{"id":1513,"date":"2010-11-25T03:32:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T03:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2010-11-25T03:32:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T03:32:10","slug":"american-canadian-tour-to-florida-over-speedweeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2010\/11\/american-canadian-tour-to-florida-over-speedweeks\/","title":{"rendered":"AMERICAN CANADIAN TOUR TO FLORIDA OVER SPEEDWEEKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> Waterbury, VT<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> \u2013 The American Canadian Tour (ACT) announced today that an agreement  has been reached with New Smyrna Speedway (NSS) to bring the ACT Late  Model teams from the Northeastern US and Canada to the historic \u2018World  Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing\u2019 at New Smyrna, Florida during the  Daytona Speedweeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">There will be two 100-lap events for ACT teams with back-to-back races on Sunday, February 13 and Monday, February 14, 2011. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/><!--more--><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cWe  mentioned to our teams at the end of this past season about the  possibilities of a winter trip to Florida, and we have received great  response from both sides of the border. This is really the ultimate  \u2018vacation racing\u2019 for the northern teams. For many decades Robert Hart,  Promoter of NSS, has created a great atmosphere for short track fans  throughout the country with his 10-day \u2018World Series\u2019 event. ACT is  excited to be the latest edition\u201d, said Tom Curley, President of the  American Canadian Tour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cEarly  interest for the event has been very diverse from the large group of  ACT teams throughout the region\u201d, said Nick Bigelow, Media Director for  ACT. \u201c<strong>Joey Polewarczyk, Jr (Pole)<\/strong>, from Hudson, NH was the first  to commit to the project. There is a solid list of teams ready to see if  they can stop his 2010 year-end momentum at the \u2018World Series\u2019 &#8212; <strong>Jonathan Urlin<\/strong> of London, Ontario, Lee USA Speedway 2010 Champion <strong>Wayne Helliwell, Jr.<\/strong> from Dover, NH, two-time Oxford 250 Champion <strong>Eddie MacDonald<\/strong> from Rowley, MA and former ACT Castrol Champion <strong>Donald Theetge<\/strong> from Quebec City, along with defending Champion <strong>Karl Allard<\/strong> from Ste. Felicien, QC are among 25 plus teams that have indicated they  plan to attend the first time ACT southern swing,\u201d concluded Bigelow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In  recent years ACT drivers Joey Pole, Eric Chase, and Patrick Laperle  have all attended the World Series and have been very successful. \u201cOur  team is really happy about this opportunity. We really enjoyed our trip  to NSS in the past, and now with our own ACT cars and procedures, racing  on that big \u00bd mile should be a great way to jump start the season. I  can\u2019t wait,\u201d said Joey Pole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For additional information contact the ACT office at 802.244.6963, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acttour.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.acttour.com<\/a>, or <a href=\"mailto:media@acttour.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">media@acttour.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waterbury, VT \u2013 The American Canadian Tour (ACT) announced today that an agreement has been reached with New Smyrna Speedway (NSS) to bring the ACT Late Model teams from the Northeastern US and Canada to the historic \u2018World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing\u2019 at New Smyrna, Florida during the Daytona Speedweeks. There will be [&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-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-canadian-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","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=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}