by Jay | Aug 16, 2010 | ACT, Canada
Brian Hoar Wins Riverside Can-Am
St-Croix, QC – Williston, Vermont’s Brian Hoar won the Circuit Riverside Speedway Can-Am combination Série ACT Castrol Edge and ACT Late Model Tour event on Saturday, August 14. Hoar, the current ACT Late Model Tour point leader, fought his way by current Série ACT Castrol Edge point leader Karl Allard on lap 94 and led the remainder of the event. The scheduled 200 lap event had to be cut back to 171 due to a curfew.
Patrick Laperle took second followed by Donald Theetge while Allard fell back to fourth and Brent Dragon rounded out the top five. Rookie Austin Theriault finished sixth followed by Sylvain Lacombe, Patrick Hamel, John Donahue and Daniel Descoste completing the top ten.
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by Jay | Aug 13, 2010 | ACT, NASCAR, New England, New Hampshire, NHMS
78 ACT TEAMS HEAD FOR NHMS TEST & TUNE
Waterbury, VT – The American Canadian Tour (ACT) has confirmation from seventy eight (78) Late Model teams that are scheduled to test and tune at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) Tuesday, August 17 and Wednesday, August 18 in hopes of getting an invitation back for the second annual ACT Invitational to be held September 18, 2010.
The test and tune session will have representatives from all six New England states, New York State and the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario. Leading the count will be teams from Thunder Road and the US ACT in Vermont with 20; Maine, with a strong Oxford Plains Speedway contingent, is not far behind with 16 teams; New Hampshire will have 13 teams representing White Mountain Motorsports Park, Lee USA Speedway and Twin State Speedway; Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will send 12 teams with ACT affiliate tracks Waterford Speedbowl and Seekonk Speedway represented; the Quebec ACT Castrol Serie will send 10 of its stars to the test and tune from tracks in the Montreal and Quebec City regions; veteran Mark Lamberton will represent New York State; and Ontario, with representation from Kawartha Speedway and Capital City in Ottawa, will send 5 teams to the session.
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by Jay | Aug 13, 2010 | ACT, Canada
Joey Polewarczyk Jr.: ACT Late Model Tour
Circuit Riverside Speedway Race Preview
Joey Polewarczyk Jr. of Hudson, N.H., and the ACT Late Model Tour head north of the border for the Can-Am 200 at Circuit Riverside Speedway in St. Croix, Quebec, on Saturday, August 14. The race is a combination event for the ACT Late Model Tour and its Canadian-based cousin the ACT Castrol Edge Series, and the race counts toward both championship battles. Polewarczyk has made just two career visits to the fast .625-mile track with a top-10 finish last time there in 2007. Including a win at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway last month, Polewarczyk rides a string of four consecutive top-10 finishes into the Can-Am 200 that have raised him to fourth in the ACT standings — just two points behind John Donahue for third place and 135 points behind overall leader Brian Hoar.
WHO: Joey Polewarczyk Jr., Hudson, N.H.
TEAM: No. 97 Pole’s Automotive/NH Precision Ford Fusion
BEST CAREER RIVERSIDE SPEEDWAY FINISH: 8th (June 2007)
LAST RACE AT RIVERSIDE SPEEDWAY: 8th (June 2007)
WHAT: ACT Late Model Tour Can-Am 200
WHERE: Circuit Riverside Speedway, St. Croix, Que. (.625-mile oval)
WHEN: 5 p.m., Saturday, August 14
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by Jay | Aug 8, 2010 | ACT, Canada
Karl Allard Wins Série ACT Castrol Edge 150 at Autodrome Chaudiere
Vallee-Jonction, QC – St-Felicien’s Karl Allard picked up his fifth Série ACT Castrol Edge event of the 2010 season and his second in a row at Autodrome Chaudiere in Vallee-Jonction, QC on Saturday, August 7. Allard fought off 2009 champion Donald Theetge over the final 65 laps to earn the win.
David Michaud took the lead from outside pole-sitter Daniel Descoste on lap 15 and would hold the lead through lap 54 before Patrick Laperle got by on a restart. Laperle lost the lead on lap 83 when he went around off the nose of second place runner Jean-François Déry.
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by Jay | Aug 2, 2010 | ACT, Canada
Sylvain Lacombe Wins Ste-Eustache 100
Ste-Eustache, QC – Terrebonne, QC’s Sylvain Lacombe earned his 14th career Serie ACT Castrol Edge win in the Ste-Eustache 100 at Autodrome Ste-Eustache on Saturday, July 31. Lacombe led the final nine laps of the event to take the win.
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by Jay | Aug 1, 2010 | ACT, New England
Joey Polewarczyk: ACT Late Model Tour
Seekonk Speedway/Twin State Speedway
Joey Polewarczyk Jr. of Hudson, N.H., continued his midsummer surge on Saturday, July 31, returning to Seekonk Speedway and winning a 75-lap Late Model main event at the track. The victory was Polewarczyk’s second in a span of eight days after claiming his first ACT Late Model Tour win of the season a week ago at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway. Ironically, the car Polewarczyk drove to victory at Seekonk has plenty of history. Not only was it the car that carried Polewarczyk to his first career ACT victory at Seekonk in August 2007, but it’s also the car that two-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Tony Stewart drove in the VT Governor’s Cup 150 at Thunder Road International Speedbowl in June 2009 — and the same car that Polewarczyk set the Late Model qualifying record with at Thunder Road in 2006. He survived a three-wide battle on the race’s final restart with under 20 laps remaining to post the victory. To cap off his week, Polewarczyk finished ninth in the ACT Twin State 100 at Twin State Speedway on Friday night, as well..
WHO: Joey Polewarczyk Jr., Hudson, N.H.
TEAM: No. 97 Pole’s Automotive/NH Precision Ford
WHAT: Late Model 75
WHERE: Seekonk Speedway, Seekonk, Mass. (.333-mile oval)
STARTED: 11th
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