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Nick Sweet Is King of PASS
Once Again on Milk Bowl Friday |
Barre, VT - -
Barre's Nick Sweet reigned in the
Pro All Star Series (PASS) Super
Late Models for the third straight
year on Vermont Milk Bowl Weekend as
part of Mekkelsen RV Milk Bowl
Friday on October 2. Sweet snatched
the lead from point leader D.J. Shaw
of Center Conway, NH with 29 laps
remaining and pulled away late to
win the Prelude to the Milk Bowl 150
at Barre's Thunder Road.
After starting 11th in the 21-car
field, Sweet was content to run
mid-pack in the early going.
Polesitter Travis Benjamin of
Morrill, ME set the early pace but
surrendered the lead to Shaw
following the first caution at lap
18 for Allan Wilson's turn-one spin.
Hinesburg's Bobby Therrien then
moved to the front, taking the top
spot from Shaw on lap 27 after
another restart. When the field went
green following a lap-39 caution,
though, Therrien's driveshaft
failed. Therrien got turned around
as he slowed and eventually retired
for the night as Shaw re-inherited
the lead.
Sweet then made his
first big run of the race, moving
into the third spot on lap 49. Shaw,
Northfield's Evan Hallstrom, Sweet,
and Pittson, ME's Ben Ashline then
rolled away from the field, with
Shaw gapping the other three on
multiple occasions only for another
yellow to close them up once again.
As the race began to wind down,
the cards fell into Sweet's hands.
He got around Hallstrom for the
second spot just before caution
number eight on lap 119 for an
incident involving Jason Corliss and
Kate Re. Although Shaw led the first
lap following the restart, Sweet put
the power down and shot around the
outside of him. The veteran then
survived back-to-back yellows on
laps 128 and 129 before saying
goodnight for his fifth win of the
season.
Shaw went
back-and-forth with Hallstrom in the
final circuits before securing
second. Hallstrom held off Ashline
for third. Jeremy Davis, Ryan Kuhn,
Kyle Desouza, Benjamin, Ben Rowe,
and Anthony Consantino rounded out
the top-10.
Gray, ME's Tyler
King moved ever closer to the PASS
MODS championship by taking his
fifth victory of the season. King
started 12th on the grid but quickly
cut through the field. A pair of
incidents at the front of the pack
further helped his cause.
First, on lap 15, Max Cookson got
into leader Zach Bowie, bringing out
the third caution and sending both
the rear. On the restart, new leader
Spencer Morse tangled with Justin
Larson, with Larson barrel-rolling
down the front chute.
When
the dust settled, King was
restarting second alongside Morse.
King stalked him for several laps
before the two made contact in turn
four on lap 22. Both made great
saves with King sliding underneath
Morse in the process. The point
leader then sped off into the night
in an event that was shortened to 40
laps from the scheduled 50 due to
the on-track carnage.
North
Waterford, ME's Bill Dixon followed
up his win two weeks ago with a
second-place finish. Morse, Bobby
Nadeau, Jake Madore, Spencer Vaughn,
Colby Benjamin, Zach Bowie, Chanler
Harrison, and Shawn Night completed
the top-10.
Craftsbury
Common's Mike Martin successfully
defended his home track in the Honey
Badger Bar & Grill Street Stock
Series feature. Martin, one of
several Lenny's Shoe & Apparel
Flying Tigers who entered the event,
started third and spent most of the
40-lap feature right in the tire
tracks of Jordan Russell
After the race's only caution on lap
26 when Adam Maynard and Matt
Dufault both came to a stop in
separate incidents, Martin stalked
Russell for several more circuits.
The Thunder Road veteran then
muscled his way underneath Russell
to take the lead.
Russel
tried to flex some muscle of his own
in return, hounding Martin as the
laps wound down. The duo touched
multiple times, including in turn
two of the final lap. It was Russell
getting sideways, though, allowing
Martin to escape for the win.
David Greenslit, a Claremont
Speedway Street Stock regular and
former Thunder Road competitor, made
his return worth the trip with a
third-place effort. Mark Turner and
Devon Mcconologue came home fourth
and fifth.
