The Pro All-Stars Series will have its most ambitious schedule this season as there will be 18 points races, the most in its five-year existence, and one of them will be at Scarborough’s Beech Ridge Motor Speedway for the first time.

The Beech Ridge race will be sponsored by Pullen Heavy Industries and will involve a three-day weekend of racing on Sept. 23, 24, and 25.

There will be five more PASS races at Maine tracks as Oxford Plains Speedway and Hermon’s Speedway 95 will have two races apiece and there will be another at Unity Raceway.

Earlier in September, PASS will make its first-ever visit to Twin State Speedway in Claremont, N.H.

“I’m really surprised with how well it all turned out. I’m really happy with it,” said Tom Mayberry, founder and director of the PASS tour. “Having races at Oxford and Beech Ridge is a real plus. But I’m happy with all of our races.”

Mayberry said the Beech Ridge race will pay $15,000 to win and there will also be lap money.

PASS raced at Oxford in its first season but hasn’t had a race scheduled there the last two seasons.

Mayberry said they haven’t decided whether the Beech Ridge feature will be a 200 or 300-lapper. There will be heat races leading up to the feature. The Beech Ridge regulars will have their weekly features, also.

The past two PASS champs, Johnny Clark of Farmingdale (2004) and Ben Rowe of Turner (2003, 2002), said they are looking forward to the schedule.

“I’ve always said I’d like to have 18 to 20 races a year,” said Rowe. “With 16 races, it seemed like we had a lot of time off early.”

Rowe said he would prefer to race regularly.

“The Beech Ridge race is going to be unbelievable,” said Clark. “Beech Ridge had been the Maine home of the Busch North cars for years. Beech Ridge puts on incredible races and having a touring pro stock tour there will go hand-in-hand. It’s going to be an unbelievable race.”

Rowe said he has “lobbied” for years to have a race at Beech Ridge.

“This is great. I love Beech Ridge. And I like those two or three-day deals,” said Rowe.

Rowe is also an advocate of experiencing different tracks “so you don’t get stuck in the same rut.”

Clark said Mayberry is doing a “great job” expanding the tour across New England and Canada and said the race at Claremont will help attract the Vermont drivers and fans.

In other racing news, PASS will use the A-B-C body for the upcoming season which will create uniformity and parity and reduce costs, according to Mayberry.

“We want to pull the reins in a little bit,” said Mayberry.

The PASS schedule gets underway at White Mountain Motorsports Park (N.H.) on Sunday, April 17 and all points racers must conform to the A-B-C body standards by the halfway point of the season.

Mayberry also said six to eight PASS teams have received invitations to race at the Speedfest in Lakeland, Fla. on Jan. 27-29.

Speedfest involves the top teams from several short track series across the country.

There will be a Battle of the South race and then a Battle of the North feature which will help qualify teams for the 200-lap Battle of the Best.

Clark and Rowe are hoping to be involved in the event.

Pro All-Stars Series

2005 schedule

April

17 – White Mountain Motorsports Park (N.H.)

30 – Oxford Plains Speedway

May

15 – Thompson Int’l Speedway (Conn.)

22 – Speedway 95

28 – Canaan Fair Speedway (N.H.)

June

4 – Riverside Speedway (N.H.)

11 – Oxford Plains Speedway

25 – Scotia Speedworld (Nova Scotia)

July

9 – Unity Raceway

16 – White Mountain Motorsports Park (N.H.)

August

6 – Riverside Speedway (N.H.)

12-13 – Scotia Speedworld (Nova Scotia)

20 – Canaan Fair Speedway (N.H.)

September

4 – Twin State Speedway (N.H.)

11 – Speedway 95

17 – White Mountain Motorsports Park (N.H.)

23-25 – Beech Ridge Motor Speedway

October

1 – Star Speedway (N.H.)