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OFFICIAL POINTS
after Fall 150
Oxford Plains
10/11/09
FINAL
DRIVERS STANDINGS
PICK 10 SYSTEM
1. Brian Hoar 921
2. Scott Payea 886
3. John Donahue 875
4. Joey Pole 859
5. Brent Dragon 843
6. Randy Potter 800
7. Eric Williams 774
8. Glen Luce 681
9. Chip Grenier 660
10. Ricky Rolfe 615
OWNER'S STANDINGS
PICK 10 SYSTEM
1 #37 R. Paya 921
2 #89 S. Payea 886
3 #26VT K.Roberts 875
4 #97NH J. Pole 859
5 #55VT B. Dragon 843
6 #02NH R. Potter 800
7 #7VT E. Williams 774
8 #55NH P. Duto 766
9 #7ME G. Luce 681
10 #9VT A. Grenier 660
Série ACT Castrol Pts
OFFICIAL 2009
DRIVER STANDINGS
AFTER
St-Eustache 300
9/20/09
FINAL
DRIVER STANDINGS
1 Donald Theetge 733
2 Patrick Laperle 732
3 Karl Allard 697
4 J.F. Dery 641
5 Patrick Hamel 630
6 Patrick Cliche 596
7 AlexandreGingras 523
8 Jacques Poulin 500
9 Claude Leclerc 496
10 Jonathan Desbiens 485
OWNERS STANDINGS
1 #80 D. Theetge 733
2 #91 E. Laperle 732
3 #48QC D. Larue 697
4 #21QC J.F. Dery 641
5 #51PQ P. Hamel 630
6 #5QC P. Cliche 596
7 #27 A. Gingras 523
8 #97PQ J. Poulin 500
9 #9PQ C. Leclerc 496
10 #92 J. Desbiens 485
Tiger Series Points
FOLLOWING
EVENT #3 - 8/13/09
Thunder Road
FINAL STANDINGS
1. Shawn Duquette 204
2. Jason Bonnett 204
3. Toby Ebersole 189
4. Derrick O'Donnell 176
5. Joe Becker 173
6. Shawn Fleury 170
7. Jimmy Hebert 169
8. Joey Laquerre 156
9. Brendan Moodie 154
10. Skip Liberty 151
11. Eric Badore 139
12. Lance Allen 138
13. Josh Demers 122
14. Neal Foster 121
15. Mark Barnier 112
16. Scott Coburn 110
17. Ray Stearns 106
18. Erik Steel 103
19. Howard Stoner 98
20. Joel Hodgdon 92
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2010 ACT Tour and Serie ACT Castrol
Full Season Entries Now Available
Contact: tb@acttour.com or 802-244-6963
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TIRE NOTICE
GOODYEAR TIRES HAVE STARTED TO ARRIVE. FIRST ADVANCE SALE OF TIRES WILL BE THURSDAY, MARCH 18TH FROM 5:30PM TO 7:00PM AT THE THUNDER ROAD TIRE BARN. LATE MODEL TEAMS MAY PICK UP PRACTICE TIRES ONLY.
BOND AUTO TIGER SPORTSMEN ARE ALLOWED 4 TIRES PER TEAM. THOSE TIRES ARE FOR PRACTICE, SET UP AND MAY BE RUN THE FIRST EVENT. ADDITIONAL TIRES ARE COMING IN AND SHOULD BE AVAILABLE AT PRACTICE ON TUESDAY, APRIL 13TH.
 Monday, March 15 2010 @ 11:51 AM PDT
Contributed by: ACT Staff
Views: 207
1991 Champion – Junior Hanley
The 1991 season was the first of three consecutive seasons in which Junior Hanley earned the ACT Tour championship. It was Hanley’s first full
season with ACT and he set the record for most money earned in a single season with over $236,000 in winnings. 1991 saw just seven event winners; Hanley (7), Crouch (6), Dave Dion (3), Kevin Lepage (2), Ralph Nason, Bob Randall and Dan Beede, in its 21 events. Randall and Beede earned their first career wins. Future ACT Tour champion Brad Leighton earned the Rookie of the Year honors, while driving a June and Gardiner Leavitt owned ride. Below is a review of Junior Hanley’s first title season:
“To the amazement of many, Canada’s most famous stock car racing outlaw, Junior Hanley, made the commitment to run the entire ACT schedule in 1991. But his decision was not as surprising as one might think. With some $400,000 in season ending monies available, including a $50,000 bonus to the driver who could earn the most points during the seven month race season, it was, quite possibly, one of the more logical conclusions reached by the Campbellville, Ontario resident.
