Wiscasset Opening Day 2010!
Opening Day 2010!
(Wiscasset, ME) Wiscasset Raceway is ready for Opening Day! This Sunday May 23rd Maine’s Center of Speed, The Wiscasset Raceway will kick off our 41st racing season. Come join the fun with racing in the Steel’s Real Rods & Customs Late Model Division, The U.S. Cellular Super Streets, The New England Transmission Strictly Streets, The Twisted Tea Mini-Stocks, and racing in our new Outlaw and Ray Haskell Ford 6 Cylinder Enduro Divisions.
Opening Day 2010 is also Student Day. All students get in free this Sunday at The Wiscasset Raceway. Bring the kids to enjoy some racing and our brand new video arcade. Try our new menu from Hafford’s Restaurant in Waterville featuring hand cut french fries and the soon to be famous Wiscasset Raceway pulled pork sandwich.
We’ll also celebrate and honor our soldiers with “A Salute to the Troops” ceremony from Operation Recognition. Operation Recognition is a non-profit, non-partisan group, founded to deliver a long-overdue Thank-you! to our servicemen and women. They risk their lives for our protection and well-being and we believe they deserve a meaningful gesture of appreciation: a week of R&R in Maine. All of us at The Wiscasset Raceway are proud to support Operation Recognition again in 2010. For more information go to their website at www.operationrecognition.com.
The gates open this Sunday at 11am with racing starting at 2pm. The national anthem will be sung by a very talented local singer, Kait Garland, courtesy of U.S. Cellular in Gardiner.
Join us this Sunday for the 2010 Opening Day at Maine’s Center of Speed, The Wiscasset Raceway! BE THERE!
(Wiscasset, ME) The Center of Speed, Wiscasset Raceway, is going back to the grass roots of racing for the 2010 season. After announcing all Sunday Twilight Racing, Wiscasset Raceway is proud to present another innovation for 2010. A brand new weekly program for real street cars, preparing them for racing competition Enduro style. Enduro racing is an entry class series whose rules are designed to keep costs down. Enduro cars really are "stock." Most start out as wrecks, which are bought from auctions or junkyards. Enduro cars are much more affordable to maintain as well. For many Enduro racers, the off season means they simply throw a tarp on the car in the fall, and take it off in the spring. These cars are tough. “Speed is not necessarily what will make you win,” says one long time Enduro racer, "it's more like longevity. You can't win if you don't finish.” 
(Wiscasset, ME) At the very beginning of stock car racing the bootleggers would race on Sunday afternoons to see who had the fastest moonshine car. The first Daytona 500 took place on a Sunday. Now Wiscasset Raceway will race on Sundays! The Center of Speed, Wiscasset Raceway, is constantly searching to improve racing in Maine and have decided to break the trend of Saturday night racing and start a new Maine racing tradition with Sunday afternoon Twilight Racing. “We feel that going to Sunday afternoon events will free up time for the fans to take care of normal work and family obligations which often happen on Friday and Saturday,” says Doug White, owner of the Wiscasset Raceway. “This is a great opportunity for race teams throughout the State to have an alternate day to be able to race!” Dave Walker, from Walker Racing, was instrumental in the switch to Sunday racing in 2010. “I've heard from 20 or 30 different race teams that would love to race on Sundays,” said Dave. “This will give lots of teams a chance to race more than once every