A pro stock driver could be making a $14,000 deposit into his checking or savings account on Monday.

It won’t be easy by any stretch of the imagination.

But it is possible.

The Pro All-Stars Series will hold a 150-lap race at New Brunswick International Speedway on Saturday afternoon and, on Sunday, the prestigious Partnership for a Tobacco-Free Maine Kick Butts Coastal 200 will be run at Wiscasset Raceway.

The PTM Kick Butts Coastal 200 will pay the winner $10,000 while the PASS victor will earn $4,000.

The Coastal 200 had been a July race but Wiscasset Raceway owner Dave St. Clair opted to take the advice of his daughter, Tammy Reynolds, and hold it on Memorial Day weekend. Reynolds is the vice president of the track.

“There aren’t any big races this time of year other than some PASS races, so we thought we’d try something different. Plus, we have a rain date [Monday] because of the holiday [Memorial Day],” explained St. Clair.

St. Clair has been encouraged by the number of inquiries about the Coastal 200 and said “It should be a good race. We should have 30-35 cars.

“But we never know who’s coming to the race. We don’t charge an entry fee so won’t find out until Sunday,” added St. Clair.

He said there will be drivers who intend to run both the PASS race and the Coastal 200.

“I’ve heard from a few that they will be coming back [from Fredericton to Wiscasset] if they don’t get wrecked during the PASS race,” said St. Clair.

Ken Minott, the track announcer and media relations director at Wiscasset, explained on the MaineRacing.com Web site that “things were getting a little crowded” in July with the Oxford True Value 250, the Winston Cup race in Loudon, N.H., and the Coastal 200.

“It made it especially hard on the diehard race fans who wanted to experience all three. It also made it difficult on the budget of race teams who wanted to run both of Maine’s biggest races,” said Minott.

Minott also said Wiscasset Raceway used to hold a big race on Memorial Day and “it was always a huge success. Fans have been asking us when we’re going to bring it back. I think the St. Clairs have made a great choice in moving the Coastall 200 weekend.”

The drivers who haven’t raced at Wiscasset will notice a difference at the track.

The wall has been extended through turns three and four so the track is completely surrounded by a wall.

In addition to the $10,000 winners purse, the runnerup will pocket a cool $4500.

Wiscasset’s Scott Chubbuck is the defending champ.

Wiscasset Raceway has been on the market for nearly two years but St. Clair said there hasn’t been any serious offers.

The asking price is $1.3 million.

Featherlites returning to Beech Ridge

The touring NASCAR featherlite modified series will return to Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough on Saturday night, July 13.

“It’s the first time we’ve had the featherlite modifieds since 1995 and just the second time we’ve had them since 1990,” said Beech Ridge owner Andy Cusack. “We used to run them in a weekly series but it was one of those divisions that evolved to a point it was too expensive for weekly racing at a local track like Beech Ridge. The number of cars dwindled to a point we had to throw in the towel.”

Cusack said the last modified race at Beech Ridge was won by current Winston Cup driver Steve Park and he said several Winston Cup drivers used to race modifieds including Park and Geoffry Bodine.

“The modifieds are definitely a hybrid race car. They’re a racing version of a street hot rod. They’re the stock car version of an Indy car,” said Cusack.

They are very fast and, because they are smaller than pro stocks, there is more passing.

“Ever since we made the announcement in February, the phone has been buzzing,” said Cusack. “If things go on schedule, we’ll have a sell-out crowd.”

That would be more than 5,500.

The New England Dodge Dealers are sponsoring the 150-lap event.

Beech Ridge will also hold Busch North races on June 8 and Aug. 24.

As for their weekly racing, Cusack said they have added a fifth division on Saturday night, a lightning bug class for four-cylinder race cars.

They will begin their Thursday Night Thunder racing on June 13. He said there will be are five divisions and seven races as two of the divisions have been split.

And the major improvement to the facility has been a $20,000-$25,000 sound system that Cusack said “gives us the best public address system for a short track in the nation. The speakers will rival any high-end home stereo system.”

He added that in addition to announcing the races, they pipe in music to make the experience even better for the fans.