SCARBOROUGH – Joey “Pole” Polewarczyk, Jr. of Hudson, N.H., earned Ford its first American Canadian Tour late model tour win at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough on July 24. Polewarczyk moved from his fourth starting position to take the lead on lap 14. He held the lead and lapped the majority of the field until lap 83.
On the lap 83 restart, Polewarczyk lost the lead to Farmington’s Jeff Taylor, who also competes with a Ford crate engine. Taylor held onto the lead for 13 laps before Polewarczyk took back over for good. Taylor remained in second until he blew a tire with just under 20 laps remaining.
Polewarczyk held off rookie Austin Theriault, who picked up his best career ACT finish with a second. Tim Brackett took third, Corey Morgan fourth and John Donahue earned fifth.
Current ACT point leader Brian Hoar took sixth, Eric Williams seventh, Brent Dragon eighth, Dave Paya ninth and Windham’s Brad Babb rounded out the top 10.
The top 10 were the only cars to complete all 150 laps. The race was completed in 1:14 with six cautions.
Polewarczyk becomes the eighth driver to earn an invitation to the second annual ACT Invitational at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Saturday, Sept. 18. He joins Nick Sweet, Eddie MacDonald, Brian Hoar, Dave Pembroke, Miles Chipman, Karl Allard and Patrick Laperle on the invite list. He is the first Ford driver to earn an invite.
This report courtesy of the American Canadian Tour
Joey “Pole” Polewarczyk Jr. of Hudson, N.H., waves the checkered flag out of his window after winning the ACT 150 at Beech Ridge in Scarborough on Saturday.
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