Rain-Delayed CCV Night Shines at Thunder Road with Ladies Night in the Street Stocks!

Rookie Potter Takes Second Win of the Season; Paige Whittemore Earns Triple Crown Championship!

Barre, VT — While rains greeted race teams on Sunday afternoon, the skies slowly cleared out allowing Thunder Road officials to successfully complete the Community College of Vermont program postponed by Mother Nature from their originally scheduled date on August 8.

Youngster Kylee Potter faced-off against two-time division champion Jamie Davis to head the rk Miles Street Stock Triple Crown finale on CCV Night. The two remained side-by-side throughout the early circuits until Davis began to back-peddle slightly on the outside groove. Meanwhile deep in the pack, rk Miles Triple Crown championship hopefuls Paige Whittemore, Trevor Jaques and Zach Audet found themselves mired in heavy side-by-side traffic. They fought tooth and nail for the overall crown, gaining and loosing inches in traffic as the laps rolled away in the green-to-checkers feature. Young Kylee Potter would take down a dominant second win of the season, standing as just the second female driver to have multiple rk Miles Street Stock victories with Haidyn Pearce and Patrick Tibbetts rounding out the podium.

Alan WArd photo

Alan WArd photo

By virtue of a seventh-place run, Graniteville’s Paige Whittemore would take the overall rk Miles Street Stock Triple Crown by six points over Milton’s Trevor Jaques. Whittemore joins 2000 Queen of the Road Late Model track champion Tracie Bellerose as the only female champions of The Road!

The Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tigers charged onto the Barre highbanks with Travis Patnoe and Mike Billado at the helm of the ship. Billado would charge ahead while a spinning Patnoe would bring out the first caution on lap 7. Billado maintained the lead under the return to green flag racing as Sam Caron and Mike MacAskill fought it out for second. With MacAskill fighting an ill-handling car, Caron peeked to the outside of Billado with two laps remaining, but Mike Billado would take the victory to join Shawn Fleury in fourth on the all-time wins list. Sam Caron would take second and Robert Gordon came home third on the night.

Alan WArd photo

An interesting starting row in the Maplefield/Irving Late Models saw all-time wins leader Phil Scott face off with longtime competitor Scott Coburn and rookies Taylor Hoar and Jesse Laquerre in row two. Scott quickly jumped to the lead in the outside lane with Laquerre following close behind. Laquerre jumped to the outside before moving back inside Scott to lead lap 17, immediately putting the hammer down to gain breathing room ahead of the pack. Lap 21 saw Brandon Lanphear brush the widowmaker frontstretch wall, collecting Scott Dragon to bring out the caution with multiple teams jumping pit-side for adjustments.

Laquerre would maintain the lead on the restart but a rear-view mirror full of Nick Sweet was quick to cause alarm before the lap 25 caution for fluid coming from a sprung power-steering hose on the Chris Pelkey machine. Sweet powered around Laquerre on the restart and led the final sprint to take the Community College of Vermont trophy dash with rookie Jesse Laquerre earning his first Late Model podium finish in second and Stephen Donahue rounding out the top-three.

Alan WArd photo

The Community College of Vermont CHALLENGE for the Burnett Scrap Metals Road Warriors rounded out Sunday’s show with Brett Wood and Jed Whitcomb leading the field to green. Whitcomb got antsy early to create a turn three pile-up on the first lap with Jed getting the worst of it. Wood continued the struggle at the front with Zach Garvey and Derrick Mann bearing down on him from behind. The team cars of Steven Corbett and Brayden Murphy combined to bring out the lap 23 caution in turn four leaving Wood at the mercy of Garvey, Mann and Tyler Wheatley. Wheatley took the lead on lap 28 before the lap 30 caution saw Garvey blow a right front after contact with Mann and slammed into the widowmaker front-stretch wall. Tyler Wheatley would maintain the lead all the way to the checkered flags with Brett Wood holding on for second and Neal Foster beating Brodie Frazier to third by just 0.021-seconds!

Alan WArd photo

Thunder Road returns to regularly scheduled racing action this Thursday, August 22 with Cody Chevrolet-Cadillac Night headlined by the 100-lap championship event for the Myers Container Service Triple Crown Series! The Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tigers are once again the star of the show with Thursday’s 100-lapper also counting as Round #2 in the ACT Tri-State Flying Tiger Series! The Maplefield/Irving Late Models, rk Miles Street Stocks and Burnett Scrap Metals Road Warriors also return on Thursday with a 7:00pm post time!

For more information, contact the Thunder Road offices at (802) 244-6963, media@thunderroadvt.com, or visit www.thunderroadvt.com. You can also follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram at @ThunderRoadVT.

