Thunder Road International SpeedBowl

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Thunder Road International SpeedBowl, more commonly known as Thunder Road, is a 1/4 mile high banked, paved short track speedway located in Barre, Vermont. The track is co-owned by Ken Squier and Tom Curley.^[1] Currently, Thunder Road hosts four weekly divisions: Late Models, Tiger Sportsman, Street Stocks, and Junkyard Warriors. The track is known for the fact that it hosts it's weekly races on Thursday night, rather than Saturday, as nearly all other short tracks do. On June 28th, 2007, NASCAR driver Kenny Wallace raced at Thunder Road. ^[2] Ken Schrader, another NASCAR driver, had raced once at Thunder Road each of the two years prior to Wallace's visit.

Thunder Road has hosted the "Milk Bowl" Late Model race for 48 years. It is the season finale for racing at the track, held each fall against a backdrop of foliage. The Milk Bowl is a unique race of three 50-lap segments, with cumulative scoring and full field inversions between segments. The driver with the lowest combined total of finishes in the three segments is declared the winner.^[3] The winner of the event is expected to kiss a cow in Victory Circle.