{"id":1411,"date":"2010-04-12T15:15:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T15:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2010-04-12T15:15:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T15:15:50","slug":"donahue-joins-the-ford-blue-oval-challenge-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2010\/04\/donahue-joins-the-ford-blue-oval-challenge-team\/","title":{"rendered":"DONAHUE JOINS THE FORD BLUE OVAL CHALLENGE TEAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> Waterbury, VT<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\" \/> \u2013 John Donahue from Graniteville, VT is the latest to join what has become a potent Ford  Blue Oval Challenge Team for the 2010 campaign on the American Canadian Tour  (ACT). Donahue was the hottest driver during the final half of the 2009  campaign. He is a favorite to contend for the title in 2010.<br \/>\n<br \/><!--more--><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cI have always been a Ford man, and it was driving me crazy hearing about all the good teams  that have gone to a Ford motor program for the coming season,\u201d said team  owner Kendall Roberts, from Barre, VT. \u201cJust look at the top teams that are running Fords this year&#8212; Michaud, Pole (Joey Polewarczyk), that guy  that won the Lee championship (Wayne Helliwell, Jr.), we raced against him at  Groveton and he is a very good racer. I just had to get on the bandwagon. We plan  to give Ford and our National Guard Ford Fusion the ACT title in a FORD\u201d, concluded Roberts.\u00a0 Joey Laquerre, from East Montpelier, Vermont and  Glen Luce, from Turner, ME are also part of the Ford program. Both are  veteran drivers with multiple championships and wins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Ford short track  racing division has posted a lucrative contingency program for all competitors  running ACT legal Late Models throughout the Northeast and the provinces of  Quebec and Ontario. The highlight of the program is the Ford Blue Oval Cup  Challenge. This program will use a unique system of combining finishes for all Ford team members registered with ACT during the 2010 season. Both the weekly  competitors and the touring teams can accumulate points at any and all events they participate in during the season. The program encourages weekly teams to  try some tour racing and tour regulars to visit any of over a dozen ACT  affiliate tracks that are using the universal rules package for Late Models  started by ACT in 1999.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The opening event on  the ACT schedule will take green at Lee USA Speedway on Sunday, April 18, 2010.  There are expected to be at least seven (7) Ford teams represented at the  opening event. This will be the largest number of Ford teams to ever appear in  an ACT event over the past 25 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waterbury, VT \u2013 John Donahue from Graniteville, VT is the latest to join what has become a potent Ford Blue Oval Challenge Team for the 2010 campaign on the American Canadian Tour (ACT). Donahue was the hottest driver during the final half of the 2009 campaign. 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