{"id":16710,"date":"2014-08-24T14:40:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T18:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=16710"},"modified":"2014-08-24T14:40:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T18:40:36","slug":"joey-polewarczyk-jr-claims-first-act-win-season-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/joey-polewarczyk-jr-claims-first-act-win-season-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Joey Polewarczyk Jr. Claims First ACT Win of Season in Can-Am"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Joey Polewarczyk Jr. Claims First ACT Win of Season in Can-Am<\/strong><\/p>\n

St-Croix, QC \u2013 Joey Polewarczyk, Jr. of Hudson, NH solidified his American Canadian Tour point lead with his first win of the season in the ACT Can-Am 200 at Circuit Riverside Speedway in St-Croix, QC on Saturday, August 23. Polewarczyk became the eighth different ACT winner in the first eight point counting events and pocketed over $5,000 for the victory. Serie ACT point leader Alex Labbe claimed second in the race, which was the seventh event on the Quebec-based series.<\/p>\n

Polewarczyk started in the fourth position on the 33 car field and ran in the top five throughout the 200 lap event. He started outside Wayne Helliwell, Jr. on the 12th and final restart of the race with 25 laps remaining. Helliwell had led the majority of the event and still seemed to have the race in hand as Polewarczyk slipped back to second on the restart. Just a few laps later, however, Helliwell\u2019s steering column broke ending his day and handing the lead to Polewarczyk.
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Polewarczyk held off Labbe over the final 20 laps to claim the win. The remainder of the top five were all Serie ACT teams with Jean-Fran\u00e7ois D\u00e9ry, Steven Boissonneault, and Jonathan Bouvrette. Rowland Robinson, Jr. had a solid day with a sixth place effort followed by Ben Ashline, Ray Parent, Claude Leclerc, and Jeff White.<\/p>\n

The 200 lap event was completed in two hours and thirty-six minutes with a total of 12 cautions including a 15 minute mandatory pit stop near the halfway point for fuel and tires. A total of 35 American Canadian Tour Late Models were on hand for the event, but Bobby Therrien blew a motor in practice and John Falconi suffered a hard wreck in his heat race.<\/p>\n

The field was 33 cars strong at the start of the event and 16 cars were on the track for the finish although Nick Sweet failed to take the checkers as he came to a stop on the back stretch with a motor issue. Patrick Cliche was disqualified from the event for a race violation.<\/p>\n

Joey Polewarczyk, Jr. becomes the latest qualifier for the 6th annual Bond Auto ACT Invitational at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, NH on Saturday, September 20. The race will be part of a tripleheader event with the NASCAR Trucks and the Whelen Modifieds.<\/p>\n

The ACT US series will conclude their 2014 season with the Fall Foliage 200 at Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, NY on Saturday, September 27. The Serie ACT will be back in action next Sunday, August 31 with the Montmagny 250 at Autodrome Montmagny in Montmagny, QC.<\/p>\n

ACT Can-Am 200 Unofficial Results
\nCircuit Riverside Speedway \u2013 St-Croix, Quebec
\nSaturday, August 23, 2014
\nPos. (Start) Driver, Hometown, Laps Completed
\n1. (4) Joey Polewarczyk Jr., Hudson, NH, 200 Laps
\n2. (1) Alex Labbe, St-Albert, QC, 200 Laps
\n3. (11) Jean-Francois Dery, Quebec, QC, 200 Laps
\n4. (5) Steven Boissonneault, Lyster, QC, 200 Laps
\n5. (7) Jonathan Bouvrette, Blainville, QC, 200 Laps
\n6. (6) Rowland Robinson Jr., Steuben, ME, 200 Laps
\n7. (13) Ben Ashline, Pittston, ME, 200 Laps
\n8. (21) Ray Parent, Tiverton, RI, 200 Laps
\n9. (12) Claude Leclerc, Lanoraie, QC, 200 Laps
\n10. (19) Jeff White, Winthrop, ME, 200 Laps
\n11. (24) Patrick Boyer, Quebec, QC, 200 Laps
\n12. (16) Nick Sweet, Barre, VT, 199 Laps
\n13. (18) Dave Coursol, St-Jerome, QC, 198 Laps
\n14. (30) Rejean Bissonette, St-Adele, QC, 195 Laps
\n15. (31) Carl Poulin, East Broughton, QC, 189 Laps
\n16. (26) Emily Packard, E. Montpelier, VT, 189 Laps
\n17. (10) Wayne Helliwell Jr., Dover, NH, 178 Laps
\n18. (33) Donald Theetge, Boischatel, QC, 175 Laps
\n19. (15) Martin Goulet, Jr., Mascouche, QC, 166 Laps
\n20. (28) #Matt Anderson, Franklin, NH, 159 Laps
\n21. (8) Kyle Welch, Newport, NH, 147 Laps
\n22. (17) #Brandon Atkins, AuSable Forks, NY, 130 Laps
\n23. (23) Patrick Hamel, St-Croix, QC, 130 Laps
\n24. (3) Jimmy Hebert, Williamstown, VT, 130 Laps
\n25. (29) Jacques Poulin, East Broughton, QC, 88 Laps
\n26. (2) Dany Trepanier, St-Edouard, QC, 78 Laps
\n27. (32) Daniel Descoste, Saint Joseph, QC, 63 Laps
\n28. (22) Stephane Descoste, Oka, QC, 58 Laps
\n29. (9) Jonathan Desbiens, Levis, QC, 24 Laps
\n30. (25) Gaetan Gaudreault, Quebec, QC, 1 Laps
\n31. (27) #Mike Ziter, Williamstown, VT, 1 Laps
\n32. (20) Lucein Rocheleau, Terrebone, QC, 0 Laps
\nDSQ (14) Patrick Cliche , St-Jean-Chrys., QC, 0 Laps
\nLap Leaders: Alex Labbe, 1-61; Wayne Helliwell, Jr., 62-92; Labbe, 93-96; Helliwell, 97-178; Joey Polewarczyk, Jr, 179-200.
\nTime of Race: 2:36:48
\nMargin of Victory: 1.431 seconds
\nCautions: 12 (laps 2, 27, 29, 42, 53, 56, 58, 90, 93, 129, 133, 175) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joey Polewarczyk Jr. Claims First ACT Win of Season in Can-Am St-Croix, QC \u2013 Joey Polewarczyk, Jr. of Hudson, NH solidified his American Canadian Tour point lead with his first win of the season in the ACT Can-Am 200 at Circuit Riverside Speedway in St-Croix, QC on Saturday, August 23. Polewarczyk became the eighth different […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-16710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act","category-canada","category-touring-series-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16710","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=16710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}