Jan 16, 2008 | American Canadian Tour
-by Justin St. Louis
The American-Canadian Tour/Thunder Road Banquet of Champions closed the curtain on the 2007 racing season Saturday night at the Sheraton-Burlington Hotel & Conference Center in South Burlington, VT. Among the honorees were seven-time ACT Late Model Tour Champion Jean-Paul Cyr and his car owner, Rick Paya, Thunder Road “King of the Road” Dave Pembroke, and Thunder Road weekly division Champions Nick Sweet (NAPA Tiger Sportsman), Bobby Therrien (Allen Lumber Street Stock), and Bunker Hodgdon (Power Shift Online Junkyard Warrior).
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Jan 12, 2008 | American Canadian Tour
SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT – Late Model stock car racer Dave Pembroke of Montpelier was honored as the 2007 “King of the Road” of Barre’s Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl at the Banquet of Champions at the Sheraton-Burlington Hotel & Conference Center in South Burlington, VT on Saturday night. Pembroke shared the awards stage with the champions, rookies of the year, and special award winners from Thunder Road’s four racing divisions, as well as drivers from the American-Canadian Tour.
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Jan 12, 2008 | American Canadian Tour
SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT – Stock car drivers Jean-Paul Cyr and Jamie Fisher were feted at the 2007 American-
Canadian Tour (ACT) Banquet of Champions at the Sheraton-Burlington Hotel & Conference Center in South Burlington,
VT on Saturday night. Cyr collected the seventh ACT Late Model Tour Championship of his career – his fifth in a
row, an ACT record – while Fisher was given the prestigious Don MacTavish Award, ACT’s highest honor.
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Jan 10, 2008 | American Canadian Tour
SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT – A total point fund exceeding $50,000 will be awarded to top stock car drivers at the 2007 American-Canadian Tour/Thunder Road Banquet of Champions on Saturday night at the Sheraton-Burlington Hotel & Conference Center in South Burlington, VT. Jean-Paul Cyr of Milton, VT will be feted for winning his seventh ACT Late Model Tour Championship, while his car owner, Rick Paya, will collect a check for nearly $10,000 in point fund monies.
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Jan 9, 2008 | American Canadian Tour
-by Justin St. Louis
The votes are all in, and it’s now time to close out the “Top 25 ACT Drivers of 2007” by honoring the top five, as named by members of the regional media. Before we look back at drivers 25 through 6, we’d like to thank the following folks for their expertise and participation in this poll: Alan Ward, photographer and columnist for the Racin’ Paper; Dave Moody, Thunder Road announcer and MRN Radio personality; Gene Gagne, photographer and operator of OutsideGroove.com; Lee Kittell, host of WDEV Radio’s “Score!” sports talk show; Marc Patrick Roy, Série ACT Castrol reporter for Speed51.com; Mark Thomas, Racin’ Paper Editor; Mike McGill, WCAX Channel 3 Sports; Pete Hartt, Sports Editor at the Barre-Montpelier (VT) Times Argus; Travis Barrett of the Kennebec Journal and Central
Maine Morning Sentinel; and die-hard race fans Andy Boright and Bethany Bell.
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Jan 3, 2008 | American Canadian Tour
WATERBURY, VT – A select group of stock car drivers has been nominated for the “Sportsmanship” and “Most Improved” awards in four racing divisions for the American-Canadian Tour and Barre’s Thunder Road. Competitors and race officials and have selected nominees for the special awards, with the winners to be announced at the annual ACT/Thunder Road Banquet of Champions on Saturday, Jan. 12 at the Sheraton-Burlington Hotel & Conference Center in South Burlington, VT.
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