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VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- A ribbon cutting connected Thursday greeting marked the commencement of a caller epoch for Plaza Park Raceway successful Visalia.
New owners Jake Hagopian and Jason Meyers person struck a ten-year concern with the metropolis arsenic the track's caller contracted promoters.
Their connection was the lone 1 submitted successful the Fall of 2023 erstwhile the installation was enactment up for nationalist bid, redeeming it from a imaginable shutdown.
Jake and Jason's company, One-Four Promotions, volition beryllium starring the concern and focusing connected way renovations.
"We are hoping that we tin grow our horizons and springiness radical the accidental to privation to travel present and acquisition the love, excitement, and amusement that racing is," says Jake.
Jake grew up connected this nationally recognized contention way and made a nonrecreational vocation retired of racing.
His precocious father, Mark Hagopian, was besides a micro-sprint racer.
An yearly contention takes spot to grant his life.
Mark's bequest besides lives connected done Jake and his children.
"Looking backmost now, I spot my lad successful those aforesaid situations, and I deliberation to myself, helium volition retrieve this for the remainder of his life, and we truly wanna enactment a batch of accent connected the household worth of being a portion of this raceway," mentions Jake.
The caller owners besides anticipation to bring different unrecorded amusement events to the spot successful the coming years.
They accidental they've had afloat enactment from metropolis leaders who admit the large imaginable economical impact.
"More dollars being spent impacts our economy, but much importantly, it provides different signifier of recreation for our residents. It brings much radical into our community, buying astatine our section restaurants and staying successful our hotels. It's conscionable a spot to travel and person a bully time," says Brian Poochigian, the Mayor of the City of Visalia.
Jake and Jason volition absorption connected section outreach and sharing the emotion of racing connected a larger scale.
"I was capable to marque a nonrecreational vocation retired of motorsports due to the fact that of this place, and galore of my friends and galore different individuals person done the aforesaid on the way, and we wanna marque definite that doesn't change," Jake mentions.
If you're excited for the caller racing season- you won't person to hold excessively long. The archetypal contention kicks disconnected time evening astatine 5:30
Tickets are $15 per adult, $8 for seniors and students
Kids nether 5 and subject members are free. Pit passes are besides disposable for $30.
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