CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — Southside Speedway is getting ready to roar back to life.
The Richmond-area track shut down in 2020, leaving local racing fans without a nearby venue for the first time in decades. Now, with new property owners at the helm, the speedway is being restored — and the people who grew up there are counting down the days.
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Buck Reuss served as the track’s announcer before it closed. For him, the silence has been hard to take.
“When it disappeared it took away everything. You’d have to travel all the way up to Northern Virginia to Thornburg, or you’d have to go to Hampton, or you’d have to go to South Boston. You’d have to go to one of those tracks to try to find the same thing that was right here in your back yard,” Reuss said.
Reuss said he is looking forward to watching a new generation of drivers grow into veterans — something he watched happen for years from the announcer’s booth…