{"id":12762,"date":"2014-04-03T14:27:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T18:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/?p=12762"},"modified":"2014-04-03T14:27:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T18:27:07","slug":"canadian-teams-head-act-lee-usa-opener-april-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2014\/04\/canadian-teams-head-act-lee-usa-opener-april-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Teams Head for ACT Lee USA Opener April 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ACTLee, NH – <\/span><\/i>Several Quebec teams are set to help kick off the 2014 American Canadian Tour season at Lee USA Speedway on Sunday, April 13<\/span><\/span>. S\u00e9rie ACT Quebec runner-up in 2013, Alex Labb\u00e9 of St. Albert, Quebec<\/span>, two-time S\u00e9rie ACT Champion Donald Theetge of Boischatel, and Jonathan Bouvrette of Blainville, a NASCAR All-American Series Champion and first-time ACT event winner on the final weekend at Autodrome St-Eustache in 2013, are all gearing up for the 150-lap Governor’s Cup on the fast 1\/3 mile asphalt track.<\/span><\/p>\n

Labb\u00e9, who missed the 2013 S\u00e9rie ACT Quebec title by just eight points, the difference of four positions in a race, undoubtedly will be the driver to give his Larue Equipment team a second championship, following the one by Karl Allard of St. F\u00e9licien in 2010. <\/span><\/p>\n

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For Louis Larue, the owner of the team, there is not a shadow of a doubt that Alex will have a great season with ACT on both sides of the border, and their goal is to win the Championship on the S\u00e9rie ACT Quebec. “Last season, Alex participated in 31 races and has gained a lot of experience on many tracks and driving different cars. He was strong throughout the 2013 season in the S\u00e9rie ACT-Quebec and on the American Canadian Tour, and put any doubts about this team to rest when we won the Fall Foliage 200 at Airborne. As if that was not enough, he captured the pole position at the Milk Bowl and finished third overall in that prestigious event.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Larue continued: \u201cLast year, we participated in this event in Lee, but Alex was brand new with us, and unfortunately, we experienced some mechanical problems.\u00a0 This time, the situation is totally different and we are all confident that Alex will be the second Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois to win the Lee opener, after Patrick Laperle in 2003.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Donald Theetge<\/span>of Boischatel<\/span>has also filed an entry for the April 13<\/span><\/span> event. Theetge is looking to improve over his experience in last year\u2019s Lee opener, where he finished in 12th<\/sup>.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0Not<\/span> only does Theetge hold two titles on the S\u00e9rie ACT-Qu\u00e9bec, but he also claims the largest number of victories since 2005 with a total of 20.<\/span><\/p>\n

Theetge\u2019s 2014 season will see him concentrate primarily on the S\u00e9rie ACT Quebec, with some U.S. events also on his schedule, including the ACT International at Airborne on July 20<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Since his victory in the St-Eustache 200, the last event of the Quebec series in 2013, Jonathan Bouvrette of Blainville is ready to race. The team is well prepared and anxious to debut their new chassis at the Lee USA Governor\u2019s Cup.\u00a0 Bouvrette will also concentrate primarily on the ACT Quebec series, aiming to improve on his final position overall, as he was 9th<\/sup> in 2012, and in 2013 he finished 4th<\/sup> in the final tally, but also will compete in several ACT US events throughout the 2014 season.<\/span><\/p>\n

Quebec competitors will get the chance to attend several ACT U.S. events before the 2014 S\u00e9rie ACT season opener at Autodrome St-Eustache on Saturday, May 24<\/span><\/span>. The annual NH Governor\u2019s Cup 150 at Lee USA Speedway will kick off the 2013 ACT U.S. season on Sunday, April 13<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information visit www.acttour.com<\/a> or contact the ACT office by email (media@acttour.com<\/a>) or phone 802-244-6963<\/a>. Follow us on Facebook (facebook.com\/ACTTour<\/a>) and Twitter (twitter.com\/ACTTour<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lee, NH – Several Quebec teams are set to help kick off the 2014 American Canadian Tour season at Lee USA Speedway on Sunday, April 13. S\u00e9rie ACT Quebec runner-up in 2013, Alex Labb\u00e9 of St. Albert, Quebec, two-time S\u00e9rie ACT Champion Donald Theetge of Boischatel, and Jonathan Bouvrette of Blainville, a NASCAR All-American Series […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,45,6,4],"tags":[42,949],"class_list":["post-12762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-canadian-tour","category-lee-speedway","category-new-england-racing-news","category-latest-touring-news","tag-act","tag-lee-speedway-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12762","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=12762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}