WATERBURY, Vt. — A completely redesigned championship format will be used for the American-Canadian Tour Late Model stock-car racing season in 2008. 
A diverse slate of 12 events at seven speedways in the northeastern United States and Canada will comprise the schedule, while also giving race teams several options during the course of the April-to-September campaign.
The ACT driver and owner championships will be decided using the best 10 results for each individual during the 12-race season, thus giving teams the benefit of dropping their two worst outings of the year. 
“ACT — and the short track racing industry as a whole — is in a restructuring phase right now, and we are listening to what our racers are saying,” said ACT President Tom Curley. “The times have changed, and we want to meet the current demands of our race teams and the fans that support them. We feel we have a schedule that is regionally attractive, but also one that does not require an overwhelming budget or too much weekly travel.
“With the 10-race championship decided in a 12-race season,” Curley continued, “teams will, in a sense, not be penalized for a bad finish.”
New to the ACT schedule will be the ACT Showdown at Chaudière — a non-points all-star invitational scheduled Sept. 6 at Autodrome Chaudiére in Quebec. The event for competitors on the ACT Late Model Tour and the Canadian-based Series ACT Castrol, will pay $5,000 to the winner.
The July 20 Oxford 250 at Oxford Plains Speedway in Maine will also be a non-point event.
The schedule:
April 20, Lee USA Speedway, Lee, N.H.; April 26, Oxford Plains Speedway, Oxford, Maine; May 4, Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl, Barre, Vt.; May 17, Airborne Int’l Speedway, Plattsburgh, N.Y.; May 25, Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl; June 7, Waterford Speedbowl, Waterford, Conn.; June 21, Oxford Plains Speedway, Oxford, Maine; June 28, White Mountain Motorsports Park, North Woodstock, N.H.; July 13, Kawartha Speedway, Peterborough, Ontario; July 20, Oxford Plains Speedway; Aug. 31, Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl; Sept. 6, Autodrome Chaudiere, Chaudiere, Quebec; Sept. 13, Oxford Plains Speedway; Sept. 28, Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl .