The stock car racing season will get under way this weekend with Wiscasset Raceway opening on Saturday at 2 p.m.

Wiscasset got rained out last weekend.

However, the Pro All Stars Series’ Super Late Model North Division’s debut at Scarborough’s Beech Ridge Motor Speedway scheduled for Saturday, the New England Dodge Dealers 150, has been postponed due to wet conditions in and around the track.

There was also a PASS Outlaw Series race and a 40-lap modified feature to go with the Dodge Dealers 150 and they have all been rescheduled for May 5.

That will kick off an instate doubleheader weekend for PASS as the PASS North Division’s Super Late Models and Modifieds will move on to Speedway 95 in Hermon on May 6.

The May 6 racing begins at 2.

“We have water off turns three and four,” said Beech Ridge owner Andy Cusack. “We have good drainage, but the water is backed up. There’s no place for it to go.”

There is also a water problem in the pit area.

The Wiscasset Raceway card includes six divisions and the NELCAR Legends cars. Included are a 75-lap Strictly Street race and a 30-lap Late Model feature.

“Things are looking good,” said Wiscasset Raceway owner Dave St. Clair. “Things are a little wet around the edges, but this place is high and dry and that is certainly helping us this year.”

He said his phone has been “ringing off the wall,” and he pointed out that he has 32 late models signed up.

Saturday’s Late Model Feature will pay $1,700 to win, $1,000 more than the usual payoff.

St. Clair is optimistic about the season.

“We had 100-110 cars at the end of last year. We had some good racing. Now we’ve just got to find a way to put more people in the stands,” said St. Clair.

Oxford Plains Speedway will open on April 28 with the New England Dodge Dealers’ ACT (American-Canadian Tour) 150 headlining the card, Speedway 95 has pushed back its opening day to April 29, and Unity Raceway will begin racing on May 5.

Racing at OPS and Speedway 95 will begin at 2 p.m., and Unity Raceway will start at 1.

Unity will have its annual car show at the Waterville Wal-Mart on Saturday from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

OPS owner Bill Ryan said he already has 166 cars entered for the 34th annual TD Banknorth Oxford 250 on July 22.

“We’re real excited. That’s double the number of entries we had last year,” said Ryan, who will have two-time Nextel Cup points champion Terry Labonte in the field.

“And a couple other [Nextel Cup] guys have shown interest,” said Ryan.

This will be the fourth straight year Ryan has landed Nextel Cup drivers. Nextel Cup points champions Matt Kenseth and Kurt Busch ran the 250 in 2004; Kenseth and Kyle Busch raced in 2005, and Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, J.J. Yeley, and Newburgh’s Ricky Craven ran it last year.

Oxford Plains Speedway has gotten rid of its Pro Stock class this season with the Late Model division taking over as the top class. The TD Banknorth 250 will be comprised of late model cars and Ryan said that’s one of the reasons the number of entries is so high.

Ryan said getting rid of the costly pro stock class “is something that had needed to be done for a long time. Too many of us held on. It is something that is very outdated and unaffordable. This is what’s best for the track and the drivers.”

That will leave Beech Ridge and Speedway 95 as the only tracks with pro stock classes.

Unity Raceway and Wiscasset have dropped the pro stock class in recent years due to low car counts caused primarily by the high cost of running a pro stock car.

“I like the pro stocks,” said Speedway 95 co-owner Del Merritt. “You get cars turning 95-100 miles an hour on a third-mile oval. That’s fast.”