Weston, rain clouds and Wiscasset

Until Sunday, Nate Weston hadn't raced at Unity Raceway since the track's opening day in May. After a last-minute rules change at Unity, the 2006 Super Street champion at the track decided not to call one place home.

Weston will run 14-15 races this season, running all 8 PASS Sportsman division events and hitting open shows with larger purses to round out the slate.

"The competition is good (with PASS)," Weston said following practice for the 75-lap main later in the day. "The cars, generally speaking, have more money into them and guys are less apt to want to wreck."

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Uh-oh. I just noticed rain clouds moving in over the Unity backstretch. We're not even 8 minutes into the show (with Ben Erskine taking the first heat race over Matt Lee) and it's looking ominous all of a sudden.

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John Crawford, who will help new Wiscasset Raceway owner Doug White with the promotional side of the show, said the Pro Stocks will return to the track in 2008. He said racers should keep an eye out for future announcements regarding a meeting in the next few weeks about the change to the lineup.

They're thinking about going with the division, very tentatively speaking, on a bi-weekly basis.