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N. Woodstock, NH — Twenty-nine American-Canadian Tour teams entered the pit area of White Mountain Motorsports Park on Saturday morning with twenty-eight able to take the green for the 46th running of the Fall Foliage 200 presented by Bar Harbor Bank & Trust. It was a Southern New Hampshire pair who led the field to green with former White Mountain Late Model Rookie of the Year Bryan Wall Jr. securing the pole position with a +3 earned in heat three alongside former ACT top freshman Erick Sands.
The two battled in the opening rounds of the 200-lap main event with Sands taking the upper hand to lead the way through lap 26 before Gabe Brown took over the point. Brown, coming off last Saturday’s successful Wall’s Ford Platinum Series triple crown title fight, utilized his knowledge of the track to stranglehold the lead through several quick-spin caution periods in the early goings.
The first hard hit of the night came on lap 56 as Thunder Road regular Justin Prescott and recent Thompson Speedway victor Tom Carey III collided with the turn three tire barrier to end both their nights early. The pit area got busy the next caution just twelve laps later with Brown, Kaiden Fisher, DJ Shaw and Alexendre Tardif among the lead lap cars jumping into the pits for tires, fuel and adjustments. Brown’s decision to pit left Bryan Wall Jr. in the lead and he kept the post through lap 118 when Sands once again took over.
After a short battle between the two following the lap 131 spin for Justin Storace in turn two, Gabe Brown reentered the picture, motoring around both Wall and Sands to regain the upper-hand. Brown ran hard, determined to regain what he had lost in ACT competition back in August, even through a series of late-race cautions that slowed the pace. The last large-scale incident saw Sands and Shaw link up with the backstretch wall plus a pair of quick spin cautions that did little to slow Brown’s cause. Through it all, Gabe Brown drove across the line victorious in his first American-Canadian Tour win of the season to become the tenth different winner in ACT competition in 2024! Kasey Beattie kept his nose clean all evening to wrap up a strong second place run with Alexendre ‘Fireball’ Tardif bringing his Quebec-based team a third-place trophy.
Jamie Swallow, Jr. took home fourth with Joey Polewarczyk taking fifth. White Mountain regular Kyle Goodbout recovered from nearly going a lap down to come across the line sixth with Bryan Wall Jr. barely edged-out Patrick Laperle side-by-side at the line for seventh. Jeremy Sorel turned around an ill-handling ride for a solid ninth-place run with Labor Day Classic winner Scott Dragon rounding out the top-ten.
The American-Canadian Tour faithful return to Barre, Vermont’s Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl for the 62nd Vermont Milk Bowl presented by Northfield Savings Bank on Sunday, October 6 following Booth Bros./ H.P. Hood Qualifying Day on Saturday, October 5. After the $100,000, non-point classic, the ACT Tour rolls into Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park on Saturday, October 12 for the Sunoco World Series 75! The Brookside Equipment Sales Southern New England Triple Crown is also back in action at the Sunoco World Series before wrapping up on November 2 at Seekonk Speedway!
For more information about the American-Canadian Tour, contact the ACT offices at (802) 244-6963, media@acttour.com, or visit www.acttour.com. You can also get updates on Facebook and Twitter at @ACTTour.
46th Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Fall Foliage 200
White Mountain Motorsports Park – N. Woodstock, NH
Saturday, September 21, 2024
UNOFFICIAL RESULTS
1. 47NH Gabe Brown Center Conway, NH
2. 45NH #Kasey Beattie St. Johnsbury, VT
3. 21QC Alexendre Tardif Notre Dame des Pins, QC
4. 4NH Jamie Swallow Jr. Lancaster, VT
5. 97NH Joey Polewarczyk Hudson, NH
6. 17NH Kyle Goodbout Lincoln, NH
7. 77NH Bryan Wall Jr. E. Kingston, NH
8. 91QC Patrick Laperle St-Denis, QC
9. 7MA #Jeremy Sorel Westfield, MA
10. 0VT Scott Dragon Milton, VT
11. 36NH Erick Sands Derry, NH
12. 18VT #Kaiden Fisher Shelburne, VT
13. 04VT DJ Shaw Center Conway, NH
14. 68NH Jason Woodard Waterbury Ctr., VT
15. 27NH Cam Huntress Rochester, NH
16. 00VT Brandon Gray E. Thetford, VT
17. 01VT Stephen Martin Craftsbury Common, VT
18. 6NH Sammy Gooden Whitefield, VT
19. 33QC Remi Perreault St. Paul, QC
20. 49NH Matt Anderson Franklin, NH
21. 73MA #Cole Littlewood Orange, MA
22. 21VT Reilly Lanphear Waterbury, VT
23. 33P Philippe Poulin St-Georges, QC
24. 47MA Justin Storace Seabrook, NH
25. 25NH Jesse Switser W. Burke, VT
26. 46x Justin Prescott Fairfax, VT
27. 5MA Tom Carey III New Salem, MA
28. 03MA Derek Gluchacki Dartmouth, MA
DNS 01GC Dylan Payea Milton, VT
