Barre, VT – Central Vermont and Northeast race fans can expect one of the most explosive nights of racing at the Nation’s Site of Excitement on July 18 with officials announcing on Monday that the superstars of Thunder Road will tackle Double Features plus an added bonus program worth over $30,000 in payouts! With the championship-impacting intensity of double features and added cash rewards at the end of the night, the Thursday Night Stars of Thunder Road will showcase excitement unmatched under the lights on July 18!

Barre, VT – Thunder Road officials were stunned and disappointed to learn last Thursday afternoon of the cancellation of the 2024 SRX Series season. That being said, officials continue to be hard at work to fill the void left by SRX for Central Vermont and Northeast race fans on Thursday, July 18.

Barre, VT — A longtime and popular sponsor continued its partnership with Thunder Road this week as Community College of Vermont returned for a new date with the venerable Central Vermont speedbowl in 2024. Community College of Vermont will now support the annual 50-lap Challenge for the Burnett Scrap Metals Road Warriors on Thursday, August 8.

Barre, VT — Longtime Thunder Road supporter, historian, car owner and builder Lloyd Hutchins passed away yesterday, January 3, 2024. Hutchins got his start with Thunder Road International Speedbowl while the track was being built in the spring of 1960. He worked alongside Ken Squier and the Cooley Brothers to carve the iconic highbanks out of a vast farm at the end of Fisher Road. As the story goes, it was Hutchins who helped place the railroad ties along the frontstretch as the first wall, placing them on the infamous angle that later gave it the Widowmaker moniker.

Barre, VT ­— Officials with the American-Canadian Tour (ACT) announced today that the historic Tour and its sanctioned tracks, Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl and White Mountain Motorsports Park will be represented at the 35th annual Northeast Motorsports Expo at the Augusta Civic Center in Augusta, Maine from Friday, January 12 through Sunday, January 14. Representatives will be on-hand all weekend to discuss the upcoming season, offer schedules and sell advance tickets to the SRX event at Thunder Road on Thursday, July 18!

Barre, VT — After celebrating the night away on New Years Eve, we’re too excited for the 2024 season to contain ourselves! Looking ahead to the upcoming 65th season of competition at Thunder Road International Speedbowl, we’ve hand-picked five events that we’re most looking forward to this year.

(Note: Events Listed in Chronological Order)

Barre, VT — With 2023 winding down to a close, we wanted to look back at some of our most memorable events at Thunder Road in 2023. Each event at the Nation’s Site of Excitement is memorable, making it all the more difficult to narrow down, but we decided to put our minds to it and give it try anyway!

Here are our favorite picks as we look back on the 2023 season. (Note: Events Listed in Chronological Order)