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Barre, VT — The American-Canadian Tour returns to its New Hampshire home this Saturday afternoon for the 46th Fall Foliage 200 presented by Bar Harbor Bank & Trust. This cornerstone event for the international circuit comes at the home stretch in the championship battle with just three more-point counting events left on the schedule alongside Thunder Road’s Vermont Milk Bowl on the first weekend of October.
The Fall Foliage 200 event was first contested way back in 1972 at the beloved Catamount Stadium in Milton, Vermont. First featured as a headline event on the NASCAR Late Model Sportsman circuit in the 1970s, East Coast stars L.D. Ottinger and Butch Lindley claimed extra distance victories in New England while Canadian stars Don Biederman, ‘The Mad Monk of Montreal’ Claude Aubin, Jean-Paul Cabana and Junior Hanley brought some of those early wins across the border. Such homegrown heroes as Bobby Dragon, Dave Dion, Stub Fadden, Dick McCabe and Jamie Aube kept the big autumn wins here in New England while Robbie Crouch is the undisputed King with seven wins between 1979 and 1992, at three different tracks no less!
Fresh off his sweep of the Wall’s Ford Platinum Series events and championship at White Mountain last Saturday night, Center Conway, New Hampshire’s Gabe Brown is ready to cement his point lead on the American-Canadian Tour once and for all. In his second full-time season with ACT, Brown has remained winless this season and after his hard-luck run in August’s Milton CAT Midsummer Classic, he’d love nothing more than to find redemption in Saturday’s Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Fall Foliage 200.
Another former straight-sweep champion in Wall’s Ford Platinum Series competition is Kulwicki Driver Development Program (KDDP) finalist Derek Gluchacki. Currently second in the American-Canadian Tour standings and third in the KDDP standings, Gluchacki is looking for win #3 this season on the international tour and his first ACT victory at White Mountain.
All eyes will also be on two-time and defending ACT champion DJ Shaw and 2023 White Mountain King of the Mountain track champion Kasey Beattie. Shaw reinvigorated a rough-and-tumble 2024 campaign with his dominant Milton CAT Midsummer Classic 250 victory at the North Woodstock oval in August and would love nothing more than to collect the hardware from his own sponsor Bar Harbor Bank & Trust this weekend. Beattie has had a powerful first season with the ACT Tour, currently leading the Rookie of the Year standings and would love to take a second career win in front of the hometown crowd this Saturday!
Alongside fellow season-long contenders Jesse Switser, Alexendre Tardif, Bryan Wall Jr., Erick Sands and Kaiden Fisher will also be looking for the checkered flag on Saturday. Patrick Laperle leads the invaders in search of his sixth career Fall Foliage 200 win along with fellow Quebec driver Phillippe Poulin and ACT long-haulers Remi Perreault and Claude Leclerc. Tom Carey III will be looking for his second White Mountain victory in the Brookside Ride with Matt Anderson, Justin Storace and White Mountain regulars Kyle Goodbout and Quinny Welch joining the fray.
The American-Canadian Tour returns to action this Saturday, September 21 at New Hampshire’s Favorite Short Track, White Mountain Motorsports Park! The 46th Fall Foliage 200 presented by Bar Harbor Bank & Trust on will feature the best of the northeast battling it out for one of the Tour’s cornerstone events alongside the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) Super Late Model 150, the New England Supermodified Series, PASS Modifieds, Fisher Auto Parts Flying Tigers and the Ammonoosuc Asphalt Mini Late Models for a full card of racing action with a 3:00pm Post Time! Adult general admission is set at $30 for the all-star line-up with kids 12-6 for $15 and kids five and under free! The Family Four Pack (two adults, two kids) is also available for $75.
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.
