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Buzz Builds, Gingras Looking Forward to ACTion Super Series Event
For Immediate Release ACT-070907-1
ST-EUSTACHE, QC The buzz is beginning to build over the American-Canadian Tours first ACTion Super Series stock car race of the season at Autodrome St-Eustache near Montreal on Saturday, July 28. The 200-lap Late Model race will pay the winner a guaranteed $6,000 (US) out of the $40,000+ purse. The best short track racing teams from the US-based ACT Late Model Tour will square off against the top challengers from the Série ACT Castrol in Quebec and Ontario, with more than 45 total teams expected to attempt to qualify. Alexandre Gingras of Québec, QC is the lone two-time winner on the Série ACT Castrol in 2007, and sits just one point out of the lead behind Karl Allard of St-Felicien, QC. Gingras has raced against American teams many times in his career, including twice in ACT Late Model Tour events this year, and during the Série ACT Castrol Toromont CAT 100 at Ottawas Capital City Speedway last month. Gingras was the top finishing Canadian at Oxford in 12th place, and beat Vermonter Dave Pembroke for the win at Capital City. Gingras also won at Circuit Ste-Croix on June 24. I have raced with the Americans a lot, and its just like racing the Canadians, said Gingras. Theres no problem, were all racers. It was good at Ottawa with Pembroke. Im looking forward to racing with the Americans at St-Eustache, and I like the money that we will race for. While challenging for the win during the final laps at Autodrome St-Eustache in May, Gingras crashed on the frontstretch, flipping his race car. I like St-Eustache, but I hope to have a better result than the last time I was there, he joked. Gingras was uninjured in the crash, and rebounded by winning at Capital City in the next event. The race for the championship in the Série ACT Castrol is extremely tight, with the top five drivers separated by just five points. Allard leads Gingras by just a single point, 463-462. Jean-François Déry sits three markers behind Gingras at 459 points, while Sylvain Lacombe and Patrick Laperle are tied at 458. Six-time and defending champion Jean-Paul Cyr of Milton, VT has been on the podium in all five ACT Late Model Tour events this season, and has a 4oint lead over Groveton, NHs Randy Potter (482-434). Scott Payea (431 points) and White Mountain Motorsports Park winner Brent Dragon (421) are close behind Potter, while Brian Hoar ranks fifth with 383 points. The ACTion Super Series 200 at Autodrome St-Eustache, Saturday, July 28, will be the sixth championship event for the ACT Late Model Tour in 2007, and the eighth round for the Série ACT Castrol. Autodrome St-Eustache is located on Boulevard Arthur-Sauve in St-Eustache, QC, just outside of Montreal and Laval. More information, call (802) 244-6963 or visit www.acttour.com. -30- Contact: Justin St. Louis Phone: (802) 244-6963 Email: media@acttour.com Fax: (802) 244-1616
Superstars Headed to ACTion Super Series 200 at Autodrome St-Eustache
For Immediate Release ACT-071701-1
ST-EUSTACHE, QC The best short track stock car drivers from Canada and the northeastern United States are headed to the ACTion Super Series 200 at Autodrome St-Eustache outside Montreal on Saturday, July 28. The superstars of the Série ACT Castrol will try to defend their home turf against the southern invaders of the ACT Late Model Tour, hoping to win the first of four Super Series events in 2007 and earn a whopping $6,000 (US). The ACTion Super Series 200 will award championship points toward both the Série ACT Castrol and the ACT Late Model Tour, and is expected to draw more than 40 teams racing for a total purse of more than $43,000. Leading the way is Sylvain Lacombe, a five-time winner at Autodrome St-Eustache and a former Série ACT Castrol Champion. The Terror of Terrebonne has made his mark at the 4/10-mile oval in some of the biggest races ever held in Quebec, including the prestigious Cari-All 300, a race he has won a record four times. Im excited for the race at St-Eustache, said Lacombe. I like racing with ACT, and its nice if you can win the big money races. Lacombe is tied for the lead in all-time Série ACT Castrol victories with 10, and has a victory in ACT Late Model Tour competition. He says he enjoys racing against the Americans. I like to race with drivers like Jean-Paul Cyr and Brian Hoar, he said. They are very competitive and make everyone work harder. There will be a lot of good