{"id":83411,"date":"2022-01-13T15:39:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T23:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=83411"},"modified":"2022-01-13T15:39:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T23:39:20","slug":"covid-continues-to-decimate-local-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/covid-continues-to-decimate-local-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID Continues to Decimate Local Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Covid has decimated countless events throughout the pandemic<\/a> and now has claimed Southside Speedway in Chesterfield County with plans for a reopening looking bleek. The race track closed its doors at the end of 2020 and released this letter to Chesterfield residents.<\/p>\n

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Since then, local fans of the speedway have been hoping for its eventual reopening, with concerns about its future being heightened after Chesterfield County<\/a>\u00a0announced plans to purchase the property encompassing Southside Speedway.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up here, and I\u2019d love to continue to grow here,\u201d said former Southside Speedway announcer Buck Reuss. \u201cI know they have a large decision to make because it entails the cost of demolition and clearing the land, as opposed to what they can do with the land, and then, if they want to salvage, how much it would cost to turn it back into an operational facility. So my hope is that the investors come in and it can be put back together.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pandemic not only affected local tracks like this one, but countless NASCAR, NHRA, and other big-name organizations had to reschedule and reshuffle amidst the chaos.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Covid has decimated countless events throughout the pandemic and now has claimed Southside Speedway in Chesterfield County.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":83414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3470],"tags":[7983,41,1632,8847],"class_list":["post-83411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-covid","tag-news","tag-racing","tag-southside-speedway"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/maxresdefault-e1642117117308.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-lHl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83415,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83411\/revisions\/83415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}