BARRE, VT – Stock car drivers at Barre’s Thunder Road will have a busy month of August ahead of them as the 2008 championship season begins to draw to a close. With rains forcing last Thursday’s Calkins Portables/WDEV Radio program to be cut short, Thunder Road officials have added the yet-to-be-run feature events for all four racing divisions to remaining programs throughout the month of August.
MONTMAGNY, QC – The Montmagny 100 stock car race for the American-Canadian Tour’s Serie ACT Castrol at Autodrome Montmagny Speedway in Quebec has been washed out for a third time by rains. The Montmagny 100, which had already been postponed on May 31 and June 29 by rain, was the third rainout of the weekend for ACT. The U.S.-based ACT Late Model Tour was rained out on Saturday
at New Hampshire’s White Mountain Motorsports Park, as was the Calkins Portables/WDEV Radio event at Barre, VT’s Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl on Thursday.
The Montmagny 100 will now be run as part of a doubleheader weekend on August 23 and 24. Details will be forthcoming. The Serie ACT Castrol will be back in action on Saturday, August 9 at Capital City Speedway in Ottawa, ON with the Toromont CAT 100. For more information, call (802) 244-6963 or visit www.acttour.com or www.laserieactcastrol.com.
NORTH WOODSTOCK, NH – Inclement afternoon forecasts and possible flooding have forced the postponement of the White Mountain 150 stock car race for the American-Canadian Tour at White Mountain Motorsports Park in North Woodstock, NH on Saturday, August 2. The race has been rescheduled for Saturday, August 16 with a rain date of Sunday, August 17.
The White Mountain 150 was originally scheduled for June 28 before rains swept in following first-round qualifying. Forty-five cars attempted to qualify on June 28. For more information, call the American-Canadian Tour at (802) 244-6963 or visit www.acttour.com.
BARRE, VT – Persistent rain showers forced the Calkins Portables/WDEV Radio event at Barre’s Thunder Road to be cut short on Thursday night. Following a one-hour delay for a deluge of rain early in the program, qualifying rounds were completed for all divisions. A second rain shower moved into the area as the Calkins/WDEV “Port-A-Potty Grand Prix” was about to begin.
BARRE, VT – Troy Gray earned a soggy $2,000 check at Barre’s Thunder Road on Sunday night after winning the 24th Annual M&M Beverage Enduro 200, a survival-of-the-fittest stock car race that featured a half-hour rain storm and two rollovers. Gray, 40, of Fairlee drove a 1995 Mitsubishi Eclipse #00 sponsored by C.W. Gray & Sons and Connecticut Valley Auto Auction.
ST-EUSTACHE, QC – Rain has forced the postponement of the Serie ACT Castrol stock car race at Autodrome St-Eustache in St-Eustache, QC near Montreal on Saturday, July 26. The St-Eustache 200 was scheduled to be the fourth of nine events on the 2008 Serie ACT Castrol schedule. Twenty-six Late Model stock cars were on hand before the inclement weather swept in. Officials from the American-Canadian Tour (ACT) and Autodrome St-Eustache have announced that the St-Eustache 200 will now be part of a doubleheader weekend on September 20/21. The 200-lap event will run on Saturday, Sept. 20 with the 14th Annual St-Eustache 300 on Sunday, Sept. 21.
The Serie ACT Castrol returns to action on Sunday, August 3 at Autodrome Montmagny Speedway in Montmagny, QC. For more information, call (802) 244-6963 or visit www.acttour.com or www.laserieactcastrol.com.