Former North East
Mini Stock Tour (NEMST) champion
Cody Leblanc of Berlin, NH bested
the field in the 50-lap NEMST
feature to close out the night.
Leblanc took the green deep on the
grid but was up to third when the
first caution flew on lap 29 after
two cars got together while trying
to stay on the lead lap.
The
slowdown allowed Leblanc to close
the gap on leader Emerson Cayer and
runner-up Tim Paquette. When the
race resumed, Leblanc immediately
ducked below Paquette, then spent
several laps sizing up Cayer. He
finally went beneath his fellow
former champion on lap 33 and
completed the pass two laps later. A
caution for Eric Banks' stopped
machine with two laps to go gave
Cayer a final shot, but Leblanc
easily got the best of the two-lap
sprint to the checkers.
East
Thetford, VT's Matt Sonnhalter snuck
past Contoocook, NH's Cayer on the
last restart for second. Desmond
Skillings, Jake Rheaume, Erin Aiken,
Paquette, Mike Viens, Dan Morris,
and Justin Faford also earned top-10
finishes.
Vermont Milk Bowl
Weekend continues Saturday, October
3 at 1:00pm with Booth Bros./H.P.
Hood Qualifying Day. The
Maplewood/Irving Oil Late Models
have time trials and 50-lap
qualifying races to help set the
field for the 58th Vermont Milk Bowl
presented by Northfield Savings
Bank. The Lenny's Shoe & Apparel
Flying Tigers and Allen Lumber
Street Stocks also have time trials
along with segment one of their
"Mini Milk Bowls". A two-segment
Burnett Scrap Metals Road Warrior
Mini Milk Bowl rounds out the
Saturday afternoon card.
Walk-up tickets are available for
select seating areas. Admission is
$10 for adults and $5 for kids ages
12 and under. The event will also be
broadcast live on the Northeast
Sports Network via pay-per-view at
www.NSNsports.net/sponsors/racing.
For more information, contact
the Thunder Road offices at (802)
244-6963,
media@thunderroadvt.com, or
visit
www.thunderroadvt.com. You can
also get updates on Facebook and
Twitter at @ThunderRoadVT.
For more about the Northeast Sports
Network, visit
www.NSNsports.net or follow them
on Facebook and Twitter at
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THUNDER ROAD SPEEDBOWL
MEKKELSEN RV MILK BOWL FRIDAY
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2020
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PASS
SUPER LATE MODELS
PRELUDE TO
THE MILK BOWL 150
Pos., Driver, Car #, Hometown, Laps
1. Nick Sweet ( 40VT ) , Barre, VT ,
150 Laps
2. D.J. Shaw ( 60 ) ,
Center Conway, NH , 150 Laps
3.
Evan Hallstrom ( 1VT ) , Northfield,
VT , 150 Laps
4. Ben Ashline ( 99
) , Pittson, ME , 150 Laps
5.
Jeremy Davis ( 09 ) , Tamworth, NH ,
150 Laps
6. Ryan Kuhn ( 72 ) , E.
Bridgewater, ME , 150 Laps
7.
Kyle Desouza ( 1 ) , Turner, ME ,
150 Laps
8. Travis Benjamin ( 7 )
, Belfast, ME , 150 Laps
9. Ben
Rowe ( 4 ) , Turner, ME , 150 Laps
10. Anthony Consantino ( 14C ) ,
Auburn, ME , 150 Laps
11. Jason
Corliss ( 66VT ) , Barre, VT , 149
Laps
12. Gabe Brown ( 47B ) ,
Center Conway, NH , 149 Laps
13.
Dan Winter ( 81 ) , Windham ME , 149
Laps
14. Scott McDaniel ( 14 ) ,
Livermore, ME , 145 Laps
15.
