Last weekend was a memorable one for Corey Williams of Boothbay Harbor.

Williams is employed by the Andy Santerre Motorsports team and was in Stafford Springs, Conn., last Friday night working on Jeffrey Earnhardt’s car during a Busch East race. Earnhardt started 20th but finished 12th.

They didn’t finish until 1:30 a.m. and Williams and a fellow crew member had to catch a plane out of Hartford, Conn., at 6 a.m. back to North Carolina, where Williams was driving in the Orange Blossom Special Pro All-Stars Series South Super Late Model race that night at the Orange County Speedway.

Williams started on the pole and won his first PASS South race.

“The whole weekend was crazy. It was a nonstop weekend, for sure. We were so fortunate to be able to make it [to North Carolina]. Just about all the flights were delayed by three hours due to weather, but we were only delayed by 15 minutes. We got out before the weather hit,” said Williams.

He may have been tired, but he said he didn’t notice it.

“I was just so pumped up all day long because I was getting back into the seat,” said the 21-year-old Williams.

It was his second Pro Stock win.

“I won a Pro Stock race at Wiscasset [Raceway] three years ago, but there were only six cars, so I don’t consider it a win,” said Williams.

Williams has raced at every track in Maine and figures he has raced at 40 different tracks across the country throughout his career.

The 2001 Boothbay Regional High School graduate began racing go-karts when he was 8 and worked his way up to the Legends cars (5/8-scale fiberglass, full-fendered versions of NASCAR modified cars of yesteryear), the Allison Legacy cars (3/4-scale replicas of current Nextel Cup cars), and the PASS North Pro Stock tour.

He won four championships in two years with the Legends cars.

Williams has a passion for racing and felt it was “difficult to get noticed in the North. There are a lot of great drivers up there.”

So he took a gamble.

He moved to North Carolina right after Thanksgiving. He didn’t have a job.

“There was nothing holding me back, so I wanted to move down here and do my best to get established,” said Williams.

He met Sean Caisse, who is in his second year driving for the Andy Santerre Motorsports team in the Busch East series, and Caisse “hooked me up with Andy.”

Cherryfield’s Santerre hired him to do fabrication work on the 17-year-old Earnhardt’s car and Williams contacted Tom Mason, the owner of his Pro Stock car, and asked him if he could bring the car down and race it.

“Tom was all for it,” said Williams, who has run two of the first three PASS South races. He couldn’t race one of them because he was working on Earnhardt’s car.

Williams said working for Santerre has been awesome.

“He has been a huge help to me. I have learned so much working down here. Moving down here has been one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.”

He works from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. for Santerre and then works on his own racecar with some friends. His car is housed at the ASM shop.

“I’ve met a lot of great people who have helped me out,” said Williams.

He said there don’t appear to be any conflicts between the Busch East and PASS South tours, so he will run the last eight PASS South races.

Working on Earnhardt’s car is his top priority and he wants to continue to “learn as much as I can.”

As for his racing career, Williams said, “I’m going to try to win as many races as I can. But I’m not going to risk tearing up my car every week. I’d like to finish in the top five every race.”

Four Unity PASS races Sunday

Unity Raceway will have a special Father’s Day race card Sunday afternoon involving four PASS tour features. Racing will begin at 1:30.

The highlight will be the DNK Select 150 PASS North Super Late Model race. There will also be a 100-lap Outlaws Late Model race, a 75-lap Pullen Sportsman feature, and a 40-lap Modifieds race.

The PASS North Super Late Models points race has Turner’s Ben Rowe leading his father, Mike, by 12 points with Farmingdale’s Johnny Clark third, two points behind Mike Rowe.

In the Outlaws points, Jay Sands of Hampton, N.H., has a nine-point lead over Winterport native Mike Harnish Jr. with Brian Whitney of Burnham running third, four points behind Harnish.

In the Modifieds, Brunswick’s Chris Staples has a two-point lead over Harpswell’s Mark Lucas and a four-point lead over Pownal’s Kenny Harrison.

The new Pullen Sportsman class has had just one race with Gorham’s Dan McKeage winning it. Levant’s Shane Tatro was second and Oakland’s Mike Landry was third.