Mar 6, 2008 | American Canadian Tour
BURLINGTON, WI – Bassett Racing Wheel will rejoin the American-Canadian Tour (ACT) stock car racing organization in 2008, continuing a long and successful partnership with the sanctioning body in the northeastern United States and Canada. Bassett is the leading manufacturer of auto racing wheels in the U.S., and has a style of wheel for virtually every type of stock car. Bassett is also an industry leader in research and development, safety, and innovation.
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Mar 4, 2008 | American Canadian Tour
-by Justin St. Louis
A recent poll of stock car racing media members and veteran observers was conducted by Speed51.com, a national short track racing news website, asking panelists to predict the future and pick the Top 10 point drivers across ten of the top touring divisions in the United States. The American-Canadian Tour’s Late Model Championship series was part of that poll, and it should probably come as no surprise that perennial ACT King Jean-Paul Cyr was ranked number one.
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Mar 4, 2008 | American Canadian Tour
ACT’s Laperle Named “Best Northeast Touring Racer” at SpeedwayEXPO
Série ACT Castrol Champion beats open-wheel racers Lia, Hearn, Seitz, Perley for award
WEST SPRINGFIELD, MA – American-Canadian Tour (ACT) stock car driver Patrick Laperle of St-Denis, QC was
named the “Best Northeast Touring Racer” at the second annual SpeedwayEXPO trade show, Sunday, March 2, at the
Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, MA. Laperle recovered from a life threatening blood infection last
year to win a pair of events and the Série ACT Castrol championship. He also won twice on the ACT Late Model
Tour: the Summer Sizzler 200 at Ontario’s Kawartha Speedway and the 44th Annual Chittenden Milk Bowl at Vermont’s
Thunder Road.
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Mar 3, 2008 | American Canadian Tour
WEST SPRINGFIELD, MA – American-Canadian Tour (ACT) stock car driver Patrick Laperle of St-Denis, QC was named the “Best Northeast Touring Racer” at the second annual SpeedwayEXPO trade show, Sunday, March 2, at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, MA. Laperle recovered from a life threatening blood infection last year to win a pair of events and the Série ACT Castrol championship. He also won twice on the ACT Late Model Tour: the Summer Sizzler 200 at Ontario’s Kawartha Speedway and the 44th Annual Chittenden Milk Bowl at Vermont’s Thunder Road.
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Mar 3, 2008 | American Canadian Tour
WEST SPRINGFIELD, MA – Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl was named the winner of SpeedwayEXPO’s second annual “Best Weekly Show” award at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, MA on Sunday, March 2. The Barre, VT stock car track, known as the “Nation’s Site of Excitement,” is set to begin its 49th season with the Merchants Bank 150 for the American-Canadian Tour (ACT) Championship Late Models on May 4.
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Feb 26, 2008 | American Canadian Tour
-by Justin St. Louis
A major transition is happening at Barre, VT’s Thunder Road for 2008; as said in a recent story on the track’s website, www.thunderroadspeedbowl.com, solid groups of three or four drivers will leave their 2007 racing divisions and make jumps to the next level of competition. NAPA Tiger Sportsman drivers Nick Sweet and Matt White, along with White Mountain Motorsports Park veteran and former Thunder Road Champion Tyler Cahoon, will move
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