Turner’s Ben Rowe has been tearing up the Pro All-Stars Series tour.

He has five consecutive top three finishes, including three trips to Victory Lane.

He won five PASS events a year ago en route to the points championship.

The 28-year-old Rowe has also has success at the Oxford True Value 250, Maine’s most prestigious race, with three top-six finishes in the last four races.

That included back-to-back seconds in 1999 and 2000.

Rowe would like nothing better than to take the checkered flag for the first time when the 30th annual Oxford True Value 250 is held on Sunday at Oxford Plains Speedway.

“I think we have as good a chance as anybody,” said Rowe. “This is one of the most relaxed weeks we’ve ever had before the 250. We had a little get-together last night [Thursday].

“When you have a team as good as mine, when you’ve been together as long as we have and when you have awesome equipment like we do, it’s hard for people to beat us right now,” added Rowe. “We’ve got everything going our way but we’ve got to stay on top of it.”

Heat races will begin at 2 p.m. and the feature will start at approximately 7 p.m..

Dixfield’s Scott Robbins and Otisfield’s Gary Drew, the last two champions, respectively, will be among five previous winners in the field.

The others are two-time winner Mike Rowe of Turner, Ben’s father, who triumphed in 1984 and 1997; Scarborough’s Larry Gelinas (1996) and Derek Lynch of Hamilton, Ontario, who took the checkered flag in 1994.

Unity’s Ralph Nason, the only man to win three in a row (’98,’99, 2000), won’t be in the field as he will be attending a race at Autodrome Montmagny in Quebec, one of three tracks he owns.

Nason and son, Ron, have been busy as they have opened a new business called NewEnglandAutoParts.com. They distribute recyled auto parts for passenger cars.

The third-mile oval at Oxford Plains Speedway was resurfaced in October and the result has been a faster track which creates more tire wear, according to Oxford regular Drew.

That will probably mean an extra pit stop or two, although fifth-year owner Bill Ryan said the opinions have varied from driver to driver.

“There are all sorts of theories out there about when to change tires and how many times they” have to change them. That will make it interesting,” said Ryan.

“You might have to stop three or four times instead of once but I don’t think it’s as big a deal as everyone says it is,” said Rowe, who will be driving a Chevy Monte Carlo. “We [drivers] just like to complain. That’s all we do. We complained about the track so they paved it. Now we’re complaining about the tires.”

He did say crew chief Brian Burgess and his crew practiced pit stops more than usual this past week.

“We have one of the best tire guys there is in Bill Hill. He’ll pick the right ones. We have a couple of set-ups we’re going to try [today]. You can run real aggressively and wear your tires down more quickly or back off and save them. We want to find the happy medium,” said Rowe.

Drew said a torrid pace will takes its toll on the tires “but if you keep a good pace and don’t heat your tires up, you’ll be able to go a lot farther.”

Dale Shaw of Center Conway, N.H. has already qualified for the race because he won the New England Dodge Dealers Pro Stock 100 at the OPS on April 13.

The OPS weekly racer who finishes the highest in the American-Canadian Tour race on Saturday night will also qualify.

There will be 36 qualifiers and Ryan will also award three or four provisionals. The past champions will earn a provisional if they don’t qualify in the heat races.

Rowe said there are “30 guys who could win it including his father Mike, Scott Fraser of Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, Drew and Robbins.

The winner will pocket $25,000 and lap leaders earn $100 per lap.

Ted Christopher of Plainville, Conn., a veteran Busch North and featherlite modified driver, and former Busch Grand National driver and Winston Cup team owner Joe Bessey of Rangeley are among other prime contenders along with Strong’s Tracy Gordon and Farmington’s Jeff Taylor.

Christopher will be making his Oxford True Value 250 debut.