Barre, VT — Following the annual pomp and circumstance of the annual season ending classic, the brave drivers of the American-Canadian Tour took on the first of three Segments in the 62nd Vermont Milk Bowl presented by Northfield Savings Bank. Polesitter Gabe Brown jumped ahead to lead the pack early while collecting the first lap money of the event along with Marcel Gravel in second and Jimmy Hebert in third. Driving hard on the outside lane, Gravel launched to lead lap nine with Hebert and previous Milk Bowl winners Jason Corliss and Chris Pelkey in tow. A trio of mid-race, quick cycle cautions slowed the segment for heart-pounding restarts before Marcel Gravel claimed the opening segment win with Jason Corliss, Brown, Hebert and Pelkey rounding out the top five.

Segment #2 for the Vermont Milk Bowl presented by Northfield Savings Bank saw Scott Dragon take off from the pole position as outside polesitter Joel Hodgdon fell under attack from Taylor Hoar and Brandon Lanphear. With Dragon holding a straightaway lead, Lanphear began having to fend off Justin Prescott and hard-charging ACT campaigner Erick Sands. Taylor Hoar’s run evaporated with a blown right front after a scrape-up with the wall to call out the lap 26 caution. On the lone restart, Scott Dragon went lights out on the field and took the segment two win with Lanphear, Sands, Justin Prescott and Patrick Laperle rounded out the top-five.

The third and final segment in the 62nd Vermont Milk Bowl presented by Northfield Savings Bank wrapped up the afternoon’s racing action with Brian Hoar and Gabe Brown leading the field to green. As the field stretched out and settled in, Jason Corliss, trying to solidify a run on his fourth Milk Bowl victory he tracked down Hoar before the lap 27 caution for Brandon Gray’s spin and Chip Grenier’s stalled ride atop turn four. 2024 King of the Road Kaiden Fisher made his presence known late in the game, battling Corliss for second in a three generation top-three.

While Brian Hoar took down his eleventh career Milk Bowl segment win, Marcel Gravel’s seventh place finish finalized an 18-point total and his first career Vermont Milk Bowl victory on the Barre highbanks. A career-defining win, Marcel Gravel’s name is now etched in the Thunder Road granite monuments for the first time with an emotional victory lane full of friends, family and crew members after Gravel climbed the fence in turn four. Jason Corliss took second with Jimmy Hebert taking third overall in the 62nd Vermont Milk Bowl presented by Northfield Savings Bank.

Year 65 has been officially completed at Thunder Road International Speedbowl with only the 2024 Banquet of Champions left on the schedule for the weekly warriors of the Nation’s Site of Excitement on Saturday, November 9 at the Barre Elks Club.

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Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl – Barre, VT

Sunday, October 6, 2024

62nd Vermont Milk Bowl presented by Northfield Savings Banks

UNOFFICIAL RESULTS

American-Canadian Tour / Maplefields-Irving Late Models –

62nd Vermont Milk Bowl presented by Northfield Savings Bank

(Finish, Start, Car #, Driver, Hometown, (Seg #1, Seg #2, Seg #3, Overall))

1.         3          86VT    Marcel J. Gravel          Wolcott, VT                 (1, 10, 7 – 18)

2.         7          66VT    Jason Corliss              Barre, VT                     (2, 20, 2 – 24)

3.         5          58VT    Jimmy Hebert             Williamstown, VT       (4, 16, 6 - 26)

4.         15        18VT    #Kaiden Fisher             Shelburne, VT             (13, 12, 4 - 29)

5.         10        77NH   Bryan Wall Jr.              E. Kingston, NH           (14, 8, 8 - 30)

6.         1          78NH   Gabe Brown                Center Conway, NH    (3, 25, 3 - 31)

7.         9          99VT    Cody Blake                  Barre, VT                     (6, 11, 15 - 32)

8.         4          64VT    Christopher Pelkey     S. Barre, VT                 (5, 19, 9 - 33)

9.         8          46x      Brian Hoar                  South Hero, VT            (7, 26, 1 - 34)

10.       14        91QC   Patrick Laperle            St-Denis, QC                (16, 5, 13 - 34)

11.       13        36NH   Erick Sands                  Derry, NH                    (18, 3, 19 - 40)

12.       24        04VT    DJ Shaw                       Center Conway, NH    (19, 7, 14 - 40)

13.       17        68NH   Tanner Woodard        Waterbury Ctr., VT     (15, 22, 5 - 42)

14.       12        68VT    Brooks Clark               Fayston, VT                 (11, 17, 18 - 46)

15.       11        16VT    Brandon Lanphear     Morrisville, VT            (22, 2, 22 - 46)

16.       6          21QC   Alexendre Tardif         Notre Dame des Pins, QC (8, 13, 25 - 46)

17.       16        7AK      Derek Gluchacki         Dartmouth, MA          (10, 6, 31 - 47)

18.       21        0VT      Scott Dragon               Milton, VT                   (26, 1, 21 - 48)

19.       20        04NY   Justin Prescott             Fairfax, VT                   (20, 4, 24 - 48)

20.       22        48QC   Raphael Lessard         St-Joseph, QC              (23, 9, 17 - 49)

21.       26        36VT    Joel Hodgdon             Craftsbury Common, VT (25, 15, 10 - 50)

22.       27        8VT      Chris Roberts              Washington, VT          (21, 18, 12 - 51)

23.       23        9VT      Chip Grenier               E. Barre, VT                 (12, 14, 28 - 54)

24.       29        71VT    #Jesse Laquerre          E. Montpelier, VT        (27, 21, 11 - 59)

25.       2          17VT    Darrell Morin              Westford, VT               (9, 27, 23 - 59)

26.       18        00VT    Brandon Gray             E. Thetford, VT            (17, 24, 20 - 61)

27.       28        25NH   Jesse Switser               W. Burke, VT               (28, 23, 16 - 67)

28.       19        48VT    #Taylor Hoar               South Hero, VT            (24, 30, 27 - 81)

29.       30        41QC   Jonathan Bouvrette   Blainville, QC              (30, 28, 26 - 84)

30.       25        01VT    Stephen Martin          Craftsbury Common, VT (29, 29, 31 – 89)