by Jay | Aug 25, 2011 | ACT, New England, Thunder Road, Vermont
Waterbury, VT – The American Canadian Tour (ACT) stars will find the competition the toughest of the 2011 race season when they return to Thunder Road for the 33rd running of the Bond Auto Labor Day Classic on Sunday, September 4th. A field of over 40 of the best Late Model racers in the region will attempt to qualify for the $5000 to win, $40,000 summer holiday classic, including some of the best weekly racers in New England.
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by Jay | Aug 25, 2011 | ACT, Canada
(St-Croix, QC) –Joey Polewarczyk, the driver of the ACT #97NH Poles Automotive, NH Precision Ford Fusion prepares his Late Model for one of the longest races on the ACT Schedule, happening this Saturday Night at the fast 0.625-mile Riverside Speedway in Quebec, Canada.
Coming off a ninth place finish at Oxford Plains Speedway back on August 20, the Polewarczyk Race Team is setting its sights on a top 5 finish in the 2nd Annual Can-Am 200.
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by Jay | Aug 24, 2011 | ACT, New England, New Hampshire, Riverside Speedway
Austin Theriault: ACT Late Model Tour
Oxford Plains Speedway/Riverside Speedway
FORT KENT, Maine – Austin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, continued his roll as one of the hottest drivers on the ACT Late Model Tour with a second-place finish in the Q 97.9 FM 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway in Oxford, Maine, on Saturday, August 20. It was Theriault’s third straight Top-5 finish in ACT competition and matched his previous career-best finish of second, which he also achieved at New Hampshire Motor Speedway one week earlier. After winning the pole for the rain-hampered event at Oxford, the 17-year-old driver held onto fifth in the overall series standings. He now heads to Riverside Speedway in St. Croix, Que., an oddly-shaped .625-mile triangular oval, for the Can-Am 200 on Saturday, August 27. It is a combination race for the ACT Late Model Tour and ACT Castrol Series.
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by Jay | Aug 22, 2011 | ACT, Maine, New England, Oxford Plains Speedway
ACT Pics from Oxford 8-20-2011
credit Eric LaFleche/www.VLFPhotos.com
by Jay | Aug 22, 2011 | ACT, Maine, New England, Oxford Plains Speedway
(Oxford, ME) –Joey Polewarczyk, the driver of the #97NH Poles Automotive, NH Precision Ford Fusion came away with a solid ninth- place finish at one of his favorite tracks that the American-Canadian Tour visits.
Joey would talk about Oxford, “As the laps wore on, our car just lost most of its rear bite. We lost some weight because of the fuel being used up and the car was pretty hard to handle, towards the end.”
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by Jay | Aug 21, 2011 | ACT, Maine, New England, Oxford Plains Speedway
Jeff Taylor Handed Second ACT Win at Oxford Plains Speedway
Oxford, ME – Jeff Taylor of Farmington, Maine scored his second career ACT Late Model Tour win at Oxford Plains Speedway on Saturday, August 20. Taylor was running second behind Jeff White, who won the last ACT event at OPS, when White ran out of gas with eight laps remaining.
White, the current OPS point leader, and Taylor had broken away from the field following the last restart of the event on lap 93. White clearly had the car to beat as Taylor stuck with him but didn’t have enough to make the pass until White’s ride started sputtering after completing lap 142.
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