by Jay | Aug 1, 2010 | ACT
Hayward Claims First ACT Tour Win at Twin State
Claremont, NH – Newport, NH’s Mark Hayward earned his first career ACT Late Model Tour win at Twin State Speedway in Claremont, NH on Friday, July 30. Hayward took the lead from Twin State regular Aaron Fellows, who led the first 52 laps of the 100 lap event. Hayward held off the likes of Ben Rowe, current ACT Tour point leader Brian Hoar and Randy Potter over the remaining 48 laps to take the win.
Rowe took second while Fellows finished third. Potter and Jeff Zuidema rounded out the top five. TJ Watson worked his way from his 20th starting position to take sixth followed by John Donahue, Hoar, last week’s Beech Ridge winner Joey Polewarczyk, Jr. and rookie Austin Theriault completing the top ten.
The 100 lap event was the eighth on the 13 race 2010 ACT Late Model Tour schedule. It was completed in just over one hour and eight minutes and had eight cautions including a 13 minute and 14 second red flag after rookie Chris Riendeau had a hard hit into the front stretch wall on lap 90. Riendeau was ok.
Hayward is now the ninth ACT competitor to earn himself an invite to the second annual ACT Invitational at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Saturday, September 18. He joins Nick Sweet, Eddie MacDonald, Patrick Laperle, Karl Allard, Dave Pembroke, Miles Chipman, Brian Hoar and Joey Polewarczyk, Jr. as those with an invite.
The ACT Late Model Tour has next weekend off before heading north of the border to Circuit Riverside Speedway in Ste-Croix, QC for a combination 200 lap event with its sister series, the Serie ACT Castrol Edge. The point counting event for both series will be on Saturday, August 14.
ACT Late Model Tour
Twin State Speedway – Claremont, NH
Friday, July 30, 2010
Unofficial Results
Start
Pos Pos Car # Driver Hometown Laps
1 3 77NH Mark Hayward Newport, NH 100
2 2 10NH Ben Rowe Turner, ME 100
3 1 29NH #Aaron Fellows Croydon, NH 100
4 5 02NH Randy Potter Groveton, NH 100
5 24 42MA Jeff Zuidema N.Brookfield, MA 100
6 20 04ME TJ Watson Cundy’s Harbor, ME100
7 4 26VT John Donahue Graniteville, VT 100
8 10 37VT Brian Hoar Williston, VT 100
9 9 97NH Joey Polewarczyk, Jr. Hudson, NH 100
10 15 57ME #Austin Theriault Fort Kent, ME 100
11 22 4ME #Bradley Babb Windham, ME 100
12 19 7ME Glen Luce Turner, ME 100
13 7 55VT Brent Dragon Milton, VT 100
14 23 15VT Joey Laquerre E. Montpelier, VT 100
15 18 15ON Derek Lynch Warkworth, ON 100
16 13 16NY Mark Lamberton Mooers Forks, NY 100
17 17 05VT Craig Bushey Cambridge, VT 100
18 26 82MA Mark Hudson Norton, MA 98
19 25 72VT #Dave Paya Milton, VT 95
20 11 4NH #Chris Riendeau Ascutney, VT 90
21 21 27NH Chris Bergeron Claremont, NH 90
22 16 79MA Darrell Keane Springfield, MA 90
23 6 25NH Dallas Trombley Rutland, VT 63
24 14 34NH Todd Davis Claremont, NH 54
25 8 11NH Bryan Town Charlestown, NH 28
26 12 31NH Luke Hinkley Claremont, NH 11
27 27 8NH Guy Caron Lempster, NH 2
by Jay | Jul 30, 2010 | ACT, NASCAR, New England, New Hampshire, NHMS
ACT ANNOUNCES FINAL LIST FOR NHMS INVITATIONAL
Waterbury, VT – The American Canadian Tour (ACT) announced today another list of potential race teams that may be invited to compete in the second annual ACT Invitational at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway over the opening weekend for the NASCAR Chase weekend on September 17-19, 2010.
