{"id":1198,"date":"2008-07-06T19:30:04","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T19:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2008-07-06T19:30:04","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T19:30:04","slug":"dery-a-surprise-serie-act-castrol-winner-at-st-felicien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2008\/07\/dery-a-surprise-serie-act-castrol-winner-at-st-felicien\/","title":{"rendered":"Dery a Surprise Serie ACT Castrol Winner at St-Felicien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dery passed Val-Belair, QC racer Alexandre Gingras, who spun out of the lead, and hometown favorite Karl Allard to enter the top five, then steadily worked past visiting ARCA Re\/Max Series veteran Mario Gosselin of Lake Wales, FL Yvon Bedard of St-Nicolas, QC, and Lanoraie, QC&rsquo;s Claude Leclerc to reach second place.&nbsp; Suddenly, with two laps remaining, race leader Martin Lacombe of Terrebonne, QC ran out of fuel and coasted to a stop, bringing out the race&rsquo;s 14th and final caution flag.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dery inherited the lead on the lap 148 restart, then sped to a popular victory, the third of his Serie ACT Castrol career and his first since 2006.&nbsp; Gosselin capitalized on track position to move past Leclerc on the restart and crossed the line in second place.&nbsp; Allard finished fourth, while Gingras recovered from his spin to finish fifth.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rookie Patrick Hamel, Bedard, Lacombe, Dany Ouellet, and Jacques Poulin completed the unofficial top ten finishers in order.&nbsp; Stephane Descoste, rookie Spencer MacPherson, and Gingras won the qualifying heats, while MacPherson also won the bonus-points semi-feature race.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Unofficially, Dery is now the Serie ACT Castrol point leader, by six points over previous leader Allard, 266-260.&nbsp; Gingras (250), Bedard (245), and Leclerc (232) are third through fifth, respectively.&nbsp; The Serie ACT Castrol is back in action on Saturday, July 26 at Autodrome St-Eustache near Montreal for a 200-lap event.&nbsp; For more information, call (802) 244-6963 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laserieactcastrol.com\/\">www.laserieactcastrol.com<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acttour.com\/\">www.acttour.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">UNOFFICIAL RESULTS &ndash; AUTOPRO 150<br \/>Serie ACT Castrol &ndash; Autodrome St-Felicien, St-Felicien, QC<br \/>Saturday, July 5, 2008<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">(# &#8211; denotes rookie)<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Pos.-Driver-Hometown<br \/>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jean-Francois Dery, Quebec, QC<br \/>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mario Gosselin, Lake Wales, FL<br \/>3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Claude Leclerc, Lanoraie, QC<br \/>4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Karl Allard, St-Felicien, QC<br \/>5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Alexandre Gingras, Val-Belair, QC<br \/>6.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; # Patrick Hamel, St-Edouard-de-Lotbiniere, QC<br \/>7.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Yvon Bedard, St-Nicolas, QC<br \/>8.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Martin Lacombe, Terrebonne, QC<br \/>9.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dany Ouellet, La Pocatiere, QC<br \/>10.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jacques Poulin, East-Broughton, QC<br \/>11.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Stephane Descoste, Oka, QC<br \/>12.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jonathan Desbiens, Levis, QC<br \/>13.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Eric St-Gelais, St-Nicolas, QC<br \/>14.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Stephane Durand, Quebec, QC<br \/>15.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; # Spencer MacPherson, Carleton Place, ON<br \/>16.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Daniel Descoste, St-Joseph du Lac, QC<br \/>17.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Michael Lavoie, Laval, QC<br \/>18.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Kevin Roberge, Levis, QC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dery passed Val-Belair, QC racer Alexandre Gingras, who spun out of the lead, and hometown favorite Karl Allard to enter the top five, then steadily worked past visiting ARCA Re\/Max Series veteran Mario Gosselin of Lake Wales, FL Yvon Bedard of St-Nicolas, QC, and Lanoraie, QC&rsquo;s Claude Leclerc to reach second place.&nbsp; Suddenly, with [&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-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-canadian-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","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=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}