Oct 5, 2010 | American Canadian Tour
Waterbury, VT – The Ford Blue Oval Challenge contingency awards, announced earlier this season for the competitors on the American Canadian Tour (ACT) and various affiliated weekly track participants, was the final bonus at Thunder Road’s Milk Bowl to raise winner Joey Polewarczyk, Jr.’s (Joey Pole) total winnings to over $15,000.00. The race posted over $80,000.00 in posted prize money and awards.
The unique three-segment event, promoted as the ‘toughest short track race in America’, was contested for the 48th time at the high-banked quarter mile oval in Barre, VT on Sunday, October 03, 2010. Joey Pole bested over 60 of the region’s top Late Model teams to win one of the most prestigious short track events in the country. With the $1,000.00 posted by the 2010 FORD contingency program for the event, Joey Pole became not only the youngest to win the event in the past 48 years, but set a record winner’s share of $15,420.00.
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Oct 4, 2010 | American Canadian Tour
Joey Polewarczyk, Jr. Wins 48th Annual People’s United Bank Milk Bowl
Rossi, MacAskill and Christmam Earn Thunder Road Championships
Barre, VT – Hudson, New Hampshire’s Joey “Pole” Polewarczyk, Jr. earned his second big American-Canadian Tour win in a month at the 48th Annual People’s United Bank Milk Bowl at Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre, VT. Pole, who won the second annual ACT Invitational at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in September, won the first 50-lap segment of the Milk Bowl after missing his fourth career pole award by just 22 one-thousandths of a second. He completed his win by finishing seventh and fourth respectively in the final two 75-lap segments. Pole’s win earned him a check of over $10,000 in the non-point counting event.
Pole sitter Brian Hoar held the lead at the beginning of the third segment as he sped his way through to the front while Pole was stuck in heavy traffic. Once the traffic cleared Pole methodically worked his way to the front and eventually got around Hoar to seal the win with a combined 12 points. Hoar would use his third segment finish of fifth to claim second after a tie breaker with last year’s Milk Bowl Champion John Donahue, who claimed third. The two both finished with 20 points but Hoar’s better finish in the final segment earned him the spot.
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Oct 3, 2010 | American Canadian Tour
Brian Hoar Claims Booth Bros./H.P. Hood Pole
Barre, VT – Williston, Vermont’s Brian Hoar claimed the Booth Bros./H.P. Hood pole position for the 48th Annual People’s United Bank Milk Bowl at Thunder Road in Barre on Sunday, October 3. The two-time (1998 and 1999) Milk Bowl Champion set a fast time of 13.001 on the day. Three-time Milk Bowl pole sitter Joey Polewarczyk, Jr. of Hudson, NH was just 22 one-thousandths of a second of Hoars time and will sit on the outside pole.
An impressive 61 ACT Late Models completed time trials. The fast three times, which were Hoar, Polewarczyk and Montreal, Quebec’s Patrick Laperle set the top three spots in the segment 1 line-up of the Milk Bowl. The Triple 50 lap heat races added the top five finishers from each to the starting lineup. Brent Dragon, John Donahue and Joey Laquerre claimed the wins in the Triple 50s. The next six spots were filled in based on the six fastest times that were not qualified yet.
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Oct 2, 2010 | American Canadian Tour
Joey Polewarczyk Jr.: ACT Late Model Tour – Milk Bowl Race Preview
Joey Polewarczyk Jr. of Hudson, N.H., will try and keep his momentum rolling this weekend with the 48th annual Milk Bowl at Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre, Vt., on Saturday and Sunday, October 2-3. Polewarczyk enters the weekend off the biggest win of his career — the ACT Invitational at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on September 18. He is the track’s Late Model record holder at Thunder Road, having earned the Milk Bowl pole in 2006 with a lap of 12.935 seconds around the quarter-mile track — the first of three consecutive Milk Bowl poles earned by the No. 97 Ford Fusion in the event. Polewarczyk has one career victory at Thunder Road, having won the VT Governor’s Cup in 2009, and most recently he finished eighth in the Labor Day Classic 200 at the track last month.
WHO: Joey Polewarczyk Jr., Hudson, N.H.
TEAM: No. 97 Pole’s Automotive/NH Precision Ford Fusion
BEST CAREER THUNDER ROAD FINISH: (1st (June 2009)
LAST RACE AT THUNDER ROAD: 8th (September 2010)
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Sep 29, 2010 | American Canadian Tour
Waterbury, VT – Following the 300 lap event at the Autodrome Ste-Eustache last Sunday, September 26, 2010, a penalty was issued to the # 3QC team of Sylvain Lacombe. The driver is responsible for the actions of his team and following an on-track incident, the team’s actions along pit road during the event and subsequently at the conclusion of the event, mandated a penalty for the # 3QC team under the following ACT Rulebook criteria.
ACT rules and procedures…..
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Sep 27, 2010 | American Canadian Tour
St-Eustache, QC – St-Felicien’s Karl Allard claimed the win in the St-Eustache 300 and the 2010 Série ACT Castrol Edge Championship after a wild green-white-checkered finish at Autodrome St-Eustache on Sunday, September 26. Allard took the lead after leaders Patrick Laperle and Jonathan Urlin wrecked coming to the white flag. Laperle and Urlin ended up in the front stretch wall before the start-finish line as Allard snuck through on the low side. Allard took the white flag while the rest of the field took the yellow and white flags.
Daniel Descoste made it through the mayhem to earn second while Laperle and Urlin were unofficially scored in third and fourth respectively, as the final two cars on the lead lap. Stephane Descoste finished fifth, the first car down one lap. Alex Labbe earned the Rookie of the Year title with his sixth place finish. Claude Leclerc, David Michaud, Gaetan Lauzier and Donald Theetge completed the top ten.
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