Granite Stater Gabe Brown Earns Vermont Milk Bowl Pole Position Following Disqualification in Tech

Granite Stater Gabe Brown Earns Vermont Milk Bowl Pole Position Following Disqualification in Tech

Williamstown’s Jimmy Hebert Nabs First PASS SLM Checkers at Hometrack

Barre, VT — Starting off the 62nd Vermont Milk Bowl weekend in style, Booth Bros./Hood Qualifying Day set the tone for the annual end-of-season extravaganza at Barre’s Thunder Road. Forty-seven American-Canadian Tour / Maplefields-Irving Late Models took on the highbanks in the once-a-year single car time trials with Kaiden Fisher and Derek Gluchacki taking fast time before technical inspection stripped them of their efforts with tread width deemed too wide by officials. ACT point leader Gabe Brown and Championship Night winner Darrell Morin inherited the front row prior to the start of the Triple 50s qualifying heat races. (more…)

ACT Returns to Lee USA Speedway This Sunday for New Hampshire Governor’s Cup 150

ACT Returns to Lee USA Speedway This Sunday for New Hampshire Governor’s Cup 150

Barre, VT — Although it will be a grueling third event in just two weeks, American-Canadian Tour officials, fans and teams are excited to return to Lee USA Speedway for the New Hampshire Governor’s Cup 150. The Granite State seacoast oval has played host to the ACT Tour twenty-eight times since 1987 with some of the most iconic stars taking down wins on the quirky circuit. Last time out in 2021, defending ACT Tour champion D.J. Shaw took down his first ever win in North America’s most historic Late Model tour and looks to add his name to the wins list once again. (more…)

Shaw, Clement, & Waterman Score NAPA Auto Parts Duel Feature Wins at Stafford Speedway

Shaw, Clement, & Waterman Score NAPA Auto Parts Duel Feature Wins at Stafford Speedway

(Stafford Springs, CT)—Stafford Speedway kicked off its 2023 race season with the NAPA Auto Parts Duels as part of the 51st Annual NAPA Spring Sizzler® Weekend.  Feature races were held for the American Canadian Tour, Limited Late Models, and Street Stocks along with two 40-lap NAPA Duel races that set the top-20 lineup for Saturday’s 100-lap NAPA Spring Sizzler® main event.

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Shaw Fights Field, Cautions to Take First Stafford ACT Event Since 1985

Shaw Fights Field, Cautions to Take First Stafford ACT Event Since 1985

Stafford Springs, CT — The American-Canadian Tour broke a 38-year drought by entering the Stafford Motor Speedway complex on Friday, the first time the series had raced the iconic 1/2-mile since 1985. Thirty-four teams from across New England and Quebec made the trip to kick off the Brookside Equipment Sales Southern New England Triple Crown and, for many, take their first laps at the Connecticut oval.

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Corliss Goes Back to Front for Community Bank N.A. 150 Win at Thunder Road

Corliss Goes Back to Front for Community Bank N.A. 150 Win at Thunder Road

Barre, VT — The perfect race day greeted fans, drivers and teams Sunday morning high atop Quarry Hill in Barre, Vermont. For the 25th consecutive year, the American-Canadian Tour teams invaded Thunder Road to launch the Speedbowl’s upcoming season in grand style, yesterday proved that was still the case. Thirty-seven teams from across New England and Quebec were on hand to battle for the prestigious win at the hometrack of the American-Canadian Tour and battle they did. (more…)

8-Time Champion Brian Hoar Returns to ACT Part-Time Starting at Stafford Spring Sizzler

8-Time Champion Brian Hoar Returns to ACT Part-Time Starting at Stafford Spring Sizzler

Barre, VT — One of the most decorated veterans of the American-Canadian Tour is returning to the driver’s seat after seven years of standing pit side, playing crew chief and supporting daughter Taylor and Step-son Justin Prescott as they’ve taken their own turns behind the wheel. Eight-time ACT Tour champion Brian Hoar has gotten the bug once again, rebuilt his GossDodge.com Late Model stable and is prepared to make several appearances on the American-Canadian Tour in 2023 staring with the ACT Spring Sizzler 75 at Stafford Speedway on April 29th.

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Teams Prepare for the 3rd annual Northeast Classic at New Hampshire Motor Speedway

Teams Prepare for the 3rd annual Northeast Classic at New Hampshire Motor Speedway

Barre, VT & Naples, ME — For the third consecutive year the Northeast Classic at New Hampshire Motor Speedway kicks off the American-Canadian Tour (ACT) championship season alongside the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) Super Late Models. Once more, New England’s premier full-fendered touring series are joined by the $7,000-to-win Open Tour-type Modified 50-lap spectacular, the R&R Race Parts Open Street Stock Series and the new-found Mighty Mini Stock Series, all of them ready to tackle the Magic Mile on Saturday, April 15th.

