Patrick Laperle Wins Série ACT Castrol Season Opener

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                            ACT-052210

St-Eustache, QC – Patrick Laperle of St-Denis, QC won the season opening Série ACT Castrol event at Autodrome St-Eustache. Laperle worked his way to the front after starting in the 19th position and took the lead from Jonathan Urlin on lap 39. The two swapped the lead once more before Laperle took over for good on lap 43.

Pete Vanderwyst of St. Thomas, QC took second with St-Felicien, QC’s Karl Allard third. 2009 Série Castrol Champion Donald Theetge finished 4th and Urlin rounded out the top five. Sylvain Lacombe, Jean-François Déry, Martin Lacombe, Jonathan Desbiens, and Gaitan Lauzier completed the top ten.

The 100 lap event was completed in just over an hour and a half and was slowed by eight cautions. Seven cars finished on the lead lap with 21 of the 30 starters on the track for the checkers.

Laperle becomes the third qualifier for the ACT Invitational at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. He joins Barre, VT’s Nick Sweet and Rowley, MA’s Eddie MacDonald as qualifiers for the Saturday, September 18th event. In 2009’s Inaugural ACT Invitational Laperle finished fourth while MacDonald won and Sweet finished second.

The Série ACT Castrol will be back in action next Saturday, May 29 for a 100 lap event at Autodrome Montmagny in Montmagny, QC.

Unofficial Results
Autodrome St-Eustache
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Pos      Car #  Driver  Laps

1          91QC  Patrick Laperle            100

2          7ON    Pete Vanderwyst        100

3          48QC  Karl Allard                  100

4          80QC  Donald Theetge          100

5          4ON    Jonathan Urlin            100

6          3QC    Sylvain Lacombe        100

7          21QC  Jean-François Déry    100

8          03QC  Martin Lacombe        99

9          92QC  Jonathan Desbiens      99

10        74QC  Gaitan Lauzier            99

11        84QC  Martin Latulippe        99

12        40QC  David Michaud            99

13        5QC    Patrick Cliche              99

14        51QC  Patrick Hamel            98

15        11QC  Claude Leclerc            98

16        95QC  #Jimmy Cormier        98

17        19QC  Dany Trépanier          97

18        97QC  Jacques Poulin            96

19        15QC  Christopher Bedard    93

20        9QC    Yvon Bédard                92

21        2QC    Daniel Descoste          89

22        41QC  Jonathan Bouvrette    52

23        25QC  Steve Cote                  47

24        10QC  Stephane Descoste      46

25        61ON  Jason Hathaway          43

26        26QC  Valerie Chiasson        42

27        16QC  Kevin Roberge            42

28        6QC    Pierre Gratton            37

29        36QC  Alex Labbé                  6

30        60QC  Jr. Collard                    6