{"id":19906,"date":"2015-09-15T13:49:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T17:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=19906"},"modified":"2015-09-15T13:49:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T17:49:14","slug":"helliwell-slips-through-in-traffic-to-win-chaudiere-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/helliwell-slips-through-in-traffic-to-win-chaudiere-200\/","title":{"rendered":"Helliwell Slips Through in Traffic to Win Chaudiere 200"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Helliwell\"<\/a>Helliwell Slips Through in Traffic to Win Chaudiere 200<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vall\u00e9e-Jct., QC \u2013 Wayne Helliwell Jr. took advantage of lapped traffic to slip by Donald Theetge with 11 laps remaining and take his fourth win American-Canadian Tour (ACT) win of the season at Vall\u00e9e-Jct., QC\u2019s Autodrome Chaudiere on Saturday, September 12.<\/p>\n

Dover, NH\u2019s Helliwell had stalked Theetge through traffic after the two got around then-leader Jean-Fran\u00e7ois D\u00e9ry on lap 169 of the 200-lap event. As the pair approached the lapped car of Etienne Cliche, Theetge looked to pass him on the outside groove. But Cliche drifted high entering turn 3 and Helliwell dove to the bottom, grabbing the lead and driving away for the win in front of the second-largest crowd in track history.
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Patrick Hamel got the jump on polesitter Martin Goulet Jr. and lead the first seven laps before D\u00e9ry took over. D\u00e9ry built a big lead at times, but six cautions in the first 63 laps tightened the field up and led to D\u00e9ry and Theetge swapping the lead back and forth on a series of restarts.<\/p>\n

The race eventually settled in and went the entire second half caution-free, with D\u00e9ry, Theetge, Helliwell, and Joey Polewarczyk Jr. breaking away from the field. D\u00e9ry\u2019s car eventually began to fall off on the long green-flag run, and after multiple attempts to get around him, Theetge finally swung to the outside and grabbed the lead with 31 laps remaining.<\/p>\n

Helliwell, who had worked his way up from the 12th starting position, followed him through and the two pulled away as they chased each other through traffic, at one point splitting lapped cars three-wide. But Theetge\u2019s efforts were for naught after Helliwell\u2019s winning move.<\/p>\n

Theetge settled for second while Polewarczyk got around D\u00e9ry in the final laps for third. Dery faded to fourth after leading a race-high 134 laps. Alex Labb\u00e9 made a late charge to finish fifth. S\u00e9rie ACT point leader Dany Tr\u00e9panier, Brandon Atkins, Jonathan Bouvrette, Cliche, and Jeff White completed the top-10.<\/p>\n

Helliwell unofficially takes the ACT U.S. Tour point lead by 13 over Polewarczyk while D\u00e9ry\u2019s efforts helped him cut into Tr\u00e9panier\u2019s S\u00e9rie ACT lead. Both series have just two point-counting events remaining in the 2015 season.<\/p>\n

The best of the ACT U.S. and S\u00e9rie ACT will head to New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Saturday, September 26 for the 7th Annual Bond Auto ACT Invitational. Forty-three of the top ACT Late Model racers in the northeast United States and Canada will go 50 green-flag laps on the \u201cMagic Mile\u201d as part of a tripleheader that includes the Camping World Truck Series and Whelen Modified Tour. The Invitational will roll to the grid at approximately 5:00pm.<\/p>\n

For more information contact the ACT offices at 802.244.6963, media@acttour.com, or visit www.acttour.com.<\/p>\n

