Restructured ACT Schedule Gives Racers Options in 2008


WATERBURY, VT - A completely redesigned championship format will be used for
the American-Canadian Tour
(ACT) Late Model stock car racing season in 2008.  A diverse slate of twelve
events at seven speedways in the
northeastern United States and Canada will comprise the schedule, while also
giving race teams several options
during the course of the April-to-September campaign.
The ACT driver and owner championships will be decided using the best ten
results for each individual
during the 12-race season, thus giving teams the benefit of dropping their
two worst outings of the year.  ACT
President Tom Curley says that offering teams options like this will help
raise the level of competition across
the board.
"ACT - and the short track racing industry as a whole - is in a
restructuring phase right now, and we are
listening to what our racers are saying," Curley explained.  "The times have
changed, and we want to meet the
current demands of our race teams and the fans that support them.  We feel
we have a schedule that is regionally
attractive, but also one that does not require an overwhelming budget or too
much weekly travel.
"With the 10-race championship decided in a 12-race season," Curley
continued, "teams will, in a sense,
not be penalized for a bad finish.  Because we draw such huge fields of cars
at tracks like Thunder Road, Oxford,
Lee USA, White Mountain, and others, our drivers will not have to scramble
and play 'catch-up' as much if they
fail to qualify for an ACT race; they can drop their worst two events of the
season.  There are many scenarios
that could develop, and there is the great potential for a very exciting
point battle.  We entertained the idea of
a format similar to this last season, but felt that the timing was better
for 2008.  We are confident that our new
schedule and format will be a favorite for both teams and fans."
The ACT Late Model Tour season kicks off at the high-banked, 3/8-mile Lee
USA Speedway on the New
Hampshire seacoast on Sunday, April 20 with a 100-lap event.  Maine's Oxford
Plains Speedway hosts the first of
its three 150-lap races on April 26, while Barre, VT's Thunder Road will
hold the 10th Annual Merchants Bank 150
on May 4.  Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, NY presents the 34th Annual
Spring Green 100 on May 17, followed by
Thunder Road's Mekkelsen RV Memorial Day Classic 100 on May 25.
ACT returns to Waterford Speedbowl in southern Connecticut on Saturday, June
7 for the first time in four
years.  "Rocket" Roger Brown won in the series' debut at the 3/8-mile oval
in 2004.  The Tour then travels back to
Oxford Plains Speedway on June 21 before the ¼-mile White Mountain
Motorsports Park bullring in North Woodstock,
NH hosts a 150-lap event on June 28.  Kawartha Speedway in Fraserville,
Ontario returns for the second straight
season with the Summer Sizzler 200 on a new date, Sunday afternoon, July 13.
The 30th Bond Auto Labor Day Classic
200 is at Thunder Road on Sunday, August 31, before the final Oxford Plains
event on Saturday, September 13.  The
season concludes with the 45th Annual Chittenden Milk Bowl on the weekend of
September 27/28 at Thunder Road.
Also new to the American-Canadian Tour schedule for 2008 is the first-ever
"ACT Showdown at Chaudière" - a
non-points all-star invitational event for the Top 10 drivers competing on
the ACT Late Model Tour and Canada's
Série ACT Castrol, Saturday, September 6.  Autodrome Chaudière in
Vallée-Jct., QC will present the "Showdown,"
paying $5,000 to the winner and a healthy $1,000 for the last-place
finisher.  The 35th Annual TD Banknorth 250 on
Sunday, July 20 at Oxford Plains Speedway will again be a non-points "open
competition" event for ACT-type Late
Model cars.
Jean-Paul Cyr of Milton, VT wrapped up his fifth consecutive and seventh
overall ACT Late Model Tour
Championship in 2007, and will reportedly try for an unprecedented
sixth-straight in 2008.  Other lead contenders
include veterans Brent Dragon and Randy Potter, young guns Brown, and Joey
"Pole" Polewarczyk, and 2007 ACT runner-
up Scott Payea.
For more information on the American-Canadian Tour, call (802) 244-6963 or
visit www.acttour.com.

2008 AMERICAN-CANADIAN TOUR SCHEDULE
# DAY DATE TRACK LAPS
1 Sun 4/20 Lee USA Speedway 100
2 Sat 4/26 Oxford Plains Speedway 150
3 Sun 5/04 Thunder Road 150
4 Sat 5/17 Airborne Speedway 100
5 Sa/Su 5/24-25 Thunder Road 100
6 Sat 6/07 Waterford Speedbowl 100
7 Sat 6/21 Oxford Plains Speedway 150
8 Sat 6/28 White Mountain Motorsports Park 150
9 Sun 7/13 Kawartha Speedway 200
** Sun 7/20 Oxford Plains Speedway - TD Banknorth 250 250
10 Sun 8/31 Thunder Road 200
** Sat 9/06 Autodrome Chaudière - "ACT Showdown at Chaudière" 200
11 Sat 9/13 Oxford Plains Speedway 150
12 Sa/Su 9/27-28 Thunder Road 150
** - Non-ACT Championship events
(schedule subject to change)
Driver and Owner Championships/Point Fund based on best 10 events during
season