Joey Roberts Wins Tiger Tour 100 at Canaan Fair Speedway

Joey Roberts Wins Tiger Tour 100 at Canaan Fair Speedway

Canaan, NH – Joey Roberts of Georgia, Vermont picked up his first career Bond/WIX Tiger Tour win at Canaan Fair Speedway on Saturday, August 20. Roberts started on the outside pole and settled in behind pole sitter Joe Steffen for the first 22 circuits. Roberts managed to take the lead on the restart following the first caution of the 100 lap event.

Steffen would challenge Roberts until suffering a flat tire coming to the green on the second restart of the race on lap 47. Steffen would lose three laps in the pits while changing the tire. Current point leader Derrick O’Donnell would take over second and stuck with Roberts over the second half of the event. Roberts had his hands full trying to hold off O’Donnell who at one point got around Roberts and led on lap 49.
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Unofficial Bond/WIX Tiger Tour 100 Results at Canaan Fair Speedway 081811

Bond/WIX Tiger Tour 100 Unofficial Results
Canaan Fair Speedway – Canaan, NH
Saturday, August 20, 2011

Pos. (Start) Driver, Hometown, Laps Completed
1. (2) Joey Roberts, Georgia, VT, 100 Laps
2. (3) Derrick O’Donnell, Bradford, VT, 100 Laps
3. (9) Jason Bonnett, St. Albans, VT, 100 Laps
4. (12) Troy Gray, Fairlee, VT, 100 Laps
5. (8) Eric Badore, Milton, VT, 100 Laps (more…)

Theriault Looks To Keep Momentum Rolling At Oxford Plains

ACT Tour Racing
Austin Theriault: ACT Late Model Tour
Oxford Plains Speedway Race Preview

THE STORY

Austin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, joins the ACT Late Model Tour as he returns to one of his favorite tracks in the northeast for the Q 97.9 ACT 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway in Oxford, Maine, on Saturday, August 20. Theriault is coming off an impressive second-place finish at New Hampshire Motor Speedway last weekend in the AT Racing No. 57 Varney Insurance Ford and returning to the site of his eye-opening podium finish in last month’s TD Bank Oxford 250. Theriault’s run last weekend jumped him two spots in the ACT standings to fifth.

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Nick Sweet Makes RPM Debut At Oxford Plains

ACT Tour Racing
Nick Sweet: ACT Late Model Tour
Oxford Plains Speedway Race Preview

THE STORY

Nick Sweet of Barre, Vt., makes his RPM Motorsports debut as the ACT Late Model Tour competes in the Q 97.9 ACT 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway in Oxford, Maine, on Saturday, August 20. Sweet, the reigning Thunder Road International Speedbowl track champion and 2008 ACT Rookie of the Year, will be driving for his third team in 2011. He enters the week on a hot streak of sorts at Oxford after finishing second in this year’s TD Bank Oxford 250 as the runner-up to NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Kyle Busch.

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Brian Hoar Looks To Add Another ACT Win At Oxford Plains

ACT Tour Racing
Brian Hoar: ACT Late Model Tour
Oxford Plains Speedway Race Preview

THE STORY

Brian Hoar of Williston, Vt., looks to make it two ACT Late Model Tour victories in a row when the Tour heads to the Q 97.9 ACT 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway in Oxford, Maine, on Saturday, August 20. Hoar has five wins this season in his pursuit of his record eighth career ACT championship after winning the inaugural ACT All-Star Challenge at New Hampshire Motor Speedway last weekend. Hoar has never won at Oxford, though he he has not finished outside the Top-5 in two starts at the track this season in the RPM Motorsports No. 37 GossCars.com Dodge.

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