American race teams, and some of them are not going to qualify, just like us Canadians. Its very exciting, and its going to be a lot of fun. Lacombe is currently tied for fourth in Série ACT Castrol point standings with Patrick Laperle, but is only five points behind leader Karl Allard. Two-time winner Alexandre Gingras, Jean-François Déry, and veterans Claude Leclerc and Yvon Bédard will try to chase Lacombes familiar orange #3 Chevrolet down. Scott Payea, third in ACT Late Model Tour points, is looking forward to the challenge of visiting a new race track. While the Série ACT Castrol has raced at Autodrome St-Eustache on nine previous occasions, the ACT Late Model Tour has never visited the facility. I spoke with Patrick Laperle about St-Eustache a while ago to learn a little about the setup for the car, and I think it will help us a lot, Payea explained. I always like racing at new places, and I hear that the facility is nice and that the track is very racy, so it should be a good time. Payea earned his first career ACT Late Model Tour victory at the Merchants Bank 150 at Barre, VTs Thunder Road in May, and hopes he can take his second win in the ACTion Super Series 200. Typically, the Canadian teams do very well against us when theyre at home, but were confident that we can contend with guys like Donald Theetge and Lacombe and Laperle. Plus, I want to win that $6,000! Payea, six-time ACT Late Model Tour Champion Jean-Paul Cyr, five-time Champion Brian Hoar, Brent Dragon, and Randy Potter will be on hand to challenge the Série ACT Castrol regulars, along with Theetge, of Boischatel, QC. Theetge, the defending Série ACT Castrol Champion, is competing full-time on the ACT Late Model Tour in 2007 and is the only driver to have scored victories this season on both series. The ACTion Super Series 200 is scheduled to take over Autodrome St-Eustache on Saturday, July 28. Green flag qualifying action begins at 5:30pm. Autodrome St-Eustache is located on Boulevard Arthur-Sauve in St- Eustache, QC, just outside of Montreal and Laval. More information, call (802) 244-6963 or visit www.acttour.com. -30- Contact: Justin St. Louis Phone: (802) 244- 6963 Email: media@acttour.com Fax: (802) 244-1616
ST-EUSTACHE, QC Veteran stock car racer Brent Dragon of Milton, VT is excited to return to Autodrome St- Eustache for the $6,000-to-win American-Canadian Tour ACTion Super Series 200 on Saturday, July 28. Dragon, the most recent winner on the predominantly U.S.-based ACT Late Model Tour at New Hampshires White Mountain Motorsports Park, will square off against his American rivals and the Canadian teams of the Série ACT Castrol in the only combination event for the two series this season. While the Série ACT Castrol has previously held nine championship events at Autodrome St-Eustache, the ACT Late Model Tour has never visited the Greater Montréal facility. Unlike virtually all of his American competitors, however, Dragon has competed at Autodrome St-Eustache, though it was nearly 20 years ago in a Flying Tiger car. Dwayne Lanphear and I brought our Tiger cars up to race against the regulars at St-Eustache back in 1987 or 88, and everyone laughed at us, Dragon recalled. The Flying Tigers back then were very different from most race cars; they ran a big slick tire on the right-front corner and had little 305 cubic-inch engines. We unloaded our cars not knowing what to expect, but we smoked the hometown guys pretty badly. I dont remember if Dwayne won or if I won, but we finished first and second and we really trounced the field. It was one of the very first races I ever drove, and it was a lot of fun. Dragons father, the legendary Harmon Beaver Dragon, was very successful at Autodrome St-Eustache on the former ACT Pro Stock Tour. In the series inaugural season in 1979, Beaver Dragon won three of the four events held at the speedway, and went on to win the ACT Championship that year. Brent Dragon remembered the 4/10-mile layout at Autodrome St-Eustache as a fast, flat speedway that could be tough on brakes, but had a nice a surface to race on with lots of passing. In fact, at the Série ACT Castrol St-Eustache 100 in May, the race for the victory was very tightly contested from start to finish. Normand Lavigueur of nearby Laval prevailed after leaders Sylvain Lacombe and Patrick Laperle tangled with less than 15 laps remaining. Im looking forward to racing against the Canadian drivers, especially Sylvain Lacombe, said Dragon. I hear Sylvain is the man to beat at St-Eustache, and