May 20, 2014 | American Canadian Tour, Touring Series News
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No. 17 Ray Parent from Tiverton, RI wins the ACT Airborne 100. No. 41 Jonathan Bouvrette from Canada was second, followed by No. 97 Joey Polewarczyk Jr from Hudson, NH coming in third.
May 19, 2014 | American Canadian Tour, Touring Series News
Plattsburgh, NY – Rhode Island’s Ray Parent battled through an intense final six laps to claim his first career American Canadian Tour point counting event victory in the Airborne 100 at Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, NY on Saturday, May 17. Parent edged Quebec’s Jonathan Bouvrette by half a car length at the checkered flag and New Hampshire’s Joey Polewarczyk, Jr. took third. It was the ACT Late Model Tour’s 250th event since its inception in 1992.
Parent started on the pole of the 100 lap event after earning a plus three on his way to his heat race win. He led through the first caution of the event on lap six, but relinquished the lead to Bobby Therrien following the ensuing restart. Several laps later Parent returned to the point and built a giant lead over an 88 lap green flag run. It looked like Parent would ride to an easy win before the second caution flag flew on lap 94.
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May 15, 2014 | American Canadian Tour, Touring Series News
Emily Packard
Double Duty: Devil’s Bowl Speedway and Airborne ACT Race
EAST MONTPELIER, Vt. – This weekend is a busy one for Packard as she heads to Devil’s Bowl Speedway Friday night for the Whelen Engineering/Mobil 1 event with her 9x Northstar Fireworks/Packard Fuels Ford. Once the night is complete it’s back to the shop to swap out cars and head to Airborne Park Speedway for Saturdays ACT 100 Spectacular race with her 9x Northstar Fireworks/Packard Fuels Chevrolet.
“I’m excited to be heading to Devil’s Bowl this weekend,” said Packard, “I love the track, it’s a great facility, and a real driver’s track.” After a couple weeks off Packard looks forward to getting back to the track. “It’s been a long winter and this is the first race for some of these guys.” said Packard. “I think I have a slight advantage going into this race having run some longer races already this season.” This will be the season opener for Devil’s Bowl, and is the first time that the season starts under the lights on a Friday night.
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May 13, 2014 | American Canadian Tour, Thunder Road, Touring Series News
Waterbury, VT –Thunder Road International Speedbowl will host the 52nd running of the Mekkelsen RV Memorial Day Classic on Sunday, May 25. The double-header program will once again feature 100 laps for the ACT Thunder Road Late Model division, and a special 50 lap main for the NASCAR Modified division that competes regularly at both Devil’s Bowl Speedway in Fair Haven, VT and Airborne Park Speedway in Plattsburgh, NY.
Derrick O’Donnell from North Haverhill, NH won the “King of the Road” title in 2013 and also the 2013 Mekkelsen Memorial Day Classic. “We had a great year in 2013. I sure like starting our title defense at the opening Classic event again. A good finish can really jumpstart your season,” said O’Donnell. O’Donnell and two-time Thunder Road Champion Nick Sweet were both in contention racing each other for the opening day Merchants Bank 150 win before they were sidelined in a late race wreck.
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May 12, 2014 | American Canadian Tour, Touring Series News
Waterbury, VT –The American Canadian Tour (ACT) will head for one of their favorite tracks, Airborne Speedway, on Saturday, May 17, 2014. The fast, progressively banked one-half mile speedplant has seen some of the most competitive events in the long history of ACT racing.
“It’s just one of those tracks that you love to race at. Of course, I love it since I won the $25,000 in the ACT International last year. This race will be different than the International with the three segments, or the 200-lap traditional Fall Foliage that we run at Airborne. It is longer in length than most of our short tracks, but it is also faster and things can happen pretty quickly,” said Joey Polewarczyk, Jr. from Hudson, New Hampshire. Pole currently sits in third place, just 16 points from leading the points race.
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May 8, 2014 | American Canadian Tour, NE Racing News, Touring Series News
Pays Out over $5.5 Million
Waterbury, VT – The American Canadian Tour will reach a milestone when the Late Model Tour rolls into Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, NY next Sunday, May 17. It will be the 250th point counting event for the ACT Late Models, which began touring back in 1992. Also with the completion of the Airborne event, the American Canadian Tour will have paid out over $5.5 Million to the Late Model teams.
Over the past 23 seasons and now 249 events, the Late Models have moved from the shadows of the former ACT Pro Stocks, to the premier stock car touring series in the Northeast.
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