Morin, Poirier split Pro finals at Burke Mountain for East Coast Snocross series, Presented by Woody’s Traction & AMSOIL
EAST BURKE, VT (Dec. 13, 2010) – Veteran snowmobile racers Mathieu Morin and Danny Poirier split the Pro finals over the weekend, as East Coast Snocross (ECS) kicked off its 2010-2011 racing season at the beautiful Burke Mountain Ski Resort.
Morin, (Ingles Performance/Ski-doo) of Val-D’or, Quebec, dominated Saturday’s Pro Open final after a strong performance in qualifying. Former champion Danny Poirier (Hulten Speed Sports/Polaris) steadily worked his way to second at the finish, while Minnesota native Matt Piche (Hulten Speed Sports/Polaris) filled out the podium with a solid third place run. (more…)
Two Events Added to 2011 ACT Bond/WIX Tiger Tour Schedule
Riverside Speedway Event Date Revised
Waterbury, VT – American Canadian Tour (ACT) officials have announced a revision to the 2011 Bond/WIX Tiger Sportsmen Tour schedule that was previously released. With the addition of two events, one each at White Mountain Motorsports Park in North Woodstock, NH and Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, NY, the schedule now includes five events for 2011. Also the Riverside Speedway (Groveton, NH) event has been moved to Saturday, September 18.
After the season opening Memorial Day event at Thunder Road, the Tiger Tour will now return to White Mountain Motorsports Park (WMMP) on Saturday, July 16. The picturesque ¼ mile returns to the 2011 schedule after putting on one of the most competitive events of the Tiger Tour’s 2010 season. (more…)
Waterbury, VT – The American Canadian Tour (ACT) has announced that Goodyear, the official tire of the 25 year-old short track sanctioning body, will be the presenting sponsor of the first ever “southern swing” for the ACT Late Models on Sunday, February 13 and Monday, February 14, 2011. Last month officials from ACT and New Smyrna Speedway in New Smyrna, Florida announced that the ACT Late Model teams would become part of the historic World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing (WSASCR) at the well known ½ mile speedplant.
For over four decades northern race teams and fans from Maine to Minnesota have made the annual pilgrimage to the ‘World Series’ at New Smyrna during Speedweeks at Daytona. “In the old days, the late Richie Evans would run out of the NASCAR Wednesday night awards banquet and rush down to make sure he was in the feature at New Smyrna that night. Junior Hanley, Gary Balough and a whole host of modified and late model racers made New Smyrna their ‘off-season home’. It is going to be a lot of fun to bring our northern ACT Late Model teams to Florida,” said Tom Curley, President of the American Canadian Tour.
“ACT race teams have supported Goodyear for the past seven seasons and we are really pleased to be the presenting sponsor of the first Goodyear ACT Speedweeks Cup,” said Scott Junod, Goodyear Sales Manager, Short Track Racing.
“I have seen a lot of ACT events over the past few years, and I think the fans going down to Speedweeks and the World Series of Asphalt Racing at New Smyrna are going to be in for a terrific short track show. When ACT announces the format for the two 100-lap events it should be a whole lot of fun to be a spectator. Goodyear is happy to be a part of this inaugural ACT event in February during Speedweeks,” concluded Junod. (more…)
