NO TRANSLATION NEEDED: Trepanier Wins Showdown
Crazy Horse Driver Stamps Mark On ACT Castrol Series With Victory
SAINT EDOUARD, Quebec – Dany Trepanier visited Mitch Green before the start of the 2011 ACT Castrol Series season and promised him one thing.
“I will be annoying,” Trepanier told the owner of Crazy Horse Racing.
Trepanier was coming off a rookie season in the ACT Castrol Series, and the veteran of the Sportsman ranks and an eight-year go-karting career needed some help. He works with a small crew on the No. 19 Trepanier Motorsports Ford Fusion – including himself as both crew chief and driver – and wanted somebody to help him find more speed. (more…)
Grimes, Iowa – Brett Moffitt, driver of the Hattori Racing Enterprises (HRE) #11 Toyota, will carry a 20 point lead in the championship point standings into the next race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) on Saturday, September 22nd, for the G-Oil 100. Moffitt has a total of 9 wins, 7 poles, 28 top fives, and 34 top 10s in his 43 career starts in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East. With only 4 races remaining on the 2012 schedule, HRE will also maintain its 20 point lead in the owner point standings.
Even a championship caliber race team can not field quality cars without adequate sponsorship dollars, and the competition for sponsors is as intense today as it has ever been in the world of stock car racing. In recent years, the economy has forced many race teams to cut back, and after the rain out at Greenville-Pickens on Labor Day, it began to look as though the #11 HRE Toyota might become one of the growing list of casualties. (more…)
This week, ACT Late Model teams across the northeast held their breath hoping for the call: an invitation to the 4th Annual Bond Auto ACT Invitational at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Saturday, September 22. No one may have been more satisfied than Vermont teen sensation Emily Packard.
“We were so on edge, I got the call in school today and I’ve been shaking ever since,” said Packard out of breath. “I am so excited about racing up there. We were so happy with the Test ‘N Tune, I’ve been telling my crew ‘We have to go to Loudon’ since the winter,” she finished.
Packard and her family team can finally be at ease, as she received one of 11 final invites. The news couldn’t have been any sweeter for the first year Late Model driver. (more…)
Brian Hoar Heats Up In September
8-time ACT Late Model Champion Rolling Into Busy Stretch
GEORGIA, Vt. – Brian Hoar of Williston, Vt., heads for the final round of the Vermont State Late Model Championship Series this Sunday, September 16, at Devil’s Bowl Speedway in West Haven, Vt., at just the right time.
Over the past three weeks, the RPM Motorsports No. 37 GossCars.com Dodge Charger has won two straight ACT Late Model Tour points races and rallied to finish fifth in the Showdown at Chaudiere – setting Hoar and crew chief Rick Paya up for a run through some of the most prestigious races of the entire season. (more…)