American-Canadian Tour

The history behind the Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour is storied because our history matters. On Saturday April 25th, 2026 the Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour brings that history back to Lee USA Speedway with the running of the New Hampshire Governor’s Cup and the return of it’s iconic hardware 🏆 Don’t miss it!

That would be 15 American-Canadian Tour Championships taking on the Mint 400 (themint400.com) this weekend in Las Vegas! 8x American-Canadian Tour Champion, Brian Hoar 🤝 7x American-Canadian Tour Champion, Jean Paul Cyr We are proud of our legendary champions and wish them the best this weekend! 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Milton CAT

2026 Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour ▪️Every Event Has Importance ▪️A Championship That Is Rich In History & Stature ▪️A Passionate Fanbase That Is Unmatched Milestones like Wins/Top 10’s/Top 15’s, they mean more here because of our level of competition, and are rewarded throughout the field, both in purses and point funds, in an unparalleled way.

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🤯 Stat of the Day 1989 American-Canadian Tour Champion, Russ Urlin, completed all but 1 lap in his championship season…..he finished one lap down in the 200-lap fall event at Thunder Road. 2026 American-Canadian Tour Champion, Raphael Lessard, completed all but 1 lap in his championship season…..he finished one lap down in the 200-lap fall event at Thunder Road. Russ Urlin and Raphael Lessard are also 2 of the 4 (Junior Hanley & Patrick Laperle) Canadian-born ACT Champions in tour history. Milton CAT

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The 2026 Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour championship season is getting closer. $20,000 Championship prize ▪️Multiple big money events ▪️ Over $600,000 available throughout the season ▪️ An opportunity to be etched into history acttour.com

Fresh off the 2025 @ACTTour title, @Raphael_Lessard takes the Night 3 Pro Late Model win. His first #NewSmyrnaWS victory in 10 years!

Hall of Fame members (including a US Governor), future Hall of Fame members, short track heroes and rising superstars of our industry. Just 25 drivers have earned the title of 'Tour Champion' over the American-Canadian Tour franchise's span of 6 decades, and an American-Canadian Tour championship title cements a racing legacy that lives on forever.

North East Short Track Network (NESTN) to Stream Top New England Racing Events with Multiple Tracks and Series in 2026 - Read more at acttour.com 📸 Tom Morris, Alan Ward

Final laps of the 1987 American-Canadian Tour Norseman Inn Pine Tree 100 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway 📽️ Dan Wolfe Racing Archives on YouTube

Top 10 All-Time Thunder Road International Speedbowl Late Model Division Race Winners. The weekly Late Model division at Thunder Road began in 1992 and is the most competitive weekly racing division in all of North America to this day. Visit thunderroadvt.com/stats for the complete Late Model win list history and more!

The final lap of the 2025 Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour Race of the Year Can-Am 200 at the Autodrome Montmagny Speedway - Saturday July 19th, 2025

Top 5 Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour Races of 2025 No. 1 Can-Am 200 – Autodrome Montmagny Speedway – July 19, 2025 Photo. Finish. The explosive excitement in the grandstands and infield as 200-laps ended with a photo finish told everything that needed to be said about the 2025 Can-Am 200, this was the “Race of the Year”! Raphael Lessard entered the Can-Am 200 as the favorite however he had to start tenth on the grid, serving his handicap penalty as a former winner in the most recent events of 2025, Lessard made short work of making his way to the front, passing polesitter Jonathan Bouvrette to nab the lead by lap 30. What came after was complete and total dominance during a 94-lap green flag run as Lessard sliced and diced through lap traffic to maintain a five-to-six car-length lead on his closest competitors. Dany Gariepy’s spin on lap 98 changed the whole complexity of the event as teams jumped pitside for the competition caution with time to add fuel, change tires and make adjustments. Fans were treated to an all-star front row between Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour point leader Lessard on the inside and Serie ACT Quebec point leader Jeff Cote on the outside. The two battled doorhandle-to-doorhandle, lap after lap before Cote managed to sneak away with the lead. The final caution on lap 191 set up a nine-lap shootout that will not soon be forgotten by Quebec’s racing faithful. Both drivers again fought door to door at the head of the pack, swapping the lead by thousands of a second again and again in the closing laps. After flying under the white flag, the two young leaders banged doors, taking into account all 199 laps behind them with a $10,000 check waiting under the checkered flag. The two came across the line side-by-side with the crowd on their feet and electronic scoring initially showing Lessard the winner by 0.005 seconds over Cote. Officials enlisted the help of several photographers but none had a clear picture across the start/finish line. It wasn’t until Autodrome Montmagny social media personnel shared video from their drone above the frontstretch that the picture came into clear view. Jeff Cote’s black 51QC was first to hit the line under the twin checkered flags, just ahead of Lessard’s white 48QC. The verified photo finish saw Cote earn his first career Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour victory with the Beauceville driver instantly looking for the big Frechette Ford winner’s check stating “We’ve been trying to earn one of those [checks] for a very long time!”, Raphael Lessard was officially declared second with Gabe Brown coming home third. Dany Gariepy recovered to finish fourth with Jesse Switser also recovering from a mid-way meeting with the frontstretch wall to round out the top five. Maxime Gauvreau took sixth with Alexendre ‘Fireball’ Tardif in seventh, Dany Trepanier in eighth, Patrick Cliche in ninth and D.J. Shaw rounded out the top ten. Quick Stats & Notes: ▪️37 cars attended and started the Can-Am 200 ▪️37 cars set an all-time track record car count for the Autodrome Montmagny ▪️The 2025 Can-Am 200 saw 4 lead changes over the final 10 laps ▪️Patrick Cliche started 27th and finished 9th earning the hard charger of the day Official Race Results: static1.squarespace.com/static/5a4bf29…

