Welcome to soggy Wiscasset Raceway

See that, after days and days of 80s and sunshine, I come back from vacation to torrential downpours.

This stuff only happens to me.

Heavy downpours pelted Wiscasset Raceway around 4 p.m. this afternoon, and an assortment of Mini Stocks, Strictly Streets and Super Streets are out on the track now turning laps to dry the racing surface.

Not for nothing, but those rain showers didn't exactly cool things off. In fact, it's kind of like sitting in a sauna. With the New England Patriots' entire offensive line. After a football practice on a 100-degree morning. While we're being force-fed steaming crocks of clam chowder.
Of course, there's Wiscasset's own "Trackside" show being taped now over turn 2, and there are plenty of cars in the parking lot and fannies filing into the grandstands.

And, not to be forgotten, one unofficial count had it at 20 Pro Stocks in the pit area for the division's 50-lap feature in its return to the track. PASS North Series regulars Johnny Clark, Mike Rowe, Trevor Sanborn, Bill Penfold and Derek Ramstrom are all here, as are PASS Outlaw drivers Gary Norris Jr. and Matt Lee.

Good times. But, now that it's 5, we shouldn't be starting up too much past the posted 5 p.m. green flag.