{"id":1129,"date":"2008-04-01T14:43:26","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T14:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2008-04-01T14:43:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T14:43:26","slug":"act-dissolves-relationship-with-rt-raceparts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2008\/04\/act-dissolves-relationship-with-rt-raceparts\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT Dissolves Relationship With RT Raceparts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">&nbsp; WATERBURY, VT &ndash; The American-Canadian Tour (ACT) stock car racing organization has rescinded its<br \/>previously announced partnership with RT Raceparts of Hudson, NH for the 2008 season, effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; As such, a notice has been sent to the ACT membership, including competitors with the ACT Late Model Tour, the S&eacute;rie ACT Castrol, and at Barre, VT&rsquo;s Thunder Road International Speedbowl, that will no longer mandate the use of Torco Racing Fuels &ndash; previously available for use exclusively from RT Raceparts &ndash; during ACT-sanctioned race events.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ACT President Tom Curley said that while Torco fuel is no longer mandatory, its use is neither prohibited nor discouraged.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &ldquo;Torco is a good fuel, and in fact, testing has shown that the 104-octane blend may actually benefit the engines in our crate engine program,&rdquo; he said.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The ACT Late Model Tour begins its season with the New Hampshire Governor&rsquo;s Cup event at Lee USA Speedway on Sun., April 20.&nbsp; Thunder Road&rsquo;s season opens with the 10th Annual Merchants Bank 150 on Sun., May 4, while the S&eacute;rie ACT Castrol season begins at Autodrome St-Eustache near Montr&eacute;al on Sun., May 18.&nbsp; For more information, call (802) 244-6963 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acttour.com\/\">www.acttour.com<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thunderroadspeedbowl.com\/\">www.thunderroadspeedbowl.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; WATERBURY, VT &ndash; The American-Canadian Tour (ACT) stock car racing organization has rescinded itspreviously announced partnership with RT Raceparts of Hudson, NH for the 2008 season, effective immediately.<\/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-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-canadian-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","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=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}