{"id":18458,"date":"2015-04-07T19:21:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T23:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=18458"},"modified":"2015-04-07T19:21:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T23:21:46","slug":"polewarczyk-jr-stearns-lead-act-drivers-looking-to-do-double-duty-at-oxford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/polewarczyk-jr-stearns-lead-act-drivers-looking-to-do-double-duty-at-oxford\/","title":{"rendered":"Polewarczyk Jr., Stearns Lead ACT Drivers Looking to do Double Duty at Oxford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Polewarczyk Jr., Stearns Lead ACT Drivers Looking to do Double Duty at Oxford<\/strong>

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Joey Polewarczyk Jr.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Waterbury, VT \u2013 One of the biggest seasons in American-Canadian Tour (ACT) history launches on Saturday, April 18 as part of the first ever doubleheader between the ACT Late Model stock cars and the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) Super Late Models. More than 70 combined cars are expected at the Oxford Plains Speedway in Oxford, ME, and multiple ACT drivers will attempt to run both 150-lap events that afternoon.<\/p>\n

Defending ACT Tour Champion Joey Polewarczyk Jr. of Hudson, NH leads the drivers looking to complete all 300 laps of feature racing on the 3\/8th-mile oval. \u201cJoey Pole\u201d said that he and his team wanted to attempt the doubleheader as soon as they learned that it was on the schedule.
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\u201cIt\u2019s challenging just to run one car and try to get the car handling great for the race,\u201d Pole noted. \u201cBut now the challenge is to get both cars \u2013 spending as much time as possible on both cars as you can to try and get them handling the best for a long run and a long race. But I feel really confident with my crew that we\u2019ll be able to get both cars running well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Auburn, ME\u2019s Travis Stearns also intends to race both a Late Model and a Super Late Model that day for Vermont-based Richard Green Racing. The team will use the opening practice session on Friday, April 17 to help dial in the ACT and PASS cars in search of a combined winner\u2019s purse of almost $6,000.<\/p>\n

Both Pole and Stearns are running the full ACT schedule this year, and hope to parlay a strong season-opening result into a run at the Tour championship. While Pole is looking to repeat as Champion, Stearns\u2019 best finish in the final standings is sixth in 2013, and he believes his team is capable of more.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re better than what we\u2019ve shown (the last two seasons),\u201d Stearns said. \u201cWe\u2019ve shown speed at times in a lot of places. We\u2019re just missing a little something. We\u2019ve made some changes this year, personnel-wise, everything-wise. I\u2019ve very optimistic. There\u2019s no reason why we can\u2019t be an ACT title contender.\u201d<\/p>\n

The opening event at Oxford is the first of three ACT-PASS doubleheaders during the 2015 schedule. The International 500, scheduled for the weekend of July 17-19 at the Airborne Park Speedway in Plattsburgh, NY, will see both series run 200-lap events while vying for more than $100,000 in posted awards. The third and final doubleheader will be a pair of 200-lap events on Saturday, September 12 at the Autodrome Chaudiere in Quebec.<\/p>\n

Pole\u2019s family-run team already plans to run both ends of all three combined events. Two-time ACT Champion Wayne Helliwell Jr., along with Brad Babb and eight-time ACT Champion Brian Hoar, have expressed interest in running the doubleheaders later in the season.<\/p>\n

Regardless of what happens on the race track, Pole says that the fans will be the real winners of the ACT\/PASS alliance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think more so than anything else, it helps the fans who don\u2019t have to choose where to go for the weekend,\u201d Pole said. \u201cThere are ACT fans and PASS fans, but most people are just fans of racing and want to see both.\u201d<\/p>\n

The much-anticipated ACT\/PASS doubleheader program at Oxford Plains Speedway will kick off on Saturday, April 18, with the pits opening at 7:30am and a post time of 2:00pm. Admission for the double feature is just $30 for adults and $15 for juniors. A practice session for all divisions will be held on Friday, April 17. The pits for this session will open at 11:00am with practice beginning at 1:00pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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