

Johnny Clark and his team celebrate in victory lane at Wiscasset Raceway on Sunday night, after winning the inaugural New England Toyota Tundra 250./Photo courtesy of Norm Marx
Johnny Clark wins Toyota Tundra 250
WISCASSET, Maine -- Brand new car for Johnny Clark, same old Wiscasset Raceway.
Clark continued his recent domination of the facility in the last two seasons, particularly in PASS North Series competition, easily pulling away to win the inaugural New England Toyota Tundra 250 and the more than $30,000 that went with it.

Clark now has four 250-lap wins to his credit, including a win at Unity Raceway in the DNK 250 five years ago and a win at New Brunswick International Speedway last year.
"There’s nothing better than winning these big races," Clark said. "This one is No. 1 right now."
Boothbay native Corey Williams finished second after leading the first 108 laps, and Steve Knowlton of Ipswich, Mass., was third.
For Clark, it was his fifth win in the last seven starts at the track, including both PASS and weekly competition there.
"I was saying this week that there was no pressure. Bull(crap)!" Clark said. "Are you crazy? It’s my home track and I’ve been racing here since I was 14. I’ve been coming here since I was in my mom’s stomach. I used to play with my matchbox cars over there in turn 1."
While most of the leaders, including Williams, opted to pit for tires in the first half of the event, Clark held out. After starting 13th in the 38-car field, he took the lead from Knowlton on lap 112 and stayed there for the next 80 circuits. As the laps started to click of by the dozens, though, Clark started to worry that he had waited too long.
On lap 191, he got the caution he needed and brought the car to pit road for fresh rubber. Twenty-five laps later, he was back at the front and ready to check out.
I told the guys we needed to wait another 50 laps (longer than the leaders), but I had no idea we were going to go another 100 laps," Clark said. "I was looking at lapped cars to try and spin and make it look good – but we would have had to make it look really good.
"It just proved to me we had the car to go out and dominate. If we had pitted early, we would not have won the race. I was calling for them to tighten the car up, tighten the car up, tighten the car up. The back end just would not stick."
But by waiting, the car adjusted itself and Clark had a much better handle on the car.
A green-white-checker restart set up the final run to the finish, with Williams starting on the outside. Williams said he had nothing for Clark.
"I was hoping for a miracle, him missing a shift or something big," Williams said. "I knew that he had a good car, and I didn’t know what I was going to be able to do to beat him."
Clark debuted a new No. 54 car and engine – and the team didn’t skip a beat.
"The other car’s been really good here," Clark said. "To take a brand new car, a brand new engine to a race like this – you just don’t know what’s going to happen. You don’t know what a new car is going to do, but (Sprint Cup teams) do it all the time and my guys are the best."
Posted at 12:05 a.m. by TBarrett