The job Wiscasset Speedway's owners have done reopening the track has put them in the running for an award.

Stephen Perry, owner and host of the television show “Mainely Motorsports,” has nominated Richard and Vanessa Jordan's efforts in the “Big Accomplishment” category for the show's sixth annual Mainely awards.

The category's other contenders all involve championship wins or other on-track successes. But Perry said he wanted to let award voters also consider the Jordans' efforts in bringing back the 44-year-old track.

“I've been very impressed,” Perry said.

The Jordans, of Kingfield, were the high bidders in a 2012 bank auction on the West Alna Road property. The couple worked with the state to address environmental concerns; met with drivers; and received help from relatives and many other volunteers in mowing the grounds, painting buildings, and cleaning up overgrowth in an old cemetery there, the Benjamin Blagden Cemetery.

The couple changed the track's name from Wiscasset Raceway back to the name Wilford Cronk gave it when he opened it in 1969; and, in another homage to the track's heritage, they named a concessions stand “Wilford's,” after Cronk.

Ken Minott, track announcer and assistant promoter, said he thinks the Jordans' meshing of the old with the new has been important to the track's success under their ownership.

That included getting new people involved along with others who have a history with the track, Minott said.

Although Perry includes the Jordan name in his wording of the “... reviving Wiscasset” nomination, Vanessa Jordan said she really views it as recognition for the whole Wiscasset Speedway team.

To take the survey that will decide the winners of the Mainelys, go to www.mainelymotorsportstv.com. Voting ends December 24.

The Jordans and their fellow nominees will have to wait until January 10, during the Northeast Motorsports Expo in Augusta, to find out who won. Perry said he'll keep the survey results secret until then.