Former winners of the Oxford 250 gather before the race to be recognized by the fans. Sunday was the 50th running of the prestigious short-track race. From left are Jamie Aube (who won in 1987 and 1989), Dave Dion (1975, 1985, 1992), Travis Benjamin (2013-14, 2017), Derek Lynch (1994), Eddie MacDonald (2009-10), Curtis Gerry (2017), Johnny Clark (2020), Bubba Pollard (2018), Cole Butcher (2022-23), Ben Rowe (2003-04) and Mike Rowe (1984, 1997, 2005).
Grand marshal Dave Dion signals the start of the race with the green flag.
Grand marshal Dave Dion addresses the crowd before giving the "Start your engines” command prior to the start of Sunday's Oxford 250 at Oxford Plains Speedway.
Jessica Houser, a Dave Dion fan, uses a phone to record Dion as he watches the first laps of the 50th Oxford 250 at Oxford Plains Speedway. Dion, a three-time winner of the 250, was the grand master of Sunday's race.
Drivers stand for the Canadian and U.S. national anthems.
Joe Pastore of Gorham smiles during driver introductions.
Derek Griffith of Hudson, N.H., waves to fans during introductions.
Derek Griffith waits by his car for the start of the Oxford 250.
Pittsfield’s Max Cookson, right, discusses chassis adjustments with Bubba Pollard on Sunday at Oxford Plains Speedway. Cookson loaned a car to Pollard, who raced Thursday in Missouri and couldn’t get his car to Maine in time for the 250.
Max Cookson of PIttsfield, who would go on to win his Oxford 250 qualifying heat, leads the pack early in the race.
Georgia's Bubba Pollard gets into his car as he prepares for an early heat. Pollard, the 2018 Oxford 250 champion, qualified for the main event through a consolation heat.
Kate Re (10) jockeys for position during a qualifying heat for a chance to earn a spot in the Oxford 250.
Zoey Poole, right, along with Payton Burnham, sit on Clyde Hennessy’s Limited car in the pits on Sunday at Oxford Plains Speedway. Burnham’s grandfather, Jerry Burnham Sr., is the car’s owner.
Scott Moore of Anson leads his heat on his way to earning the 27th spot in the Oxford 250.
Johnny Clark of Hallowell shows a friend his recently completed garage. “I didn’t really build it. I just did some grunt work,” he said.
Kyle Richardson poses with family after he won the Mad Bombers feature.
Jess Richardson congratulates her son, Kyle, after he won the Mad Bomber feature.
Kyle Richardson of Oxford, center, holds off challengers on the right and left in the last stages of Mad Bomber feature. Richardson won the race.
Cars get tangled up early in the Mad Bomber feature.
Darren Butcher, right, works on his son Cole Butcher’s engine. Lending a hand is Tyler Tanner.
Thomas Richards makes repairs to the underside of a car in the staging area of the pits before the Mad Bomber feature.
Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School junior Maddy Herrick prepares to race in the Mad Bombers feature.
The fastest cars of the day, the oddly equipped super modifieds, barrel into the first turn of their feature.
Grand marshal Dave Dion talks with former rival Langis Caron, who dueled with Dion in the 1975 Oxford 250.
Grand marshal Dave Dion shakes hands with driver Derek Griffith during prerace introductions.
Dave Dion, grand marshal for the 250, watches some of the early races Sunday at Oxford Plains Speedway. Dion is a three-time winner of the Oxford 250 and on Sunday was serving as a grand marshal.
Drivers gather for the draw that determined their starting positions in the qualifying heats for the 50th Oxford 250 on Sunday at Oxford Plains Speedway.
Cars line up for the start of the Oxford 250 after a nearly two-hour delay due to rain Sunday.
Rain falls at the Oxford Plains Speedway during the festivities of the 50th running of the Oxford 250.
Cars go around the track for practice runs prior to the 2023 Oxford 250 on Sunday at Oxford Plains Speedway.
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