ACT at Airborne Speedway

by | Oct 5, 2011 | ACT, New England, New York

ACT Tour RacingSOUTH PLATTSBURGH – Patrick Laperle is up in the air about his strategy for the 40th American Canadian Tour (ACT) Rent-a-Wreck Fall Foliage 200 at Airborne Speedway Saturday, October 8.

Laperle has the 2011 Séries Castrol title in hand and is seeking his third straight Fall Foliage win. He has won the event four times. His Gestion MN/Patriote Auto race team fields two cars – one Ford powered, one with a GM motor. Recently, ACT mandated Ford engines must run a restrictor plate on tracks of Airborne’s size (1/2 mile) or longer.
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MacDonald, Branham, Bruno Surprise Entries to ACT Fall Foliage

by | Oct 5, 2011 | ACT, New England, New York

ACT Tour Racing

Waterbury, VT – The American Canadian Tour (ACT) Rent-A-Wreck Fall Foliage 200 at Airborne Speedway this Saturday, October 8, 2011 will have some surprise entries.

Perhaps the most surprising entry came from the star of the ACT Invitational at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) two weeks ago: Eddie MacDonald, from Rowley, MA who has entered the 200-lap event following his second ACT Invitational win. “I have heard how great Airborne’s half mile races have been, and since our season on the NASCAR K&N Series will be over (MacDonald finished 5th at Dover Downs International Speedway last weekend) this should be a lot of fun. I really enjoy racing with the ACT guys and just maybe Nick (Sweet) and I can have another battle….that would be pretty special,” said MacDonald. Sweet, from Barre, VT, has now finished second to MacDonald in two of the three Invitational events at NHMS. He will be driving the #57 RPM Ford for the Rick and Michelle Paya team to finish out the 2011 ACT points season. (more…)

TONY STEWART – Thrill of Victory and Agony of Defeat Seen at Kansas

by | Oct 5, 2011 | NASCAR

NASCAR Sprint CupKANNAPOLIS, N.C., (Oct. 5, 2011) – ABC’s Wide World of Sports spanned the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport, but for the part about the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, you need only to watch Tony Stewart race at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City.

Stewart has two NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victories at the 1.5-mile oval, the most recent of which came in 2009. But sandwiched between that win and his first Sunflower State triumph in 2006 where he successfully gambled on fuel mileage, Stewart played the role of Vinko Bogataj – the ski jumper whose spectacular crash on March 21, 1970 was featured on Wide World of Sports from the early 1970s onward as the late Jim McKay uttered, “…and the agony of defeat”.
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