Laperle Wins Milk Bowl And ACT Championship
BARRE, Vt. (Sept. 29, 2008) – Canadian racer Patrick Laperle won one prize and, with it, grabbed another at the Chittenden Bank Milk Bowl at Thunder Road International Speedbowl.
Laperle won the 45th running of the famous short track event and used the points from the victory to clinch the 2008 American Canadian Tour championship. A resident of St. Denis, Quebec, Laperle became the first Canadian to win the ACT title. He won the Serie ACT Castrol title, a series sanctioned by the ACT and run under the same rules, in 2007.
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The Milk Bowl ranks among North America’s finest short track events each year. The 2008 rendition attracted 56 entries. There were 28 starters. The race is run in three 50-lap segments. Points are awarded after each segment and the field is inverted after each segment. The car finishing with the fewest points wins the overall scoring.
Laperle finished first, 11th and eighth in the three segments, scoring 20 points. He beat the second-place finisher, driven by Eric Williams, by just two points. Ryan Nolan finished third, followed by Dennis Demers and Chip Grenier.
Laperle’s Milk Bowl win was his third in the last four years.
Scott Payea finished sixth in the race and finished second in the championship chase, losing the title by only one point.
More information on the ACT is available at www.acttour.com.
