As Richard and Vanessa Jordan get Wiscasset Speedway ready for the new season, they say the West Alna Road track continues to become what they hoped it would after they got it in a 2012 bank auction.

“From the response of the fans and drivers, and really everyone, I'm feeling pretty good. I get the feeling everyone is catching on to the idea that this is really all of ours,” Richard Jordan said April 3. “It’s like a family here.”

The Jordans hope to upgrade the public address system in the pit area, at drivers' request and, for the fans, maybe add a scoreboard.

They plan to run the business much the same this year as they did in 2013, their first full racing season as the owners.

Admission will still be $5, with children ages 6 and under getting in free. The Kingfield couple wants to keep the speedway a place for families to come, and part of that is keeping it affordable, Vanessa Jordan said.

Expect fireworks and cupcakes at the track's 45th anniversary celebration, she said. The event is set for July 26, said the speedway’s announcer-promoter, Ken Minott.

For the first time in years, the track will put on the Coastal 200. Minott said the well-known Wiscasset Speedway race has typically drawn some of northern New England’s best late model sportsmen division drivers. The $20,000 purse features a top prize of $4,000, well more than the division offers in an average race at the speedway, Minott said. Admission is free for veterans the day of the Coastal 200, on Sunday, May 25.

Opening day for racing is April 19 at 2 p.m. The pit opens at 10 a.m.; the main gate, at noon.