Guess what? I went to Unity Raceway and it didn't rain

Well, it didn't rain, but that doesn't mean some things won't change at Unity Raceway.

This just in: Nate Weston won a 75-lap Super Street race at the track he won the championship on a year ago.

The PASS Sportsman driver blistered the field, leading more than 2/3 of the Gary Mitchell Memorial on Friday night to beat out track regulars Brad Bellows and Mark Dodge. It was Weston's 2nd open win at Unity this year in 3 starts.

Though he won by nearly a 3-second margin, Weston said it wasn't quite as easy as it looked.

"I'm never going to say it's easy at Unity," Weston said, "but I was feeling pretty comfortable at the end."

About the only thing that could have slowed Weston was a late caution flag, but that never came. The last 54 laps went clean and green, and Bellows never got the chance he sought at re-starting on the outside of Weston's No. 47.

"Our cars were going the same speed," said Bellows, who had a 3-race winning streak snapped. "I would have liked a caution, maybe I could have gotten up to him and gotten him."

Weston said his car wasn't as fast on the inside.

"The outside lane was really getting me on the restarts," said Weston, who saw Mike Landry pass him twice in the outside groove coming to green flags. "With 5 to go, it could have been a whole different story. I definitely was not wanting to start underneath somebody."

Weston also said that he wasn't pushing the car as hard as he could have. He was wary of running too hard with a big lead and a new engine, after blowing up in a PASS Sportsman race at Canaan (N.H.) Fair Speedway last weekend.

"We were one of the fastest cars in practice at Canaan," Weston said. "Then we blew up, so I learned never to cash the check until the last lap, so to speak."

Just 13 cars started the main event, which was twice rained out and was named after a fan who was killed at the track in 1995.

In other feature racing, Dylan Lancaster of Skowhegan won the Mini Stock main event and Sam Whitmore won in the Wildcats.