{"id":1300,"date":"2009-06-10T13:19:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T13:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2009-06-10T13:19:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T13:19:21","slug":"ford-racing-announces-act-contingency-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2009\/06\/ford-racing-announces-act-contingency-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Racing Announces ACT Contingency Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <em>Waterbury, VT<\/em> &ndash; With its S347JR engine approved for competition on <\/font><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">the American Canadian Tour (ACT) and its affiliate weekly series tracks, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Ford Racing has announced a contingency program to support the Ford <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">racers in these series.&nbsp; Racers in the US ACT Late Model Tour, Canadian Serie ACT Castrol Tour, as well as weekly Late Model series at ACT-approved affiliate tracks will be eligible for awards contingent on the use of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">M-6007-S347JR Sealed Racing engine.&nbsp; The payouts for the series are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"left\">ACT Late Model Tour and Serie ACT-Castrol Tour<\/h1>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Race winner&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $500<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Second&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $250<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Third&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $100<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"left\">ACT Affiliate Approved Late Model Weekly Program<\/h1>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Race Winner&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $250<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Second&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $125<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Third&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $ 75<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Racers are required to register for the contingency program at:<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1fordracing.com\/fordracing\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><u>http:\/\/www.1fordracing.com\/fordracing\/<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Click on &quot;contingency&quot; under Team Ford Racing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Cris Michaud, who did all the testing on the ACT Ford crate motor said, &ldquo;This <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">is great news for our Ford team and any other teams that jump on the Ford <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Racing program. We have already started selling off our GM components and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">are anxious to get Ford Racing their first win either at Thunder Road or at an <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">American Canadian Tour event. I need to get into the ACT Invitational&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">this September at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS)&#8211;now that <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">would be pretty special to win the inaugural event in a Ford.&rdquo; <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Michaud and his Ford team will have their first chance to pick up an <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">invitation to the NHMS September 19<sup>th<\/sup> special 50 mile race at the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">CARQUEST Governor&rsquo;s Cup 150 on Thursday, June 25<sup>th<\/sup> at Thunder Road. He <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">will have to beat NASCAR CUP point leader Tony Stewart and 30 of the best <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Late Model drivers in the Northeast to grab the win, but Michaud is a three-<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">time Thunder Road &ldquo;King of the Road&rsquo;, so the odds are in his favor. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Advance discount tickets are now on sale at the ACT office in Waterbury at <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">802-244-6963, or can be purchased at the opening Thunder Road Thursday <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">events beginning Thursday, June 11 and Thursday, June 18.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Waterbury, VT &ndash; With its S347JR engine approved for competition on the American Canadian Tour (ACT) and its affiliate weekly series tracks, Ford Racing has announced a contingency program to support the Ford racers in these series.&nbsp; Racers in the US ACT Late Model Tour, Canadian Serie ACT Castrol Tour, as well as weekly [&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-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-canadian-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","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=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}