Stock track being built in Liberty

Dave St. Clair of Liberty wants to fulfill a dream. He hopes the people of Liberty and South Liberty want to share in his dream.

St. Clair is building a stock car track in South Liberty and, he said Friday, “I hope the townspeople will go along with it.”

St. Clair indicated there is nothing stating he can’t build a track in the Waldo County community, so he has broken ground.

“I don’t think there will be a problem. But they could get an ordinance and hold me up,” conceded St. Clair. “I’m going to start it and see what happens. I don’t want to do it and have the whole town mad at me.”

He intends to address the townspeople about it early next month.

As for the question of noise pollution, St. Clair said, “We’re a mile and a half from the nearest house and we’ll run with mufflers.”

By his own estimation, it’ll cost him between $100,000 and $200,000.

St. Clair, who owns Wiscasset Raceway and races his own stock car, has purchased 75 acres of land and has set aside 25 of those acres for the new track. He will build it himself and he hopes to complete it within 15 months, in time for racing late next summer.

He has already obtained 2,500 bleacher seats, he said.

“It’ll be a third of a mile with a high bank. We’ll have a 20-degree bank. That’ll be something different. And it’ll be a two-groove track,” said St. Clair, who is patterning the new track after the White Mountain Motor Sports Park in New Hampshire.

His track will hold its races on Sunday afternoons in June, July and August.

“We’ll start out with lower class cars and maybe we’ll bring in some late models for three races,” explained St. Clair. “But we won’t have it going until late next year, if at all.”

A lot of racing is scheduled throughout Maine during this Memorial Day weekend including the Maine Dodge Dealers Sportsman 100 on the newly-banked track at Speedway 95 in Hermon on Sunday afternoon. Racing will begin at 2 p.m.

Drag racing will begin at 1 p.m. Saturday at Oxford Plains. Saturday night racing has been scheduled at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough at 6:35 p.m. and at Unity Raceway in Unity at 7 p.m. Unity will offer a 50-lap super street feature.

Sunday cards are scheduled at Winterport Dragway, at 1 p.m., and at Caribou’s Spud Speedway, at 2. The Legends Cars will be featured at Spud Speedway.

A 6:35 p.m. Sunday card at Beech Ridge will feature the Coca-Cola 100 for late model sportsmen.