{"id":20155,"date":"2019-04-15T14:45:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/?p=20155"},"modified":"2019-04-15T14:45:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T18:45:15","slug":"bouvrette-leads-quebec-drivers-joining-act-u-s-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2019\/04\/bouvrette-leads-quebec-drivers-joining-act-u-s-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Bouvrette Leads Quebec Drivers Joining ACT U.S. Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bouvrette Leads Quebec Drivers Joining ACT U.S. Tour<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Waterbury, VT<\/em> \u2013 The 2019 American-Canadian Tour (ACT) season will truly be living up to its international name. A growing field of Quebec drivers have registered for the full ACT Late Model Tour season and are ready to join their American brethren racing throughout the Northeastern U.S. and Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

 As of press time, five drivers from la belle province<\/em> have filed full-season ACT entries, with several others stating they will attend some events this year. The large Quebec presence was hinted at in March when eight such racers made their way to Virginia\u2019s Richmond Raceway for the Commonwealth Classic 65. Early indications are that this presence will continue throughout the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blainville, QC\u2019s Jonathan Bouvrette is one of the clear favorites to lead the Canadian charge. Bouvrette won the final S\u00e9rie ACT championship in 2017 before the series was discontinued and has regularly appeared at U.S. events in recent years. With five ACT-sanctioned wins, including the Bacon Bowl 200 at Vall\u00e9e-Jct., QC\u2019s Autodrome Chaudiere, he is ready to try his hand at the full ACT Late Model Tour championship slate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve wanted to run the full ACT U.S. schedule for a couple of years,\u201d Bouvrette said. \u201cI think this year is the right timing for it. We have more experience now, and in Quebec, there is currently no touring championship. I sincerely think that Quebec needs a touring championship presented by ACT and I think this is the best way to make our name.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bouvrette isn\u2019t the only former S\u00e9rie ACT Champion planning a run on the ACT Late Model Tour this season. Qu\u00e9bec City\u2019s Jean-Fran\u00e7ois D\u00e9ry, the 2013 champion in Canada, has also registered for the full season. D\u00e9ry earned nine wins in S\u00e9rie ACT competition and has posted several podium finishes in U.S. events. Most recently, he finished third in the 2018 finale at Connecticut\u2019s Thompson Speedway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, the ACT Late Model Tour will once again enjoy the presence of Lanoraie, QC\u2019s Claude Leclerc in 2019. \u201cThe Ironman\u201d has been with ACT since its founding and ran the full U.S. schedule last year. Not only that, but Leclerc finished seventh in points at age 77, showing he is still competitive behind the wheel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two up-and-coming drivers have also submitted their ACT entries and will be teammates to more established racers. Blainville, QC\u2019s Mathiew Kingsbury, a teammate to Bouvrette, will join him for the 2019 campaign. Kingsbury finished 10th<\/sup> in S\u00e9rie ACT points in 2017 and fifth in Canadian Stock Car Championship (CSCC) points for 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terrebonne\u2019s Jean-Philippe Bergeron is also joining the ACT Late Model Tour. Bergeron was the top CSCC rookie this past season and finished sixth in the final standings. Leclerc served as Bergeron\u2019s team leader at Richmond Raceway and will provide guidance to the team throughout the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All five drivers will be competing against the best ACT Late Model drivers the U.S. has to offer. Many are also visiting new tracks. While they are sure to be favorites in the $5,000-to-win Claude Leclerc 150 at Autodrome Chaudiere on June 1, some will have to work to find speed at tracks such as Thompson Speedway, New Hampshire\u2019s Star Speedway, and Vermont\u2019s Thunder Road Speedbowl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI personally think we will get better by competing against the best,\u201d Bouvrette said. \u201cACT is really competitive, and the tracks this year are ones we don\u2019t visit often. It\u2019s a huge challenge coming for us because we want to fight for the championship. In particular, I\u2019m really interested in Thompson, because it is a pretty fast track and I\u2019ve never tried it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The top American and Canadian ACT racers head to Maine\u2019s Oxford Plains Speedway on Sunday, April 28 at 1:30pm for the ACT Late Model Tour season opener. The Oxford 150 is part of a doubleheader with the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) Super Late Models that also features the PASS Modifieds, Honey Badger Street Stock Series, and North East Mini Stock Tour. The pits open at 8:00am and the grandstands open at 10:00am. Admission is $25 for adults, $12 for kids ages 6-12, and $60 for a family of four (two adults, two kids).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bouvrette Leads Quebec Drivers Joining ACT U.S. Tour Waterbury, VT \u2013 The 2019 American-Canadian Tour (ACT) season will truly be living up to its international name. A growing field of Quebec drivers have registered for the full ACT Late Model Tour season and are ready to join their American brethren racing throughout the Northeastern U.S. and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1305,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act","category-latest-touring-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20155","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=20155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20156,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20155\/revisions\/20156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}