Perhaps the one thing that was shocking to the racing community about Hanley’s decision was his choice of car – a Ford Thunderbird. Never in the Series’ 13 year history, had a Ford won the Championship. It looked like the General Motors domination might be in for a challenge.
Hanley’s vast experience on the short tracks of the United States and Canada proved invaluable to the Nova Scotia native as he had not previously seen five of the venues on the ’91 schedule. He finished a respectable ninth after losing a tire while leading in the season opener at New Hampshire’s Lee USA Speedway, a one-third mile track he had never seen before.
After a rain out at Sanair, where Hanley proved to be proficient, the Series moved on the Maine’s Beech Ridge Motor Speedway for the first of a trio of events planned at the seacoast oval. He salvaged a 12th in the Coca Cola 100 after battling with 56 others just to earn a starting position in the main event. He dropped from fourth to sixth in the standings.
 Friday, March 12 2010 @ 10:57 AM PST
Contributed by: ACT Staff
Views: 270
ACT ANNOUNCES FORD RACING BLUE OVAL CUP TEAM CHALLENGE
Ford Racing and the American Canadian Tour (ACT) recently announced an aggressive $35,000.00 contingency program in 2010 for those teams that have supported the Ford-powered S347JR ACT crate engine program.
ACT has announced the criteria for the program:
- Ford teams must be registered and approved with ACT office
- Competing teams must be 100% ACT legal
- Butler MacMaster Engine seals must be present and not tampered with
- Individual tracks must validate official finishes with ACT throughout the season
- Any violation of the sealed Ford engine program will result in loss of all points and disqualification from the Ford contingency program for the remainder of the season
- Any track adjustments to the Ford rules must be approved by ACT for continued involvement in the 2010 contingency program
Rules and criteria are subject to change in the interest of competition
 Monday, March 08 2010 @ 06:16 AM PST
Contributed by: ACT Staff
Views: 681
25th ACT SEASON SEES NEAR RECORD FULL SEASON ENTRY LIST
The American Canadian Tour (ACT) will celebrate 25 years of Championship Stock Car Racing with one of its largest
number of pre-season full season entered teams. The balance of veteran champions and new teams joining the US touring division represents five New England states and two provinces of Canada. ACT statistician Nick Bigelow said, “I have reviewed past seasons and this looks like the most diverse and best count ACT has had in the past half dozen seasons.”
A fourteen race schedule will carry teams from the shores of Connecticut at the historic Waterford Speedbowl to new tracks located as far north as Quebec City, (the newly renovated 5/8th mile Riverside Speedway in Ste-Croix), and west to the newly paved 4/10th mile Albany Saratoga Speedway in Malta, NY, just outside the New York capital city.
Veteran title chaser Brent Dragon from Milton, VT said, “This is a great schedule for those of us that like touring. New tracks are always interesting and with two new tracks on the schedule just undergoing renovations and paving (Albany-Saratoga and Riverside-Ste Croix), along with my favorite recently renovated half mile Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, NY, I hope this is the year I can finally win an ACT Championship.”
 Wednesday, March 03 2010 @ 08:31 AM PST
Contributed by: ACT Staff
Views: 95
TIRE NOTICE - Goodyear tires have been ordered and expected arrival is March 15. First advance sale for practice and set up tires will be Thursday night March 18 at the tire barn.
Waterford Speedbowl will have an open practice on Friday, March 26 and that there is a Late Model 50 Lap event opening Waterford for the season on Sunday, March 28.
Thunder Road Practice for All Divisions is Tues. April 13.
Pit gates open at 3pm, practice runs from 4pm to 7pm. Pit gate fee is $10. Rain date will be Wednesday, April 14.
 Monday, March 01 2010 @ 10:29 AM PST
Contributed by: ACT Staff
Views: 350
1990 – Robbie Crouch Returns
The fifth season of the American-Canadian Tour saw the return of the Tour’s most accomplished driver. Robbie Crouch returned after
running just part time in 1989. His 1990 championship was his fourth in the first five years of ACT racing. He also won championships in 1983 and 1984 on the NASCAR North Tour. With his four wins in 1990 he increased his career win total to 68, nearly three times more than any other driver at the time.
In the second season of the GM National Stock Car Series, consisting of ten events at seven different tracks across three Canadian provinces, Randy MacDonald edged out Crouch by 14 points for the title. For the second year in a row Dave Dion, running a limited schedule, won the ACT Showdown at Beech Ridge along with three other events in just 9 starts. Race winners included Crouch (4), 1989 Champion Russ Urlin (4), Dion (3), Dragon (3), Junior Hanley (2), Jean-Paul Cabana (2), Claude Leclerc, 1990 Rookie of the Year Steve Knowlton, MacDonald and Ralph Nason.
