by Jay | Jun 27, 2010 | ACT, New England, New Hampshire, White Mountain Motorsports Park
Brian Hoar Claims 26th Career ACT Win in White Mountain 150
North Woodstock, NH – Williston’s Brian Hoar earned his first ACT Late Model Tour win of the season and his 26th career ACT victory. Hoar took the lead on the final restart with 16 laps remaining from Hyde Park’s Eric Williams. Williams would hold on for second followed by Newport, NH’s Mark Hayward.
Hayward started on the pole and led the majority of the race before battling with Williams in the later stages of the race. Williams came from the seventh starting position to take the lead on lap 90. Williams and Hayward then swapped the lead several times before Hoar made his way to the front from the eleventh starting position.
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by Jay | Jun 24, 2010 | ACT, New England, New Hampshire, White Mountain Motorsports Park
Brent Dragon: ACT Late Model Tour
White Mountain Motorsports Park Race Preview
Brent Dragon of Milton, Vt., returns to one of the tracks on the ACT Late Model Tour where he’s had the most success — as the series hits White Mountain Motorsports Park in North Woodstock, N.H., for the ACT 150 on Saturday, June 26. Dragon won this event in 2007 and he hasn’t finished outside the top-3 in any of his last four starts at White Mountain. Dragon is still searching for his first top-5 of the finish of 2010, but a solid start to the season has him second in the standings — just 62 points behind leader Brian Hoar through the first four races of the year. The veteran racer has made 178 career ACT starts, tops on the all-time list.
WHO: Brent Dragon, Milton, Vt.
TEAM: Beverage Mart/Furniture World of VT/Charlebois Freightliner/Newton Pellets No. 55 Chevrolet
BEST CAREER WHITE MOUNTAIN MOTORSPORTS PARK FINISH: 1st (June 2007)
LAST RACE AT WHITE MOUNTAIN MOTORSPORTS PARK: 2nd (June 2009)
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by Jay | Jun 24, 2010 | ACT, New England, New Hampshire, White Mountain Motorsports Park
Austin Theriault: ACT Late Model Tour
White Mountain Motorsports Park Race Preview
Austin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, rides a big wave of momentum as the ACT Late Model Tour rolls into White Mountain Motorsports Park in North Woodstock, N.H., for the ACT 150 on Saturday, June 26. Theriault has posted back-to-back top-10 finishes for the first time in his career as he enters the event. Though the 16-year-old driver has never competed in an ACT Late Model on the tight quarter-mile, he did run the PASS North Series 150-lap event at the track in mid-May. Before heading to White Mountain, however, Theriault will enter the VT Governor’s Cup 150 — a non-points event for ACT-legal cars — at Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre, Vt., on Thursday night, June 24. He has never raced at Thunder Road.
WHO: Austin Theriault, Fort Kent, Maine
TEAM: No. 57 Varney Insurance/Hogan Tire/Daigle & Houghton Ford Fusion
BEST CAREER WHITE MOUNTAIN MOTORSPORTS PARK FINISH (ACT): N/A
LAST RACE AT WHITE MOUNTAIN MOTORSPORTS PARK (ACT): N/A
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by Jay | Jun 22, 2010 | ACT, Maine, New England, Oxford Plains Speedway
Eddie MacDonald Wins Second ACT Tour at OPS
Oxford, ME – Rowley MA’s Eddie MacDonald took the checkers in the second ACT Late Model Tour event at Oxford Plains Speedway on Saturday, June 19. MacDonald led the last 43 laps of the 150 lap event after taking the lead from current ACT Late Model Tour point leader Brian Hoar.
Ricky Rolfe would claim second, TJ Brackett third, Corey Morgan fourth and Hoar would hold on to fifth. Tommy Ricker, Brent Dragon, Tim Brackett, Jeff White and Austin Theriault completed the top ten.
The 150 lap event was completed with just four cautions and took one hour and four minutes. A total of 50 cars attempted to qualify with 33 making the starting grid. All but two were on the track for the checkered flag.
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by Jay | Jun 22, 2010 | ACT, New England, New Hampshire, Riverside Speedway
Karl Allard Wins Second In a Row at Riverside
Ste-Croix, QC – St-Felicien’s Karl Allard claims his second Série ACT Castrol Edge win in a row in the Riverside 100 at Riverside Speedway in St-Croix, QC. Allard started in the 19th position and worked his way to the front after having to pit under yellow for minor repairs in the early stages on the event. Allard took the lead from Patrick Laperle who would hold on for second followed by Donald Theetge in third.
The race was slowed by 16 cautions and took just over 2 hours and 20 minutes. The remainder of the results remain unofficial and will be announced following a scoring recheck.
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by Jay | Jun 13, 2010 | ACT, Canada
Karl Allard Takes Autodrome Chaudiere Checkers
Vallee-Jct., QC – St-Felicien’s Karl Allard earned his fourth career Série ACT Castrol win in the 150 lap event at Autodrome Chaudiere on Saturday, June 12. Allard started sixteenth and took the lead after a restart on lap 132 and never looked back. The event was previously scheduled for Friday, June 11 but was postponed after qualifying due to electrical difficulties.
Allard becomes the sixth qualifier for the second annual ACT Invitational at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Saturday, September 18. In the Inaugural running of the ACT Invitational last September Allard finished twelfth.
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