They won't have Wild Bill to kick around this weekend

The most recent Pro Stock winner at Wiscasset Raceway won’t be in the field for the track’s biggest race in that division in four years.

Bill Penfold of Oxford, who won the 50-lap feature at Wiscasset last Saturday, will not race in Sunday’s PASS North Series 150 at the track. Penfold said he was originally suspended by PASS officials for two races after the Miller Lite 150 at Riverside Speedway, but that he also was planning on sitting out Sunday’s event, anyway.

PASS has not been to Wiscasset since Sam Sessions of South Paris won the Big Dawg 400 there in 2003.

“A guy now can go Saturday night racing and buy tires and that’s it,” said Penfold, who will race in Wiscasset’s regularly 50-lap event tonight. “To go PASS racing, it’s $1,500 a night. To go to Wiscasset, last week I spent $390 — that’s buying two new tires and all my guys getting in. The racing’s good there, and everybody’s running really clean. I just don’t see (tour) racing anymore.”

Penfold said he will no longer compete in PASS, that Wiscasset Raceway will be his weekly home for this season and beyond. Penfold first competed at the track in 1992, the year after Dave St. Clair of Liberty re-opened the facility from a long hibernation. Prior to two weeks ago, the former NASCAR Busch East Series driver said he hadn’t raced there since 1993.

“After about 10 laps of practice, I was right back at home,” said Penfold, whose father, Ray Penfold, won the 1985 Wiscasset track championship. “To come away from somewhere that you started and then be able to go back, it’s really comforting.”