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Haunted Hundred To Showcase Championship Event For Monaco Modified Tri-Track Series

Haunted Hundred To Showcase Championship Event For Monaco Modified Tri-Track Series

SEEKONK, Mass. – Seekonk Speedway will roar to life for the final time in 2022 this weekend, as the Action Track of the East is set to host the championship event for the Monaco Modified Tri-Track Series in the annual Haunted Hundred. On top of 100 laps for the ground-pounding Modifieds worth $6,000 to win, the American-Canadian Tour also returns to Seekonk for their penultimate race of the season, and the INEX Legends Cars join the card for a $2,000 to win, 30-lap race.

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Seekonk’s Haunted Hundred Serves as Penultimate ACT Tour Race of 2022

Seekonk’s Haunted Hundred Serves as Penultimate ACT Tour Race of 2022

Barre, VT — The next leg of the Southern New England Swing Triple Crown for the American-Canadian Tour comes down to Massachusetts’ Seekonk Speedway this Saturday, October 22nd with the Haunted Hundred. Once again alongside the Monaco Modified Tri-Track Series, the ACT Haunted Hundred is expected to be yet another legendary showdown between the Touring stars of Quebec and New England against a stout field of hometown favorites with the 2022 season quickly coming to a close. (more…)

44th Fall Foliage 200 Could Play Huge Factor into ACT Tour Championship Hopes

44th Fall Foliage 200 Could Play Huge Factor into ACT Tour Championship Hopes

Barre, VT — After taking a week off, the American-Canadian Tour returns to their Granite State home at North Woodstock, New Hampshire’s White Mountain Motorsports Park for the 44th Fall Foliage 200. The extra-distance, $5,000-to-win Fall Foliage event is the final of three at the New Hampshire oval for the American-Canadian Tour in 2022 and comes at a pivotal time of the season.

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$1,500 Wall’s Ford Platinum Late Model Series 75, Championship and $1,000 Mini Late Model Special on Tap for WMMP Saturday

$1,500 Wall’s Ford Platinum Late Model Series 75, Championship and $1,000 Mini Late Model Special on Tap for WMMP Saturday

N. Woodstock, NH — The inaugural Wall’s Ford Platinum Late Model Series Champion will be crowned this Saturday, September 10th at White Mountain Motorsports Park. The 75-lap feature event will pay $1,500 to the winner while the Wall’s Ford Platinum Series Champion will take home a guaranteed $750 from the $1,500 Wall’s Ford purse split amongst the top three. (more…)

The Night the Lights Went Out in Oxford as Gluchacki Goes Lights-Out on the Field

The Night the Lights Went Out in Oxford as Gluchacki Goes Lights-Out on the Field

Oxford, ME — The annual American-Canadian Tour 125 at Oxford Plains Speedway headlining the Saturday night before the Oxford 250 program did not disappoint. 38 American-Canadian Tour cars from all six New England states and the Canadian province of Quebec made the trek to the Vacationland home of ACT to take part in one of New England’s crown jewel events. Fireworks on the track split into darkness with a first-time blackout delaying the event in the early goings.

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Strong, Successful Canadian Contingent Eyeing Milton CAT 250 Prize

Strong, Successful Canadian Contingent Eyeing Milton CAT 250 Prize

Barre, VT — After two long, COVID-19 pandemic-delayed years, Canadian racers and fans can finally return to New Hampshire’s White Mountain Motorsports Park for the Milton CAT Midsummer Classic 250. Beginning as a big-money celebration of White Mountain Motorsports Park’s 25th anniversary season back in 2018, the Milton CAT Midsummer Classic 250 has yet to have a repeat winner in the past four seasons.

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Bryan Kruzek Goes to Victory With Granite State Pro Stocks at Star Speedway

Bryan Kruzek Goes to Victory With Granite State Pro Stocks at Star Speedway

WALPOLE, N.H. — Bryan Kruczek passed the entire field — at least twice — en route to his first career Granite State Pro Stock Series win at Star Speedway on Saturday, May 8. Kruczek, who was fastest in time trials and won his heat race, started seventh — but had to go to the rear on at least two different occasions. The Bobby Webber Racing driver didn’t let that slow him down, as he took the Vynorius No. 19 into Victory Lane in the third GSPSS race of the season, the Hedges Excavating 100. (more…)