South Burlington, VT – Jean-Paul Cyr of Milton, VT was awarded his 2004 ACT Dodge Tour Championship trophy at the ACT Banquet of Champions, held Saturday night at the Sheraton-Burlington Hotel & Conference Center. The ACT Banquet of Champions honored Cyr and Top 10 drivers from the ACT Dodge Tour, as well as Track Champions and Top 10 racers from Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl in Barre, VT and Airborne Int’l Raceway in Plattsburgh, NY.

If we may, we’d like to humbly congratulate our fearless leader, Tom Curley, on his recent appointment as the Racing Promotion Monthly “New England Regional Promoter of the Year”. In winning the honor, ACT and Thunder Road Speedbowl President Curley joins seven other promoters from across the U.S. on the ballot for RPM’s 29th annual national “Auto Racing Promoter of the Year” award, his third such nomination. Should he win the ARPY award, he’ll join a long and impressive list of previous winners, including two-time winner Hugh Deery, 1978 winner D. Anthony Venditti of Seekonk (MA) Speedway, 1992 winner and 2004 nominee Bob Lawton, and 1993 winner Earl Baltes of Eldora (OH) Speedway.

Green Lake, WI – Racing Promotion Monthly (RPM) has named the recipients of its “Regional Promoter of the Year” awards for 2004. Short track stock car racing promoters in eight regions were tabbed for the honors, with each promoter placed on the National ballot for the 29th annual “RPM Auto Racing Promoter of the Year” award. The award, voted on by over 1,000 members, is considered the short track industry’s highest honor among promoters, and will be presented at the RPM Promoters Workshops in Lake Mary, FL during Speedweeks in February.