and Mike Martin were second with 20.

30 – Jeffrey Martin became the 30rd different champion in the 33-year history of the Street Stocks. Tim Martin, Joe Small, and Jamie Davis are the only multi-time Street Stock champions.

38 – Jason Corliss is the 38th different driver in Thunder Road’s 60-year history to be crowned “King of the Road”.

43 – Total number of winners in Thunder Road’s regular divisions: 10 Late Models, 12 Flying Tigers, 13 Street Stocks, and 8 Road Warriors.

45 – Combined age, in years, of the Street Stock podium on August 15 – Keegan Lamson (14 years, 10 months, 12 days), Tanner Woodard (15 years, 1 month, 14 days), and Kasey Beattie (15 years, 3 months, 2 days).

60 years, 327 days – Phil Scott’s age when he won a Late Model feature on June 27. He beat out Gary Mullen (58 years, 342 days) as the oldest driver to win a feature at Thunder Road this season. Scott was also the oldest driver to finish in the top-10 in points.

82 – Rich Dubeau and Tyler Cahoon became the 81st and 82nd different drivers, respectively, to win a segment in the Vermont Milk Bowl.

88 – The seven first-time winners in the Road Warriors this season gave the division 88 in its history. (Note: this includes events at Plattsburgh Airborne Speedway in 2003-2004.)

100 – Rich Dubeau became the 100th different winner in Thunder Road Late Model history when he captured the non-point Labor Day Classic on September 14.

197 – Number of different Flying Tiger winners in the division’s modern era. Five more names were added to the list in 2019, meaning the 200 mark is within reach in 2020.

225 – Number of different Street Stock winners in the division’s history.

994 – Number of official auto racing events that have been held at Thunder Road in its 60-year history. The track will host its 1,000th event early next season.