Top 5 Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour Races of 2025 No. 2 Milton CAT Midsummer Classic 250 – White Mountain Motorsports Park – August 2, 2025 Packed grandstands, high-level competition and storylines that constantly change throughout the 250 laps. Each year the Milton CAT Midsummer Classic 250 solidifies itself as one of the marquee events in North America, and the 2025 edition was another ‘Instant Classic’! Lessard vs. Fisher vs. Switser, and then Lessard vs. Shaw for the $10,000 and the checkered flag. The final stages of the Milton CAT Midsummer Classic 250 definitely added to the lore of the Midsummer Classic event. Former White Mountain Late Model track champion Kasey Beattie earned the pole in Plus/Minus qualifying with a +6 in heat three with eight-time ACT champion Brian Hoar to his outside. The two battled hard at the onset before Beattie took off with the lead in the early going. The lap 100 fuel stop quickly gave way to a mad dash to the pit area for fresh Hoosier Racing Tires with Beattie and Nick Sweet opting to stay out and play the strategy game. Nick Sweet rocketed off to the lead over Beattie following the break before Raphael Lessard powered up through the field to take the lead on lap 120. After the lap 154 caution, Kaiden Fisher entered the picture with the two young stars putting on one of the best side-by-side performances in recent memory on the White Mountain high-banks! Unfortunately contact under the popsicle sticks, on lap 248, involving third-place runner Jesse Switser and Fisher led to a spin in turn three and a pivotal late-race restart that Lessard did not want to see. That pivotal restart set up a green-white-checker finish between Lessard and 2-time Champion DJ Shaw, with Raphael Lessard launching under the green flag and taking the $10,000 win in the Milton CAT Midsummer Classic 250 over Shaw and Derek Gluchacki at the line. Quick Stats: ▪️30 cars started the Milton CAT Midsummer Classic 250 ▪️21 cars took the checkered flag on-track ▪️Only 2 of the Top 10 finishers actually started the race in the Top 10, the race was filled with “comers and goers” ▪️Erick Sands led the hard-charger battle with a +17 position improvement throughout the 250-lap event. Official Race Results: static1.squarespace.com/static/5a4bf29…

Top 5 Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour Races of 2025 No. 3 Haunted Hundred – Seekonk Speedway – October 25, 2025 31 cars on a 1/3-mile track for 100 laps…0 caution flags Two and three-wide battles throughout the field for the intensity that was just a 23-minute race! Erick Sands started on the pole for the 100-lap feature after earning a plus-five in qualifying, but William Larue powered past him at the drop of the green flag. Larue pulled away in the early going, but Sands and many-time Seekonk champion Dave Darling reeled the leader back in as he worked through lapped traffic. The trio chased each other around the slower cars, weaving high and low in a race that ultimately went flag to flag without a caution flag. Several opportunities presented themselves to Sands in the middle stages, as he would draw to the inside of Larue only for the Canadian standout to fend him off. Sands stayed patient, though, and finally nosed ahead on the 61st circuit. As an even more fierce battle developed between Larue and Darling for second, Sands was able to drive off into the late October sun and score the victory. The only two Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour victories for Sands have now come in the last two Haunted Hundreds, cementing him as the tour’s new “King of Halloween.” Darling dogged Larue tirelessly over the final third of the event, working the top and bottom groove, but could not find a way around him. Larue would end up second, his best career U.S. finish, while Darling completed the podium. Meanwhile, the final chapter of the 2025 Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour championship chase played out behind them. Defending champion Gabe Brown won his qualifying heat to close to within 39 points of Raphael Lessard, who needed to get into the feature through the consolation round and thus rolled off 23rd to Brown’s 10th. However, the speed from Brown’s heat race did not carry over to the main event. Brown remained stuck in the middle of the pack early, then started drifting back. As he did, Lessard remained patient, picking off cars when he could while not taking any risks that could jeopardize his title hopes. At the same moment Sands was overtaking Larue for the lead, Lessard caught Brown for the 12th position. The two raced for several laps before Lessard successfully got by, marking a symbolic passing of the Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour champion’s baton. Lessard would end up 11th in the feature’s final rundown while Brown was 13th. Lessard and his Larue Motorsports team were thus the victors celebrating the championship and earning the $20,000 top prize. He becomes only the fourth Canadian driver to stand atop the mountain, joining Russ Urlin (1989), Junior Hanley (1991-93), and Patrick Laperle (2008), the latter of whom was the only previous Quebec native champion. Quick Stats: ▪️37 cars attended ▪️31 cars started the Haunted Hundred ▪️30 cars took the checkered flag on-track ▪️Official Time of Race was 23 minutes and 2 seconds ▪️Jake Johnson put on quite a performance going from 13th to finish in 4th place without a single caution flag ▪️Raphael Lessard earned the hard-charging title finishing in 11th after starting in 23rd on his way to earning his first-career Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour championship ▪️Official Race Results: static1.squarespace.com/static/5a4bf29…

