Aug 28, 2015 | American Canadian Tour, Touring Series News
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Waterbury, VT – The American Racer Three Star program is designed to recognize three teams in no particular order of performance that had outstanding races at American-Canadian Tour (ACT) U.S. Tour events. There are no specific criteria for deciding who might receive the award of a free American Racer Tire (value $125.00), but a special effort by a team, exceptional race, just plain old hard luck, or any other accepted reason is used to decide the award recipients.
The Three Stars are chosen by ACT officials and will receive certificates for use of a free American Racer tire at a race of their choosing during the 2015 season.
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Aug 26, 2015 | American Canadian Tour, Canada, Touring Series News
Top Ten for Packard at Ste-Croix, QC’s Circuit Riverside Speedway
EAST MONTPELIER, Vt. – Determined to gain back some of the points lost in the previous race due to a late race incident, Packard in her 9xME Northstar Fireworks/Packard Fuels car drove a clean and well calculated race to bring home a much-deserved 9th place finish.
Making only her second visit to the 5/8 mile oval in Ste-Croix, the East Montpelier native had a decent car in practice, with the team making numerous changes throughout to dial the car in to the 18-year olds liking. “We had a decent car throughout practice,” said Packard. “We spent most of practice trying to figure out the track just because it is so different from anywhere else. We weren’t super-fast, but the car was pretty good. When we put on new tires in final practice, the pace picked up some and we knew we would have a good car for the heat.”
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Aug 23, 2015 | ACT, American Canadian Tour, Canada, Touring Series News
Pole Repeats in ACT Can-Am 150 at Circuit Riverside
Ste-Croix, QC – Hudson, NH’s Joey Polewarczyk Jr. turned an early setback into an opportune moment en route to winning the American-Canadian Tour (ACT) Can-Am 150 at Ste-Croix, QC’s Circuit Riverside Speedway on Saturday, August 22.
“Joey Pole” was involved in an incident with Martin Goulet Jr. and Brandon Atkins on lap 18 of the 150-lap event and pitted for two tires and adjustments during the resulting caution. After driving back up to third on the track, Pole inherited the lead when leaders Wayne Helliwell Jr. and Jean-François Déry pitted under caution with 44 laps remaining.
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Aug 21, 2015 | American Canadian Tour, Touring Series News
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EAST MONTPELIER, Vt. – After a week off, Emily Packard and her 9xME Northstar Fireworks/Packard Fuels team is ready to take on the 5/8 mile asphalt Circuit Riverside Speedway in Ste. Croix, QC. This will be the American Canadian Tour sophomore driver’s second time racing at the speedway and is the second of four combination races with the Série ACT. “I enjoyed running here last year,” Packard said. “It’s a unique track with different elevation, so when you come out of four, you can’t really see the middle of the front stretch. It’s a fun and fast race track, and I look forward to our return there.”
In last year’s event the 18 year old East Montpelier driver suffered a flat tire early into the race, and had to pit to change it and repair some damage to the car. This cause her to go several laps down, but she got back out there and picked off as many cars as she could salvaging a 16th place finish. “Last year was a pretty strange experience,” said Packard, “we had a flat tire about 40 laps into the race and had to pit to change it. I went back out and tried to finish the race in the best position that I could. Being down a few laps, I stayed out of trouble and learned a few things about running the track that I hopefully can use this race.”
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Aug 21, 2015 | American Canadian Tour, Thunder Road, Touring Series News
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Barre, VT – Milton’s Eric Badore held off point leader Derrick O’Donnell to score his first career Thunder Road Late Model win and the “Triple Crown” in the Jet Service Envelope/Accura Printing Trophy Dash on Thursday, August 20 in front of a full house at the Barre high banks.
The second-year driver started on the pole and led the whole way in the caution-free 50-lap feature, but Island Pond’s Brett Gervais followed him like a shadow for most of the event. N. Haverhill, NH’s O’Donnell entered the fray in the final 10 circuits and began working Badore’s outside with three laps to go.
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Aug 20, 2015 | American Canadian Tour, More Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Thunder Road, Touring Series News
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Barre, VT – Thunder Road racing legend and family patriarch Joey Laquerre of East Montpelier has been elected to the New England Auto Racing (NEAR) Hall of Fame’s Class of 2015.
The 71-year-old Laquerre is the all-time winningest driver at Barre’s Thunder Road with 45 wins, including a record 17 in the Tiger Sportsmen and 14 in the Late Models. His most recent Thunder Road victory came in a Late Model feature on June 5, 2014. Laquerre was the 1982 “King of the Road” and also won five championships in the Mini Stock division between 1973 and 1980.
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