Waterbury’s Kyle Streeter logs first rookie win at Thunder Road

August 30, 2025 | By Waterbury Roundabout

Kyle Streeter (center driver in blue) claims the first place trophy along with Taylor Hoar (driver on left) in third place, and Bryan Wall Jr. (far right) in second, in the Aug. 29 Late Models race at Thunder Road International Speedbowl. Alan Ward photo

Waterbury Center race car driver Kyle Streeter logged his first rookie victory at Thunder Road on Thursday, besting veteran Gov. Phil Scott in the late model 50-lap race. 

According to Thunder Road, Streeter was one of two rookies to make it into the record books on Aug. 29, the other being Hayden Morris of Barre who won the Street Stocks race the same night. 

“The Maplefields/Irving Late Models went flag-to-flag Thursday night for a caution-free 50-lap sprint ahead of Sunday’s EastRise Credit Union Labor Day Classic 200,” the race account states. “Rookie Kyle Streeter faced off with the winningest competitor of the division, and sitting Vermont Governor, Phil Scott for the first half of the event.”

The field started off even across the first eight rows through the first half. Streeter got out ahead with 20 laps remaining and Taylor Hoar of South Hero and Bryan Wall Jr. of E. Kingston, New Hampshire, close behind.  “Wall made his way underneath Hoar in the final 10 laps, but neither had anything for Kyle Streeter with Streeter taking career win number one for both himself and the Robbie Crouch/Ashley Squier-owned team,” according to the official account. 

Wall finished second, Hoar in third, followed by Scott in fourth place.

A highlight of Thursday’s races was having 21 street-legal cars and a pair of golf cars face off in the annual Run-What-U-Brung event. Over 15 rounds of head-to-head matches whittled the field down to two: Street Stock standout Tyler Wheatley and third-generation stalwart Howard Stockwell. “The tow truck driver went toe-to-toe with the windshield extraordinaire in a finale for the ages, with Wheatley taking the overall and Stockwell earning the top four-cylinder honors,” according to the racetrack account.

Hayden Morris took the spotlight in the rk Miles Street Stocks 25-lap race. Morris and Paige Whittemore took off side-by-side before Morris got out ahead of the pack, finishing with career win #1, followed across the line by rookies Tyler Wheatley of Brookfield and Keegan Tabor of Randolph.

Read the full post, including individual race results, from Aug. 29 at the track at thunderroadvt.com. Sunday’s Labor Day classic is set for 4 p.m. at Thunder Road. Admission is $30; kids 6-12 are $10; 5 and under are free.