by Jay | Oct 7, 2011 | ACT, New England
Austin Theriault: ACT Late Model Tour
Airborne Speedway/Milk Bowl Race Preview
THE STORY
Austin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, looks to cash in on a first career victory when the ACT Late Model Tour stages marquee events on back-to-back days this weekend. First, the ACT Late Model Tour wraps up its regular season with the Fall Foliage 200 at Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, N.Y., on Saturday, October 8, before heading to Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre, Vt., for the rain-delayed 49th annual Milk Bowl on Sunday, October 9. Theriault has posted five consecutive Top-5 finishes in ACT points races entering the Fall Foliage 200 – a combination race for the ACT Late Model Tour and the ACT Castrol Series. Theriault is looking to qualify for a second consecutive Milk Bowl on Sunday, where he will field the very same No. 57 Varney Insurance Ford that he competes in on Saturday at Airborne.
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by Jay | Oct 7, 2011 | ACT, New England, New York
Brian Hoar: ACT Late Model Tour
Airborne Speedway/Milk Bowl Race Preview
THE STORY
Brian Hoar of Williston, Vt., looks for his second weekend sweep of the season when the ACT Late Model Tour competes on back-to-back days this weekend. First, ACT wraps up its season with the Fall Foliage 200 at Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, N.Y., on Saturday, October 8 before heading east to stage the 49th annual Milk Bowl at Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre, Vt. Hoar clinched a record eighth series championship after winning both the All-Star Showdown at Chaudiere and the Can-Am 200 on back-to-back days in Quebec in mid-September. Hoar is a two-time champion of the prestigious and unique Milk Bowl – which was rained out last weekend – and a past winner of the Fall Foliage 200, a combination event for the ACT Late Model Tour and the ACT Castrol Series.
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by Jay | Oct 7, 2011 | NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series
Dave Davis Motorsports Team Makes Improvements, Sets Sights On ’12
DOVER, Del. – If there’s any driver on the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East that didn’t want to see the season end last weekend at Dover International Speedway, it was Cody Hodgson.
Hodgson finished 16th in the season-ending Dover 150, an impressive effort for the rookie who was forced to pit under the green flag for a flat tire. After being among the fastest of the 33 entries in both final practice and qualifying, some good old-fashioned bad luck took the No. 03 Ocala Gran Prix Dodge out of contention for a win early in the main event.
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by Jay | Oct 5, 2011 | ACT, New England, New York
SOUTH PLATTSBURGH – Patrick Laperle is up in the air about his strategy for the 40th American Canadian Tour (ACT) Rent-a-Wreck Fall Foliage 200 at Airborne Speedway Saturday, October 8.
Laperle has the 2011 Séries Castrol title in hand and is seeking his third straight Fall Foliage win. He has won the event four times. His Gestion MN/Patriote Auto race team fields two cars – one Ford powered, one with a GM motor. Recently, ACT mandated Ford engines must run a restrictor plate on tracks of Airborne’s size (1/2 mile) or longer.
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by Jay | Oct 5, 2011 | ACT, New England, New York
Waterbury, VT – The American Canadian Tour (ACT) Rent-A-Wreck Fall Foliage 200 at Airborne Speedway this Saturday, October 8, 2011 will have some surprise entries.
Perhaps the most surprising entry came from the star of the ACT Invitational at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) two weeks ago: Eddie MacDonald, from Rowley, MA who has entered the 200-lap event following his second ACT Invitational win. “I have heard how great Airborne’s half mile races have been, and since our season on the NASCAR K&N Series will be over (MacDonald finished 5th at Dover Downs International Speedway last weekend) this should be a lot of fun. I really enjoy racing with the ACT guys and just maybe Nick (Sweet) and I can have another battle….that would be pretty special,” said MacDonald. Sweet, from Barre, VT, has now finished second to MacDonald in two of the three Invitational events at NHMS. He will be driving the #57 RPM Ford for the Rick and Michelle Paya team to finish out the 2011 ACT points season. (more…)
by Jay | Oct 5, 2011 | NASCAR
KANNAPOLIS, N.C., (Oct. 5, 2011) – ABC’s Wide World of Sports spanned the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport, but for the part about the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, you need only to watch Tony Stewart race at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City.
Stewart has two NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victories at the 1.5-mile oval, the most recent of which came in 2009. But sandwiched between that win and his first Sunflower State triumph in 2006 where he successfully gambled on fuel mileage, Stewart played the role of Vinko Bogataj – the ski jumper whose spectacular crash on March 21, 1970 was featured on Wide World of Sports from the early 1970s onward as the late Jim McKay uttered, “…and the agony of defeat”.
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