2022 American-Canadian Tour Season: By the Numbers
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0.023 Seconds - It was the wildest finish of the season, and the closest, as a sideways Patrick Laperle righted himself at the line to beat D.J. Shaw by 0.023-seconds for his fifth Fall Foliage 200 victory at White Mountain Motorsports Park. The 45th Fall Foliage 200 was also voted Racing America’s 2022 Race of the Year!
1 – Center Conway, New Hampshire’s D.J. Shaw took down his first career American-Canadian Tour Championship in his third full-time season.
2 – D.J. Shaw becomes the second driver to earn both an American-Canadian Tour and Pro All Stars Series Championship following Turner, Maine’s Ben Rowe accomplishing the feat in 2021.
2 – There were 2 first-time ACT Tour winners in 2022 – Wolcott, Vermont’s Marcel J. Gravel at Oxford Plains Speedway on July 10th and St.-Joseph de Beauce, Quebec’s Raphael Lessard at Autodrome Montmagny on August 20th.
3 – With the Canadian/US Border Open after two years of COVID-19 closure, three Quebec natives earned hard-fought American-Canadian Tour wins in 2022!
3 – 2022 marked the third year ACT and the Pro All Stars Series have worked together to promote events at Thompson Speedway after reviving the facility in 2020.
3.61 - D.J. Shaw’s average finish in the 13 events of 2022. Shaw had a worse finish of 9th on the season at the Thunder Road Community Bank 150 in May.
5 – For the first time in five years, the ACT sanctioning body will once again have a permanent presence in Canada with the revamped Serie ACT Quebec in 2023.
5 – Five events in 2022 finished with less than half-second leads. Two of those five were just thousands of a second, at the Fall Foliage and The Haunted Hundred at Seekonk Speedway.
7 – For the second year in a row, the American-Canadian Tour Champion was standing in the Victory Lane podium 7 times – Shaw narrowly missed several other podium opportunities with five 4th-place finishes (including the Vermont Milk Bowl).
13 – Each of the 13 events on the ACT circuit featured a different polesitter who charged through their heat race qualifiers to take down the top Plus/Minus handicap starting position.
15 – The Haunted Hundred at Seekonk Speedway showcased 15 lead changes, the most in any ACT event in 2022. The majority of these swaps were between D.J. Shaw and local hot-shoe Jacob ‘Rowdy’ Burns for a thrilling battle that lasted till the final lap!
21 – The number of different drivers who took home an ACT podium trophy in 2022.
32.3 - The American-Canadian Tour was able to average 32.3 cars per event in 2022.
43 – Highest single event car count in 2022 was in July at White Mountain Motorsports Park for the Milton CAT Midsummer Classic 250.
44 – It was year 44 for the American-Canadian Tour after starting out in 1979 and coming through multiple changes over the past four decades to today’s traveling showcase of modern technology and talented drivers.
75 – Longtime standout Tom Carey III led October’s Sunoco World Series 75 flag-to-flag in dominating fashion for his 2nd career ACT win. He is the first to do so since Mike Hopkins led the whole way to his first ACT win at Oxford Plains Speedway on July 11th, 2021.
148 – Number of different drivers who attempted to qualify for ACT Tour events in 2022.
229 – Vermont’s Jason Corliss led the most laps in ACT competition with 229 laps led in the six ACT events he entered in 2022.
1,897 – For the second-consecutive year, the ACT Champion was able to complete every lap on the 2022 schedule. D.J. Shaw completed all 1,897 laps on the 13 race ACT Tour schedule with sophomore driver Erick Sands as his closest competitor, completing 1,807 laps in his second full season with ACT.
1992 – The last time a Canadian held the top rookie honors was Ontario’s Kim Wallace back in 1992. Notre-Dame-des-Pins' Alexendre ‘Fireball’ Tardif was able to break a thirty-year Canadian drought by taking the 2022 ACT Rookie of the Year honors. Tardif is also the first Quebecois to ever earn the ACT Rookie title.
$10,650 – The largest single-event prize in ACT point-counting competition this year happened twice! D.J. Shaw earned the $10,000 prize for winning the Milton CAT Midsummer Classic 250, as did Raphael Lessard in the CAN-AM 200. Both also earned the Ford Performance, Koni Shocks, AR Bodies, Five Star Race Car Bodies, KRC Power Steering and Longacre Contingency Awards for winning an ACT Tour event.
$15,590 – Christopher Pelkey’s share of the $103,100 ACT-sanctioned Vermont Milk Bowl purse with the Booth Bros./Hood Pole Award, Triple 50 Heat Race Win, Milk Bowl Lap Money and the 60th Vermont Milk Bowl presented by Northfield Savings Bank win.
$53,630 – Total Purse, Contingency and Championship monies earned in 2022 by ACT Champion D.J. Shaw.
