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ON SITE: It's deja vu for Johnny Clark

It was only a week ago, while running in weekly competition at Wiscasset Raceway, that Johnny Clark used a dominant race car to hold off Travis Benjamin on a late-race restart for his 4th win in 5 starts at the track.

Sunday afternoon's PASS North Series event had that old familiar feeling again.

Clark once again held off a late charge from Benjamin, but this time it was for a much larger paycheck as he went on to win the Ray Haskell Ford 125. Clark led every lap.

ON SITE: Mark Lucas takes 3rd PASS Modified win

Mark Lucas took advantage of a fading Kenny Harrison over several late-race restarts to take his 3rd 40-lap PASS Modified win of the season.

Harrison missed all of the morning practice at Wiscasset Raceway as he tried to piece his car back together after misfortune at Speedway 95 several weeks ago, and he was trying to hold of Lucas.

ON SITE: Running at about half-throttle

I feel like a man that's been singled out.

Everywhere I turn there's another can, another flavor of Full Throttle -- the Coca-Cola Company's cheap imitation of an energy drink. They're giving away free samples to fans today, but let's be very clear here. I'm not getting any, OK.

I'm a Monster guy. OK? I'm not looking for soda with extra sugar and caffeine. I'm looking for a bunch of ingredients I can't pronounce, ones that I have no idea at all what they do for me, ones that will probably knock a good 12-15 years off my expected life span.

Now that we've gotten past that....

COLUMN: Tom Mayberry made the right call on Outlaws

Simply put, anyone who thinks Tom Mayberry didn't do the right thing by pulling the plug on the PASS Outlaw Late Model division this season is wrong.

Single-digit car counts and concerns from promoters planning on running Outlaw shows added up to a lose-lose situation. And Mayberry did the only thing he could do to help everyone out.

Yes, I said everyone -- including those teams who were in the Outlaw fold.

Jean-Paul Cyr snaps ACT winless drought

On Saturday night at Airborne Speedway, 7-time and defending American-Canadian Tour champion Jean-Paul Cyr did something he had not done since 2006. He won.

Cyr won the Spring Green 100, holding off a hard-charging Randy Potter for the victory -- snapping an 18-race winless streak dating back to Aug. 12, 2006 at White Mountain Motorsports Park. Patrick Laperle restarted from dead-last on lap 35 before rallying to finish 3rd.

ON SITE: Travis Adams rolls on at Oxford

Travis Adams got out of his car and immediately paid homage to one of the greatest drivers in the storied history of Oxford Plains Speedway.

"My hero is Jeff Taylor," Adams said Saturday night after winning his 2nd straight 40-lap Late Model feature to open the season at Oxford. "I grew up watching him just dominate everybody, and he did it by driving super-clean.

"I'd like to think that I'm half the driver he is, and I'd like to think I'm just as clean."

Uh-oh. It's another GWC rant.

Sometimes I wish they'd ask me some of these questions. I mean, can't you just see me standing down there in victory lane, microphone in hand, right out of the Subaru Forester 25-lap event.

"Thanks, Travis. Anybody you want to thank?"

What? Is there anybody I want to thank?!?

Chris Thorne wins Bruce Kane Memorial

For the 2nd year in a row, Sidney driver Chris Thorne won the 30-lap Bruce Kane Memorial for the Late Models at Wiscasset Raceway.

Thorne beat Steve Reny and Ricky Rolfe across the stripe. Darren Ripley and Adam Chadbourne rounded out the top-5. Rolfe, who sat 2nd in the Oxford Plains Late Model standings entering the night, was tuning up for a run at next week's $10,000-to-win Coastal 200 at the track.

The race is named for Bruce Kane, who was killed in racing crash at Wiscasset in the 1990s.

It's Saturday night, it's Oxford Plains

Maine's western hills are on the horizon, my hair has been successfully scraped off and I'm ready to go after an all-nighter of birdwatching followed by a 4-hour nap.

Don't ask...

That being said, though I don't feel either rebellious or like running anywhere, we're set for a pair of Runnin' Rebel feature and a 40-lap Late Model main event at Oxford Plains Speedway.

Brad Keselowski: Cup driver in training

Dale Earnhardt Jr. said on Friday that he would consider taking his JR Motorsports team to the Sprint Cup Series level for next season.

It appears he's already got the driver that's got the routine down pat.

Earnhardt's Nationwide Series driver Brad Keselowski apparently is under the impression that you don't have to accomplish much of anything to be treated like royalty in one of NASCAR's top series. In 46 career Nationwide starts, Keselowski has exactly zero wins and an average finish of worse than 24th.

That's not stopping him from acting like a big-time driver with big-time credentials.