Touring Series News

ACT Announces 2011 Touring Schedules

- Justin St. Louis on 23 Nov 2010

Spring Green to Devil’s Bowl; U.S., Canadian series to combine three timesWATERBURY -- The American-Canadian Tour released the 2011 schedules for both of its Late Model touring series on Monday. The U.S.-based ACT Late Model Tour and the Quebec-based ACT Castrol Edge Series will each have nine stand-alone events and will combine three times for a total of 12 championship races on each schedule.

The ACT Late Model Tour opens its 20th season on April 17 at Lee USA Speedway with the New Hampshire Governor’s Cup 150. Highlights include two trips each to Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl in Barre and Oxford Plains Speedway in Maine. Single events will be held at White Mountain Motorsports Park and Twin State Speedway in New Hampshire, Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Maine, and Devil’s Bowl Speedway in West Haven.

The Devil’s Bowl half-mile will host its first-ever ACT Late Model Tour event on May 22 with the 37th Annual Spring Green. The race returns to Vermont for the first time since 1987 following the closing of Milton’s Catamount Stadium, and will also return to a tradition of the lap count corresponding with the current year; the first Spring Green in 1974 was 74 laps, and the lap count increased by one circuit each year until becoming a 100-lap event in 2000, when the race was held at Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, N.Y. The 2011 Spring Green will be 111 laps.

The ACT Castrol Edge Series schedule opens on May 21 with the first of three trips to Autodrome St-Eustache near Montreal. The series also makes two visits each to Autodrome Montmagny, Autodrome Chaudiere, and Circuit Riverside Speedway, all near Quebec City.

The three remaining championship events for each series will be the combination races at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, N.H., on August 13, Circuit Riverside Speedway in Ste-Croix, Que., on August 27, and the season finale Fall Foliage 200 at Airborne Speedway on October 8. The events at New Hampshire and Airborne will be the first-ever championship events held in the United States for the five year-old ACT Castrol Edge Series.

ACT will again endorse or sanction four non-championship events: The TD Bank 250 at Oxford Plains on July 24, the Showdown at Chaudiere on September 10, the ACT Invitational at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on September 24, and the 49th Annual People’s United Bank Milk Bowl at Thunder Road on October 2.

The sanctioning body will not return to its northernmost and southernmost tracks in 2011; the ACT Castrol Edge Series will not return to Autodrome St-Felicien in Quebec’s Lac St-Jean region, and the ACT Late Model Tour drops both events at Waterford Speedbowl on the Connecticut shoreline.

ACT Late Model Tour 2011 Schedule
Day	Date	Track	Location	Laps
Sun.	April 17	Lee USA Speedway	Lee, NH	150
Sun.	May 1	Thunder Road Int'l Speedbowl	Barre, VT	150
Sun.	May 15	Oxford Plains Speedway	Oxford, ME	150
Sun.	May 22	Devil's Bowl Speedway	West Haven, VT	111
Sat.	June 18	White Mountain Motorsports Park	North Woodstock, NH	150
Sat.	June 25	Oxford Plains Speedway	Oxford, ME	150
Sat.	July 9	Twin State Speedway	Claremont, NH	100
Sat.	July 30	Beech Ridge Motor Speedway	Scarborough, ME	150
Fri./Sat.	Aug. 12/13**	New Hampshire Motor Speedway	Loudon, NH	100**
Sat.	Aug. 27**	Circuit Riverside Speedway	Ste-Croix, QC	200**
Sun.	Sept. 4	Thunder Road Int'l Speedbowl	Barre, VT	200
Sat.	Oct. 8**	Airborne Speedway	Plattsburgh, NY	200**
** - denotes combination event with ACT Castrol Edge Series
ACT Castrol Edge Series 2011 Schedule
Day	Date	Track	Location	Laps
Sat.	May 21	Autodrome St-Eustache	St-Eustache, QC	100
Sat.	May 28	Autodrome Montmagny	Montmagny, QC	100
Sat.	June 4	Autodrome Chaudiere	Vallee-Jonction, QC	100
Sat.	June 18	Circuit Riverside Speedway	Ste-Croix, QC	100
Sat.	July 2	Autodrome Montmagny	Montmagny, QC	100
Sat.	July 9	Circuit Riverside Speedway	Ste-Croix, QC	100
Sat.	July 16	Autodrome St-Eustache	St-Eustache, QC	200
Sat.	Aug. 6	Autodrome Chaudiere	Vallee-Jonction, QC	150
Fri./Sat.	Aug. 12/13**	New Hampshire Motor Speedway	Loudon, NH	100**
Sat.	Aug. 27**	Circuit Riverside Speedway	Ste-Croix, QC	200**
Sun.	Sept. 18	Autodrome St-Eustache	St-Eustache, QC	300
Sat.	Oct. 8**	Airborne Speedway	Plattsburgh, NY	200**
** - denotes combination event with ACT Late Model Tour
Non-Championship Events
Day	Date	Track	Location	Event
Sun.	July 24	Oxford Plains Speedway	Oxford, ME	TD Bank 250
Sat.	Sept. 10	Autodrome Chaudiere	Vallee-Jonction, QC	ACT Showdown at Chaudiere
Sat.	Sept. 24	New Hampshire Motor Speedway	Loudon, NH	ACT Invitational
Sat./Sun.	Oct. 1/2	Thunder Road Int'l Speedbowl	Barre, VT	People's United Bank Milk Bowl