Cale King Named ACT Media Director

Buzz Fisher photo

Barre, VT — American-Canadian Tour officials announced today that Cale King will step into the role as Media Director for the nationally renowned Late Model Tour as well as Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre, Vermont, North Woodstock, New Hampshire’s White Mountain Motorsports Park and the co-sanctioned Thompson Speedway in Connecticut.

King is a New Hampshire native who admits that he’s been in the sport from the very beginning. With his parents meeting in 1996 at Maine’s Oxford Plains Speedway and a multi-time championship Aunt in Gorham, New Hampshire’s Tracie Bellerose, it was hard not to be involved in the business of stock car racing. With this most recent step up, it will be 24 years as both a fan, and official, in New England short track racing.

“I essentially grew up on a Gold Star in those concrete grandstands at Thunder Road, getting to watch my Aunt Tracie beat up on the boys, and take to the skies both figuratively and physically. After she stepped away, my father ensured my interest in racing wouldn’t end and many a summer weekend we’d make the trip back to ‘The Road,’ over the ‘Kanc’ to White Mountain or just over the border to Oxford Plains,” said King. “I’m blessed to have that familial connection, it’s brought me many memories, a few interesting experiences and some of the very best of friends.”

“I emailed Cris on a whim back in 2017, just throwing it all out there; ‘Hey, I’ve always been a fan and I’m ready to see this thing from the other side of the fence’,” King said. “We met up, the meeting was short and sweet and I’ve been in the game ever since.”

Starting as a Pit Steward at Thunder Road for the 2018 season, King quickly fell in with the rest of the ACT umbrella. He added the American-Canadian Tour to his resume for the first time at the Thompson Sunoco World Series in 2018, finally adding the White Mountain pit area into the mix midseason the following year.  

Cale King (Center) with (L-R) photographer Al Ward and Garrett Townsend. (Buzz Fisher photo)

“Ever since Cale started with us in 2018, he’s been able to excel at whatever we’ve thrown at him,” said ACT managing partner Cris Michaud. “Our philosophies on racing mesh quite well, we see eye-to-eye on the ACT product, both as far as the tour and the tracks go, and he’ll be a great asset to us as Media Director, just as he has been these last four years.”

“It’s been an absolute dream for me to be able to work at my ‘home away from home’ at Thunder Road and I have always believed the ACT Late Model to be the most competitive division across the nation, that simply has not faltered.” King continued, “I am truly honored to even be considered for the position and I am bubbling with excitement for the upcoming season!”

For more information, contact the ACT offices at (802) 244-6963, media@acttour.com, or visit www.acttour.com. You can also get updates on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram at @ACTTour.