Brian Hoar: ACT Late Model Tour
White Mountain Motorsports Park Race Preview
THE STORY
Brian Hoar of Williston, Vt., looks for his third ACT Late Model Tour win of the season in the ACT 150 at White Mountain Motorsports Park in North Woodstock, N.H., on Saturday, June 18. Hoar, who has 30 career Tour victories is the defending champion of this event, and the seven-time series champion leads the 2011 standings through four events. In last year’s only Tour stop at White Mountain, Hoar started deep in the field before taking command just 17 laps from the finish to post the first of back-to-back wins in 2010.
THE FACTS
WHO: Brian Hoar, Williston, Vt.
TEAM: RPM Motorsports No. 37 GossCars.com Dodge
CREW CHIEF: Rick Paya, Georgia, Vt.
BEST CAREER WHITE MOUNTAIN MOTORSPORTS PARK FINISH: 1st (June 2010)
LAST RACE AT WHITE MOUNTAIN MOTORSPORTS PARK: 1st (June 2010)
WHAT: ACT Late Model Tour ACT 150
WHERE: White Mountain Motorsports Park, N. Woodstock, N.H. (.25-mile banked oval)
WHEN: 5 p.m., Saturday, June 18
ACT LATE MODEL TOUR
LAST RACE: June 4, Big Jab 150, Oxford Plains Speedway, Oxford, Maine (2nd)
NEXT RACE: June 25, The Q 97.9 FM 150, Oxford Plains Speedway, Oxford, Maine (.375-mile oval)
CURRENT POINTS POSITION: 1st
DID YOU KNOW?
Brian Hoar has not finished outside the Top-5 yet this season, with two firsts, one second and one fifth-place finish.
Brian Hoar has an ACT Late Model Tour record 30 career victories.
RPM Motorsports and Brian Hoar have not trailed in the ACT Late Model Tour standings since winning at Waterford (Conn.) Speedbowl in August of 2009. Currently, Hoar has a commanding 67-point lead over John Donahue atop the 2011 standings.
WHAT THEY’RE SAYING
BRIAN HOAR, Driver of the No. 37 GossCars.com Dodge, On racing at White Mountain Motorsports Park: “It’s probably one of prettiest settings in New England racing. It’s a great little track, and it promotes really good racing. I enjoy going there, I really do, and we’ve run good there in the past. (Crew chief Rick Paya) has a really good feel for place with the setup.
“It’s one of those little short tracks where anything can happen. And it’s certainly also a place where you can come from back and win the thing. I’m looking forward to it.”
On how White Mountain suits Late Model cars: “It definitely does. I never ran there in anything other than an ACT car. They can really run side-by-side in feature as groove starts to widen out. I think that’s probably by design when they built the place, so that’s pretty cool.”
On gearing up toward the summer stretch of races: “Doing the points thing, you’ve just got to keep running well and getting good finishes. You just want to try to stay consistent and put yourself in contention for top finishes every week. If you can do that, the potential for wins comes.
“Obviously, we’re going in the right direction so far.”
UP NEXT
The ACT Late Model Tour heads back to Oxford Plains Speedway in Oxford, Maine for the second time in three weeks with The Q 97.9 FM 150 at the track on Saturday, June 25 … Brian Hoar finished second last time out at Oxford, where he has never won before, and will try to build on that in the final ACT race at the track before the TD Bank 250 in July.