Key notes: Montpelier Speedway hosts the 19th annual Monster Mash, a two-day program concluding with Saturday’s Valvoline American Late Model Iron-Man Series-sanctioned 30-lap, $5,000-to-win feature. … The event serves as Montpelier’s season finale. … Eric Wilson of Vienna, Ohio, led all but one lap of Friday’s unsanctioned Monster Mash prelim for a $2,000 Late Model payday. … Rusty Schlenk of Jackson, Mich., is a five-time Montpelier feature winner since 2018, including a $5,000 Iron-Man series triumph last June. … Frank Heckenast Jr. of Frankfort, Ill., topped July’s $5,000 DIRTcar Summer Nationals stop. … Trick-or-treating will take place from 3:30-4:30 p.m.; one child and one adult will win a prize for the best costume. … Modifieds, super stocks and street stocks are on the undercard. … Pits open at 1 p.m. and grandstands open at 2 with hot laps at 5.

Who to watch: Rusty Schlenk of Jackson, Mich., seeks his second Iron-Man Series victory at Montpelier and fifth feature win there since last year.

Points chase: Before Montpelier: 1. Colten Burdette (1,223); 2. Rod Conley (1,085); 3. Miles Cook II (987); 4. Seth Daniels (936); 5. Travis Carr (820).

Expected entrants: Rusty Schlenk, Eric Wilson, Colten Burdette, Devin Shiels, Rod Conley, Jerry Bowersock, Seth Daniels, Colin Shipley, Blake Creech, Phil Ausra, Wayne Chinn, Justin White, Miles Cook II, Travis Carr, David Ellis, Clayton Bryant, Dylan Hough, Josh Robertson, Kent Brewer, Robert Goodrich, Jeff Robertson and others.

Next series race: October 30, Portsmouth Raceway Park (Portsmouth, OH) $10,000