Sicard Inherits Casella 100 Win at Thunder Road

For Immediate Release                            TR-081708-1

    BARRE, VT Shawn Sicard of Barre won the Casella Waste Management Tiger Sportsman 100 stock car race at Barre, VTs
Thunder Road on Sunday night, after the car of apparent first-place finisher Pete Ainsworth of Middlesex failed post-race
technical inspection.  Sicard started 21st on the 30-car grid, and made a quick last-lap maneuver underneath fellow Barre driver
Lance Allen while running with lapped traffic to take second place on the race track.  Sicard and Dave Finck, another Barre
native, had traded the third position several times in the closing laps before the move under Allen.
    Sicards victory was the second of his NAPA Tiger Sportsman career.  Allen, who like Sicard is in his second season in the
division, held on for second place.  Finck matched a season-best effort in third.  Eighteen year-old Derrick ODonnell of Bradford
finished fourth over unofficial point leader Craig Bushey of Cambridge.  Barre rookie Cody Blake finished sixth ahead of North
Middlesex driver Chris Gendreau, who was making his first start of the year.  Craftsburys Joel Hodgdon, veteran Joey Laquerre of
East Montpelier, and Mark Barnier of Essex Junction completed the revised top ten in order, unofficially.
    Rookie Matt White of Northfield earned his second victory of the year in the Late Model division.  White drove from ninth
starting position, avoided a lap 7 wreck that eliminated the top three runners, and then won a see-saw battle with Brooks Clark
for the lead in the middle stages of the 50-lap race.  After Clark spun on lap 27 and front-runner John Donahue had a flat tire on
lap 30, a razor-close four-car battle developed behind White.
The cars of Dave Pembroke, Chip Grenier, point leader Eric Williams, and Cris Michaud ran in tight formation for nearly 20 laps. 
Williams made an unsuccessful bid in the low groove on the final lap under Pembroke, and that allowed Grenier, of Graniteville, to
slip by for second place at the finish.  Pembroke, of Middlesex, crossed the line third ahead of Northfields Michaud and Williams
of Hyde Park.  Rookie Tony Andrews of Middlebury finished sixth with Gary Caron, Joe Becker, Phil Scott, and rookie Tyler Cahoon
completing the unofficial top ten in order.
Hometown driver Erik Steel earned his first career Allen Lumber Street Stock victory in a 25-lap feature.  Steel broke out of a
duel with Barres Josh LaCourse after the halfway mark and cruised to the win.  Garry Bashaw of Lincoln took his second
consecutive runner-up finish ahead of North Troy driver David Allen, LaCourse, and Greg Adams, Jr. of Hardwick.
Mark LaFleche of Graniteville and Mike Gay of South Burlington were each first-time winners as they split a pair of 18-lap Power
Shift Online Junkyard Warrior features.  LaFleche won the Calkins Portables/WDEV Radio event, previously rained out on July 31. 
Del Jarvis of Barre, Travis Hull of Graniteville, Jeff Martin, Jr. of Moretown, and Jamie Davis of Wolcott completed the top five
in order behind LaFleche.  Gay won the regularly-scheduled Casella Waste Management feature over Hull, Barres Justin Gay, Scott
Weston of Berlin, and Donny Yates of North Montpelier.
Thunder Road is back in action on Thursday, August 21 as Kinney Drugs presents double 50-lap features for the headline Late Model
division.  A full card of Sportsman, Street Stock, and Warrior races is on tap, as well as the annual Kids Poster Contest. 
General admission is $9.50 for adults, $3 for kids (6-12), and just $20 for a family of four.  Gates open at 5:00pm, racing begins
at 6:30pm.  For more information, call (802) 244-6963 or visit www.thunderroadspeedbowl.com.

UNOFFICIAL RESULTS Casella Waste Management Night
Thunder Road Intl Speedbowl Barre, VT Sunday, August 17, 2008

(# - denote rookie)

Pos.-Driver-Hometown

Casella Waste Management Tiger Sportsman 100
1.    Shawn Sicard, Barre
2.    Lance Allen, Barre
3.    Dave Finck, Barre
4.    Derrick ODonnell, Bradford
5.    Craig Bushey, Cambridge
6.    # Cody Blake, Barre
7.    Chris Gendreau, North Middlesex
8.    Joel Hodgdon, Craftsbury
9.    Joey Laquerre, East Montpelier
10.    Mark Barnier, Essex Junction
11.    Tom Therrien, Hinesburg
12.    Brendan Moodie, North Wolcott
13.    Ricky Roberts, Websterville
14.    Trevor Lyman, Hinesburg
15.    Scott Coburn, Barre
16.    Eric Badore, Georgia
17.    Tony Rossi, Groton
18.    Brian Delphia, Duxbury
19.    Jimmy Hebert, Williamstown
20.    # Chris Lacey, Burlington
21.    # Bobby Therrien, Hinesburg
22.    Chris Chambers, Brookfield
23.    Matt Potter, Marshfield
24.    # Mike Ziter, Williamstown
25.    Justin Hart, Williamstown
26.    Josh Lovely, Barre
27.    Gene Welch, Jr., East Corinth
28.    Eric Pembroke, Montpelier
29.    Joe Steffen, Essex Junction
DSQ Pete Ainsworth, Middlesex

Late Model (50 laps)
1.    # Matt White, Northfield
2.    Chip Grenier, Graniteville
3.    Dave Pembroke, Middlesex
4.    Cris Michaud, Northfield
5.    Eric Williams, Hyde Park
6.    # Tony Andrews, Middlebury
7.    Gary Caron, Colchester
8.    Joey Becker, Jeffersonville
9.    Phil Scott, Montpelier
10.    # Tyler Cahoon, St. Johnsbury

Allen Lumber Street Stock (25 laps)
1.    Erik Steel, Barre
2.    Garry Bashaw, Lincoln
3.    David Allen, North Troy
4.    Josh LaCourse, Barre
5.    Greg Adams, Jr., Hardwick
6.    Steve Mandigo, Wolcott
7.    David Greenslit, Waitsfield
8.    Lloyd Blakely, Graniteville
9.    Jason Corliss, Plainfield
10.    Bruce Melendy, Danville

Power Shift Online Junkyard Warrior (18 laps Calkins Portables/WDEV Radio)
1.    Mark LaFleche, Graniteville
2.    Del Jarvis, Barre
3.    Travis Hull, Graniteville
4.    Jeff Martin, Jr., Moretown
5.    Jamie Davis, Wolcott
6.    Kevin Dodge, Barre
7.    Chad Brown, Milton
8.    Neal Foster, Waterbury
9.    Justin Gay, Barre
10.    Ken Christman, Cabot

Power Shift Online Junkyard Warrior (18 laps Casella Waste Management)
1.    Mike Gay, South Burlington
2.    Travis Hull, Graniteville
3.    Justin Gay, Barre
4.    Scott Weston, Berlin
5.    Donny Yates, North Montpelier
6.    Ken Christman, Cabot
7.    Jeff Martin, Jr., Moretown
8.    Justin Prescott, Williston
9.    Chad Brown, Milton
10.    Kevin Dodge, Barre
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Contact: Justin St. Louis                    Phone: (802) 244-6963
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