Chris Staples has become a legend in the PASS Modified Series, with 11 career wins, which is almost more than double then any other driver in the 4 year history of series. The only driver that comes close is Jason Taylor with 7 career wins in the PASS Modified Series. Staples winning the 2006 & 2007 PASS Modified Champion is now looking towards the 2008 season.
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WATERBURY, VT – Marjorie Fay will step down from her position as Director of Marketing and Advertising
from the American-Canadian Tour (ACT) stock car racing sanctioning body, which also operates Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre, VT, effective December 13. Fay was hired to the organization as Director of Media in 1985, and held several positions in the company during the last 23 racing seasons.
-by Justin St. Louis
A fifteen-person panel – including media members from Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and Québec, officials from the American-Canadian Tour and Thunder Road, and a pair of die-hard race fans – have compiled their efforts to decide the “Top 25 ACT Drivers of 2007.” The criteria for each panelist were simple: 1. Using your personal opinion, create a list of the ten ACT/Thunder Road drivers that you felt stood head and shoulders above the rest in 2007; and 2. Rank them in order.
Name: Joey Doiron
Age: 16
Hometown: Berwick, ME
Race Series: Late Model
Car: 2007 Ford Fusion #21
Sponsors: TBA
Pit Crew:
John Doiron
Cindy Doiron
Nick Marin
Racing Stats –
4x SMKI Champion
SMKI Driver of the Year
BRMS Sport Series Rookie of the Year (2007)
BRMS Most outstanding new Driver (2007)
4th in points BRMS Sport Series (2007)
Name: Mike Fowler
Age: 23
Hometown: Standish, Me
Race Series: P.A.S.S Outlaw Series
Car: Chevy -Camano 1992, number – 66x
We recently surveyed a group of American-Canadian Tour (ACT) and Thunder Road fans, officials, and members of the local and regional media, asking their collective opinion on the performances turned in by the drivers they watched race every week in 2007. Out of their selections of the ten best across the ACT Late Model Tour, Série ACT Castrol, and Thunder Road’s Late Model, NAPA Tiger Sportsman, Allen Lumber Street Stock, and Power Shift Online Junkyard Warrior divisions, we have compiled a list of the “Top 25 ACT Drivers of 2007.”