Barre, VT – Nearly everyone who has spent time at Thunder Road as a racer, crew member, official, or fan knows the name of Dean Gallison. For more than four decades, he has been a presence at the track, and has spent the better part of the last 20 years as Thunder Road’s Director of Competition. Gallison was honored this past off-season in a history-making way, as he became the first two-time recipient of the most prestigious award in Vermont motorsports: the Don MacTavish Award.

Barre, VT – Jason Corliss has done a lot of winning since moving up to the Late Model ranks. In 2019, he got the biggest win of them all – the 2019 “King of the Road” title. After 14 point-counting events for the Maplewood/Irving Oil Late Models, Corliss barely edged out defending champion Scott Dragon to win the track championship.

Barre, VT – Barre’s Thunder Road Speedbowl has officially unveiled its schedule of events for the 2020 racing season. The 19-event schedule goes from early May until early October and includes the 1,000th event in the history of the high banks.

Barre, VT – Next August, fans and racers will get the chance to experience Thunder Road in a whole new way. Track officials have announced that the Rusty Wallace Racing Experience will be coming to Thunder Road for the first time on Sunday, August 9, 2020, giving participants the opportunity to circle the high banks in a NASCAR-style stock car.

Barre, VT – The best drivers and people of Thunder Road’s 60th season were honored at the 2019 Thunder Road Banquet of Champions on Saturday, November 16. Nearly 300 racers, family members, crew members, and officials gathered at the Barre Elks Lodge of Barre, VT to celebrate the past season and start looking forward to 2020.

It’s time for one of our favorite things of the year: the 2019 Thunder Road By the Numbers! This is where we get into some of the most important numbers of the past season and why they’re so meaningful. It’s not just who won the most races. Who has a win in the most consecutive seasons? Who’s climbing up the all-time lists? Which of the many racing families at Thunder Road was the best racing family this year? And don’t look now, but early next season, we’ll be reaching another major milestone – 1,000 total events! Check out the numbers we’ve come up with below and let us know which numbers mattered most to you in 2019!

(All statistics include non-point-counting events unless otherwise noted.)

1 – Kyle and Kevin Streeter were the only family duo to both win features at Thunder Road in 2019 – and they did it on the same night. Son Kyle won a make-up Flying Tiger feature on June 21 while dad Kevin won the regularly scheduled Tiger feature later that night.

Oxford, ME – Waterbury Center, VT’s Jason Woodard put the capstone on a dream 2019 season by winning the inaugural American-Canadian Tour (ACT) Flying Tiger Oxford Open at Maine’s Oxford Plains Speedway on Saturday, October 19. Woodard held off charges by Berlin, NH’s Cody LeBlanc and Graniteville, VT’s John Donahue to score his sixth Flying Tiger win of the season in the division’s first visit ever to the historic 3/8-mile oval.