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Thunder Road Promotes Click it or Ticket Program
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Barre, VT – In association with the Vermont Governor’s Highway Safety Program, Barre’s Thunder Road will promote the “Click It Or Ticket” message in 2005, urging race fans to increase seat belt usage and keep safety a priority on Vermont’s highways. Thunder Road’s “Click It Or Ticket” campa...
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Thunder Road begins Alternative Program for 2005
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Barre, VT – Barre’s Thunder Road will initiate the use of alternative energy in the 2005 racing season, introducing an optional agricultural grain-alcohol Ethanol and gasoline fuel mix to power race cars in one of its successful stock car divisions, populated by more than 40 race teams. The...
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ACTion News 4/25/05
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Apparently, the Seacoast Late Model Challenge 100 has so huge even Mother Nature couldn’t handle it. As you probably know by now, the opening event of the ACT Late Model Tour was rained out last weekend, but Lee USA Speedway officials have rescheduled the race to Friday, May 6. Gates wil...
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ACT Lee Opener Postponed
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4/23 Scheduled Practice Canceled at Lee
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LM Drivers Praise New Goodyear Tires
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Waterbury, VT – Late Model stock car racers are raving about the new Goodyear tire adopted for use in the 2005 American-Canadian Tour (ACT) racing season. “The Goodyears hold up a lot better than the tires we used to run on,” said Jeffersonville, VT’s Joe Becker, who tested the tires at Canaan F...
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ACTion News 4/18/05
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Last weekend was a busy one for ACT teams – between the Berlin Mall car show and two New Hampshire race tracks holding open test days, over 30 teams from all four ACT/Thunder Road divisions were in action. Six beautiful cars from the ACT Late Model, NAPA Tiger Sportsman, and Allen Lumber Street S...
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Steve Fischer Looks To Lee Opener
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Lee, NH – As the American-Canadian Tour (ACT) rolls into Lee USA Speedway next weekend, expect veteran stock car racer Steve Fisher to pick up where he left off last September. After starting a distant 33rd in the New England Dodge Dealers National 150, the Shelburne, VT driver took his Days In...
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Lee Driver Knocks ACT Qualifing Procedures
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Lee, NH – Keith Larmie is not a big fan of the qualifying system that has been announced for the Seacoast Late Model Challenge 100. The Top 10 Lee USA Speedway Late Model driver has expressed interest in going after the top prize at his home track on Sat./Sun., April 23/24, the opening stoc...
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ACTion News 4/11/05
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The ACT Late Model Tour season opens in just a couple of weeks (Sunday, April 24) with the Seacoast Late Model Challenge 100 at Lee USA Speedway, we know that. The rivalries established last year are beginning to heat up again, and the radical new qualifying format, splitting ACT regulars from...
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Wheeler enters opener
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Lee, NH – Chad Wheeler, the third-place point man at Barre, VT’s Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl in 2004, has filed an entry into the Seacoast Late Model Challenge 100 at Lee USA Speedway on Sat./Sun., April 23/24, the opening stock car event for the American-Canadian Tour (ACT). Wheeler...
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ACTion News 4/4/05
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ACT Releases it's Annual!
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ACT 2005 Annual to be Unveiled at University Mall Car Show
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ACTion News 3/28/05
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Merchants Bank 150 to open T-Road season
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Waterbury, VT – Officials from Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl are pleased to announce the return of Merchants Bank for the 7th Annual Merchants Bank 150 on Sunday, May 1. The Merch...
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ACTion News 3/21/05
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ACT is based in Waterbury, Vermont, and has a seemingly endless supply of talented drivers living in its home state. But ACT also has strong ties in the state of Maine. In fact, ACT President Tom Curley is a native of the Pine Tree State. Maine drivers Dick McCabe of Kennebunkport,...
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Thunder Road Gets Thumbs Up!
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Barre, VT – Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl has been cited as an “Editors’ Choice” in the May 2005 issue of Speedway Illustrated magazine, chosen by two of the publication’s major editors as the nation’s best short track. Speedway Illustrated is the nation’s leading stock car racing publicati...
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Lee Regulars look to defend turf in opener
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Lee, NH – “We gotta beat ‘em!”
“We’re not backing down from a good fight.”
“This is our home, our playground, and our guys are going to defend it.”
These were just some of the comments offered by Lee USA Speedway veterans, regarding the ACT Late Model Tour season opener. ACT will help lift t...
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ACTion News 3/14/05
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ACTion News 3/14/05 With the first day of Spring just a few days away, we’re feeling optimistic and believe that the snow gods will take a vacation soon. As we write this week’s column, though, the white stuff has again begun to fall, and is attempting to re-cover all that was plowed in the past co...
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Allen Lumber returns for 7th season
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Waterbury, VT – The Allen Lumber Company, one of the oldest family-owned businesses in the state of Vermont, has again signed on to present the Allen Lumber Street Stock division at Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl in Barre, VT in 2005. The agreement extends an official partnership between the A...
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ACT News 3/7/05
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Now that Race-A-Rama has (successfully!) come and gone, it’s almost time to begin thinking about opening day. For the third time in ACT Late Model Tour history, the season opens in the Granite State, at Lee USA Speedway in Lee, NH (right). ACT regulars will go head-to-head against the Lee USA Late Mod...
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Rumor.....
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Rumor has it, that a 3rd CT driver could be throwing his "hat" into the ring and competing for the ACT championship......
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Who will win the championship?
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It's time for all you fans out there to pick the champion! Please vote and post any thoughts you may have. -- Edited by bratmaster at 23:34, 2005-01-28
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Act news
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ACTion News 2/28/05 Countdown to Race-A-Rama as of February 28: 4 days. Countdown to University Mall ACT Car Show: 32 days. Countdown to ACT Late Model Tour opener at Lee USA Speedway: 55 days. Countdown to Merchants Bank 150 Thunder Road season opener, potentially the day of the first Warrior flip:...
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Tiger Tour taking Shape
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Waterbury, VT – The ACT Late Model Tour has been a much-heralded and ever-expanding success in New England short track racing for 13 seasons, but it may have some serious competition in 2005. The all-new ACT Tiger Tour for the intermediate Tiger Sportsman division has created as much buzz and...
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Mekkelsen to present Memorial Day Classic
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Waterbury, VT – Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl officials are pleased to announce that Mekkelsen RV, Vermont’s largest and oldest RV dealer, will present the 40th annual Mekkelsen RV Memorial Day Classic, on Sunday, May 29. Mekkelsen RV has been a proud supporter of Thunder Road since 1994, and has pr...
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Curley RPM promotor of the year
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ACT President Tom Curley Named 2004 RPM Auto Racing Promoter of the Year For Immediate Release ACT-050214-1 Lake Mary, FL – Three times was the charm for fiery Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl President...
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Tiger Tour Sees Wave of new competion
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ACT Late Model Tour Prepares For Wave Of New Competitors As Full-Season Entry List Tops 30 For Immediate Release ACT-050214-2 Waterbury, VT...
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ACTion News
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ACTion News 2/14/05 Happy Valentines Day, everybody! Love is in the air, and, lately, so are congratulations in this column space. For the second week in a row, a hearty “atta-boy” is in order. This time, it’s for our very own Tom Curley, President of the American-C...
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T-Road Sponsers To Return
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Williston, VT – Green Mountain Office Machines General Managers Kevin Fisher and Rich Lowrey are pleased to announce that they have agreed to present the Thursday, June 16 “Green Mountain Office Machines/Imagistics Night” race event at Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl in Barre, VT. The 2005 s...
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