OXFORD — It might not be motorsports’ equivalent of the Eagles’ “Hell Freezes Over” tour, a slogan paying homage to drummer Don Henley’s faulty forecast of prospects for a band reunion.

Fans and drivers rabid about regional short track racing understand that it’s close, though.

Oxford Plains Speedway and the Pro All Stars Series announced that they will join forces for two tour races in 2011, ending a four-year estrangement.

The PASS super late model division will headline the eve of the TD Bank 250 on Saturday, July 23. Later, the series will host its championship event at OPS on  Saturday, Oct. 1.

Each race will be 150 laps.

“We look forward to the return of PASS in 2011,” OPS owner Bill Ryan said in a news release. “Both (PASS promoter) Tom Mayberry and I are excited to give the fans a great show.”

OPS and PASS went their separate ways after the 2006 season.

Citing the mutual costs for promoter and drivers and slowly dwindling car counts throughout the region, Ryan disbanded pro stock (super late model) cars as the speedway’s weekly division at the end of that campaign.

Ryan also announced then that the track’s midsummer showcase, the TD Bank 250, would change from a super late model race to an American-Canadian Tour-style late model event.

Late models will remain the mode of transportation in the 250 on July 24.

OPS also returns to a three-day format for 250 weekend after scaling back to a Saturday-Sunday schedule in 2010.

One of many PASS supporting divisions, the tour’s modified class, will beef up the docket on Friday, July 22.

PASS and the True Value Modified Racing Series are poised for a Saturday night doubleheader.

“We are very excited to be returning to Oxford Plains Speedway in 2011,” said Mayberry, a former racer who founded PASS in 2000. “The racing there has always been exciting, and there is a great fan following.”

The split between the circuit and its onetime hub track was an acrimonious one, at times.

Some of the dissension was exacerbated by animated discussion on blogs and Internet chat forums.

PASS thrived and expanded during the separation, adding a southern tour to its flagship north division.

After losing the TD Bank 250 as an outlet for its drivers, PASS countered by promoting a 250-lap race in Canada on that weekend each of the last four years.

Now, all seems forgotten in a deal that promises to benefit both parties.

“We are looking forward to working with Bill Ryan,” Mayberry said.

The reunion hails the return of several drivers — most notably seven-time OPS champion and three-time 250 winner Mike Rowe of Turner and five-time PASS champ Johnny Clark of Farmingdale.

Rowe and son Ben have competed only in sporadic ACT races at Oxford since 2006. Clark has not raced on the 3/8-mile oval at all since the split.

October’s PASS date highlights a busy card that will co-feature the PASS Modified and Sportsman divisions, a Strictly Stock/Wildcat event and the New England Mini Stock Tour.

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