Joey Pole Dominates Beech Ridge Speedway

#97 Joey Polewarczyk's season just got a whole lot better Saturday night. The proverbial "Monkey" is off his back. Pole earned his first win of the season and more importantly he earned Ford Motor Co. their first win with newly developed sealed ACT spec motor.

The Polewarczyk team made the switch from the Bowtie to the Blue Oval this off-season in what surprised a lot of people as Joey was the highest profile ACT driver to make the switch. The Ford motor has had quite a learning curve for the Pole team, they have had only 2 top 10's in the first 7 point counting races but with the victory Saturday night, things just took a major step forward.

Joey, along with two other Ford Drivers (#88 Jeff Taylor and #57 Austin Theriault) dominated the race. Pole and Taylor swapped the lead as many as 7-10 times during the first 3/4 of the race, until Taylor blew a right front tire coming out of corner 4 on lap 131. That allowed the race to become the "Joey and Austin" show. On the restart Joey got off to a great start and was up as many as 10 car lengths over Theriault, but at the end of the race Austin was closing quickly but it wasn't enough as Pole earned his 5th career win. The ACT Tour is back in action this Friday July 30 at Twin State Speedway.