Dunkin' Donuts 150
Oxford Plains Speedway, Oxford,ME

Nutmeg State 100
Waterford Speedbowl, Waterford, CT

46th Annual Mekkelsen RV
Memorial Day Classic

American-Canadian Tour Late Model Championship stock car driver John Donahue of Graniteville, VT won the fastest race in series history at Barre, VT’s Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl on Sunday, taking the 46th Annual Mekkelsen RV Memorial
Day Classic in 28 minutes and 16 seconds.  

Donahue’s #26 National Guard Ford Fusion started fourth on the 30-car grid and came to life just before the halfway point. Donahue grabbed the lead after an outside pass of polesitter Eric Williams on lap 47, then survived the race’s lone restart on lap 70 which was brought out by a spin by Brent Dragon.

34^th Annual Furniture World of VT
Spring Green 100

3rd Place for Brent Coming from 24th

Full Oxford Web Story Here
Oxford regular Ricky Rolfe #51 won the race from the pole.
Cyr started 15th and survived early contact with John Donahue to run second. Brent Dragon rallied from 24th to third, with Eddie MacDonald blazing from 17th to fourth. Donahue rounded out the top five.

No telling what might have happened if Dragon had an extra 50 to 100 laps. He won a lengthy duel with MacDonald during the extended green-flag session and found a place on the podium.

"Maybe I should have gone for it earlier, gotten past some of those lapped cars, and maybe I could have run with Jean and Ricky," Dragon said. "It still was a good day coming from 24th. I'm looking forward to the rest of the year."

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10th Place for Brent at Lee

The 2008 American-Canadian Tour Championship season opened April 20th at Lee USA Speedway with the New Hampshire Governor’s Cup 100 – the first of two doubleheader events for the ACT Late Model Tour and the open-wheel True Value Modified Racing Series this year.

Brent drew a starting spot towards the back of the heat but was making progress towards the top four when a tangle with another car led to a penalty and a restart at the back of the field. That forced a run in the conci where the #55 earned
a 21st starting position (out of 30) for the feature.

At the green Brent began to work his way through the field running with - and for periods ahead of - Patrick Laperle. The
#55 missed several pile-ups and was up to 12th by lap 75 and into 10th as the checker fell.

Joey Polewarczyk’s #97 was the class of the field, at times leading by more than a full straightaway. Rowley, MA
driver Eddie MacDonald won a late-race battle with Scott Payea, Randy Potter, and Cris Michaud to take second-place honors. MacDonald finished fifth in a 150-lap event at Greenville, South Carolina on Saturday night, and flew into New England on Sunday morning. Michaud, of Northfield, VT, finished third from 19th starting position over Milton, VT driver Payea and Groveton, NH’s Potter.

Unofficially, rookie Ricky Wolf, Jr. of Northwood, NH finished sixth. Eric Chase, Patrick Laperle, Ron Henry, and Brent Dragon finished in positions six through ten.

Seven-time and defending ACT Late Model Tour Champion Jean-Paul Cyr of Milton, VT crashed out on lap 4 after contact with Bobby Baillargeon in Turn 3. Neither driver was injured.

The ACT Late Model Tour travels to Maine’s Oxford Plains Speedway on Saturday, April 26 for the New England Dodge Dealers 150. For more information, call (802) 244-6963.

Speed51 Trackside report from Lee on 4/20 HERE

RESULTS - New Hampshire Governor’s Cup 100
Lee USA Speedway – ACT Late Model Tour
Sunday, April 20, 2008

Finish-(Start)-Car No.-Driver-Hometown
(# denotes rookie driver)
1. (3) 97 Joey Polewarczyk, Jr., Hudson, NH
2. (5) 17 Eddie MacDonald, Rowley, MA
3. (19) 6 Cris Michaud, Northfield, VT
4. (12) 89 Scott Payea, Milton, VT
5. (8) 02NH Randy Potter, Groveton, NH
6. (9) 38NH #Ricky Wolf, Jr., Northwood, NH
7. (13) 40 Eric Chase, Milton, VT
8. (22) 91 Patrick Laperle, St-Denis, QC
9. (30) 05 Ron Henry, New Gloucester, ME
10. (21) 55VT Brent Dragon, Milton, VT

For more details the ACT website at www.acttour.com.

Release by: ACT Staff  - www.acttour.com

American-Canadian Tour (ACT) stock car racer Brent Dragon of Milton, VT has filed the first full-season entry for the 2008 ACT Late Model Tour schedule. Dragon will pilot the #55 Beverage Mart/Furniture World of Vermont Chevrolet, in a new partnership with Kenyon Racing Products of Ontario and Port City Race Cars.

“I’m more excited this year than I’ve been in a long time,” reported Dragon, citing his teaming up with new crew chief Mike Kenyon. “Mike and I talk a lot, even several times a week, and his advice and help has been what I needed. This will be my first year having someone at the track at every race to help set up the chassis, where I was doing most of the work by myself before.”

Dragon finished third in ACT Late Model Tour points in 2007 with a 150-lap victory in June at North Woodstock, NH’s White Mountain Motorsports Park. He also posted a pair runner-up finishes, including at the Spring Green 100 at Plattsburgh, NY’s Airborne Speedway, where he is a three-time Track Champion. The second-generation driver has made it well-known that he would like beat his close friend and rival, cross-town Milton, VT neighbor and seven-time ACT Champion Jean-Paul Cyr, for the title.

I want to win a championship before Jean retires,” said Dragon. “It would mean a lot to win one at any time, but it would really be something to finally beat him. His team has it all together, and he’s a great driver. But I think we’re all going to have to keep an eye on Scott Payea, too. He’s so smooth, and that’s what you need to be on this Tour.”

Payea, another Milton, VT product, was the 2007 ACT runner-up behind Cyr, with victories in the Merchants Bank 150 at Barre, VT’s Thunder Road, and the Kancamaugus 100 at White Mountain in August.

The ACT Late Model Tour begins its 17th season of competition at New Hampshire’s Lee USA Speedway on Sunday, April 20, and will make stops at Thunder Road, Airborne, White Mountain, Oxford Plains Speedway in Maine, Waterford Speedbowl in Connecticut, and Kawartha Speedway in Ontario. A special $5,000-to-win all-star invitational event has also been scheduled for Sept. 6 at Autodrome Chaudière in Vallée-Jonction, QC. For more information, call (802) 244-6963 or visit www.acttour.com.
 

Brent and June Dragon are happy to announce Dragon Motorsports and Kenyon Racing Products are joining together for the 2008 race season. Brent will be driving a KRP Port City late model chassis with a Chevy Monte Carlo body in ACT events.

With the addition of Tom and Mike Kenyon to the team and the return of sponsors Beverage Mart, Furniture World, and R.R. Charlebois, Inc., we are
all excited and looking forward to the 2008 race season.

613 - 258 - 5345
Toll Free: 8888 - 536 - 9660 (Kenyon-0)
Fax: 613 - 258 - 3484

www.KenyonRacing.com

Previous Race Reports HERE