Six More Teams Receive Invites to ACT Invitational at NHMS


        Waterbury, VT - The American Canadian Tour (ACT) has announced the
names of six more teams that have been invited to participate in
the fifty-mile event at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) on
Saturday, September  19th. The inaugural event for the ACT
competitors will be held in conjunction with the first of the
NASCAR 'Chase' weekends over September 18-20.



Fifty ACT teams tested at NHMS a week ago, and twenty-two teams were
invited to confirm entries for the first ever event for the region's top
Late Model touring and weekly race teams. Three teams from Maine, two
teams from Vermont, and one team from Connecticut have been added to the
list, which now totals 28. There are still eight positions to be filled in
the next two weeks.



Former Oxford Plains Speedway driver and full-time ACT competitor in 2009,
Ricky Rolfe from Albany Township, ME, has joined the list. Rolfe is a car
builder at Race Basics Chassis in Andover, Maine, and is a former track
champion at Oxford Plains Speedway in both the Pro-Stock and Late Model
divisions. Another Oxford Plains Speedway competitor and part-time ACT
racer, Shawn Martin from Turner, ME, has been asked to join the field
which will become 36 cars after the completion of the Fall Foliage 300 at
Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, NY on September 13th.



ACT Rookie driver Joey Doiron from Berwick, ME has been invited. Doiron,
who will be a senior in high school beginning this week, has had an
outstanding freshman year on the ACT. Doiron is coming off a top ten
finish in the All-Star Showdown at Chaudiere last weekend, which involved
the top teams from the ACT US, along with the top teams from the ACT
Castrol Quebec tour competing over 200 laps.



Veteran ACT competitors Eric Chase from Milton, VT and Jamie Fisher from
Shelburne, VT are two long time ACT competitors. Both Chase and Fisher
have pulled double duty in 2009, running weekly at Thunder Road in Barre,
VT and competing on the US Tour. Fisher is a former "King of the Road" at
Thunder Road, winning the title in 2003 in a tie-breaker by virtue of
having one more win than three-time track champion Phil Scott, who was
previously invited to the Invitational.



Connecticut's Waterford Speedbowl will be well represented when Tim Jordan
from Plainfield, CT joins track Champion Bruce Thomas in the Invitational.
Jordan had an outstanding race in the only appearance of the ACT at the
seacoast speedplant in 2009. His test and tune effort at NHMS was equally
impressive. Jordan brings the current total to 28 teams that will come
from all six New England states and two provinces of Canada to participate
in the inaugural ACT Invitational.



With three events remaining, there are eight spots still available to fill
the 36 car starting field. " We have to leave some spots open for the
remaining ACT affiliate track champions, and for the three events still to
be run before the Invitational," said ACT President, Tom Curley. There are
still three ACT qualifying events before the NHMS event. They include the
rained-out Twin State Speedway 100 lap event on Friday, September 4 in
Claremont, NH. Two days later, the 31st Bond Auto Labor Day Classic 200
will take place at Thunder Road Speedbowl in Barre, VT. The final event
will take place at the newly designed 1/2 mile Airborne Speedway in
Plattsburgh, NY with the Fall Foliage 300.



ACT Invitational Invited Teams:



Car#   State  Name              Hometown                 Track/Series

  9        ON    Brandon Watson    Stayner, ON          Kawartha Downs

10        NH   Ben Rowe              Turner, ME             ACT

11        VT    Jean Paul Cyr         Milton, VT               Thunder Road

11        RI    Ryan Vanesse         Warwick, RI            Seekonk

14        VT    Phil Scott                Middlesex, VT        Thunder Road

14        ON   Sean Kennedy        Dunrobin, On         Capital City

17        MA   Eddie MacDonald     Rowley, MA          ACT

18        VT    Jamie Fisher           Shelburne, VT         ACT/TR

21        QC   Jean Francois Dery Quebec City, QC   ACT Castrol

26        VT    John Donahue         Graniteville, VT     ACT/TR

35        CT    Bruce Thomas        Groton, CT             Waterford

37        VT    Brian Hoar              Williston, VT          ACT

40        VT    Eric Chase              Milton, VT              ACT/TR

44        VT    Dave Pembroke       Montpelier, VT      Thunder Road

47       CT    Tim Jordan             Plainfield, CT           Waterford

48      QC    Karl Allard               Ste Felicien, QC      ACT Castrol

51       ME    Ricky Rolfe             Albany Twnshp, ME   ACT

55      VT     Brent Dragon         Milton, VT                 ACT

55      NH    Brad Leighton         Center Harbor, NH   ACT

71      ON    Dan McHattie         Cavan, On                Kawartha Downs

73      ME    Joey Doiron            Berwick, ME              ACT

80      QC    Donald Theetge      Quebec, City, QC     ACT Castrol

89      VT     Scott Payea            Milton, VT                 ACT

91      QC    Patrick Laperle        Montreal, QC            ACT Castrol

94      ME    Shawn Martin         Turner, ME               Oxford Plains

97      NH     Joey Polewarczyk    Hudson, NH              ACT

02      NH     Randy Potter                    Groveton, NH          ACT

04      ME     TJ Watson              Cundy's Harbor, ME Wiscasset