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Waterbury, VT<\/span><\/em> \u2013 There will be a new challenge for the American Canadian Tour (ACT) Thunder Road Late Model teams when they begin pursuit of the 2010 \u201cKing of the Road\u201d title in 2010. With the announcement of the Sunday, May 23rd<\/sup> opening event at the newly renovated and paved Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway in Fair Haven, VT, the ACT Late Models from Thunder Road have been invited to compete at the historic speedway. It will be the first point-counting event of the season for the Thunder Road Late Models.\u00a0<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n It all started with the announcement by the Champlain Valley Racing Association (CVRA) in the fall of 2009. The Richards family ownership intended to redesign both their dirt tracks for the 2010 racing season, converting them to asphalt. Sister track Albany-Saratoga Speedway in Malta, NY was completed late last fall, and Devil\u2019s Bowl expects to have pavement down the first week of May. It was a natural for the most popular asphalt Late Model division in the Northeast to join in the opening day celebration at Devil\u2019s Bowl.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe had already committed to run the ACT Late Model Tour at the Malta track, and with the increase of ACT US events, we were in some kind of bind when we found out Devil\u2019s Bowl was also going to go through a conversion to asphalt, \u201c said Tom Curley, President of ACT. \u201cWe very much wanted to be a part of the Devil\u2019s Bowl program, and the Thunder Road group of Late Model racers have all had plenty of \u2018touring type\u2019 experience over the years, so this became very doable. There are a lot of excited teams to be able to open the big \u00bd mile, and that is good for Devil\u2019s Bowl and for asphalt racing in the region,\u201d Curley concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Three-time Thunder Road Champion, Cris Michaud from Williamstown, VT likes the new twist on having Thunder Road points awarded toward the 2010 Championship. \u201cI think it is kind of neat that we get to open the new track. It will certainly be a change from the high-banked \u00bc mile to the relatively flat half mile, but it should be fun. Our team is looking forward to the challenge,\u201d said Michaud.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The 100-lap event will be a Devil\u2019s Bowl traditional Sunday early evening \u2018twilight\u2019 race for the opening of the new facility. \u201cWe wanted to make sure we scheduled it early enough so that the traveling teams and fans that come and support our opening at Devil\u2019s Bowl can get home at a reasonable hour Sunday evening,\u201d said Jerry Richards, a CVRA partner and General Manager at Devil\u2019s Bowl.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n On Sunday, May 23, 2010, Front gates will open at 11:00 and racing will begin at 2:00 for the grand opening of the new Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway. Admission for the ACT Thunder Road Late Model 100 lap event is only $15 for Adults and Kids are free of charge. All the regular Devil\u2019s Bowl divisions will also begin their season opening day. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n For additional information contact the ACT office at 802.244.6963, www.acttour.com<\/a>, or media@acttour.com<\/a>, or www.cvra.com<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Waterbury, VT \u2013 There will be a new challenge for the American Canadian Tour (ACT) Thunder Road Late Model teams when they begin pursuit of the 2010 \u201cKing of the Road\u201d title in 2010. With the announcement of the Sunday, May 23rd opening event at the newly renovated and paved Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway in […]<\/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-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-canadian-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","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=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}