Cooper French Outduels Veteran Brendan Moodie For $2,000 Flying Tiger Payday At Thunder Road

(Press release from Thunder Road International Speedbowl)

Jason Corliss Breaks All-Time Late Model Wins Record with #32

Mother Nature may have said her peace on Thursday but she brought a beauty of a day for Friday making the NESTN.tv Twin 100 program one of the best in recent memory!

While Patrick Tibbetts and Nate Brien were putting on a clinic at the head of the rk Miles Street Stock feature, the middle of the pack kept things more than interesting for the fans in the stands and those at home watching on NESTN. With the field straightening out by the halfway point, young Riley Morris began to make his presence known up front as he swooped in to fight for third against ‘Tater’ Brien. Time ran out with Tibbetts earning the win after a rough and tumble season followed across the line by Nate Brien and rookie Zachary Garvey rounding out the top three in his first podium appearance. 

Barre’s Jason Corliss earned the pole position in the NESTN.tv 100 with a ‘+3’ to Brooks Clark’s ‘+2’ with the two veterans leading the Maplefields/Irving Late Models to green. A pair of slam-bang affairs agitated the early goings with Kyle Streeter taking severe damage to the rear of his car while Scott Dragon was left with no-place to go and sent hard into the turn two wall. From lap ___ on it was a green-flag affair with Bobby Therrien left only to watch from ten car lengths back as Jason Corliss dominated the NESTN.tv 100 and found himself atop the record books, surpassing Phil Scott as the winningst Late Model driver in the history of the Nation’s Site of Excitement. Therrien would come home second with Christopher Pelkey holding on for third a straightaway behind.

Like Corliss, Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tiger point leader Brendan Moodie earned the pole starting position in plus/minus qualifying alongside Chris Laforest to lead the field to green. Moodie, LaForest and double feature winner Cooper French led the train of Tigers around the Barre highbanks as the field settled in for their 100 lap distance. Both Moodie and French held a straightaway lead through lap traffic before the lap 66 caution for the spinning Kasey Collins in turn three. 

Moodie used the veteran move to power off with the restart but French held tough, keeping it side-by-side out front before deciding to follow off his rear-bumper for a spell. Back to side-by-side racing, French nabbed the lead on lap 83 and try as he might, a sideways move for the lead in turn one sealed the fate of the race. Cooper French put the power down to take the $2,000 check in the 2nd annual NESTN.tv Tiger $2K over Brendan Moodie and Jason Woodard at the line.

The Burnett Scrap Metals Road Warriors rounded out Friday’s racing card for one of the most memberable showdowns of the evening. While Nick Copping ran away with an early lead, Mike ‘Slingshot’ Slingerland and ‘Fast Eddie’ Thompson waged battle for second. The two swapped lanes and paint all the way to the end, even as Copping slid back into a five car battle under the checkered flags with Ben Bushey and lap car Sierra Wilds. Thompson earned the win over Slingerland with Bushey’s third-place charge disqualified for a suspension infraction in post-race inspection giving Copping the third-place trophy.

Next up, 802 Cars Group Night presents the second round in the Myers Container Service Triple Crown on Thursday, July 16. The Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tigers go the 75-lap distance on the Thunder Road highbanks alongside the Maplefields/Irving Late Models, rk Miles Street Stocks and Dads 4 By Tool & Supply Kids Division with racing set to begin at 7:00pm!

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.

UNOFFICIAL RESULTS

Friday, July 10, 2026

Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl – Barre, VT

Twin 100s presented by NESTN.tv

Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tigers – 2nd annual Tiger $2K (100 Laps)

1.         4VT      Cooper French             Northfield, VT

2.         94VT    Brendan Moodie         Wolcott, VT

3.         36VT    Jason Woodard           Waterbury Ctr., VT

4.         31VT    Logan Powers              Middlesex, VT

5.         15VT    Derrick Calkins             Hinesburg, VT

6.         20VT    Robert Gordon            Milton, VT

7.         56VT    Chris Laforest              Barre, VT

8.         26VT    Luke Peters                 Groton, VT

9.         33VT    Matt Ballard               Williamstown, VT

10.       23NY    Cam Gadue                 Highgate, VT

11.       07VT    Sam Caron                   Milton, VT

12.       19VT    Eric Messier                Hinesburg, VT

13.       13VT    Ty Delphia                   Waterbury, VT

14.       55VT    Parker Gagne              Fairfax, VT

15.       3VT      Michael MacAskill      Williamstown, VT

16.       42VT    Karsen Murphy           Northfield, VT

17.       8VT      Mike Billado                Grand Isle, VT

18.       5VT      Kyle Gravel                  Wolcott, VT

19.       64VT    Jason Pelkey                Barre, VT

20.       30VT    Cameron Powers         Montpelier, VT

21.       8NH     #Jaiden Del Toro         Graniteville, VT

22.       14VT    #Jed Whitcomb           Milton, VT

23.       16VT    #Dean Switser, Jr.       Waterford, VT

24.       5NH     Erin Beaudry               Claremont, NH

25.       98VT    Kasey Collins               Berlin, VT

26.       40VT    Eric Chase                   Milton, VT

27.       22VT    Travis Patnoe              Wolcott, VT

Maplefields/Irving Late Models – (100 Laps)

