ACT 2010 POST SEASON AWARDS TOP $100,000
Waterbury, VT – The American Canadian Tour (ACT) will celebrate twenty-five years of sanctioning and managing stock car races in 2010, and the quarter century old sanctioning body will award its race teams with over $100,000.00 in post-season awards. This will mark the first season the various point funds have topped the century mark.
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Racers and fans gathered at Big Daddy’s Speedbowl (formally the
Pines/Legion Speedway) on Rt 25 in Wentworth, NH on a beautiful spring
Sunday for the first annual car show. The racers showed off their
2010 cars and had a chance to give them a turn around the newly
reconfigured and resurfaced dirt track. Racers and fans alike got a
first look at the completely renovated racing facility.
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Ben Rowe: PASS North Series
Beech Ridge Motor Speedway Race Preview
4-time PASS North Series champion Ben Rowe of Turner, Maine, begins his drive for a fifth series title with the PASS 150 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine, on Saturday, May 1. The series schedule was originally slated to start last month at Speedway 95 before inclement weather intervened. Rowe is making his PASS North debut with Mulkern Racing after several seasons with Richard Moody Racing. Rowe owns more victories than any driver in PASS history with 39, more than twice his closest competitor. He’ll debut a brand new Mulkern Racing car built by Distance Racing this weekend.
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Derek Ramstrom: PASS North Series
Beech Ridge Motor Speedway Race Preview
Reigning Thompson (Conn.) International Speedway track champion Derek Ramstrom makes his 2010 PASS North Series debut in the seaon opener at the PASS 150 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine, on Saturday, May 1. A two-time winner on the PASS North Series in his career, Ramstrom finished 10th in the final PASS standings a year ago, despite not competing in the full schedule. He posted four top-5 and seven top-10 finishes in 10 starts, while also winning four Super Late Model features at Thompson over the course of the season there. Ramstrom made two NASCAR K&N Pro Series East starts this season with a career-best finish of 6th at Greenville (S.C.) Pickens Speedway in March, and he also won a pair of Super Late Model features during Icebreaker weekend at Thompson earlier this month.
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Joey Doiron: PASS North Series
Beech Ridge Motor Speedway Race Preview
PASS North Series newcomer Joey Doiron of Berwick, Maine, begins his charge to become the series 2010 PASS Rookie of the Year with the PASS 150 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine, on Saturday, May 1. The series schedule was originally slated to start last month at Speedway 95 before inclement weather intervened. Doiron — a senior at Noble High School — was the ACT Late Model Tour Rookie of the Year last season and has just two career PASS North races on his resume. Both of those attempts came at Beech Ridge, where he spent a few seasons racing in the track’s support classes on Saturday nights before advancing to touring racing.
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Johnny Clark: PASS North Series
Beech Ridge Motor Speedway Race Preview
4-time PASS North Series champion Johnny Clark of Farmingdale, Maine, opens the 2010 season with the PASS 150 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine, on Saturday, May 1. The series schedule was originally slated to start last month at Speedway 95 before inclement weather intervened. Clark is attempting to become the first driver in series history to win both three consecutive championships and five total titles. Clark won PASS North titles in 2008 and 2009 and sits second on the all-time win list with 19 career victories — including the 2008 PASS 300 at Beech Ridge.
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FORD BLUE OVAL CHALLENGE WINNERS SHARE BUMPS UP TO $5000
Waterbury, VT – The American Canadian Tour (ACT) announced today that the highly anticipated Ford Blue Oval Challenge winner’s share of the overall point fund has been increased from $3,000 up to $5,000 to win. A lucrative Ford contingency program was announced late last fall for the teams on both the ACT US and Castrol programs. Also, all Ford teams running at approved affiliate ACT tracks will be eligible to receive bonus money in the Blue Oval Challenge Cup portion of the overall program. Mike Delahanty, the Program Manager-Sportsman Circle Track Racing for the Ford Racing Technology Division of Ford Racing, announced last February the program for ACT Ford competitors. It is one of the richest contingency programs in the history of ACT with over $35,000 up for grabs among the region’s Ford crate teams.
“I know all the Ford teams that are associated with ACT are very appreciative of the support Ford Racing has given those teams that are supporting them,” said ACT President Tom Curley. “We have at least 10 teams that will be receiving points for this program in the 2010 season in both Tour racing and weekly racing. The jump from $3,000 to win the inaugural Blue Oval Challenge Cup to $5,000 certainly speaks to Ford’s commitment to short track racing in our region,” finished Curley.
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DEVIL’S BOWL SPEEDWAY OPENS THUNDER ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP CHASE
Waterbury, VT – There will be a new challenge for the American Canadian Tour (ACT) Thunder Road Late Model teams when they begin pursuit of the 2010 “King of the Road” title in 2010. With the announcement of the Sunday, May 23rd opening event at the newly renovated and paved Devil’s Bowl Speedway in Fair Haven, VT, the ACT Late Models from Thunder Road have been invited to compete at the historic speedway. It will be the first point-counting event of the season for the Thunder Road Late Models.
It all started with the announcement by the Champlain Valley Racing Association (CVRA) in the fall of 2009. The Richards family ownership intended to redesign both their dirt tracks for the 2010 racing season, converting them to asphalt. Sister track Albany-Saratoga Speedway in Malta, NY was completed late last fall, and Devil’s Bowl expects to have pavement down the first week of May. It was a natural for the most popular asphalt Late Model division in the Northeast to join in the opening day celebration at Devil’s Bowl.
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Ramstrom Eyes More Super Late Model Starts
WEST BOYLSTON, Mass. — Hoping to capitalize on the momentum created earlier this month at the season-opening Icebreaker event at his home track, Derek Ramstrom has altered his 2010 racing plans.
The youngest track champion in Thompson (Conn.) International Speedway history, Ramstrom will attempt to win a second consecutive title in the track’s Super Late Model division. After winning both ends of an Icebreaker doubleheader for the Super Late Models, Ramstrom took a hard look at returning to weekly competition full-time.
“It’s a good opportunity and to go out and try and repeat,” said Ramstrom, 18, who originally planned to race only a partial schedule at Thompson. “I have a lot of track time there now, and every week I seem to run better and better. I’m just more on top of my game when I race there and know I can win the championship again.
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