 

Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl – Barre, VT

Sunday, August 18, 2024

Community College of Vermont Night

UNOFFICIAL RESULTS

 

Burnett Scrap Metals Road Warriors – 6th annual CCV Challenge (50 Laps)

1.         31        Tyler Wheatley           Brookfield, VT

2.         13        Kevin Wheatley          Brookfield, VT

3.         19        Neal Foster                 Moretown, VT

4.         17        Brodie Frazier             E. Montpelier, VT

5.         95        Taylor Sayers              Barre, VT

6.         75        Bert Duffy                   Milton, VT

7.         27        Derrick Mann              Graniteville, VT

8.         50        Nick Copping              Barre, VT

9.         43        Anderson Boyd           Berlin, VT

10.       8          Jaiden Del Toro           Barre Town, VT

11.       18        Cayden Green             Marshfield, VT

12.       33        Brayden Murphy        Barre, VT

13.       97        Eddie Thompson        Colchester, VT

14.       34        Steven Corbett           Berlin, VT

15.       14        Jed Whitcomb             Williamstown, VT

16.       77        Zachary Garvey           Milton, VT

17.       16        Nate Brien                  Williamstown, VT

18.       81        Mike Slingerland        Milton, VT

19.       71        Jason Kirby                  Milton, VT

DNS     05        Brandon Premont       Johnson, VT

 

rk Miles Street Stocks – (25 Laps)

rk Miles Street Stock Triple Crown Champion – Paige Whittemore

1.         32        #Kylee Potter              Marshfield, VT

2.         2          Haidyn Pearce             Chelsea, VT

3.         34        Patrick Tibbetts          Plainfield, VT

4.         7          Kyle MacAskill             Williamstown, VT

5.         43        Jamie Davis                 Johnson, VT

6.         33        Curtis Franks               Topsham, VT

7.         73        Paige Whittemore      Graniteville, VT

8.         57        Trevor Jaques             Milton, VT

9.         08        Ryan Foster                 Waterbury, VT

10.       16        Dean Switser, Jr.         Waterford, VT

11.       99        #Fred Fleury                Graniteville, VT

12.       54        Josh Lovely                  Williamstown, VT

13.       9          Zach Audet                 Johnson, VT

14.       74        Tyler Whittemore       Barre, VT

15.       29        Gary Mullen                Tunbridge, VT

16.       39        Derek Farnham           Bethel, VT

17.       47        William Hennequin    Morrisville, VT

18.       24        Todd Raymo               Swanton, VT

19.       98        Kasey Collins               Berlin, VT

20.       79        Juan Marshall             Pittsfield, VT

21.       78        Justin Blakely              Graniteville, VT

22.       3          Michael Gay                S. Burlington, VT

23.       8          Paul Rocheleau           Georgia, VT

24.       6          Thomas Peck*             Waterbury, VT

25.       04        Scott Weston              Berlin, VT

26.       13        Travis Gay                   S. Burlington, VT

*Sub Driver for Terry Pearce

 

Maplefield/Irving Late Models – (50 Laps)

1.         40VT    Nick Sweet                  Williamstown, VT

2.         71VT    #Jesse Laquerre          E. Montpelier, VT

3.         31VT    Stephen Donahue      Graniteville, VT

4.         66VT    Jason Corliss               Barre, VT

5.         14VT    Phil Scott                     Montpelier, VT

6.         18VT    Kaiden Fisher              Shelburne, VT

7.         0VT      Scott Dragon               Milton, VT

8.         01VT    Stephen Martin          Craftsbury Common, VT

9.         16VT    Brandon Lanphear     Morrisville, VT

10.       04VT    Justin Prescott             Williston, VT

11.       17VT    Darrell Morin              Westford, VT

12.       99VT    Cody Blake                  Barre, VT

13.       64VT    Christopher Pelkey     Graniteville, VT

14.       48VT    #Taylor Hoar               South Hero, VT

15.       27VT    Kyle Pembroke           Montpelier, VT

16.       7VT      Cooper Bouchard       Hinesburg, VT

17.       4VT      Scott Coburn              Barre, VT

18.       86VT    Marcel J. Gravel          Wolcott, VT

19.       8VT      Chris Roberts              Washington, VT

20.       9VT      Chip Grenier               E. Barre, VT

 

Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tigers – (40 Laps)

1.         8VT      Mike Billado               Grand Isle, VT

2.         07VT    Sam Caron                  Milton, VT

3.         20VT    Robert Gordon           Milton, VT

4.         64VT    Jason Pelkey                Barre, VT

5.         37VT    Kyle Streeter               Waterbury Ctr., VT

6.         31VT    Logan Powers             Middlesex, VT

7.         23NY   Cam Gadue                 Highgate, VT

8.         00VT    Brandon Gray             E. Thetford, VT

9.         56VT    Chris Laforest              Barre, VT

10.       67VT    Kevin Streeter             Waitsfield, VT

11.       3VT      Michael MacAskill      Williamstown, VT

12.       90VT    Cameron Ouellette     Barre, VT

13.       15NH   Brendan Moodie        Wolcott, VT

14.       01VT    Michael Martin           Craftsbury Common, VT

15.       4VT      Cooper French             Northfield, VT

16.       45VT    Adam Maynard           Milton, VT

17.       9VT      #Logan Farrell             Barre, VT

18.       22VT    Travis Patnoe              Wolcott, VT

19.       26VT    Luke Peters                 Groton, VT