CHAUDIERE 200
\nUNOFFICIAL RESULTS
\nPos, Start Pos, Driver, Car #, Hometown, Laps
\n( 12 ) Wayne Helliwell Jr. ( 27NH ) , Dover, NH , 200 Laps
\n( 6 ) Donald Theetge ( 80QC ) , Boischatel, QC , 200 Laps
\n( 13 ) Joey Polewarczyk Jr. ( 97NH ) , Hudson, NH , 200 Laps
\n( 4 ) Jean-Francois Dery ( 21QC ) , Quebec, QC , 200 Laps
\n( 7 ) Alex Labbe ( 48QC ) , St-Albert, QC , 200 Laps
\n( 8 ) Dany Trepanier ( 19QC ) , St-Edouard, QC , 200 Laps
\n( 11 ) Brandon Atkins ( 4NY ) , AuSable Forks, NY , 200 Laps
\n( 22 ) Jonathan Bouvrette ( 41QC ) , Blainville, QC , 200 Laps
\n( 10 ) Etienne Clich\u00e9 ( 98QC ) , Vall\u00e9e-Jct., QC , 199 Laps
\n( 9 ) Jeff White ( 50ME ) , Winthrop, ME , 199 Laps
\n( 19 ) Jimmy Hebert ( 58VT ) , Williamstown, VT , 199 Laps
\n( 21 ) Simon Roussin ( 6QC ) , Quebec, QC , 199 Laps
\n( 2 ) Patrick Hamel ( 51QC ) , St.-Croix, QC , 199 Laps
\n( 16 ) Emily Packard ( 9ME ) , E. Montpelier, VT , 199 Laps
\n( 5 ) Patrick Boyer ( 13QC ) , Quebec, QC , 199 Laps
\n( 17 ) #Rich Dubeau ( 30NH ) , Plainfield, NH , 199 Laps
\n( 23 ) Kyle Welch ( 9NH ) , Newport, NH , 198 Laps
\n( 15 ) Patrick Clich\u00e9 ( 5QC ) , Levis, QC , 198 Laps
\n( 27 ) Marco Bilodeau ( 75QC ) , Vall\u00e9e-Jct., QC , 197 Laps
\n( 24 ) Gaetan Gaudreault ( 38QC ) , Quebec, QC , 197 Laps
\n( 26 ) Carl Poulin ( 57QC ) , Quebec, QC , 196 Laps
\n( 3 ) Claude Leclerc ( 11QC ) , Lanoraie, QC , 164 Laps
\n( 25 ) Charles Harvey ( 77QC ) , Terrebonne, QC , 133 Laps
\n( 1 ) Martin Goulet Jr. ( 83QC ) , Mascouche, QC , 78 Laps
\n( 28 ) Gaetan Longtin ( 66QC ) , Mercier, QC , 67 Laps
\n( 14 ) Brad Babb ( 15NH ) , Windham, ME , 63 Laps
\n( 18 ) Eric St-Gelais ( 42QC ) , St. Aime-des-Lacs, QC , 45 Laps
\n( 20 ) Rowland Robinson, Jr. ( 28ME ) , Steuben, ME , 23 Laps<\/p>\n

Lap Leaders: Martin Goulet Jr., 0; Patrick Hamel, 1-7; Jean-Francois Dery, 8-37; Hamel, 38; Dery, 39-46; Donald Theetge, 47-51; Dery, 52-64; Theetge, 65-85; Dery, 86-168; Theetge, 169-189; Wayne Helliwell Jr., 190-200. (10 lead changes among 5 drivers)
\nTime of Race: 1:19:40 Margin of Victory: 0.559 seconds
\nCautions: 7 (laps 5, 37, 46, 51, 63, 63, 78)
\nHeat Winners: Patrick Boyer, Donald Theetge, Alex Labbe, Dany Trepanier
\nConsi Winners: Brad Babb, Jean-Francois Dery <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Helliwell Slips Through in Traffic to Win Chaudiere 200 Vall\u00e9e-Jct., QC \u2013 Wayne Helliwell Jr. took advantage of lapped traffic to slip by Donald Theetge with 11 laps remaining and take his fourth win American-Canadian Tour (ACT) win of the season at Vall\u00e9e-Jct., QC\u2019s Autodrome Chaudiere on Saturday, September 12. Dover, NH\u2019s Helliwell had stalked […]<\/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-19906","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\/19906","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=19906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19908,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19906\/revisions\/19908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}