The Central Arizona Raceway at the Pinal County Fairgrounds is back in business.
The speedway, which closed in June 2008, reopened this weekend by hosting races featuring super stock cars and factory stock cars.
Because the season typically ends in late November, no more races are planned until January.
Business partners Benji Lyons and Arthur Lacy had operated the raceway since 2005, running races every week, the Casa Grande Dispatch reported.
Then the economy started going downhill, and there was a change in the county's operation of the fairgrounds in the Casa Grande area.
But recently, the county appointed an active fairgrounds board, which entered into a lease agreement with Central Arizona Fair Association, a Casa Grande-based nonprofit organization.
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