Scott and Demers Team up for ACT Race at Oxford

Scott and Demers Team up for ACT Race at Oxford

OXFORD, ME – A pair of Vermont stock car drivers will team up
for the New England Dodge Dealers 150 at
Maine's Oxford Plains Speedway on Saturday, as Phil Scott of
Montpelier sits in for South Burlington driver
Trampas Demers in the Jiffy Mart #85VT Chevrolet. Demers' car owner,
Charlie Smith, ranks 21st in American-
Canadian Tour Late Model Owner's Championship standings, less than 100
points from the Top 10 with two events
remaining. Demers is overseas on business, and Scott, the 2002 ACT
champion, was called upon by Smith to take the
seat at Oxford.
"We're excited to have Phil Scott step in while Trampas is
gone," said Smith. "Obviously, Trampas would
rather race himself, but given the circumstances, we figured we would
ask a veteran driver that is capable of
giving us some positive feedback on the race car. Phil is very good,
he's not a driver that tears up equipment,
and we're not just going to take a lap and pull him off the track.
We're headed to Oxford with every good piece
we have, just as though Trampas were driving."
Scott will be the third pilot of the #85VT car this season, as
both Demers and his father, veteran racer
Dennis Demers, have tallied points for the team. Scott, on the other
hand, has already raced for two other car
owners this season, himself and Pete Duto. Duto's ride sits seventh
in Owner's Championship standings with a
combined driving effort from Scott and Brad Leighton.
"Honestly, I was shocked when Trampas and Charlie asked me to
drive for them," said Scott. "It takes a
lot of character for a race car driver to trust someone else with his
car, and I have a lot of respect for Trampas
and Charlie asking me to fill in. It's an honor, really, and I'll go
to Oxford and try to win the race for them."
ACT Late Model Tour point leader Scott Payea of Milton, VT
leads Montréal's Patrick Laperle by 42 points,
750-708, entering the New England Dodge Dealers 150 on Saturday.
Seven-time ACT champion Jean-Paul Cyr ranks
third at 681 points, with John Donahue (649) and Randy Potter (641)
completing the top five. Other star drivers
expected include Brent Dragon, top-ten ACT driver and former Oxford
Plains Speedway standout Glen Luce, and recent
Oxford ACT winners Ricky Rolfe and Joey "Pole" Polewarczyk, Jr.
Newly-crowned OPS track champion Travis Adams has
also filed an entry for the New England Dodge Dealers 150, a race in
which he earned his first-ever ACT Late Model
Tour victory last year.
Qualifying action for the ACT Late Model Tour's New England
Dodge Dealers 150 begins at 2:00pm on
Saturday, Sept. 13. Oxford Plains Speedway is located on Route 26 in
Oxford, ME. For more information, call
(802) 244-6963 or visit www.acttour.com.