There won’t be anybody any busier than Stan Meserve on Saturday.

The former owner of Distance Racing Products in Unity and a highly successful stock car racer will be the crew chief for Cherryfield’s Andy Santerre in the Busch Grand National CVS Pharmacy 200 at New Hampshire International Speeedway. He’ll do the same for Tom Carey Jr. of Orange, Mass., in the Busch North CVS Pharmacy 125 which will follow the BGN race.

Both Chevy Monte Carlos are owned by the Santerre-Reece Motorsports team.

“I look forward to having the car to beat in both races,” said the 59-year-old Meserve. “We have prepared both cars.”

Meserve was the crew chief for Ricky Craven’s Busch Grand National team last year before Craven shut down his shop when he became the driver for the Tide 32 car on the Winston Cup circuit. He became the crew chief for the new Santerre-Reece Motorsports team.

“This has been great,” said Meserve. “We’ve been building our own stuff. I’m living a dream.”

He said the difference between this year and last year was “we didn’t have much of a team last year. It was basically me and a bunch of volunteers. This year, we have five employees.”

Craven was driving a Monte Carlo for the Midwest Transit Co. Winston Cup team last year in addition to his six BGN races.

Santerre intends to drive 8-10 BGN events this season, but he could do more if the team can attract a primary sponsor.

“We need a sponsor desperately. We would be a good date for some sponsor. We would settle for a lot less [money] than we should get,” said Meserve.

Santerre has entered three of the 11 BGN events so far and has finished 23rd, 31st, and 33rd.

However, that is somewhat misleading because he led 76 laps during the Cheeze-It 250 at Bristol Motor Speedway before getting mixed up with Brad Teague on lap 188.

The accident ended his day.

“We’ve been good in every race,” said Meserve. “We had a terrible pit stop [in one of the other two races] and that put us a lap down.”

The Santerre-Reece Motorsports team has four cars and will unveil a brand new one Saturday.

Santerre hasn’t had time to test it yet and admitted that is “a little bit of a concern.”

But Meserve isn’t worried.

“If the car is right, there shouldn’t be a problem,” said Meserve. “Andy will just have to adapt the car. He knows Loudon. He’s comfortable there. I have all the confidence in the world that if the car is right, Andy will run up front.”

Meserve said the Santerre-Reece Motorsports Team has top-notch equipment and an excellent group of employees.

“We only lack a pit crew. So we hire one on race day,” said Meserve.

Doesn’t that lack of familiarity cause problems for Meserve?

“It’s always a tough thing to do, but we only hire experienced people, and they’ve done this lots of times. It doesn’t matter what kind of car it is, it’s always the same jobs. You get guys to carry the tires, change the tires; you get a gas man and a jack man,” said Meserve. “It’s not a hard thing for them to do.”

Meserve has a meeting with them before the race to go over “a few elementary procedures so that the conversation will be the same. If I bark something on the spur of the moment and they only have 10 seconds to respond, they need to know what I mean.”

Meserve, who had sold Distance Racing Products to Jeff Taylor to join Craven with the SBIII Motorsports team as the shop manager two years ago, said he loves being back at the track on race day. He wasn’t at the track during their short-lived 12-race stint with fledgling SBIII.

“I’m an integral part of what is going on and that’s what I really like,” said Meserve.

Does he miss driving?

“No. But that might be too strong. That was another part of my life. It had to stop sometime,” said Meserve, who lives in North Carolina.

The BGN race will be begin at 12:30 p.m. with the Busch North race to follow.

Strong’s Tracy Gordon won the only previous Busch North race this season at Lee USA Speedway (N.H.).

Santerre said the race is extremely important for him.

“Our main goal is to attract a sponsor,” said Santerre, who is fully aware that an impressive performance could do just that.

“I really enjoy the track and the layout. A lot of drivers think it’s a tough track to pass on, but I’ve always been able to pass there,” said Santerre.