The Waterford Speedbowl Guy

You never know what you'll hear at Oxford Plains Speedway.

Walking through the parking lot Saturdday afternoon with colleague Steve Craig of the Portland Press Herald, we were stopped by a man wearing a faded Waterford Speedbowl t-shirt.

"Did you guys hear, there are 183 cars here today," the man said, taking a swig from a McDonald's coffee cup. He's talking, of course, about the TD Banknorth 250.

"Actually," Steve said, "that's the entry list. There's almost exactly half that many here today."

The man was pleased, smiling widely.

"First ACT race I went to, there were 74 cars there," Waterford Speedbowl Guy said. "74 cars! Wow, that's a lot of cars. I love Late Models. I just love them. I think that's the way to go, just because there's so many of them around."

That being the case, Waterford Speedbowl Guy is in the right place this weekend.