Waterbury, VT – The American Canadian Tour (ACT) announced today penalties imposed on the Alex Labbe ACT Castrol team for violations incurred at the CAN-AM 200 held at the Riverside Speedway in Ste. Croix, QC on September 11, 2011. Labbe was disqualified from his win when the team refused to allow their engine to be impounded after a protest was filed by another race team, which is in keeping with ACT rules and procedures.
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HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. (Sept. 13, 2011) – Last weekend’s 26th NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race of the season at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway marked the end of the “regular season” for Kyle Busch and 11 other drivers locked into the 2011 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship.
Nick Sweet: ACT Late Model Tour
Circuit Riverside Race Report
STE-CROIX, Que. – Nick Sweet of Barre, Vt., continued making good use of his partial ACT Late Model Tour schedule, finishing third in the Can-Am 200 at Circuit Riverside in Ste-Croix, Que., on Sunday, September 11. In three races with RPM Motorsports, Sweet has a pair of podium finishes in the No. 57 RPM Racing Engines Ford. He started 15th in the rain-delayed Can-Am 200 and played a patient waiting game to have a shot at the leaders of a final restart with six laps to go.
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Joey Doiron: PASS North Series
White Mountain Motorsports Park Race Report
NORTH WOODSTOCK, N.H. – Joey Doiron of Berwick, Maine, finished eighth in the PASS North Series PASS 150 at White Mountain Motorsports Park in North Woodstock, N.H., on Sunday, September 11. It was the fifth Top-10 finish for the No. 73 JBJ Machine Chevrolet in just nine races this season, despite losing a clutch in a race that featured several restarts over the final half of the event.
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Austin Theriault: ACT Late Model Tour
Autodrome Chaudiere/Circuit Riverside Race Report
STE-CROIX, Que. – Austin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, continued to roll along on the ACT Late Model Tour, posting a pair of strong finishes in a doubleheader weekend north of the border. Theriault finished eighth in the 24-car ACT Budweiser Showdown at Chaudiere 200 all-star race at Autodrome Chaudiere on Saturday, September 10, and the 17-year-old then posted a fourth-place effort the very next day in the postponed Can-Am 200 at Circuit Riverside in Ste-Croix, Que. It marked the fifth straight Top-5 finish for the AT Racing No. 57 Varney Insurance Ford in ACT points events and moved him up one spot to fourth in the overall ACT standings with one race remaining.
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Unofficial Results:
PASS Sportsman – 75 laps
1 38 Dan McKeage Gorham ME 2 7 Shane Tatro Holden ME 3 10 Donnie Morse Windham ME 4 8 Clyde Hennessy Windham ME 5 51 RJ Austin Smithfield ME 6 93 Dave Langlois Springvale ME 7 88 Mike Field Buxton ME 8 15 Craig Smith E Waterboro ME 9 1 Kenny Marrier Littleton NH 10 18 Carey Martin Denmark ME 11 77 Sally Gherardi Standish ME 12 16 Kevin Douglass Sidney ME 13 67 Jourdan Davis Lancaster NH 14 99 Steve Heitz Belmont ME 15 60 ME Scott Dorr Portland ME 16 58 Lyman McKeage Gorham ME 17 74 Doug Lalemme Bethlehem NH 18 34 Spencer Morse Waterford ME 19 35 Bobby Nadeau Buxton ME 20 777 Mike St. Germaine Auburn ME (more…)
Lonnie Sommerville: PASS North Series
White Mountain Motorsports Park Race Report
NORTH WOODSTOCK, N.H. – Lonnie Sommerville of Saint John, New Brunswick, finished fifth in the PASS North Series PASS 150 at White Mountain Motorsports Park in North Woodstock, N.H., on Sunday, September 11. It was Sommerville’s third straight Top-5 finish and his eighth in 11 starts this season. Sommerville started 13th in his White Mountain debut and moved into the Top-5 and ran as high as third before the race was half over, but a loose condition over the final 100 laps of the event hindered his progress.
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ACT Awards $80,000+ in Doubleheader Weekend
Waterbury, VT – Williston, Vermont’s Brian Hoar secured his 8th career American-Canadian Tour Championship following a sweep of the doubleheader weekend in Quebec. Hoar earned over $10,000 for his Rick Paya Motorsports team with wins in the “Showdown at Chaudiere” at Autodrome Chaudiere in Vallee-Jct., QC and the Riverside Can-Am 200 at Riverside Speedway in Ste-Croix, QC.
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