ST-EUSTACHE, Qué. -- Confusion hangs in the air over the Série ACT-Castrol championship battle. The Canadian sister series to the ACT Late Model Tour ran its final event of 2009 on Sunday night -- the annual St-Eustache 300 at Autodrome St-Eustache near Montréal -- hyping a close title chase between bitter rivals Patrick Laperle and Donald Theetge.And as of early Tuesday morning, no champion has been announced. The ACT website is also not functional as of 3:00am Tuesday, due to a bandwidth issue.
A short press release on the front page of the website on Monday named Jonathan Urlin of London, Ont. as the winner of the St-Eustache 300 over Sylvain Lacombe and Karl Allard, but other than noting that a scoring recheck is currently under way, little else was made official by Waterbury, Vt.-based ACT.
According to the official French-language ACT website, Theetge is the unofficial champion over Laperle by a single point, 725-724. Theetge entered the race with a 33-point cushion over Laperle, but reportedly encountered problems after crashing early in the St-Eustache 300. Laperle dominated by leading many laps, but faded with a leaking tire late in the race.
Vermont Motorsports Magazine has learned that an official announcement is expected from ACT some time on Tuesday, and will post information as it becomes available.
1 comment:
Theres alot more to it than that Justin....
I got another dose of the bad feeling (and an earfull of frenchmen swearing in broken english) between the Laperle and Theetge camps too...
Theres a ton of controversy about what happened in this race too...
But I'll let the Waterbury office tell their story first before I offer my opinion...
But I wish they would get their ducks in a row pretty soon...
Hard to offer readers an official finish when there just isn't one!
After what happened Sunday up in Montreal, it's sort of like going from the penthouse Saturday at NHMS to the outhouse Sunday at ST Eustache....no matter how this all comes out and who is declared the champion!
There's going to be alot of folks upset unless both drivers are declared co-champion... and even then there will still be fans scratching their heads?
JMO
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