McKennedy & Laquerre Star At Thunder Road

BARRE, Vt. — Jon McKennedy and Jesse Laquerre were the big winners Thursday night at Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl.

With the New England Supermodified Series returning to Thunder Road, Dan Bowes led the field early. Bowes began rapidly lapping the field before settling down and running his race, a half-track ahead of Ben Seitz and Jim Storace before calamity struck with Russ Wood.

The return to green saw Jon McKennedy take over the lead and fly away with the win with Battle and Rob Summers coming from almost getting lapped to third in the final run.

The Maplefield/Irving Oil Late Models got Thursday’s festivities started and it was a generational battle of the sophomores out front between Taylor Hoar and Laquerre. Everything went topsy-turvy with Bryan Wall Jr. riding up onto Cody Blake’s rear quarter on lap 15 to call out the lone caution. On the restart, Laquerre took off from Hoar and never looked back to become the third generation of Laquerre’s to win on the Barre highbanks with Chip Grenier and Brandon Lanphear rounding out the top three.

Brendan Moodie won the Flying Tiger feature and Nate Brien topped the street stock main event.