Johnny Clark ( 54 ) , Farmington ME
, 126 Laps
16. Kate Re ( 10 ) ,
Lovell, ME , 124 Laps
17. #N/A (
07 ) , #N/A , 50 Laps
18. Bobby
Therrien ( 5X ) , Hinesburg, VT , 39
Laps
19. Allan Wilson ( 53W ) ,
Hebron, ME , 37 Laps
20. Logan
Melcher ( 41 ) , Fayette, ME , 25
Laps
21. Jerry Gomarlo ( 76 ) ,
Bernardston, MA , 3 Laps |
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Pos.,
Driver, Car #, Hometown
1. Tyler
King ( 11 ) , Gray, ME
2. Bill
Dixon ( 33 ) , North Waterford, ME
3. Spencer Morse ( 34 ) , Waterford,
ME
4. Bobby Nadeau ( 35 ) ,
Buxton, ME
5. Jake Madore ( 66 )
, Arundel, ME
6. Spencer Vaughn (
7 ) , Canton, ME
7. Colby
Benjamin ( 52 ) , Belmont, ME
8.
Zach Bowie ( 00 ) , Greene, ME
9.
Chanler Harrison ( 6 ) , Freeport,
ME
10. Shawn Knight ( 13 ) ,
South Paris, ME
11. Justin Larson
( 18 ) , Peru, ME
12. A.J. Cates
( 2 ) , Lyman, ME
13. Max Cookson
( 41 ) , Pittsfield, ME
14. Kevin
Durgin ( 12 ) , Scarborough, ME
15. Troy Morse ( 21 ) , Bridgeton,
ME
16. Ashley Beyea ( 44 ) , Old
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HONEY
BADGER BAR & GRILL STREET STOCK
SERIES
Pos., Driver, Car #, Hometown
1.
Michael Martin ( 01 ) , Craftsbury
Common, VT
2. Jordan
Russell ( 4 ) , Norway, ME
3. David
Greenslit ( 20 ) , Langdon, NH
4. Mark
Turner ( 09 ) , South Paris, ME
5. Devon
Mcconologue ( 18 ) , West Newfield,
ME
6. Adam
Maynard ( 45 ) , Milton, VT
7. Mike
Mayberry ( 62 ) , Naples, ME
8.
Michael Haynes ( 67 ) , Livermore
Falls, ME
9. Matt
Dufault ( 61D ) , Naples, ME
10. Lucas
Wheeler ( 21 ) , Bradford, VT
11. Kasey
Beattie ( 5 ) , St. Johnsbury, VT
DNS
Stephen Martin ( 9 ) , Craftsbury
Common, VT
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NORTH EAST MINI STOCK TOUR
Pos., Driver, Car #, Hometown
2. Matt
Sonnhalter ( 33VT ) , East Thetford,
VT
3.
Emerson Cayer ( 88 ) , Contoocook,
NH
4.
Desmond Skillings ( 90 ) , Antrim,
NH
5. Jake
Rheaume ( 18NH ) , Rochester, NH
6. Erin
Aiken ( 33NH ) , Claremont, NH
7. Tim
Paquette ( 93 ) , Bennington, NH
8. Mike
Viens ( 85 ) , Seekonk, MA
9. Dan
Morris ( 33ME ) , Auburn, ME
10.
Justin Faford ( 04 ) , Westminster,
MA
11. Louis
Maher ( 69Z ) , Spencer, MA
12. Dana
Shepard ( 43VT ) , Putney, VT
13. Eric
Banks ( 5 )
14.
Gordon Farnum ( 46NH )
DNS Roger
Ducharme ( 34 ) , Foster, RI
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58th
Vermont Milk
Bowl
Weekend |
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The local heroes of
the Maplewood/Irving
Oil Late Models will
try to take home the
58th edition of the
Vermont Milk Bowl.
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Thunder
Road Gearing Up for
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Barre,
VT -- Teams and
fans across the
Northeast are ready
for the 58th Vermont
Milk Bowl presented
by Northfield
Savings Bank at
Barre's Thunder
Road. The three-day
extravaganza this
Friday, October 2
through Sunday,
October 4 has saved
the best for last
during the 61st
season of
competition atop
Quarry Hill.
