FIELD IS SET FOR ACT NEW SMYRNA GOODYEAR SPEEDWEEKS CUP

For Immediate Release                                        ACT – 011711-06

        Waterbury, VT – The American Canadian Tour (ACT) has announced the twenty eight teams that will comprise the starting field for the highly anticipated inaugural Goodyear Speedweeks Cup event to be held at the New Smyrna Speedway (NSS) in Florida during next month’s Daytona Speedweeks. ACT will present two 100-lap features on Sunday night, February 13, 2011 and Monday night, February 14, 2011 during the New Smyrna World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing. The posted purse will be $36,655.00

Qualifying for the Sunday event will use the northern style heat racing to establish the lineup. Fans from all over the country will see the unique +/- system incorporated into the ACT qualifying program four years ago. The Monday 100 lap feature will see an inversion from the results of the Sunday feature event.

“Since this will be our first trip to New Smyrna, we wanted to make sure we offer the many fans from around the country the most exciting and competitive racing we can,” said Tom Curley, President of the American Canadian Tour. “I think what makes our racing so popular in the Northeast is that we have a kind of a ‘no holds barred but respectful approach to racing’ --- at NSS, teams will have to race their way in through heats, and then Monday may the best man win racing from the rear,” Curley continued.

The non-points race for the ACT competitors is perhaps the most diverse field in the 25-year history of the ACT. Teams will make the 20-30 hour haul from six states and two provinces of Canada. The twenty-eight teams will include: both 2010 Champions from the ACT US and the ACT Castrol Edge Series; eleven teams from Canada; a two-time Oxford Plains TD Bank 250 winner; both the 2009 and 2010 New Hampshire Motor Speedway ACT Invitational winners; three Thunder Road Milk Bowl winners and a number of weekly defending track champions.

ACT Entry List for the 2011 Goodyear Speedweeks Cup:

4ON          Jonathan Urlin            New London, ON 

9QC        Yvon Bedard              St Nicolas, QC

15VT        Joey Laquerre            Barre, VT             

16NY        Mark Lamberton          Moors, NY

16QC        Kevin Roberge          Levis, QC             

17MA        Eddie MacDonald        Rowley, MA

17ON        Justin Holtom              Ottawa, ON       

17RI        Ray Parent                Tiverton, RI

21MA        Peter Yetman              Peru, MA           

22VT        Mike Bruno                Rutland, VT       

27NH        Wayne Helliwell, Jr      Dover, NH           

29NH        Aaron Fellows            Croydon, NH

31ON        Spencer MacPherson    Carleton Pl, ON     

36QC        Alex Labbe                Ste Albert, QC

37VT        Brian Hoar                  Williston, VT       

40VT        Eric Chase                  Milton, VT 

41VT        Pete Potvin III            Weasley Chpl, FL 

48QC        Karl Allard                  Ste Felicien, QC

51QC        Patrick Hamel            Ste Croix, QC     

57ME        Austin Theriault          Fort Kent, ME

72VT        Jacob McGrath            Killington, VT     

77MA        Jimmy Linardy            Malden, MA

80QC        Donald Theetge          Quebec City, QC 

88MA        Eric DeSouza            Fairhaven, MA

88ON        Tim Dorning              Perth, ON         

91QC        Patrick Laperle          Ste Denis, QC

92VT        Blair Bessette              Worcester, VT     

97NH        Joey Polewarczyk, Jr.  Hudson, NH                   

For additional information contact the ACT office at 802.244.6963, www.acttour.com, or media@acttour.com.