1.         66VT    Jason Corliss               Barre, VT

2.         5VT      Bobby Therrien           Hinesburg, VT

3.         64VT    Christopher Pelkey      S. Barre, VT

4.         7VT      Cooper Bouchard        Hinesburg, VT

5.         86VT    Marcel J. Gravel          Wolcott, VT

6.         17VT    Darrell Morin              Westford, VT

7.         00VT    Brandon Gray              E. Thetford, VT

8.         04VT    Justin Prescott             Fairfax, VT

9.         68VT    Brooks Clark                Fayston, VT

10.       48VT    Taylor Hoar                 South Hero, VT

11.       4VT      Scott Coburn               Barre, VT

12.       02NH   Brian Whalley             Laconia, NH

13.       01VT    Stephen Martin           Craftsbury Common, VT

14.       33VT    #Matt Sonnhalter        Randolph, VT

15.       48K      Kyle Streeter               Waterbury Ctr., VT

16.       25VT    Mike Rubalcaba          Barre, VT

17.       26VT    Stephen Donahue       Graniteville, VT

18.       0VT      Scott Dragon               Milton, VT

19.       71VT    Jesse Laquerre             E. Montpelier, VT

rk Miles Street Stocks – (30 Laps)

1.         34VT    Patrick Tibbetts           Plainfield, VT

2.         16VT    Nate Brien                   Williamstown, VT

3.         77VT    #Zachary Garvey         Milton, VT

4.         18VT    Walker Fitch                Marshfield, VT

5.         22VT    Thomas Smith             Williamstown, VT

6.         13VT    Hayden Morris            Barre, VT

7.         04VT    Scott Weston               Berlin, VT

8.         13ME   Riley Morris                Barre, VT

9.         31VT    Tyler Wheatley            Brookfield, VT

10.       8VT      Paul Rocheleau           Georgia, VT

11.       74VT    Tyler Whittemore       Barre, VT

12.       7VT      Kyle MacAskill             Williamstown, VT

13.       15VT    Hayden Bushey           Fairfax, VT

14.       93VT    Jackson Hunt               Derby Line, VT

15.       39VT    Derek Farnham           Bethel, VT

16.       43VT    Jamie Davis                 Johnson, VT

17.       3VT      Michael Gay                S. Burlington, VT

18.       00VT    Howard Stockwell       Randolph, VT

19.       75VT    *Jacob Roy                  Danville, VT

20.       06VT    Donat Premont           Johnson, VT

21.       17VT    Connor Rueda             Barre, VT

22.       08VT    Ryan Foster                 Waterbury, VT

23.       71VT    Jason Kirby                  Milton, VT

24.       24VT    Todd Raymo                Swanton, VT

25.       47NH   Paige Whittemore       Graniteville, VT

26.       33VT    Curtis Franks               Topsham, VT

27.       99VT    Fred Fleury                  Graniteville, VT

28.       96VT    Thomas Peck               Waterbury, VT

29.       76VT    #Braden LaRose          Essex, VT

30.       48VT    #Owen Dupuis             Washington, VT

31.       25VT    Jennifer Getty             E. Fairfield, VT

32.       7GA     Easton Garvey             Milton, VT

33.       27VT    #Derrick Mann            Graniteville, VT

34.       12CO   #Greyson Reen           Colchester, VT 

*Sub Driver for TJ Haggett

Burnett Scrap Metals Road Warriors – (20 Laps)

1.         97        Eddie Thompson         Colchester, VT

2.         81        Mike Slingerland         Milton, VT

3.         50        Nick Copping               Barre, VT

4.         96        Bill O’Connor               S. Washington, VT

5.         42        Jacob Hall-Larson        Northfield, VT

6.         09        Dakota Bushey            Springfield, VT

7.         18VT    Travis King                   Chelsea, VT

8.         33        Brayden Murphy         Barre, VT

9.         51        Caleb Cramer              Georgia, VT

10.       5          Sierra Wilds                 W. Topsham, VT

11.       18        Cayden Green             Marshfield, VT

DNS     70        Mason Frazier             E. Montpelier, VT 

DNQ    07        *Benjamin Bushey      Springfield, VT 

Disqualified for a Suspension Infraction

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