UNITY – A variety of racing champions will vye for supremacy and the $25,000 top prize Sunday, June 13, in the DNK Select 250 at Unity Raceway.

The race goes to post at 1 p.m. with a series of qualifying races to set the 34-car starting grid for the $160,000 event. As of last weekend, 68 drivers had entered the race.

There is no shortage of championship-caliber contenders from Maine entered in the DNK Select 250. Heading the list are three 2003 track champions – Oxford champ Ricky Rolfe of Stoneham, Unity track champ Matt Lee of Albion and Wiscasset’s Peter Oakes of Boothbay.

The list of former Maine track champions includes several notable drivers. Topping the list are eight-time champ Jeff Taylor of Farmington and seven-time king Mike Rowe of Turner. The all-time leader in feature wins at Oxford, Rowe also brings a pair of touring series championships, including the old ACT Pro Stock series and the NEPSA.

Rowe’s son Ben, the reigning PASS champion and the defending Oxford 250 winner, will join his father in the field.

One of the favorites to claim the $25,000 winner’s share is 64-year-old hometown racing legend Ralph Nason. The wily veteran knows how to get the job done not only at Unity, where he was triumphant in his only racing start last season in the annual Longjohn 150 classic, but in big open competition races as well. Nason is the only man to win the other Maine racing classic, the annual Oxford 250, three consecutive times.

Nason won’t be the only representative of Maine’s “Old Guard” of racing looking for success. Legendary veteran Stan Meserve, now a fabricator for DEI in Mooresville, N.C., will make a rare appearance at the DNK Select 250, driving for Massachusetts car owner P.T. Watts.

Some of the other proven Maine Pro Stock drivers and former champions entered include five-time Wiscasset champ and current Unity points leader Scott Chubbuck, John Phippen of Bar Harbor, Duane Seekings of Stockton Springs, Al Hammond of South Paris and Kenny Wright of Woolwich.

Reigning Busch North champ Andy Santerre of Cherryfield is taking advantage of an open date on that series’ calendar to return to his home state. Dale Shaw and Dick McCabe, two former Busch North champs, will also compete. McCabe is coming out of retirement to race.

A pair of Southern New England standouts – Ted Christopher and Rick Martin – have combined for more than 15 track titles. The Canadian contingent is led by John Flemming.

Current PASS points leader Johnny Clark, one of the fleet of DNK-sponsored cars through Maine, expects to be a threat, as do PASS regulars like Gary Smith, Larry Gelinas, Tracy Gordon and Scott Mulkern, who won on opening day this season at Unity Raceway.

Pro Stock racers will draw for positions in a series of heat races Sunday afternoon, and will need to race their way into the DNK Select 250, with the usual time trial-based PASS qualifying procedures suspended for this event.

While all qualifying and racing will take place Sunday, there will be Pro Stock practice sessions on Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

A full three programs of racing are planned for the June 11-13 weekend, with a full card of Unity Raceway action presented on both Friday and Saturday nights.

Plenty of free parking is available.

Free self-contained camping is available at the Speedway throughout the DNK Select 250 weekend with all necessary amenities available within easy walking distance.