ACT TOUR TO OPEN SEASON AT LEE USA WITH
GOVERNORS CUP 150 AT LEE USA SPEEDWAY

For Immediate Release -                     ACT 032609-10

    Waterbury, VT The American Canadian Tour (ACT) Late Model teams will open the most ambitious schedule
ever with the New Hampshire Governors Cup 150 lap championship event on April 19, 2009 at the Lee USA Speedway in
Lee, New Hampshire.

The excitement for the 2009 lid-lifter has reached an all-time high. Besides capturing an opening day victory, the
winner of the New Hampshire Governors Cup 150 will become the first of thirty-six qualifiers for the inaugural
ACT INVITATIONAL to be held at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway on September 19, 2009. It has brought out the most
competitive field of racers to an ACT opening event in many years.

A record number of entries are expected for what has become a favorite stop for the touring regulars. ACT Tour
Championship contenders, including Vermonters Brent Dragon, John Donahue, five-time ACT Champion Brian Hoar, 3-
time Thunder Road Champion Cris Michaud, and former ACT and Thunder Road Champion Phil Scott have all entered the
event. Former Lee USA competitor Ricky Wolf joins a strong group of Lee regulars with home track advantage
including Wayne Helliwell, Jr., Bryan Kruczek and Jeremy Harclerode who have entered the opening event. The Lee
regulars have tested the ACT Tour regulars at their home track in the past; they are expected to do the same on
April 19th.

Cris Michaud finished third in the New Hampshire Governors Cup last year and said, Our team has always competed
well at Lee, in fact, over the years we have been fortunate to finish in the top five nearly every time we have
raced there. This year it would be special to win early and get the pressure off our team by securing a qualified
spot the ACT INVITATIONAL. We are very excited about opening at Lee, it has become one of my favorite tracks, away
from Thunder Road.

There are a number of outlaws who have entered the opening event at Lee. Donald Theetge from Quebec City, QC has
entered the opener. Theetge, who ran the ACT Tour for the past two years will return to challenge for the ACT
Serie Castrol Championship in Quebec in 2009. Theetge is a two-time former Champion of the Quebec series.
The King of the Outlaws, Eddie MacDonald from Rowley, MA has also entered. MacDonald has made it clear that he
is interested in winning one of the ACT Tour Qualifiers which will get him an invitation to the New Hampshire
Motor Speedway event. MacDonald swept both legs of the Loudon weekend in 2008 while competing in the NASCAR
Camping World East Series at the magic mile. The outlaw also closed late in the 2008 edition of the 100-lap
event to challenge eventual winner, Hudson, NHs Joey Polewarczyk. This year the event will cover a distance of
150 laps. That should fit right into the strategy of the versatile star from Rowley, MA very well.

Opening day action at Lee USA has been a long tradition for the American Canadian Tour. When owners Red and Judy
MacDonald first opened Lee back in 1987, it was the ACT Pro Stock Tour that thrilled opening day crowds. ACT
brought the most competitive exciting short track racing in the region to area short tracks back then.  Not much
has changed since those opening years, and with the return of the ACT Late Model Tour Sunday, April 19, 2009, a
new season of short track excitement will start their engines one more time.   Post time for the New Hampshire
Governors Cup is 1:00 pm. For additional information contact Lee USA Speedway at 987.462.4252.

For additional information contact the ACT office at 802.244.6963 or media@acttour.com
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