I know from past races weve had together that hes an excellent racer on the flatter tracks. It should be a lot of fun up there racing against him and Donald Theetge, Patrick Laperle, (Série ACT Castrol point leader) Karl Allard, and Alexandre Gingras. I know there will be a lot of cars there trying to get some of the big Super Series money, so the qualifying rounds should be a lot of fun. I just hope we get lucky and make it into the show. Dragon, defending ACT Late Model Tour Champion and current point leader Jean-Paul Cyr, and American stars Scott Payea, Randy Potter, and Brian Hoar will challenge the Québec and Ontario teams of the Série ACT Castrol at the $43,000+ ACTion Super Series 200 at Autodrome St-Eustache on Saturday, July 28. Green flag qualifying action begins at 5:30pm. Autodrome St-Eustache is located on Boulevard Arthur-Sauvé in St-Eustache, QC, just outside of Montreal and Laval. For more information, call (802) 244-6963 or visit www.acttour.com. -30- Contact: Justin St. Louis Phone: (802) 244- 6963 Email: media@acttour.com Fax: (802) 244-1616
Stock Car Racers Searching for First Victory of Season
For Immediate Release ACT-072707-1
ST-EUSTACHE, QC Top American-Canadian Tour (ACT) stock car drivers Jean-Paul Cyr and Patrick Laperle are each in search of their first main event victory of the season, and will be taken to task at the $43,000+ ACTion Super Series 200 at Autodrome St-Eustache on Saturday night at 5:30pm. The flat 4/10-mile race track, located just 10 minutes from Montréal, is expected to draw more than 40 teams from the United States and Canada to the $6,000-to-win combination event for the ACT Late Model Tour and the Série ACT Castrol. Milton, VT driver Cyr leads the ACT Late Model Tour point standings entering Autodrome St-Eustache. Despite a string of five-straight podium finishes to open the season, he has yet to win a race. We should have had three or four (wins) by now, said the six-time ACT Late Model Tour Champion. Weve been running well, but we just havent been lucky enough to win yet. Cyr was the runner-up at the New England Dodge Dealers 150 at Maines Oxford Plains Speedway in April, and has since turned in four consecutive third-place finishes. Like most of the American drivers entered in the ACTion Super Series 200, Cyr has never raced at Autodrome St-Eustache. Ive never even seen the place, he admitted. I have a plan in my head on how to attack the race track, but we could get there and have to scrub the whole thing. Its a situation where you have to think a lot. Laperle is now focusing his efforts on the Série ACT Castrol title chase in his native Canada, and currently ranks fourth overall on the strength of six top-ten finishes. The St-Denis, QC racer was within 15 laps of winning an event at Autodrome St-Eustache in May before he crashed with Sylvain Lacombe. I think our car will be in better shape for the 200 this weekend than it was in the spring, Laperle said. We could have won the last time we raced at St-Eustache, but now the car is performing the best it has been all year. Cyr and Laperle share a common goal in aiming at the $6,000 top prize in the ACTion Super Series 200. The money in the Super Series races is always good, said Cyr. Its nice to win any race, but Super Series wins are a better reward for all of the hard work the team puts in on the car. Laperle agreed, saying, I won a Super Series race (2005 Vermont Milk Bowl at Thunder Road), and the money is good for a small family team like mine. I hope I do well in front of my home crowd at St-Eustache and win that money. Cyr and Laperle will square off against each other and the likes of Lacombe brothers Sylvain and Martin of Terrebonne, QC, Brent Dragon and Scott Payea of Milton, VT, Donald Theetge of Boischatel, QC, and Groveton, NHs Randy Potter. Also gunning for the win will be Rocket Roger Brown of Lancaster, NH, winner of the TD Banknorth 250 at Oxford Plains last Sunday. Qualifying events for the ACTion Super Series 200 are scheduled to begin at 5:30pm. Autodrome St-Eustache is located on Boulevard Arthur-Sauvé in St-Eustache, QC, just outside of Montréal and Laval. More information, call (802) 244-6963 or visit www.acttour.com. -30- Contact: Justin St. Louis Phone: (802) 244- 6963 Email: media@acttour.com Fax: (802) 244-1616
oint lead over Groveton, NHs Randy Potter (482-434). Scott Payea (431 points) and White Mountain Motorsports Park winner Brent Dragon (421) are close behind Potter, while Brian Hoar ranks fifth with 383 points.