Despite a delayed
start to the season
and other challenges
related to the
worldwide COVID-19
outbreak, the 2020
Thunder Road
campaign was one to
remember. Now,
regionally- and
nationally-recognized
racers such as Jason
Corliss, Bobby
Therrien, Ben Rowe,
Scott Dragon, Ryan
Kuhn, and Johnny
Clark will do battle
at the "Nation's
Site of Excitement"
as part a
10-division card
capped by the
$10,000-to-win Milk
Bowl.
The
weekend is scheduled
to kick off Friday,
October 2 at 6:00pm
with Mekkelsen RV
Milk Bowl Friday.
The Pro All Stars
Series (PASS) Super
Late Model 150
headlines a card of
four top regional
touring series that
are invading Barre.
Series officials
expect a field of
20-plus Super Late
Models to slug it
out on the Barre
high banks.
Defending PASS
champion and current
point leader D.J.
Shaw of Center
Conway, NH; reigning
Oxford 250 winner
Johnny Clark of
Hallowell, ME;
multi-time PASS king
Ben Rowe of Turner,
ME; and rising star
Kate Re of Harrison,
ME are just some of
the names on the
entry list.
As it often does at
Thunder Road, the
PASS Super Late
Model field will
have a local flavor.
Two-time defending
"King of the Road"
Jason Corliss of
Barre, 2019 Milk
Bowl winner Bobby
Therrien of
Hinesburg, and
former Late Model
winner Evan
Hallstrom of
Northfield have
entered the event.
ACT Late Model Tour
standout Ryan Kuhn
of East Bridgewater,
MA joins Rowe,
Corliss, and
Therrien in doing
double-duty over the
weekend.
The
Friday night
spectacular also
includes 50-lap
features for the
PASS Modifieds,
Honey Badger Bar &
Grill Street Stock
Series, and North
East Mini Stock
Tour. The quartet of
high-powered Super
Late Models,
open-wheel
Modifieds, full-body
eight-cylinder cars,
and lightning-fast
four-cylinders means
something for
everyone to open the
weekend.
The
weekend continues
Saturday, October 3
at 1:00pm with Booth
Bros./H.P. Hood
Qualifying Day. The
Maplewood/Irving Oil
Late Models take
center stage that
day with time trials
and 50-lap
qualifying races to
set most of the Milk
Bowl starting field.
Local heroes such as
Milton's Scott
Dragon, Shelburne's
Trampas Demers,
Montpelier's Kyle
Pembroke, Wolcott's
Brendan Moodie, and
Fayston's Brooks
Clark will try to
get a head start on
dethroning Corliss
and Therrien.
Outsiders such as
Midsummer 250 winner
Dillon Moltz,
multi-time White
Mountain Motorsports
Park winner Joel
Hodgdon, and Rhode
Island youngster
Mike Benevides also
are coming to take
their shot.
The rest of Thunder
Road's local
divisions also have
big weekends
planned. The Lenny's
Shoe & Apparel
Flying Tigers and
Allen Lumber Street
Stocks have time
trials and Segment 1
of their "Mini Milk
Bowls" on Saturday.
The Burnett Scrap
Metals Road Warriors
run a two-segment
Mini Milk Bowl that
afternoon as well.
Following the main
program, the Junior
Champ Karts for 6-14
year-olds are slated
to run Mini Milk
Bowls on the
backstretch track.
Sunday, October
4, the weekend and
season reach their
apex with the 58th
Vermont Milk Bowl
presented by
Northfield Savings
Bank. The Late Model
Last-Chance "B"
Feature rolls onto
the track at
12:15pm. The four
remaining spots in
the Milk Bowl will
be up for grabs,
meaning desperation
time has arrived.
Opening
ceremonies will
follow with the
first of three
50-lap segments
going green at
1:30pm. The finish
of each segment is
reversed to start
the next segment,
and the driver with
the best combined
finish gets a
minimum $10,000
check and a kiss
with a genuine
Vermont dairy cow.
