{"id":7987,"date":"2011-09-21T18:30:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T22:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-09-21T18:15:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T22:15:13","slug":"brian-hoar-season-sweep-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/brian-hoar-season-sweep-hampshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Hoar Looks For Season Sweep At New Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/images\/ACT.jpg\" alt=\"ACT Tour Racing\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Brian Hoar Looks For New Hampshire Repeat<br \/>\n8-time ACT Late Model Tour Champion Roars Into Magic Mile<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GEORGIA, Vt. \u2013 If the inaugural All-Star Challenge at New Hampshire Motor Speedway back in August was the ACT Late Model Tour&#8217;s \u201cDaytona 500,\u201d then this weekend&#8217;s event at the Magic Mile is Late Model racing&#8217;s Bristol, Charlotte and Talladega all wrapped into one.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAnd Brian Hoar will gladly take center stage in the third annual ACT Invitational on the flat, one-mile oval in Loudon, N.H.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s one of the biggest races and the biggest track that we run,\u201d Hoar said. \u201cI like racing there. I really like the track.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ACT Invitational is a 50-lap event featuring the top teams from the ACT Late Model Tour, its Quebec counterpart the ACT Castrol Series, and weekly competition at ACT-sanctioned short tracks across New England, Ontario and Quebec. Following a brief practice session in the morning, the 43-car ACT Invitational field will take the green flag at 5:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Hoar looks for the season sweep of ACT events at New Hampshire this weekend, having won the ACT All-Star Challenge at the facility back in August. That race was the first-ever ACT points race held at NHMS, and it served as one of seven victories in 2011 for the driver of the RPM Motorsports No. 37 GossCars.com Dodge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve been after this thing for 10 years or so with the (NASCAR K&#038;N Pro Series East) cars and now these ACT cars,\u201d said Hoar, who held the K&#038;N Pro Series track record for nearly a decade before it was broken in 2010. \u201cWe&#8217;ve had an awesome car every time we&#8217;ve come here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No driver has been more dominant in ACT Late Model Tour competition than Hoar.<\/p>\n<p>The Williston, Vt., driver clinched his record eighth series championship with a win in the Can-Am 200 at Circuit Riverside in Ste-Croix, Quebec, earlier this month, and his 33 career ACT victories are the most by any driver in ACT history.<\/p>\n<p>No other driver has cracked the 20-win plateau in ACT competition.<\/p>\n<p>Hoar&#8217;s success has not come alone. RPM Motorsports owner and crew chief Rick Paya of Georgia, Vt., also is the owner of eight career ACT championships. The last three in a row came with Hoar behind the wheel of the RPM ride.<\/p>\n<p>Winning at New Hampshire in August was emotional for Paya.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is really special,\u201d Paya said after the victory. \u201cThis is our Daytona 500. This win is going to be one of our pride and joys. Brian and I have always talked about what a special place this is to win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Hoar Looks For New Hampshire Repeat 8-time ACT Late Model Tour Champion Roars Into Magic Mile GEORGIA, Vt. \u2013 If the inaugural All-Star Challenge at New Hampshire Motor Speedway back in August was the ACT Late Model Tour&#8217;s \u201cDaytona 500,\u201d then this weekend&#8217;s event at the Magic Mile is Late Model racing&#8217;s Bristol, Charlotte [&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":[55,126,112,16],"tags":[15778,114,62,15769],"class_list":["post-7987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act","category-new-england","category-new-hampshire","category-nhms","tag-act","tag-brian-hoar","tag-late-model","tag-nhms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7987","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=7987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}