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2020 ACT Late Model Tour Season: By the Numbers

0 — For the first time in recent memory, no driver completed every lap of the ACT Late Model Tour season. Jimmy Hebert came the closest, completing 1,394 of the 1,395 laps (he finished one lap down in the Labor Day Classic at Thunder Road).

2 — Hebert and Shaw did finish in the top-10 in every event, making them the only drivers to do so.

3 — For the third straight year, two rookies finished in the top-10 in driver points (Derek Gluchacki in 6th and Marcel J. Gravel in 7th).

3 — Gluchacki became the third Massachusetts-based driver and second straight to win the ACT Late Model Tour Rookie of the Year Award. He joins Mark Anzalone Jr. (2006) and Ryan Kuhn (2019).

3 — Gluchacki and Bryan Kruczek each won three heat races, tying for the most on the season. A total of 19 different drivers won at least one heat out of the 27 contested.

3.67 — Average finish for ACT champion Jimmy Hebert. He finished in the top-3 in seven of the nine events.

5 — Jimmy Hebert made it five straight years that a former ACT Rookie of the Year has won the championship (Nick Sweet in 2016, Scott Payea in 2017 and 2018, and Rich Dubeau in 2019). No previous ROTY had ever gone on to win an ACT Late Model Tour title before this streak began.

5 — Five drivers were running the finish of all nine events. They were: Jimmy Hebert, D.J. Shaw, Ryan Kuhn, Dylan Payea, and Derek Gluchacki.

6 — Six different drivers earned at least one pole in 2020. Stephen Donahue, Ryan Kuhn, and Marcel J. Gravel all sat on the pole twice; Tom Carey III, Jason Corliss, and Bryan Kruczek led the field to the green flag once each.

7 — Number of different winners in the nine events. Jimmy Hebert and Wayne Helliwell Jr. were the only multi-time winners.

9 — Jimmy Hebert’s first ACT title came in his ninth year of ACT Late Model Your competition (8th full-time). Prior to 2020, Hebert had finished in the top-4 of the final points five times (including second and third twice each).

12 — The number of drivers/teams that attended every point-counting event, up from 10 in 2019.

13 — At the Midsummer Classic 250 on August 18, Nick Sweet became the 13th driver to surpass $100,000 in ACT Late Model Tour earnings.

14 — The number of drivers that earned at least one ACT Tour podium finish in 2020.

14 years, 60 days — Amount of time between ACT wins for Ben Rowe. Before his victory at Oxford Plains Speedway on October 18, Rowe’s last ACT victory had been August 19, 2006 (also at Oxford).

29 — Average cars in attendance per ACT Late Model Tour event. It’s a fitting number for the 29th season of the series.

29 — Age, in years, of Jimmy Hebert at season’s end. He becomes the fifth different driver to win an ACT Late Model Tour championship before the age of 30, joining Brian Hoar (1993, 1997-2000), Jean-Paul Cyr (1994), Lance Ferno (1995), and Joey Polewarczyk Jr. (2014).

61, 88 — Jimmy Hebert has now cracked the all-time top-10 for total ACT Late Model Tour top-10 finishes with 61. Meanwhile, Scott Payea’s lone start this year moved him into a tie with Patrick Laperle for fifth all-time with 88 top-10s, which is the most of any active driver (defined as anyone who made at least one ACT start in 2020).

75 — The Labor Day Classic was the 75th ACT Late Model Tour event at Thunder Road, more than any other track. Airborne Speedway is second all-time with 47 point-counting events, while Oxford Plains Speedway is second among active tracks with 36.

84 — The number of different drivers who attempted to qualify for at least one of the nine point-counting events.

90 — Joey Polewarczk is 90 laps led away from moving to the top of the all-time ACT Tour list in that category. He now has 2,588 laps led to Brian Hoar’s 2,677. Polewarczyk led 123 laps in his three 2020 starts.

100 — Scott Dragon made his 100th career ACT Late Model Tour start at the Labor Day Classic on September 6. He became the 18th driver in series history with at last 100 starts. (Scott’s cousin Brent leads the way with 221.)

149 — Bryan Kruczek led 149 of the 150 laps at Gardiner & June Leavitt Memorial 150 on August 115, making it the most dominant performance of the ACT season.

221 — Total laps led in ACT Tour events by Jason Corliss, the most of any driver — a number he reached in just three point-counting starts.

320 — The number of point-counting events that have now been held in ACT Late Model Tour history.

$11,050 — The total prize awarded to Jason Corliss for winning the 58th Vermont Milk Bowl on October 4. It was the highest amount of money won in any ACT-sanctioned Late Model event this year.

$7,022,803.48 — Total prize money and point fund money that has been awarded for point-counting events in the 29-year history of the ACT Late Model Tour.

$9,221,581.48 — Total prize money awarded after including major ACT-sanctioned Late Model events (Milk Bowl, ACT Invitational, New Smyrna events, etc.)