Sunday also
includes the final
segment of the
Flying Tiger and
Street Stock Mini
Milk Bowls. The
7-Eleven Dwarf Cars
of White Mountain
Motorsports Park
complete the program
with their annual
trip to Barre for a
two-segment event.
Limited
grandstand seating
is still available
for all three days
of Vermont Milk Bowl
Weekend. Adult
general admission
tickets are $20 for
Friday, $10 for
Saturday, and $30
for Sunday. Kids
ages 12 and under
are $5 for
Friday/Saturday and
$10 for Sunday. Fans
can order advance
tickets at
https://happsnow.com/event/Thunder-Road-Speedbowl.
Pit passes
will be sold at the
track on race day.
Visit
www.thunderroadvt.com
to find health and
safety requirements
for attendees.
The
Northeast Sports
Network will have a
live pay-per-view
broadcast of the
entire weekend. The
broadcast is $50 for
all three days, $40
for Saturday/Sunday,
or $25 for
Friday-only. Fans
can sign up at
www.NSNsports.net/sponsors/racing.
For more
information, contact
the Thunder Road
offices at (802)
244-6963,
media@thunderroadvt.com,
or visit
www.thunderroadvt.com.
You can also get
updates on Facebook
and Twitter at
@ThunderRoadVT.
For more about
the Northeast Sports
Network, visit
www.NSNsports.net
or follow them on
Facebook and Twitter
at @NSNsports. |
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divisions competing
throughout the
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58th
Vermont
Milk
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Barre, VT's
Jason Corliss
(#66VT) is looking
for a third Vermont
Milk Bowl victory
after clinching
his second straight
Thunder Road track
championship.
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Corliss,
Therrien Both Ready
for
Another Piece of
Milk Bowl History |
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Barre,
VT -- When the
58th Vermont Milk
Bowl presented by
Northfield Savings
Bank goes green at
Barre's Thunder Road
on Sunday, October
4, two drivers will
be on everyone's
short list of
contenders. Barre's
Jason Corliss and
Hinesburg's Bobby
Therrien have
combined to win the
last three Milk
Bowls, making them
the early favorites
as "The Toughest
Short Track Stock
Car Race in North
America" draws
closer on the
calendar.
Both Corliss and
Therrien have been
drivers to watch
every time they've
showed up at Thunder
Road over the past
four seasons.
Corliss has now won
the last two "King
of the Road" titles.
Therrien captured
the 2017 title and
finished second to
Corliss this year.
The duo has six
Thunder Road wins
this year between
them and split the
track's two
American-Canadian
Tour (ACT) events.
Now the pair
again set their
sights on one of the
country's most
famous short track
races. Both
understand the
importance of the
Milk Bowl and the
place it holds in
Thunder Road annals.
"(The Milk Bowl)
is such a
prestigious race,
and so much weight
is put onto the race
because it's so
difficult," Corliss
said. "It's so hard
to win or even just
have a good run. And
there's been so much
prestigious and
nostalgia that's
gone along with this
particular race.
There's just such a
feeling going into
the track on Milk
Bowl Weekend. You
get pumped up about
it even if you've
been in (Thunder
Road) a thousand
times before --
there's a certain
energy the Milk Bowl
brings that's just
special."
It
is no surprise these
two stars have shone
the brightest on one
of New England
racing's biggest
stages. Therrien was
unstoppable in 2019,
winning the Vermont
Milk Bowl from the
pole. His final
score of 8 points
was almost twice as
good as runner-up
Brooks Clark.
Corliss won the
previous two Milk
Bowls in two of the
biggest thrillers
the event has ever
since. He captured
the 2017 event in a
tiebreaker with
Trampas Demers after
passing him with
less than 10 laps to
go in the final
segment. In 2018,
Corliss waited until
the last second,
stealing the overall
win from Therrien on
the final corner as
they scrambled
around a slower car.
Both have their
sights set on
another piece of
history in the 2020
edition. Corliss
could become just
the seventh driver
to win at least
three Milk Bowls. He
would join Robbie
Crouch, Brian Hoar,
Russ Ingerson, Kevin
Lepage, Patrick
Laperle, and Nick
Sweet. Only
Ingerson, Laperle,
and Sweet have
pulled the
3-wins-in-4-years
feat Corliss is
aiming for.
