Andy Cusack said it will be “six nights of full-contact fun.”

The owner of Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough will add six nights of Friday night racing next season to go with his Saturday night NASCAR series and Thursday Night Thunder for entry level classes.

“It will be called ‘Car Wars’ and it will start in late July,” Cusack said. “Drivers will be encouraged to lean on and bump each other.”

It won’t be demolition derby because they already have a three-race series called Days of Destruction which combines a variety of full-contact races.

But there will be similarities.

“Car Wars will be a couple of notches up from Days of Destruction and a couple of notches below our Thursday Night Thunder,” said Cusack, who is putting the finishing touches on the new series.

It has been a “pretty good year” for Beech Ridge, according to Cusack, who has a month left in his racing season.

“Thursday Night Thunder is still doing tremendously well,” said Cusack. “We have 130 vehicles in the pits each week and we’re getting full houses. We haven’t had a rainout in three years, which is unheard of.”

They have five classes but seven features because two of the classes are large enough to split into two feature races each week.

And Cusack keeps bringing new blood into the entry level Thursday Night Thunder series by mandating that drivers have a four-year limit in it.

“After four years they have a choice. They can purge out of it and be done; they can move up to Saturday night racing or they can step out of it for 10 years before coming back,” said Cusack.

“The theory behind it is we don’t want to have perennial top dogs on Thursday nights,” Cusack said.

He said that would discourage new drivers from getting involved.

“We want people saying ‘I think I can race with those guys,” said Cusack. “We want them to feel they can be competitive. We don’t want people feeling they have no chance to run in the top five.”

Cusack has encouraged Thursday night racers to make the jump to Saturday night racing by offering “low-dollar divisions” on Saturday.

He said the Saturday night NASCAR series has “rebounded to where it used to be quite a few years ago.

“Our attendance is up around 35 percent and we have a good field of cars, about 100, every Saturday,” said Cusack.

He has lowered ticket prices on Saturday and offers quite a few promotional activities including a school bus tour of the facility for kids and parents.

PASS, Busch races Saturday

The Pro All-Stars Series tour will head to Scotia Speedworld (Halifax, Nova Scotia) on Saturday night for the Atlantic Cat 250. Racing gets under way at 6.

Turner’s Ben Rowe won last year’s race and has notched three of his five wins and a pair of seconds over his last five races.

He has finished in the top three in his last seven races.

The defending champ currently is atop the points race with 2,257. He leads Center Conway, N.H.’s Dale Shaw by 85 points. Johnny Clark of Famingdale is third with 2,117, followed by South Paris’ Sammy Sessions (2,096) and Dave Gorveatt of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island (2,084).

Meanwhile, the Busch North series heads to Adirondack International Speedway (N.Y.) on Saturday.

Cherryfield’s Andy Santerre, the defending points champ, continues to lead but his margin has dwindled significantly after consecutive finishes of 19th, 24th and 11th.

Santerre has 1,662 points to lead Mike Stefanik of Coventry, R.I. by 50 points. Scarborough’s Kelly Moore is third with 1,591 points, Mike Johnson of Salisbury, Mass., is fourth with 1528 and rookie points leader Ryan Moore of Scarborough is fifth with 1,526 points.

Larry Mahoney may be reached at 990-8231 or lmahoney@bangordailynews.net