{"id":7773,"date":"2011-09-12T23:01:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T03:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-09-12T22:02:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T02:02:05","slug":"brian-hoar-secures-8th-act-title-10000-quebec-weekend-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/brian-hoar-secures-8th-act-title-10000-quebec-weekend-sweep\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Hoar Secures 8th ACT Title with $10,000+ Quebec Weekend Sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/images\/ACT.jpg\" alt=\"ACT Tour Racing\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>ACT Awards $80,000+ in Doubleheader Weekend<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Waterbury, VT \u2013 Williston, Vermont\u2019s Brian Hoar secured his 8th career American-Canadian Tour Championship following a sweep of the doubleheader weekend in Quebec. Hoar earned over $10,000 for his Rick Paya Motorsports team with wins in the \u201cShowdown at Chaudiere\u201d at Autodrome Chaudiere in Vallee-Jct., QC and the Riverside Can-Am 200 at Riverside Speedway in Ste-Croix, QC.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHoar started the weekend by piloting his Goss Dodge Charger to a dominating performance on Saturday, September 10 in the fourth annual \u201cShowdown at Chaudiere.\u201d He led the U.S. team to the overall victory and pocketed $5,500 after the $500 bonus.<\/p>\n<p>His RPM team then headed to Circuit Riverside Speedway for the previously postponed Can-Am 200. Hoar used a last lap pass to earn an apparent second place finish, but then inherited his second win of the weekend following a post race disqualification and picked up the $5,000 check.<\/p>\n<p>Hoar\u2019s win on Sunday secured his third straight ACT title, all of which came with the Rick Paya-led RPM team, and his eighth career title. It was also his 33rd career win, the most of any driver in the history of the ACT Late Model Tour.<br \/>\nACT competitors saw overflow crowds both days this weekend as the ACT Late Model Tour and its sister series, the S\u00e9rie ACT Castrol, competed in a doubleheader north of the border. The two events saw a combined purse of over $80,000 for the two events.<\/p>\n<p>The big money events of the ACT season kicked off with $120,000+ ACT All-Star Challenge at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) and the $5,000 to win Labor Day Classic. They will continue with the $75,000+ Third annual ACT Invitational at NHMS, the 49th Annual People\u2019s United Bank Milk Bowl at Thunder Road with an over $75,000 purse and the season finale Fall Foliage 300 at Airborne Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>With the title wrapped up, Hoar can now turn his focus to completing the NHMS sweep by winning the ACT Invitational on Saturday, September 24. Hoar won the first-ever ACT Late Model Challenge at NHMS in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACT Awards $80,000+ in Doubleheader Weekend Waterbury, VT \u2013 Williston, Vermont\u2019s Brian Hoar secured his 8th career American-Canadian Tour Championship following a sweep of the doubleheader weekend in Quebec. Hoar earned over $10,000 for his Rick Paya Motorsports team with wins in the \u201cShowdown at Chaudiere\u201d at Autodrome Chaudiere in Vallee-Jct., QC and the Riverside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,110,126],"tags":[15778],"class_list":["post-7773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act","category-canada","category-new-england","tag-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773","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=7773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}