{"id":1352,"date":"2009-08-29T19:55:13","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T19:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2009-08-29T19:55:13","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T19:55:13","slug":"american-canadian-tour-announces-first-22-invitations-to-new-hampshire-motor-speedway-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2009\/08\/american-canadian-tour-announces-first-22-invitations-to-new-hampshire-motor-speedway-invitational\/","title":{"rendered":"AMERICAN CANADIAN TOUR ANNOUNCES FIRST 22 INVITATIONS TO NEW HAMPSHIRE MOTOR SPEEDWAY INVITATIONAL"},"content":{"rendered":"
        Waterbury, VT<\/em> – The American Canadian Tour (ACT) has notified the first 22 teams that have officially been invited to participate in the inaugural ACT Invitational at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) on Saturday, September 19th<\/sup>. <\/span><\/div>\n

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Twenty-two teams from all six New England states and the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario have been selected in the first round, following two very successful test and tune sessions at NHMS this past week.<\/p>\n

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“We still have to fill the field with fourteen more spots and there are a lot of worthy candidates who deserve to be at the inaugural race”, said Tom Curley, President of the American Canadian Tour on Friday. “We confirmed the fourteen qualified teams who earned their spots through wins so far this season, and added another eight teams who we feel will contribute in a positive way to the success of this event for both NHMS and ACT Late Model racing”, continued Curley.<\/span><\/p>\n

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ACT expects to add another six to eight Invitees after this weekend’s event at the Showdown of Champions in Chaudiere, Quebec. The 200-lap event pits the best eleven teams from the ACT US Tour and the best eleven teams from the Série ACT Castrol against each other, with over $35,000 in prize money. All but one selection to make up the 36-car starting field will be done following the Bond Auto Labor Day Classic 200 to be held at Thunder Road Speedbowl on September 6, 2009. The final event will be at the Plattsburgh, NY newly designed ½ mile where up to 50 teams from both the ACT US and Castrol Series are expected to participate in the Fall Foliage 300. The final Invitees will be announced following that event, just prior to the September 19th<\/sup> ACT Invitational at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway.<\/span><\/p>\n


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The invited teams include:<\/span><\/p>\n

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* Multiple qualifier wins<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Car#<\/span><\/u>   State<\/u>       Name<\/u>         Hometown<\/u>    Track\/Series<\/u>              Notes<\/u>        <\/span><\/p>\n

9          ON     Brandon Watson  Stayner, ON       Kawartha Downs   <\/span>NHMS test<\/span><\/em> & tune at large<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

10        NH    Ben Rowe             Turner, ME         ACT Tour           <\/span>NHMS test<\/span><\/em> & tune at large\/PASS Champ<\/em><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

11        VT     Jean Paul Cyr      Milton, VT         Thunder Road         <\/span>09 TR Champion; 7x ACT Champion<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

11        RI     Ryan Vanesse       Warwick, RI       Seekonk               <\/span>09 Trk Champion<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

14        ON     Sean Kennedy     Dunrobin, ON    Capital City            <\/span>Castrol Event Qualifier<\/span><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

14        VT      Phil Scott            Montpelier, VT   Thunder Road        <\/span>ACT Champion; 3x TR Champion<\/span><\/em>      <\/span><\/p>\n

17        MA    Eddie MacDonald   Rowley, MA       ACT Tour             <\/span> Event Qualifier<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

21        QC    Jean-Francois Dery Quebec City, QC Castrol Serie       <\/span>Castrol Qualifier<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

26        VT    John Donahue        Graniteville, VT  ACT Tour              <\/span>Event Qualifier<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

35        CT    Bruce Thomas        Groton, CT        Waterford             <\/span>09 Trk Champion<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

37*      VT     Brian Hoar           Williston, VT       ACT Tour                <\/span>5x ACT Champion;TR\/Airborne Champ<\/span><\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

44        VT     Dave Pembroke    Montpelier, VT    Thunder Road      <\/span>ACT Tour Event Qualifier..TR\/Champ<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

48        QC    Karl Allard            Ste Felicien, QC  Castrol Serie        <\/span>Former Castrol Series Champion<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

55<\/span>        <\/span>VT     Brent Dragon        Milton, VT          ACT Tour<\/span>              Castrol Qualifier..Airborne Champ<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

55*      NH    Brad Leighton       Ctr Harbor, NH   ACT Tour               <\/span>ACT Tour Event Qualifier..ACT\/Champ<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

71        ON    Dan McHattie        Cavan, ON           Kawartha, Downs  <\/span>NHMS test<\/span><\/em> & tune at large<\/em><\/span>     <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

80*      QC    Donald Theerge     Quebec City, QC Castrol Serie         <\/span>Castrol Qualifier.. Castrol Champ<\/span><\/em>             <\/span><\/p>\n

89        VT    Scott Payea            Milton, VT         ACT Tour             <\/span>Event Qualifier<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

91*      QC    Patrick Laperle      Montreal, QC      Castrol Serie         <\/span>Castrol Qualifier..US & Castrol Champ<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

97*      NH    Joey Polewarczyk, Jr Hudson, NH     ACT Tour              <\/span>Event Qualifier <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

02        NH    Randy Potter         Groveton, NH     ACT Tour              <\/span>NHMS test<\/span><\/em> & tune at large<\/em><\/span>     <\/span><\/p>\n

04        ME    TJ Watson             Cundys Harbor, ME Wiscasset        <\/span>Event Qualifier<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Waterbury, VT – The American Canadian Tour (ACT) has notified the first 22 teams that have officially been invited to participate in the inaugural ACT Invitational at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) on Saturday, September 19th.<\/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-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-canadian-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","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=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}