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Top 5 Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour Races of 2025 No. 4 27th running of the Community Bank, N.A. 150 – Thunder Road International Speedbowl – June 1, 2025 What makes a race memorable? Any time history is made. On Sunday June 1st, 2025 Kaiden Fisher became the youngest winner in Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour history at 17 years, 8 months and 6 days. His win bested the mark set by Ryan Moore in 2001, at the Oxford Plains Speedway, when the Scarborough, Maine driver was 17 years, 9 months and 9 days old. Raphael Lessard led the field to green with Derry, New Hampshire standout Erick Sands to his outside. Lessard showed the way early but it was Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour sophomore Kaiden Fisher who beat him out on the lap 19 restart after Remi Perreault’s spin in turns three and four. Fisher and Lessard would swap the lead back and forth multiple times throughout the Community Bank 150 with 17-year-old Kaiden Fisher the first to race under Jason Lamoy’s double checkered flags earning his first-career Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour victory and the youngest to ever do so. Christopher Pelkey earned a hard-fought second place finish across the line while Raphael Lessard continued his top-10 finishing streak and earned his first top-5 of 2025. Jesse Switser also kept his top-ten streak active with a fourth place run followed Marcel Gravel in fifth. Corliss and Sands wound up sixth and seventh while Thunder Road teamster Brandon Lanphear took home eighth. Quebec’s Alexendre ‘Fireball’ Tardif drove from his 20th starting spot the #31CT to a ninth-place finish while Cody Blake rounded out the top ten. Quick Stats: ▪️32 cars started - The event was originally scheduled a month earlier (May 4th), but got rained-out and several of the 43 cars that were in attendance for the May 3rd practice day were unable to attend the makeup date ▪️27 cars took the checkered flag on-track ▪️Chase Curtis earned the hard-charging title finishing in 15th after starting in 28th ▪️Raphael Lessard’s performance in this event was the launching pad to his 2025 Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour Championship

Top 5 Races of the 2025 Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour Season No. 5 North East Classic – New Hampshire Motor Speedway – April 19, 2025 The story of the 2025 North East Classic cannot be told without first looking back to the 2024 North East Classic. The 2024 edition of the event was simply not good and it saw a lot more lowlights than highlights. Before the 2025 North East Classic began, drivers were challenged to show the racing world that they are significantly better than what was put out there in 2024 and they delivered! Entering the season-opening North East Classic Derek Gluchacki was riding a record-setting 3 consecutive event win streak and 33 other drivers entered in hopes of breaking that streak. The 2025 North East Classic had a 34-car starting field with Gabe Brown earning an outstanding +7 handicap to nab the pole position, and all of that was after breaking the third link in his rear-end during practice, which also busted a transmission and bent his driveshaft in the process in his number 47NH machine. When the green flag fell for the North East Classic, outside pole-sitter Tom Carey III took control and led the pack until Brown grabbed the lead on lap 15. A single car spin in turn three called out the lap 17 caution, which officials doubled as the competition caution for teams to jump on pit road, make adjustments, take tires and add fuel. Brown continued to lead the pack on the return to green flag racing until lap 23 when the driveshaft vacated the Cam Huntress-machine entering turn one and ended his day. The field maintained another strong run as teams drove up and down the field in furious competition. The third and final yellow flag would stall the field with five laps remaining as a mechanical issue in the rear-end of Ben Rowe’s #28ME in turn three, sending the 2021 Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour champion up and into the outside wall. With a five-lap shootout remaining, Gabe Brown out-dueled the competition to his first-career New Hampshire Motor Speedway victory, a monumental win in the young career for the Center Conway, New Hampshire driver. Brandon Barker brought the Sullivan Construction #0NH to second-place finish with Derek Gluchacki taking third, breaking his race win streak but still standing successfully on the podium. Tom Carey III took home another strong New Hampshire Motor Speedway finish in fourth with DJ Shaw rounding out the top five. Jimmy Renfrew, Jr. hard-charged to sixth from a 32nd place starting spot, followed by Jesse Switser, Raphael Lessard, Connor Souza and Jamie Swallow, Jr. to round out the top ten. Quick Notes & Stats: ▪️34 cars attended - The event was originally scheduled a week earlier (April 13th), but got snowed-out and several of the 42 official entries were unable to attend the makeup date ▪️28 cars took the checkered flag on-track ▪️Jimmy Renfrew, Jr. earned a stunning +26 position improvement in the 50 lap event. ▪️Gabe Brown’s North East Classic win was his first-career win at the “Magic Mile”, and his 3rd-career Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour win