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.

Thorne, the reigning track champion, was leading at the halfway mark with Reny, Ripley and Rolfe racing 3-wide behind him when his car got severely sideways at the start-finish line. He corrected as the guys behind him checked up and drove on for the win.

Maurice Young, a 6-time Wiscasset champion, rebounded from a last-place finish a week ago to win wire-to-wire in the Strictly Stock division.

In the Super Street division, Shawn Austin picked up his 1st career win, while Pete McCollett of Readfield won a Mini Stock feature for the 1st time since 2005. Jason Giggey was the victor in the Mini Trucks.

Wiscasset returns to action with the 2nd half of a doubleheader weekend on Sunday. The PASS North Series will run the Ray Haskell Ford 125, with qualifying beginning at 2 p.m.