 Thursday, February 25 2010 @ 12:36 PM PST
Contributed by: ACT Staff
Views: 907
ACT RACING CHANGES TO ELECTRONIC SCORING IN 2010
The American Canadian Tour (ACT) announced today that all racing in the 2010 season will be done with electronic scoring.
This will include weekly events at Thunder Road, both the ACT US and Castrol Tours, and the Bond Auto/WIX Tiger Sportsman Series.
“This is a real change from 50 years of how it has been done,” said Tom Curley, President of ACT and Managing Partner at Thunder Road. “I guess after 50 years it was inevitable that we needed to step up to the modern technology. I am sure Doc (Gordon Nielsen, Chief Scorer for Thunder Road, the former Catamount Stadium, and all the ACT Tours for over 35 years) would approve of this move at this time.”
With the high demands of three Tours and Thunder Road weekly, it has been increasingly difficult to find scorers. For some of the ACT senior scorers, as young as they are, having babies also necessitated this change.
 Wednesday, February 24 2010 @ 06:24 AM PST
Contributed by: ACT Staff
Views: 255
Waterford Speedbowl Late Model division changes to Goodyear Tire in 2010
Waterford Speedbowl Management has announced its Late Model division will compete on Goodyear tires in 2010. All competitors will be
required to compete on the designated Goodyear tire compound, beginning with the season opening Budweiser Blastoff event March 26-28.
The Goodyear model D2672 and D2882 tires will be introduced. This change helps the Speedbowl become congruent with the ACT Late Model tire program in place across New England and on the ACT’s U.S and Canadian tours. Goodyear tires will be available for purchase by Speedbowl Late Model teams at Budweiser Blastoff opening weekend and each week during the 2010 race season. The tires can also be mounted at the track. The Speedbowl’s Late Model division competes in the NASCAR Whelen All American Series as Division 2.
“The folks at ACT have done their homework and have a good product with this tire” stated Speedbowl Race Director Tom Fox. “Many of our competitors who have competed on these Goodyear tires in the past have liked their performance. We’ve received a lot of positive feedback from competitors in favor of the switch”.
 Monday, February 22 2010 @ 07:31 AM PST
Contributed by: ACT Staff
Views: 744
ACT Drivers’ Favorite Tracks
With the 2010 race season only a couple of months away, the ACT office has compiled an interesting survey of which tracks are the favorites of some veteran and new drivers, as well as several ACT staff members. (All stats are from ACT Late Model Tour or Série ACT Castrol events unless otherwise noted)
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#89VT - Scott Payea, Milton, VT – Thunder Road – “Why wouldn’t it be? It’s a driver’s racetrack with two grooves and lots of
excitement. The atmosphere there is the best.” The Ouellette Plumbing and Heating team, led by crew chief and team co-owner Chris Companion, has 12 top ten finishes in 16 tour starts, with an average finish of 6.6. They also have two wins.
#41VT - Pete Potvin III, Graniteville, VT – Waterford Speedbowl – “It has good speed, great corners that aren’t too tight with great banking.” The family run team, with Pete’s father as crew chief, has two starts at the ‘Bowl’ and have an average finish of 14th.
#21QC - Jean-François Déry, Quebec City, QC – Autodrome Montmagny – “It’s good to me!” The JF Dery team won the Red Bear 100 at Montmagny in 2009. JF has an impressive 6 top tens in 7 starts with 4 top five finishes. His career average finish at Montmagny is a remarkable 5.7.
ACT Director of Competition - Dean Gallison, Middlesex, VT – Kawartha Speedway – “It’s just an awesome race track with great racing, great pits, and a great pit road. What else would a good short track racer want?”
 Thursday, February 18 2010 @ 06:45 AM PST
Contributed by: ACT Staff
Views: 535
Meet Thunder Road Late Model Driver Chip Grenier
#9VT Grenier Motorsports Toyota Camry
Hometown: Graniteville, VT
Date of Birth: October 26, 1977
Chip lives with his wife Larissa and their two cats. He works as a foundation mason during the summer and a racecar
fabricator during the winter.
2009 Season: Chip competed on the ACT Tour full-time for the first time during the 2009 season. He earned four top tens in his 12 starts and earned ninth place in the final point standings. He also finished tenth in the 47th Annual Chittenden Bank Milk Bowl. At the 2009 ACT Banquet of Champions he received the 2009 ACT Tour Sportsmanship Award. Chip could also be seen every Thursday night at Thunder Road as the crew chief for Rich Lowrey.
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-Jamie Fisher has won at least $5,000 in each of his 11 seasons on the ACT Late Model Tour.
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