{"id":14250,"date":"2015-01-15T11:54:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T16:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/?p=14250"},"modified":"2015-01-15T11:54:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T16:54:58","slug":"act-announces-third-race-scheduled-new-smyrna-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2015\/01\/act-announces-third-race-scheduled-new-smyrna-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT Announces Third Race Scheduled at New Smyrna Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14229\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/jhksafjhasfa.jpg\" alt=\"jhksafjhasfa\" width=\"354\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/jhksafjhasfa.jpg 354w, https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/jhksafjhasfa-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>Waterbury, VT<\/em> \u2013 Robert Hart, Promoter and Owner of the New Smyrna Speedway (NSS) and Tom Curley, President of the American Canadian Tour (ACT) made a surprise announcement today by scheduling a third event for the ACT Late Model teams. The popular New England and Quebec based touring group have added a <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_101567679\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Sunday<\/span><\/span> night, <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_101567680\"><span class=\"aQJ\">February 15, 2015<\/span><\/span> date to their trip to the Florida track. The American Racer Challenge Cup will take place <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_101567681\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Monday<\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_101567682\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Tuesday, February 16-17, 2015<\/span><\/span>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a nice surprise today to hear from Kim Brown and Robert Hart from New Smyrna. After consulting all 28 teams, we have been able to put together a field of twenty-six cars to run an additional 100-lap race <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_101567683\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Sunday<\/span><\/span> night of the opening weekend at New Smyrna Speedway. The season-opening event of the NASCAR K &amp; N Series will take place <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_101567684\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Sunday<\/span><\/span> as well. There was a lot of enthusiasm and support from all the teams, and most told us they would be there watching the K&amp;N race anyway, so being able to race was a bonus they hadn\u2019t expected,\u201d said Curley.<\/p>\n<p>The qualifying for ACT teams <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_101567685\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Sunday<\/span><\/span> night will be at <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_101567686\"><span class=\"aQJ\">6:30<\/span><\/span> and their 100-lap feature event will take place immediately after the K &amp; N feature. The race will not be counted toward the American Racer Challenge Cup, because there were two teams that have entered who will not be in attendance at New Smyrna <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_101567687\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Sunday<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t think it would be fair to make this third race a part of the Challenge Cup because there were a couple of teams that had already made their flight plans. However, it is a great way to help teams offset some of their expenses for the trip with a third purse <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_101567688\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Sunday<\/span><\/span> night. It is also what a trip South in February is all about\u2014good old-fashioned racing for three straight days. All the ACT staff and teams are excited about heading to Florida next month,\u201d said Darla Hartt, Vice President of ACT.<\/p>\n<p>The American Racer Challenge Cup is still a two-day event with twin 100-lap races held <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_101567689\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Monday<\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_101567690\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Tuesday, February 16-17 2015<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"aSS\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: medium;\">. The newly announced event will be held as a stand-alone 100-lap event on Sunday, February 15, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For additional information contact the ACT office at <a href=\"tel:802.244.6963\" target=\"_blank\">802.244.6963<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:media@acttour.com\" target=\"_blank\">media@acttour.com<\/a>, or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acttour.com\" target=\"_blank\">acttour.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-30-<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waterbury, VT \u2013 Robert Hart, Promoter and Owner of the New Smyrna Speedway (NSS) and Tom Curley, President of the American Canadian Tour (ACT) made a surprise announcement today by scheduling a third event for the ACT Late Model teams. The popular New England and Quebec based touring group have added a Sunday night, February [&hellip;]<\/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":[7,4],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-14250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-canadian-tour","category-latest-touring-news","tag-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14250","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=14250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14251,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14250\/revisions\/14251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}