Therrien, meanwhile,
would be the seventh
driver to go
back-to-back in the
Milk Bowl if he
triumphs on October
4. If not for
Corliss's late pass
in 2018, Therrien
could well be in
position for the
first Milk Bowl
three-peat.
The quest for both
drivers begins
Saturday, October 3
with Booth
Bros./H.P. Hood Milk
Bowl Qualifying Day.
A good performance
in Saturday's time
trials and 50-lap
qualifying races
puts a driver in
excellent position
on Sunday. Therrien
is one of 12 drivers
to win the Milk Bowl
from the pole while
Corliss started
sixth and third,
respectively, for
his two wins.
Conversely, a poor
Saturday effort can
affect the rest of
the weekend, as
Corliss experienced
in 2019.
"There's no
guaranteed success
in this race, that's
for sure," Corliss
noted. "We came in
last year, again on
a championship, but
quite admittedly I
didn't qualify
well...even though
we run 200 laps'
worth of racing
between the 50-lap
qualifier and the
three 50-lap
segments, those two
laps (in time
trials) do matter.
We put ourselves in
a hole to start the
weekend and started
too far back in our
qualifier."
Corliss and Therrien
will also have
plenty of
challengers in their
bid to continue Milk
Bowl dominance.
Two-time "King of
the Road" Scott
Dragon, Midsummer
Classic 250 winner
Dillon Moltz,
multi-time Pro All
Stars Series (PAS)
Champion Ben Rowe,
and defending ACT
Rookie of the Year
Ryan Kuhn are just a
few of the big names
that have committed
to the 58th Vermont
Milk Bowl presented
by Northfield
Savings Bank. Most
of the Thunder Road
Maplewood/Irving Oil
Late Models are
confirmed for
attendance, and
several other top
regional Late Model
drivers are rumored
to be planning their
trip to Barre.
Vermont Milk
Bowl Weekend begins
Friday, October 2 at
6:00pm with
Mekkelsen RV Milk
Bowl Friday. An
afternoon open Late
Model practice will
be followed by a
four-division card
featuring the PASS
Super Late Models,
PASS Modifieds,
Honey Badger Bar &
Grill Street Stock
Series, and North
East Mini Stock
Tour.
Saturday, October 3
at 1:00pm is Booth
Bros./H.P. Hood Milk
Bowl Qualifying Day
with the
three-segment
Vermont Milk Bowl
presented by
Northfield Savings
Bank on Sunday,
October 4 at
12:15pm. The Lenny's
Shoe & Apparel
Flying Tigers, Allen
Lumber Street
Stocks, Burnett
Scrap Metals Road
Warriors, 7-Eleven
Dwarf Cars, and
Junior Champ Karts
are also in action
throughout the
weekend.
Advance tickets for
all three days of
Vermont Milk Bowl
Weekend are
available now at
https://happsnow.com/event/Thunder-Road-Speedbowl.
Adult admission is
$20 for Friday, $10
for Saturday, and
$30 for Sunday. Kids
ages 12 and under
are $5 on
Friday/Saturday and
$10 on Sunday. Visit
www.thunderroadvt.com
for camping
information plus
health and safety
requirements for
in-person
attendance. All
three days of the
Vermont Milk Bowl
will also be
broadcast live on
the Northeast Sports
Network. Sign up now
at
www.NSNsports.net/sponsors/racing.
For more
information, contact
the Thunder Road
offices at (802)
244-6963,
media@thunderroadvt.com,
or visit
www.thunderroadvt.com.
You can also get
updates on Facebook
and Twitter at
@ThunderRoadVT.
For more about
the Northeast Sports
Network, visit
www.NSNsports.net
or follow them on
Facebook and Twitter
at @NSNsports. |
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Hinesburg, VT's
Bobby Therrien aims
for a second
straight Vermont
Milk Bowl triumph on
Sunday, October 4.
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