"Mainely Motorsports" sold to Steve Perry

The local cable racing icon "Mainely Motorsports" was sold this week to PASS marketing director Steve Perry.

Perry purchased the television show and corresponding web site from John Crawford. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

"Mainely Motorsports" is shown weekly on local cable affiliates and is a wrap-up of the state's local racing action, including highlights from local short tracks, as well as driver interviews and on-site features from non-stock car racing pursuits. As Crawford once said, "If it's motorsports, we'll do it."

One of Perry's 1st orders of business is to make the show's Web site, http://www.mainelymotorsportstv.com/ a more user-friendly entity. Perry has already hired someone to redesign the site and incorporate more news and information. Previously, the site had only a show schedule and pages of links to sponsor sites.

Reportedly, Perry also wants to put less of an emphasis on race highlights and more of an emphasis on interviews and news from teams, tracks and series.

Crawford, who was nearly killed in an accident at Unity Raceway in April of 2006, while filming footage of a PASS Outlaw Late Model race at the track for "Mainely Motorsports," remains the director of marketing at Wiscasset Raceway.