DRUMMONDVILLE, QC – Série ACT-Castrol stock car Champion Alexandre Gingras will be honored at the annual Série ACT-Castrol Banquet of Champions, held at the Best Western Hotel Universel in Drummondville, QC on Saturday, November 15. Tickets are $50 per person, and are available on a first-come, first-served basis to all competitors, crew members, sponsors, friends, family, and fans of the Série ACT-Castrol.<\/p>\n
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Thirty-two year-old Gingras, of Val-Bélair, QC, earned the first Série ACT-Castrol championship of his
career with a consistent eight-race campaign that saw his SkyJet-sponsored #27QC Chevrolet Impala run as a contender for the win in nearly every race. While he never carried the checkered flag, his mid-season string of five consecutive top-ten finishes, including a runner-up showing at Autodrome Chaudière in Vallée-Jct., QC and a third-place finish at Capital City Speedway in Ottawa, ON, were enough to edge Karl Allard by just three points for the championship, 643-640.
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Allard, of St-Félicien, QC posted a win at Chaudière in August, and outdistanced Québec’s Jean-François Déry, who won at Allard’s home track, Autodrome St-Félicien. Veteran Claude Leclerc of Lanoraie, QC finished fourth, while St-Nicolas, QC’s Yvon Bédard and Martin Lacombe of Terrebonne, QC tied for fifth place overall. The Top 15 drivers and teams from the Série ACT-Castrol will receive awards.<\/p>\n
Patrick Hamel of St-Édouard-de-Lotbinière, QC will collect the Série ACT-Castrol Rookie of the Year
honors, after an impressive season that saw the 19 year-old earn six top-ten finishes in eight starts and finish seventh in championship standings. Spencer MacPherson of Carleton Place, ON finished second in the rookie race.<\/p>\n
In addition to the Championship, Rookie of the Year, and Top 15 presentations, two surprise awards –the “Most Improved Driver” and “Sportsmanship” awards – will be handed out. The awards are voted on by registered Série ACT-Castrol drivers and officials.<\/p>\n
Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis, and must be purchased in advance from the American-Canadian Tour office in Waterbury, VT no later than the Monday, November 3 deadline. Tickets are required to attend the Série ACT-Castrol Banquet of Champions, and no tickets will be sold at the door. The Best Western Hotel Universel has also blocked a limited number of overnight rooms for Série ACT-Castrol Banquet of Champions guests. To reserve a room, contact the Best Western Hotel Universel in Drummondville, QC directly at 1 (800) 668-3521. For more information, call ACT at (802) 244-6963 or e-mail tb@acttour.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DRUMMONDVILLE, QC – Série ACT-Castrol stock car Champion Alexandre Gingras will be honored at the annual Série ACT-Castrol Banquet of Champions, held at the Best Western Hotel Universel in Drummondville, QC on Saturday, November 15. Tickets are $50 per person, and are available on a first-come, first-served basis to all competitors, crew members, sponsors, […]<\/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-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-canadian-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","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=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}