{"id":13093,"date":"2013-06-13T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=13093"},"modified":"2013-06-13T08:59:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T12:59:08","slug":"act-heads-to-canaan-this-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/act-heads-to-canaan-this-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT Heads to Canaan This Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Canaan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Canaan-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"Canaan\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Canaan-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Canaan.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Waterbury, VT \u2013 The American Canadian Tour Stock Car Championship series will be headed to Canaan Fair Speedway in Canaan, NH for a 150-lap feature this Saturday, June 15.  It will be ACT\u2019s first return to the track since 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The fast 1\/3-mile has been host to six different winners in the 6 ACT events held there between 1997 and 2005.  With a championship battle full of new faces, drivers are excited about the opportunity.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n\u201cThis is another one of a handful of new tracks on the Tour for us this year,\u201d said second-place point runner Jimmy Hebert.  \u201cI still feel confident.  Everywhere we\u2019ve unloaded the car has been great.  This has been the most fun I\u2019ve ever had racing,\u201d he finished.<\/p>\n<p>Hebert currently enjoys a 15-point edge over reigning ACT Champion Wayne Helliwell, Jr.  While Hebert will be making his first ACT start at Canaan, Helliwell won an incredible 14 times at the track in 2012 on his way to the Late Model Championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously we feel good about coming here,\u201d said Helliwell.  \u201cBut the competition on this Tour can\u2019t be overlooked.  We\u2019ve just got to stick to the basics and go out there and get the job done,\u201d he finished.<\/p>\n<p>Ray Parent will look to continue his consistent start to the year along with veteran Brent Dragon, who currently ride fourth and fifth respectively on the Tour.  Steuben, ME\u2019s Rowland Robinson, Jr. will try to ride his momentum to surprise the veterans after leading the first 29 laps of his ACT career in the rain-postponed race at Groveton, NH\u2019s Riverside Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>The ACT 150 at Canaan Fair Speedway in Canaan, NH will roll off this Saturday, June 15.  Post time is 5pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waterbury, VT \u2013 The American Canadian Tour Stock Car Championship series will be headed to Canaan Fair Speedway in Canaan, NH for a 150-lap feature this Saturday, June 15. It will be ACT\u2019s first return to the track since 2005. The fast 1\/3-mile has been host to six different winners in the 6 ACT events [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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":[55,4139,112],"tags":[15778],"class_list":["post-13093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act","category-canaan","category-new-hampshire","tag-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13093","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}