* Ben Rowe still with RMR
* ACT to race at Beech Ridge in '09
* ASM to field cars for Iowa teen
* No weekly Super Late Models at Unity next season
* Tim Turner caps wild finish to Long John 100 at Unity
* Chris Thorne back where it all began
* Owner Paya hires Brian Hoar to driver for ACT team
* Cassius Clark wins PASS national title
* Beers sets Thompson track record
* Updated point standings
* The Whelen Modified Tour title contenders
* Sunday's results from Wiscasset
* Young closer to record title No. 7
* ASM to remain open in 2009
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New Hampshire native and multi-time American-Canadian Tour event winner Joey Polewarczyk Jr. already believes it could be the best race of the season. "I’m excited. I think it’s really cool," Polewarczyk said of the 50-lap ACT-sanctioned Late Model Invitational at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, which will be held during Sylvania 300 weekend for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in September of 2009. Polewarczyk not only has several seasons of ACT racing on his resume, but he’s one of the very, very few in the ACT ranks that has track time at NHMS under his belt. Polewarczyk, of Hudson, N.H., drove the No. 03 of Dave Davis to a sixth-place finish in the Heluva Good! Fall 125 at the track last September. "I think it will be great racing – a lot different from the Camping World East cars," Polewarczyk said, who also drove in the CWES at Thompson International Speedway in July for owner Barney McRae. "These (Late Model) cars are a lot more predictable. It’s better two-wide racing, so I’m really excited. The cars will be real fast because they’re lighter. There’s not as much power (as a CWES car), but they’ll keep their momentum a lot better." The event won’t be an ACT points event, but it will have strong ACT influence. A 36-car field, racing for a total purse of more than $65,000, will feature 2009 ACT and Castrol Series race winners and points leaders.
ACT Late Models, seen here prior to a race at Oxford Plains Speedway last season, will visit the New Hampshire Motor Speedway for the first time in 2009./Photo by Travis Barrett
ACT to hold Late Model Invitational at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in '09 
Teams find checks, gift certificates at year-end banquet
WATERVILLE, Maine – Randy Turner figured he waited this long, what’s another couple of weeks.
Wiscasset Raceway owner Doug White confirmed that the roughly $81,000 point fund he advertised at the beginning of the season has been altered. Race teams in all six of Wiscasset’s weekly divisions received purse checks in amounts less than expected at the facility’s awards banquet on Sunday afternoon.
Purse payouts were prorated by White, after he said he raised only $60,000 in point fund monies during the season. Teams finishing in the top-10 in their respective divisions received 75 percent of their advertised purses, accompanied by a "gift certificate" in the value of the remaining 25 percent. They can be used toward 2009 gasoline, tire or pit pass purchases at Wiscasset Raceway. They can also be redeemed for cash value, as early as two weeks from now.
Turner, of Unity, was supposed to earn $10,000 for his Super Late Model championship while driving for owner Tim Norris. Instead, he was given $7,500 on Sunday with a certificate for the remaining $2,500.
"What’s the big deal, really?" Turner said. "We waited a month to get the money, anyway, so what’s another two weeks? We’re still getting it."
