{"id":15916,"date":"2016-04-25T14:06:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T18:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracing.com\/16\/?p=15916"},"modified":"2016-04-25T14:06:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T18:06:45","slug":"payea-captures-first-win-of-the-2016-act-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2016\/04\/payea-captures-first-win-of-the-2016-act-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Payea Captures First Win of the 2016 ACT Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lee1\"Waterbury, VT \u2013 Milton, VT\u2019s Scott Payea took the lead for the second time of then afternoon on lap 117 and never looked back winning the NH Governor\u2019s Cup 150 at Lee USA Speedway.
\nPayea drove a smart and patient race from his third starting spot, running upfront all day,\u00a0 the leading laps 49-54 and saving his tires for the late run sprint to the finish. Defending race winner and 2015 ACT Champion Wayne Helliwell Jr., raced to a second place finish coming from the 9th starting spot with Rhode Island\u2019s Ray Parent ending a strong weekend in third. St-Albert, Quebec\u2019s Alex Labbe finished fourth with Quinny Welch of Lancaster, NH rounding out the top 5. Nineteen year-old Emily Packard raced to a sixth place finish with last weeks Oxford 100 winner Bobby Therrien finishing seventh. The \u201coutlaw\u201d Eddie MacDonald was eighth with Kyle Welch and Brad Babb rounding out the top ten.
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\nThe ACT Tour heads to \u201cThe Nations Site of Excitement\u201d Thunder Road for Merchants Bank 150 Sunday May 1st<\/span><\/span> with the downtown Barre car show set for Saturday April 30th<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n

For more information contact the ACT offices at 802-244-6963<\/a>, media@acttour.com<\/a>, or visit www.acttour.com<\/a> or www.leeusaspeedway.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unofficial Results:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
1.Scott Payea<\/td>\nMiton, VT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2.Wayne Helliwell, Jr.<\/td>\nDover, NH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3.Ray Parent<\/td>\nTiverton, RI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4.Alex Labbe<\/td>\nSt-Albert, QC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5.Quinny Welch<\/td>\nLancaster, NH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6.Emily Packard<\/td>\nE. Montpelier, VT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7.Bobby Therrien<\/td>\nHinesburg, VT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8.Eddie MacDonald<\/td>\nRowley, MA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9.Kyle Welch<\/td>\nNewport, NH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10.Brad Babb<\/td>\nWindham, ME<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11.Nick Sweet<\/td>\nBarre, VT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12.Todd Davis<\/td>\nClaremont, NH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13.Jimmy Hebert<\/td>\nWilliamstown, VT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14.Dillon Moltz<\/td>\nWaterford, CT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15.Ryan Olsen<\/td>\nN. Haverhill, NH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16,Devin O’Connell<\/td>\nMadison, CT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17.Mike Ziter<\/td>\nBarre, VT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18.Corey Mason<\/td>\nGroveton, NH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19.Matt Anderson<\/td>\nFranklin, NH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20.Luke Hinkley<\/td>\nClaremont, NH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21.Miles Chipman<\/td>\nNottingham, NH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22.Rowland Robinson Jr.<\/td>\nSteuben, ME<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23.Rich Dubeau<\/td>\nLebanon, NH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24.Adam Gray<\/td>\nGranby, MA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25.Brandon Atkins<\/td>\nAuSable Forks, NY<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26.Bryan Mason<\/td>\nStark, NH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27.Claude Leclerc<\/td>\nLanoraie, QC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28.Jeff Morse<\/td>\nCornish, NH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29.Mark Jenison<\/td>\nWarwick, RI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30.Oren Remick<\/td>\nWarner, NH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
31.Mark Hudson<\/td>\nNorton, MA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
32.James Linardy<\/td>\nSomerville, MA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Lap Leaders: Rowland Robinson Jr., 1, Todd Davis 2-48, Scott Payea 49-54, Ray Parent 55-76, Quinny Welch 77-103, Parent, 104-116, Payea 117-150 (6 lead changes among 5 drivers)<\/p>\n

Time of Race: 59:23 Margin of Victory:\u00a0 2.086 seconds<\/p>\n

Cautions: 3 (laps 46, 140, 141)<\/p>\n

Heat Winners: Jimmy Hebert, Alex Labbe, Wayne Helliwell Jr.,\u00a0 Ray Parent<\/p>\n

Consi Winners: Matt Anderson, Dillon Moltz<\/p>\n

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Waterbury, VT \u2013 Milton, VT\u2019s Scott Payea took the lead for the second time of then afternoon on lap 117 and never looked back winning the NH Governor\u2019s Cup 150 at Lee USA Speedway. Payea drove a smart and patient race from his third starting spot, running upfront all day,\u00a0 the leading laps 49-54 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,1,6],"tags":[949],"class_list":["post-15916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lee-speedway","category-uncategorized","category-new-england-racing-news","tag-lee-speedway-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15916","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}