Posted By Tj Ingerson on February 6, 2012
(From series press release)
WATERBURY, Vt. -- Veteran American Canadian Tour (ACT) stock car racer Randy Potter of Groveton, NH filed the first full season entry for the 10-event 2012 ACT Tour. Potter and his Lancaster Auto Sales/Speedway Sports Park Chevrolet team were recently honored at the ACT Banquet of Champions for their 5th place finish in the 2011 standings. Read Full Story
Posted By Tj Ingerson on February 5, 2012
PHOTO: Bobby Therrien won twice in Thunder Road's Tiger Sportsman division during 2011, and will replace Brad Leighton at Fast One Motorsports in the No. 55 ACT Late Model in 2012. (Eric LaFleche/ VLFPhotos.com photo)
Therrien to replace veteran Leighton, chase Thunder Road Tiger Sportsman championship
--by Ricky St. Clair
HINESBURG, Vt. -- Bobby Therrien has been named the driver that will replace the retiring Brad Leighton for Pete Duto and Dave Parker at Fast One Motorsports. Leighton decided to retire this past fall after racing for over three decades behind the wheel. Read Full Story
Posted By Tj Ingerson on January 31, 2012
PHOTO: Wayne Helliwell, Jr., has planned an ambitious schedule for 2012, racing at two weekly tracks and with the American-Canadian Tour. (Alan Ward photo)
--by T.J. Ingerson
DOVER, N.H. -- Wayne Helliwell, Jr., will be a busy man in 2012.
The Dover, N.H., championship winning racer has announced he will return to the Ed and Bobby Witkum-owned Small Block Supermodified to defend his track championship at Lee USA Speedway in Lee, N.H. Helliwell will also race the Bruce Bernhardt-owned No. 27 Late Model, returning to the American-Canadian Tour, as well as running weekly at the newly NASCAR-sacntioned Canaan Fair Speedway in Canaan, N.H. Read Full Story
Posted By Tj Ingerson on January 22, 2012
PHOTO: Brian Hoar (right) Rick Paya (left) were honored for their 2011 American-Canadian Tour championship, their third straight and Hoar's eighth overall, at the Banquet of Champions in Burlington. (Eric LaFleche/VLFPhotos.com photo)
Jimmy "Scruffy" Linardy Receives MacTavish Award
(From series press release)
BURLINGTON -- The American Canadian Tour (ACT) crowned Brian Hoar of Williston, VT and Patrick Laperle of St-Denis, Quebec as the ACT Tour and Série ACT Castrol stock car racing champions respectively, at the ACT Banquet of Champions on Saturday, January 21 at the Double Tree Inn in Burlington, VT. It was the first ever combined banquet for the sister championship stock car racing series. Both champions cashed a point fund check of $10,000. Read Full Story
Posted By Tj Ingerson on January 17, 2012
PHOTO: Austin Theriault will chase the ACT Late Model Tour championship in 2012 while running more than a half dozen races for Brad Keselowski Racing (Team provided photo)
Theriault to chase full ACT Late Model Tour, southern Super Late Model races for BKR
(From team press release)
FORT KENT, Maine -- Austin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, will try and complete some unfinished business this season while also setting out on a new venture in his racing career.
Theriault will run the complete ACT Late Model Tour schedule in 2012 as he chases his first career Tour championship, while the 17-year-old will also run more than half a dozen Super Late Model events as a development driver for Brad Keselowski Racing. Read Full Story
