{"id":1165,"date":"2008-05-19T13:00:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2008-05-19T13:00:57","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T13:00:57","slug":"laperle-opens-se-act-castrol-title-defense-with-st-eustache-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2008\/05\/laperle-opens-se-act-castrol-title-defense-with-st-eustache-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Laperle Opens S\u00e9rie ACT Castrol Title Defense With St-Eustache Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ST-EUSTACHE, QU&Eacute;BEC &ndash; American-Canadian Tour (ACT) Late Model stock car driver Patrick Laperle began the defense of his 2007 S&eacute;rie ACT Castrol championship in dominating fashion on Sunday at Autodrome St-Eustache near Montr&eacute;al.&nbsp; The St-Denis-sur-Richelieu, QC driver quickly made his way from 15th starting position in the St-Eustache 100 to the front of the pack, and took the lead from outside polesitter Steven Boissonneault on lap 48.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Laperle held onto the lead through the race&rsquo;s fifth and final restart on lap 55, then blitzed the field<br \/>for his third career S&eacute;rie ACT Castrol victory.&nbsp; The win came less than 24 hours after finishing third in an ACT Late Model Tour event at Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, NY.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Boissonneault, of Lyster, QC, tied a career-best finish in second place.&nbsp; London, ON rookie Jonathan Urlin benefited from a late-race tangle with St-F&eacute;licien, QC&rsquo;s Karl Allard to capture third place in his first career S&eacute;rie ACT Castrol start.&nbsp; Allard survived for fourth place, one spot better than Terrebonne, QC driver Sylvain Lacombe.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Veteran Lanoraie, QC driver Claude Leclerc finished sixth, while Qu&eacute;bec City&rsquo;s Jean-Fran&ccedil;ois D&eacute;ry was the final car on the lead lap in seventh place.&nbsp; Patrick Hamel, Dany Ouellet, and Alexandre Gingras completed the top-ten finishers in order, unofficially.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The S&eacute;rie ACT Castrol is back in action on Saturday, May 31 at Autodrome Montmagny, east of Qu&eacute;bec City. For more information, call (802) 244-6963 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laserieactcastrol.com\/\">www.laserieactcastrol.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">UNOFFICIAL FINISH &ndash; St-Eustache 100<br \/>S&eacute;rie ACT Castrol &ndash; Autodrome St-Eustache, St-Eustache, QC<br \/>Sunday, May 18, 2008<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">(# &#8211; denotes rookie driver)<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Pos.-(Start)-Car No.-Driver-Hometown-Laps Complete-Reason Out (if any)<br \/>&nbsp;1. (15) 91 Patrick Laperle; St-Denis-sur-Richelieu, QC; 100<br \/>&nbsp;2. (2) 31PQ Steven Boissonneault; Lyster, QC; 100<br \/>&nbsp;3. (9) 9ON #Jonathan Urlin; London, ON; 100<br \/>&nbsp;4. (11) 48QC Karl Allard; St-F&eacute;licien, QC; 100<br \/>&nbsp;5. (14) 3 Sylvain Lacombe; Terrebonne, QC; 100<br \/>&nbsp;6. (12) 11 Claude Leclerc; Lanoraie, QC; 100<br \/>&nbsp;7. (18) 21QC Jean-Fran&ccedil;ois D&eacute;ry; Qu&eacute;bec, QC; 100<br \/>&nbsp;8. (4) 51 Patrick Hamel; St-&Eacute;douard-de-Lotbini&egrave;re, QC; 99<br \/>&nbsp;9. (8) 28PQ Dany Ouellet; La Pocti&egrave;re, QC; 99<br \/>10. (16) 27QC Alexandre Gingras; Val-B&eacute;lair, QC; 99<br \/>11. (6) 42PQ &Eacute;ric St-Gelais; St-Nicolas, QC; 99<br \/>12. (1) 92 Jonathan Desbiens; Levis, QC; 99<br \/>13. (22) 30 St&eacute;phane Durand; Qu&eacute;bec, QC; 99<br \/>14. (7) 9QC Yvon B&eacute;dard; St-Nicolas, QC; 99<br \/>15. (17) 31ON #Spencer MacPherson; Carleton Place, ON; 96<br \/>16. (24) 67 Bob Hudon; Qu&eacute;bec, QC; 91<br \/>17. (19) 17 Justin Holtom; Ottawa, ON; 89<br \/>18. (13) 85PQ Normand Lavigueur; Laval, QC; 67; rear end<br \/>19. (21) 10QC St&eacute;phane D&eacute;coste; Oka, QC; 53; wreck<br \/>20. (23) 34 Claude Lepage; La Vactrie, QC; 36; handling<br \/>21. (25) 03 Martin Lacombe; Terrebonne, QC; 24; transmission<br \/>22. (5) 19 Brandon Watson; Stayner, ON; 4; wreck<br \/>23. (10) 2PQ Daniel D&eacute;coste; St-Joseph-du-Lac, QC; 2; wreck<br \/>24. (3) 15QC Kevin Roberge; Levis, QC; 0; wreck<br \/>25. (20) 97PQ Jacques Poulin; East-Broughton, QC; 0; wreck<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ST-EUSTACHE, QU&Eacute;BEC &ndash; American-Canadian Tour (ACT) Late Model stock car driver Patrick Laperle began the defense of his 2007 S&eacute;rie ACT Castrol championship in dominating fashion on Sunday at Autodrome St-Eustache near Montr&eacute;al.&nbsp; The St-Denis-sur-Richelieu, QC driver quickly made his way from 15th starting position in the St-Eustache 100 to the front of the [&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-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-canadian-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","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=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}