Patrick Laperle Wins Série ACT Castrol Season Opener at Autodrome Chaudiere

Vallee-Jonction, QC – St-Denis, QC’s Patrick Laperle wins the Série ACT Castrol season opener at Autodrome Chaudiere on Saturday, May 21. Laperle started on the pole position after earning a plus four in the plus-minus handicap system. The former Série ACT Castrol and ACT Late Model Tour Champion battled for the majority of the event with defending Série ACT Castrol Champion Karl Allard from St-Felicien, QC.

The two swapped the lead several times until Laperle took over for good on lap 63. Allard still fought on the outside on multiple restarts before spinning on a lap 144 restart and hitting the wall coming out of turn four.
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49th ANNUAL MEMORIAL DAY CLASSIC STEEPED IN HISTORY

MEKKELSEN RV TWIN 100’s UP NEXT FOR THUNDER ROAD

Waterbury, VT – The 49TH annual Mekkelsen RV Memorial Day Classic will have a new look for 2011. The Thunder Road American Canadian Tour (ACT) Late Models will begin their title chase with a 100-lap event, and the popular Bond Auto Tiger Sportsman division will open the five race Bond/WIX Tiger Tour as part of the traditional holiday event.
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BRENT DRAGON: Devil’s Bowl Speedway Race Preview

Brent Dragon: ACT Late Model Tour
Devil’s Bowl Speedway Race Preview

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Brent Dragon of Milton, Vt., will have the advantage of experience when the ACT Late Model Tour takes on the Spring Green 111 at Devil’s Bowl Speedway, in West Haven, Vt., on Sunday, May 22. Dragon is one of the few ACT competitors who have already raced at Devil’s Bowl, having made a start there last year in a non-sanctioned event. The Spring Green 111 will also be the first time that Dragon races his own Dragon Motorsports Late Model this season.
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AUSTIN THERIAULT: Devil’s Bowl Speedway Race Preview

Austin Theriault: ACT Late Model Tour
Devil’s Bowl Speedway Race Preview

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Austin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, will return to race for the first time in three weeks in the ACT Late Model Tour Spring Green 111 at Devil’s Bowl Speedway in West Haven, Vt., on Sunday, May 22. The 2011 version of the Spring Green will mark Theriault’s first time competing at the flat half-mile Devil’s Bowl. This week also marks Theriault’s one-year anniversary as a full-time competitor on the ACT Late Model Tour.
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