Disregard any snow yet to melt from the grounds of the Wiscasset Speedway. Despite spring's late entry, the track is scheduled to open April 6.

“I would say we're very excited,” co-owner Vanessa Jordan said.

It's the first racing season since she and husband Richard Jordan bought the track at a foreclosure auction in July 2012. In October, the Kingfield couple and a large group of volunteers put on a celebratory day of racing. The Jordans estimated it drew 3,000 to 3,500 people to the speedway, on West Alna Road in Wiscasset.

The Jordans are maintaining the hands-on approach to their business this year. “It looks like I'll be at a pit gate, and it looks like Richard is going to be selling tires and fuel,” Vanessa Jordan said in a telephone interview March 23.

“We'll be wherever we're needed,” she said.

The track will hold a season of Saturday racing, ending with a “Fall Fury” event October 5, according to a March 22 announcement.

Racing divisions this year have been sorted into two groups, which will race on alternating weeks. One group has the Prostock, Superstock, Thunder 4's, and Northeast 4-cylinder Prostocks; the other has the Late Model Sportsman, Strictly Streets, Outlaw Mini's, and Mini trucks, the announcement states.

Due to the alternating week format, drivers won't be racing for points, Vanessa Jordan said.

Enduro races will also be on this season's schedule, along with the Nelcar Legends, Northeast Mini Stock Tour and the Wicked Vintage Racers, according to the release.

Plans call for Saturday afternoon racing through April, then a switch to Saturday night racing under the lights, starting in May.

On April 6, pit gates are set to open at 8 a.m.; practice starts at 9 a.m.; grandstand gates open at 11 a.m. Admission is $5 per person, children 6 and younger free.

When ground conditions improve, Vanessa Jordan said her parents Gail and Carl McKenney will be getting back to a project they and other volunteers began at the speedway last year: to restore the Benjamin Blagden Cemetery, just inside the front gate.

The 18 graves date from the 1860s or earlier, to as late as the 1920s, the McKenneys have said.

For more information on racing at the speedway, visit www.wiscassetspeedway.com/.

Susan Johns can be reached at 207-844-4633 or sjohns@wiscassetnewspaper.com.