Andy Seuss Heads Home to Lee With Victory in His Mirror
18-Year-Old Enters True Value Mod Finale As Most Recent Winner
For a touring racecar driver, there’s nothing quite like coming home. That return feels even better on the heels of a big victory.
The fact that Andy Seuss heads into Octoberfest at Lee USA Speedway, which is located within a half hour of his hometown of Hampstead, New Hampshire, as the most recent winner in the True Value Modified Racing Series is a big boost. The fact that he’ll be wheeling the #10, 350 Supermodified over the weekend in addition to his normal duties as driver of the #70 One Strop Toy Shop / Rockingham Boat Modified makes things even better.
“It’s nice going home and having fans that can come up from our hometown,” said Seuss. “We don’t live too far away and that’s the biggest thing about Lee. We haven’t had a lot of success at the track, we’ve actually struggled a little bit, but
we’ve got the car better than it has ever been so we are pysched about that and I’ve got a championship-winning Supermodified ride so it should be good.”
Seuss hasn’t driven a 350 Super in 2005. He’s been busy running his Modified. But, he’s won before in the winged racecars and does not think that he’ll have much of a readjustment curve when he buckles in at Lee.
“Realisticly, with the Supermodified we think that we can come out with a win. I haven’t been in one for a while and I don’t have a ton of laps at Lee in a Super, so we’ll see how I get adapted to the car on Saturday and get it tuned in for Sunday. I think we’ll be good.”
Success in the Modified might be a little more challenging, but Seuss and his team are up for that. TVMRS rules state that the most recent winner has to start a race at the rear of the field. So while Seuss will start shotgun at Lee no matter how he does in his heat race, he knows his victory at Seekonk Speedway (MA) earlier this month was worth it.
“As far as the True Value race, to finish in the top 10 at Lee would be big for me. But I’d really like to finish in the top five. To say that we can win starting in the back would be tough. The car was good enough last week that I could have probably run another 100 laps on the tires, so we’ll see how the changes that we’ve made will help. We’ve struggled at Lee before, but maybe what we learned at Seekonk will help at
Lee. I think that the car will be good enough for a good run. We’re excited.”
Doing double duty is nothing new for the 18-year-old driver. Before going Modified racing, Seuss split his time between a 350 Supermodified and a Late Model.
“I love racing the Super and haven’t been in one for over a year. One of the reasons why we have focused on only the Modified this year has been to get that dialed in. Now that it is dialed in, we’ll be in good shape. I haven’t had a problem adjusting in the past. It’s something that I’ve done throughout my career, even back in karting.”
Octoberfest was take place on October 22nd and 23rd at Lee USA Speedway. There will be nine classes of racing, headlined by a 100-lap True Value Modified event. Qualifying was held on Saturday, October 22nd, but rain has delayed the feature races until Saturday, October 29th.