Two full days of practice at NHMS will be divided between over 70 invited attendees. With just eight (8) teams guaranteed spots in the expanded field of 43 starters, the test sessions will go a long way in deciding who will get the ‘at large’ invitations to what has become one of the most anticipated events of the year for short track fans and teams in the Northeast and eastern Canada.
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by Jay | Jul 30, 2010 | ACT, New England, New Hampshire
Brent Dragon: ACT Late Model Tour
Twin State Speedway Race Preview
Brent Dragon of Milton, Vt., joins the rest of the ACT Late Model Tour when he heads to the Twin State 100 at Twin State Speedway in Claremont, N.H., on Friday, July 30. Dragon, whose 181 career ACT Late Model Tour starts rank first all-time, is the defending champion of the event. At the midway point of the season, Dragon is second in the ACT standings, just 111 points behind multi-time champion Brian Hoar with several tracks where he owns victories soon to appear on the schedule. Dragon was running in the top-5 last weekend at Beech Ridge just past the halfway mark before being caught in another competitor’s accident — but the No. 55 team rallied through a pit stop to repair damage and ended up in eighth place by night’s end.
WHO: Brent Dragon, Milton, Vt.
TEAM: No. 55 Beverage Mart/Furniture World of VT/Charlesbois Freightliner/Newton Pellets Chevrolet
BEST CAREER TWIN STATE SPEEDWAY FINISH: 1st (September 2009)
LAST RACE AT TWIN STATE SPEEDWAY: 1st (September 2009)
WHAT: ACT Late Model Tour Twin State 100
WHERE: Twin State Speedway, Claremont, N.H. (.333-mile oval)
WHEN: 7 p.m., Friday, July 30
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by Jay | Jul 27, 2010 | ACT, Canada
Ste-Croix, QC – St-Felicien’s Karl Allard won his fourth Serie ACT Castrol Edge event of the season at Circuit Riverside Speedway in Ste-Croix, QC on Monday, July 26. Allard started in the 10th position and took the lead from Jimmy Cormier after a lap 28 restart. He then held off Patrick Laperle through five more restarts and led the remaining 72 laps.
Laperle had to settle for second while Cormier got back by Donald Theetge late in the race to earn third. Theetge came home fourth followed by Jean-Francois Dery rounding out the top five. Patrick Hamel, Sylvain Lacombe, Max Descoste, Jacques Poulin and Stephane Descoste completed the top ten.
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by Jay | Jul 25, 2010 | ACT, Beech Ridge, Maine
Brent Dragon: ACT Late Model Tour
Beech Ridge Motor Speedway Race Report
Brent Dragon of Milton, Vt., finished eighth in the ACT Late Model Tour 150 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine, on Saturday, July 24. Dragon was running inside the top-5 on lap 89 when his car was collected in an incident involving cars running ahead of him, and after pitting for repairs and restart outside the top-15, he rallied to finish eighth. Dragon unofficially leaves Beech Ridge still second in the ACT standings.
WHO: Brent Dragon, Milton, Vt.
TEAM: No. 55 Beverage Mart/Furniture World of VT/Charlebois Freightliner/Newton Pellets Chevrolet
WHAT: ACT Late Model Tour ACT 150
WHERE: Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, Scarborough, Maine (.333-mile oval)
STARTED: 5th
FINISHED: 8th
LED: 0 times for 0 laps
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by Jay | Jul 25, 2010 | ACT, Beech Ridge, Maine, New England
Joey Polewarczyk, Jr. Earns Ford First ACT Tour Win
Scarborough, ME – Hudson, NH’s Joey “Pole” Polewarczyk, Jr. earned Ford its first ACT Late Model Tour win at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, ME on Saturday, July 24. Pole moved from his fourth starting position to take the lead on lap 14. He held the lead and lapped the majority of the field until lap 83.
On the lap 83 restart Pole lost the lead to Farmington, ME’s Jeff Taylor, who also competes with a Ford crate engine. Taylor held onto the lead for 13 laps before Pole took back over for good. Taylor remained in second until he blew a tire with just under 20 laps remaining.
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