{"id":1220,"date":"2008-08-17T21:13:58","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T21:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2008-08-17T21:13:58","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T21:13:58","slug":"allard-wins-castrol-thriller-at-autodrome-chaudiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2008\/08\/allard-wins-castrol-thriller-at-autodrome-chaudiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Allard Wins Castrol Thriller at Autodrome Chaudiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; VALLEE-JCT., QC &ndash; Late Model stock car driver Karl Allard won an exciting Luminaire Napert 150 for the Serie ACT Castrol<br \/> at Autodrome Chaudiere in Vallee-Jct., QC on Saturday night. &nbsp;Allard, of St-Felicien, QC, started in eighth place and was working<br \/> the outside of leader Jacques Poulin at the front of the pack on lap 102 before spinning out. &nbsp;Allard then restarted at the rear<br \/> of the field and made his way to the front, taking the lead from Alexandre Gingras with seven laps remaining.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; The win was an emotional one for Allard and his Larue Industrial Snow Blowers &amp; Paving Equipment team, as they dedicated<br \/>  their win to crew chief Andre Beaudoin, who is recovering from a recent heart attack. &nbsp;Allard&rsquo;s victory was the third of his Serie<br \/>  ACT Castrol career, and his first since July 2006.<br \/>   &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Gingras, of Val-Belair, QC posted his best result of the season in second place, just ahead of Terrebonne, QC&rsquo;s Martin<br \/>  Lacombe. &nbsp;Rookies Patrick Hamel of St-Edouard-de-Lotbiniere, QC and Spencer MacPherson of Carleton Place, ON earned their best<br \/>  finishes of the year in fourth and fifth, unofficially.<br \/>   &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Mario Gosselin, originally of Beauce, QC and now living in Lake Wales, Florida, finished sixth ahead of hometown driver<br \/>  Marc-Andre Clich&eacute; of Vallee-Jct., QC. &nbsp;Veteran Yvon Bedard of St-Nicolas, QC finished eighth ahead of Daniel Descoste of St-Joseph-<br \/>  du-Lac, QC. &nbsp;Descoste led 67 laps and recovered from a spin late in the race to earn his best career finish. &nbsp;Claude Leclerc of<br \/>  Lanoraie, QC rounded out the top ten.<br \/>  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Poulin, of nearby East-Broughton, QC, and former Serie ACT Castrol champion Sylvain Lacombe of Terrebonne, QC walked away<br \/>  uninjured from a scary-looking crash while racing for the lead on lap 104. &nbsp;The two came together on the backstretch and slammed<br \/>  into the concrete retaining wall in Turn 3.<br \/>   &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Twenty-three cars started the Luminaire Napert 150 with 18 running at the finish. &nbsp;The race was slowed by ten cautions,<br \/>  and was completed in just over one hour and twelve minutes.<br \/>   &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The Serie ACT Castrol is back in action at Autodrome Montmagny Speedway in Montmagny, QC with a doubleheader on Saturday<br \/>  and Sunday, August 23 and 24. &nbsp;The Saturday event is a 100-lap event, rescheduled from three previous rainouts. &nbsp;The Sunday event<br \/>  is a 250-lap race with a bonus purse attached for any competing American drivers. &nbsp;For more information, call (802) 244-6963 or<br \/>  visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laserieactcastrol.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.laserieactcastrol.com<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acttour.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.acttour.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  UNOFFICIAL RESULTS &ndash; Luminaire Napert 150<br \/>  Serie ACT Castrol &ndash; Autodrome Chaudiere &ndash; Vallee-Jct., QC<br \/>  Saturday, August 16, 2008<\/p>\n<p>  (# &#8211; denotes rookie)<\/p>\n<p>  Pos.-Driver-Hometown<br \/>  1. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Karl Allard, St-Felicien, QC<br \/>  2. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Alexandre Gingras, Val-Belair, QC<br \/>  3. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Martin Lacombe, Terrebonne, QC<br \/>  4. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;# Patrick Hamel, St-Edourard-de-Lotbiniere, QC<br \/>  5. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;# Spencer MacPherson, Carleton Place, ON<br \/>  6. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Mario Gosselin, Lake Wales, FL<br \/>  7. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Marc-Andre Cliche, Vallee-Jct., QC<br \/>  8. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Yvon Bedard, St-Nicolas, QC<br \/>  9. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Daniel Descoste, St-Joseph-du-Lac, QC<br \/>  10. &nbsp; &nbsp; Claude Leclerc, Lanoraie, QC<br \/>  11. &nbsp; &nbsp; Dany Ouellet, La Pocatiere, QC<br \/>  12. &nbsp; &nbsp; Remi Lebreux, Levis, QC<br \/>  13. &nbsp; &nbsp; Stephane Lecours, Lac Etchemin, QC<br \/>  14. &nbsp; &nbsp; Jonathan Desbiens, Levis, QC<br \/>  15. &nbsp; &nbsp; Stephane Durand, Quebec, QC<br \/>  16. &nbsp; &nbsp; Eric St-Gelais, St-Nicolas, QC<br \/>  17. &nbsp; &nbsp; Renaud Blais, Ste-Agathe, QC<br \/>  18. &nbsp; &nbsp; Kevin Roberge, Levis, QC<br \/>  19. &nbsp; &nbsp; Stephane Descoste, Oka, QC<br \/>  20. &nbsp; &nbsp; Jean-Francois Dery, Quebec, QC<br \/>  21. &nbsp; &nbsp; Steven Boissonneault, Lyster, QC<br \/>  22. &nbsp; &nbsp; Sylvain Lacombe, Terrebonne, QC<br \/>  23. &nbsp; &nbsp; Jacques Poulin, East-Broughton, QC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; VALLEE-JCT., QC &ndash; Late Model stock car driver Karl Allard won an exciting Luminaire Napert 150 for the Serie ACT Castrol at Autodrome Chaudiere in Vallee-Jct., QC on Saturday night. &nbsp;Allard, of St-Felicien, QC, started in eighth place and was working the outside of leader Jacques Poulin at the front of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-canadian-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}