{"id":15408,"date":"2015-08-28T14:49:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T18:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/?p=15408"},"modified":"2015-08-28T14:49:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T18:49:18","slug":"act-tunes-up-for-bond-invitational-at-new-hampshire-motor-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2015\/08\/act-tunes-up-for-bond-invitational-at-new-hampshire-motor-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT Tunes Up for Bond Invitational at New Hampshire Motor Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/RPM_6310-e1411435315616.jpg\" alt=\"RPM_6310\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Loudon, NH<\/em> \u2013 The American-Canadian Tour (ACT) held its annual Test and Tune session Wednesday, August 26 at Loudon\u2019s New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Twenty-four ACT Late Model drivers took to the track in preparation for the 7<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Bond Auto ACT Invitational <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2046489944\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Saturday, September 26<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lempster, NH\u2019s Guy Caron set the fast time of the day with a lap of 31.926 seconds. Three-time Invitational winner Eddie MacDonald of Rowley, MA was second-fastest at 31.974 seconds and ranked at the top of the charts in nearly every session.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Three-time S\u00e9rie ACT winner Alex Labb\u00e9 was third-quick, while fellow automatic qualifier Brad Babb surged in the final session to place fourth on the overall charts. Aaron Fellows, Dany Tr\u00e9panier, and Woody Pitkat were also consistently fast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A number of drivers made their first appearance at the \u201cMagic Mile\u201d. Canaan, NH\u2019s Walt Hammond Jr. was the fastest of the newcomers, placing in the top-10 on the speed charts in four of the five sessions. Ryan Olsen and Alby Ovitt were also impressive in their NHMS debuts. Mike Ziter started slow, but shaved a full second off his fast time over the day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One incident slowed practice when Seekonk Speedway driver Mark Jenison spun in turn four late in the morning and suffered front-end damage. Jenison was able to repair his car in time for the first afternoon practice session.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two 10-lap simulated races were also held. Fellows and Caron won the sim races.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The seventh Bond Auto ACT Invitational is coming up <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2046489945\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Saturday, September 26<\/span><\/span> at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Forty-three ACT Late Model drivers from throughout the Northeast United States and Canada will converge as part of a tripleheader also featuring the Camping World Truck Series and Whelen Modified Tour. The Invitational will take the green flag at <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2046489946\"><span class=\"aQJ\">5:00pm<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information contact the ACT offices 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\">www.acttour.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loudon, NH \u2013 The American-Canadian Tour (ACT) held its annual Test and Tune session Wednesday, August 26 at Loudon\u2019s New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Twenty-four ACT Late Model drivers took to the track in preparation for the 7th Annual Bond Auto ACT Invitational Saturday, September 26 &nbsp; Lempster, NH\u2019s Guy Caron set the fast time of [&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":[7,18,6,20,4],"tags":[42,882],"class_list":["post-15408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-canadian-tour","category-maine-racing-news","category-new-england-racing-news","category-nhms","category-latest-touring-news","tag-act","tag-dale-earnhardt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408","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=15408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15409,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408\/revisions\/15409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}