by Jay | Jun 26, 2012 | ACT, Maine, New England, New Hampshire, Touring Series News, White Mountain Motorsports Park
AT Racing: ACT Late Model Tour
White Mountain Motorsports Park Race Report
Austin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, finished fourth in the ACT Late Model Tour White Mountain 150 at White Mountain Motorsports Park in North Woodstock, N.H., on Saturday, June 23. It marked the best career finish for Theriault at the banked quarter-mile track and his fourth Top-5 finish in five races this season. Theriault started ninth and rode inside the Top-10 throughout the event, making a late move for fourth-place while racing in traffic with several cars vying for second place.
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by Jay | Jun 24, 2012 | ACT, Maine, New England, New Hampshire, Touring Series News, White Mountain Motorsports Park
Austin Theriault: ACT Late Model Tour
White Mountain Motorsports Park Race Preview
THE STORY
Austin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, returns to the ACT Late Model Tour for the White Mountain 150 at White Mountain Motorsports Park in North Woodstock, N.H., on Saturday, June 23. The race marks the first Tour race in one month and the only stop of the season at the high-banked quarter-mile. Theriault has been busy during ACT’s off weeks, competing in a pair of weekly Late Model races at White Mountain, while also driving the Brad Keselowski Racing Super Late Model in the midwest. Currently, Theriault sits fourth in the ACT standings, just 19 points out of the lead in a tight title chase.
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by Jay | Jun 24, 2012 | ACT, New England, New Hampshire, Touring Series News, White Mountain Motorsports Park
Wayne Helliwell Jr. and the Bruce Bernhardt owned Ekeys-4-Cars, Unique Ford team headed to White Mountain Motorsports park Saturday night after more than a month off from the traveling American Canadian Tour series. The last event at Oxford Plains Speedway saw Helliwell’s only finish outside the top 10 in 18 races in the 2012 season. A faulty radiator cap caused an engine failure and relegated the team to a 30th place finish.
Carrying the momentum from Canaan Fair Speedway were they have reeled off 9 consecutive wins; Helliwell rolled from the 3rd position in heat #3. Wasting no time he would take the lead from Ben Ashline in less than a half a lap and go on to take the win with a +2 to his credit. That half a lap would be the only time Helliwell would not be out front for the remainder of the night.
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by Jay | Jun 24, 2012 | ACT, New Hampshire, Touring Series News, White Mountain Motorsports Park
Wayne Helliwell, Jr. of Dover, NH dominated the White Mountain 150 at White Mountain Motorsports Park on Saturday, June 23 for his second career American Canadian Tour win. Helliwell led all 150 laps after starting on the pole and won uncontested.
Joey Polewarczyk, Jr. won a hard fought battle for the runner-up position, beating Eric Chase who completed the podium. Austin Theriault and Brian Hoar completed the top five after swapping paint several time over the final laps. Ray Parent, Brent Dragon, Jimmy Hebert, Ricky Rolfe, and Randy Potter rounded out the top ten.
Helliwell crushed the field, lapping all but the top eleven cars. The 150 lap event was completed in one hour and five minutes with eight cautions. Twenty-two of the thirty-one cars that took the green flag were on the track for the checkers.
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by Jay | Jun 23, 2012 | ACT, New Hampshire, Touring Series News, White Mountain Motorsports Park
RPM Motorsports: ACT Late Model Tour
Brian Hoar White Mountain Motorsports Park Preview
THE STORY
Brian Hoar of Williston, Vt., returns to ACT Late Model Tour competition this week for the White Mountain 150 at White Mountain Motorsports Park in North Woodstock, N.H., on Saturday, June 23. The eight-time ACT champion has three career wins at White Mountain in the RPM Motorsports No. 37 GossCars.com Dodge on his resume, and he’s hoping that past experience will help catapult him back into the series points lead this weekend. Hoar sits third in the standings, just 11 points out of the lead, with six races remaining in the season. After battling tire issues in his most recent ACT outing, Hoar got things back on track with a second-place finish last weekend in the I Am Vermont Strong 100 at Devil’s Bowl Speedway – the second of four races this season in the Vermont State Championship Late Model Series.
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by Jay | Jun 7, 2012 | New England, New Hampshire, White Mountain Motorsports Park
White Mountain Champion, Crazy Horse Continue Search For Speed
Despite winning a total of 17 races in 2010 and 2011, claiming consecutive Late Model championships and owning the all-time career win mark at White Mountain Motorsports Park, Quinny Welch isn’t one to sit around and admire his trophy case.
In fact, his No. 78 IBEW Local 104 Chevrolet spent the winter months of this past offseason in various stages of disarray at the Crazy Horse Racing building in South Paris, Maine – with Welch working side-by-side with Crazy Horse owner Mitch Green in search of improvement.
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