Fort Kent, ME\u2019s Austin Theriault secured his first career American Canadian Tour win in a rain shortened event at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, ME on Saturday, July 28. Theriault and his Pelletier Ford Ford Fusion battled with last year\u2019s Beech Ridge ACT winner Jeff Taylor of Farmington, ME for the majority of the event and came out on top just before the fourth and final caution flew on lap 112 due to rain. Jay, ME\u2019s Dave Farrington, Jr. had a career day and completed the all Maine and all Ford podium.<\/p>\n
Twenty-nine American Canadian Tour Late Models took the green flag with the threat of rain looming over head. Taylor jumped to the lead from the pole position but not without Theriault all over his back bumper. Sporadic sprinkles of rain began around the lap 20 mark and Theriault decided to make his move, taking the lead on lap 26. The 18 year old Theriault broke out to a straight away lead and began picking off lap traffic until the first caution flew on lap 69.
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Theriault\u2019s day was nearly ruined as two cars spun coming off turn four directly in front of the leader. After narrowly avoiding both spinning cars and the front stretch wall, Theirault regained the top spot for the restart. With the outside line being the preferred lane, Taylor and Theriault would swap the lead back and forth over the next two cautions on lap 82 and 108.<\/p>\n
Theriault took the lead for the final time on lap 108 and just four laps later the skies opened up, ending the race at lap 112 and making Theriault the third different first time ACT winner of 2012. Taylor and Farrington were followed to the line by another Ford in the way of Turner, ME\u2019s Glen Luce and eight-time ACT Champion Brian Hoar rounded out the top five.<\/p>\n
ACT point leader Wayne Helliwell, Jr., Brent Dragon, TJ Brackett, Eddie MacDonald and Rowland Robinson, Jr. completed the top ten. All twenty-nine starters were on the track for the finish. The event was completed in 57 minutes and 5 seconds with four cautions, the final one coming out for rain. A total of 35 ACT Late Models attempted to qualify for the event.<\/p>\n
Theriault punches his ticket to the fourth annual Bond Auto ACT Invitational at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Saturday, September 22. He joins Brian Hoar, Wayne Helliwell, Jr., Nick Sweet, Ben Ashline, Karl Allard, Jean-Francois Dery, Patrick Laperle, Donald Theetge and Oxford 250 winner Joey Polewarczyk, Jr.<\/p>\n
The American Canadian Tour has next weekend off before heading to Sanair Super Speedway in St-Pie, Quebec. ACT\u2019s sister series, ACT Tour (US) and S\u00e9rie ACT Castrol, will tackle Sanair in a combination 100 lap event for the first time since 2006.<\/p>\n
American Canadian Tour Unofficial Results Pos. (Start) Driver, Hometown, Laps Completed Lap Leader: Jeff Taylor, 1-25; Austin Theriault, 26-82; Taylor, 83-108; Theriault, 109-112. Margin of Victory: .218 seconds<\/p>\n Cautions: 4 (Lap 69, 82, 108, 112 (Rain)) Fort Kent, ME\u2019s Austin Theriault secured his first career American Canadian Tour win in a rain shortened event at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, ME on Saturday, July 28. Theriault and his Pelletier Ford Ford Fusion battled with last year\u2019s Beech Ridge ACT winner Jeff Taylor of Farmington, ME for the majority of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,28,10,14972],"tags":[4671],"class_list":["post-10428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act","category-beech-ridge","category-maine","category-touring-series-news","tag-austin-theriault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBeech Ridge Motor Speedway \u2013 Scarborough, ME
\nSaturday, July 28, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n1. (2) Austin Theriault, Fort Kent, ME, 112 Laps
\n2. (1) Jeff Taylor, Farmington, ME, 112 Laps
\n3. (4) Dave Farrington Jr., Jay, ME, 112 Laps
\n4. (6) Glen Luce, Turner, ME, 112 Laps
\n5. (11) Brian Hoar, Williston, VT, 112 Laps
\n6. (9) Wayne Helliwell Jr., Dover, NH, 112 Laps
\n7. (3) Brent Dragon, Milton, VT, 112 Laps
\n8. (23) TJ Brackett, Buckfield, ME, 112 Laps
\n9. (16) Eddie MacDonald, Rowley, MA, 112 Laps
\n10. (20) Rowland Robinson, Jr., Birch Harbor, ME, 112 Laps
\n11. (7) Joey Polewarczyk Jr., Hudson, NH, 112 Laps
\n12. (17) Travis Stearns, Auburn, ME, 112 Laps
\n13. (5) Jean-Paul Cyr, Milton, VT, 112 Laps
\n14. (14) Shawn Martin, Turner, ME, 112 Laps
\n15. (12) Tim Brackett, Buckfield, ME, 112 Laps
\n16. (19) Ricky Rolfe, Albany Twp, ME, 112 Laps
\n17. (13) Ray Parent, Tiverton, RI, 112 Laps
\n18. (10) #Ben Lynch, Derry, NH, 112 Laps
\n19. (15) Randy Potter, Groveton, NH, 111 Laps
\n20. (24) #Jimmy Hebert, Williamstown, VT, 111 Laps
\n21. (22) Luke Hinkley, Claremont, NH, 111 Laps
\n22. (27) Jeffrey Labrecque Jr., Rochester, NH, 111 Laps
\n23. (25) Chris Smith, Buxton, ME, 111 Laps
\n24. (28) Pat Floyd, Chester, NH, 111 Laps
\n25. (21) Todd Davis, Claremont, NH, 111 Laps
\n26. (18) Jamie Fisher, Shelburne, VT, 111 Laps
\n27. (8) Scott Luce, Strong, ME, 111 Laps
\n28. (29) James Linardy, Somerville, MA, 109 Laps
\n29. (30) Spencer MacPherson, Carleton Place, ON, 108 Laps<\/p>\n
\nTime of Race: 57:05<\/p>\n
\nHeat Winners: Brian Hoar, Tim Brackett, Austin Theriault, Scott Luce
\nConsi Winners:Joey Polewarczyk, Jr., Rowland Robinson, Jr.
\nB-Feature Winner: Chris Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"