{"id":1115,"date":"2008-03-06T18:43:26","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T18:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2008-03-06T18:43:26","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T18:43:26","slug":"bassett-racing-wheel-rejoins-american-canadian-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2008\/03\/bassett-racing-wheel-rejoins-american-canadian-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Bassett Racing Wheel Rejoins American-Canadian Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; BURLINGTON, WI &ndash; Bassett Racing Wheel will rejoin the American-Canadian Tour (ACT) stock car racing organization in 2008, continuing a long and successful partnership with the sanctioning body in the northeastern United States and Canada.&nbsp; Bassett is the leading manufacturer of auto racing wheels in the U.S., and has a style of wheel for virtually every type of stock car.&nbsp; Bassett is also an industry leader in research and development, safety, and innovation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ACT drivers will be rewarded by Bassett throughout the year; the second-place finisher in each of 12 ACT Late Model Tour events throughout the U.S. and Canada will receive certificates, as will the second-place finisher in each event of the nine-race S&eacute;rie ACT Castrol in Qu&eacute;bec and Ontario.&nbsp; Bassett will also give awards at the conclusion of each series&rsquo; season, with the top three championship drivers receiving a certificate toward the purchase of Bassett Racing Wheels.&nbsp; There will also be a random draw at each series&rsquo; Banquet of Champions, rewarding a lucky driver with four free, powder-coated wheels.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &ldquo;Bassett Racing Wheel is the short track racing industry&rsquo;s clear-cut leader in terms of wheel safety, reliability, and technology, and it has been since the 1960s,&rdquo; said ACT Director of Competition Dean Gallison.&nbsp; &ldquo;We are excited to have Bassett back in the ACT family, and I am positive that our racers will be appreciative of Bassett&rsquo;s season-long support.&rdquo;<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The ACT Late Model Tour season opens at New Hampshire&rsquo;s Lee USA Speedway on Sunday, April 20.&nbsp; The S&eacute;rie ACT Castrol season gets underway at Autodrome St-Eustache near Montr&eacute;al on Sunday, May 18.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For more information on Bassett Racing Wheel, call (888) 888-7199 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bassettwheel.com\/\">www.bassettwheel.com<\/a>.&nbsp; For information on the American-Canadian Tour, call (802) 244-6963 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acttour.com\/\">www.acttour.com<\/a>.&nbsp; To learn more about Bassett Racing Wheel, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bassettwheel.com\/\">www.bassettwheel.com<\/a>, or click the link on the ACT website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; BURLINGTON, WI &ndash; Bassett Racing Wheel will rejoin the American-Canadian Tour (ACT) stock car racing organization in 2008, continuing a long and successful partnership with the sanctioning body in the northeastern United States and Canada.&nbsp; Bassett is the leading manufacturer of auto racing wheels in the U.S., and has a style of wheel for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-canadian-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}