(Press release from Thunder Road International Speedbowl)
Rookie Potter Takes Second Win of the Season; Paige Whittemore Earns Triple Crown Championship
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 losing 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.
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.
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.
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!
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, [email protected], 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
Jennifer Fitzgerald Getty also had 2 victories in the Street Stock Division. Kylee became the 3rd along with Peyton Lanphear.
Jennifer Fitzgerald Getty was the first to have multiple victories in the Street Stocks, Peyton Lanphear was the 2nd, and Kylee is the 3rd to accomplish this.
There have actually been 3 to do this. Jennifer Fitzgerald Getty, Peyton Lanphear, and now Kylee Potter.
Richard,
It’s a press release from the track. You really have to reach out to them on this matter. It really doesn’t do any good to keep leaving the same comment over and over again here.