Wiscasset Speedway picked up the “Promoter of the Year Award” at the Northeast Motorsports Expo in Augusta held January 10-12.

“We were very excited to take home this award considering it was our team's first year together,” Ken Minott, track announcer and assistant promoter, wrote in an email January 13.

The speedway had a loss in a separate set of awards last weekend, Mainely Motorsports' “Mainelys.” The track's comeback under new owners Richard and Vanessa Jordan had been nominated in the “Big Accomplishment” category. That award went to Travis Benjamin's win in the TD Bank 250 at Oxford Plains Speedway, said Stephen Perry, owner and host of the television show “Mainely Motorsports.”

Perry described the promoter award as the more prestigious of the two the Wiscasset track was up for, because a committee decides it; an online survey decides the “Mainelys,” he said.

In other results with ties to the track on West Alna Road, Cory Morgan, who won races at both Wiscasset Speedway and Oxford Plains Speedway, got the expo award for “Weekly Support Division Driver of the Year,” based on his 2013 season, Perry said; and Jerry Bailey took “Best Appearing Mini Cup or Legacy Car” for his entry at the expo, Perry said.

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