{"id":10742,"date":"2012-09-14T12:27:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T16:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=10742"},"modified":"2012-09-14T21:28:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T01:28:12","slug":"serie-act-castrol-champion-to-be-decided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/serie-act-castrol-champion-to-be-decided\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e9rie ACT Castrol Champion To Be Decided"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>D\u00e9ry, Laperle Faceoff For the Title<\/p>\n

Waterbury, VT – When the checkered flag drops this Sunday, September 16 at Autodrome St-Eustache, a Champion of the S\u00e9rie ACT Castrol Series will be crowned. The epic championship battle has morphed into a two-car war between defending Champion Patrick Laperle and top talent Jean-Francois D\u00e9ry who will put everything on the line in hopes of a title this weekend.<\/p>\n

D\u00e9ry started the year off in style with a pair of third place finishes in the first two events, but a stray rock at Riverside Speedway left him with a 24th place finish, and dropped him from the point lead down to sixth. Laperle suffered transmission problems in the second event of the year, leaving both teams behind the eight ball in the early going.
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But D\u00e9ry and Laperle refused to be pushed aside. Laperle finished outside of the podium only twice for the rest of the season after his hard luck \u2013 D\u00e9ry only once. With three wins apiece, and top fives in nearly every event, it all comes down to a 30-point lead for Laperle heading into Autodrome St Eustache\u2019s S\u00e9rie ACT Castrol Finale this Sunday, September 16.<\/p>\n

Laperle is a two-time S\u00e9rie ACT Castrol Champion, as well as an American Canadian Tour Champion. For D\u00e9ry, it would be his first championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019ve got a good chance if we can get some luck,\u201d said Laperle, referring to mechanical failures in the first half of the season. \u201cD\u00e9ry is very good, and you just never know what can happen in a race. If the car stays together, we have a good shot,\u201d he finished.<\/p>\n

Dery is hungry to say the least.<\/p>\n

\u201cLaperle is very strong. I cannot decide where he will finish, but I will do my job to win the race. I am ready to fight for this championship,\u201d said Dery. When asked about his relationship with Laperle, his answer was simple: \u201cHe is not my best friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

The S\u00e9rie ACT Castrol finale at St Eustache (QC) starts this Sunday, September 16. Post time is 1:00pm.<\/p>\n

For additional information, head to www.acttour.com, call the ACT office at (802) 244-6963, or email us at media@acttour.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

D\u00e9ry, Laperle Faceoff For the Title Waterbury, VT – When the checkered flag drops this Sunday, September 16 at Autodrome St-Eustache, a Champion of the S\u00e9rie ACT Castrol Series will be crowned. The epic championship battle has morphed into a two-car war between defending Champion Patrick Laperle and top talent Jean-Francois D\u00e9ry who will put […]<\/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":[55,110,14972],"tags":[14988],"class_list":["post-10742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act","category-canada","category-touring-series-news","tag-serie-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10742","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=10742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}