Tire Problems Cause Headaches for Andy at Motor Mile

Racing Luck Not on Seuss' Side in Southern Mod Action

It was a rough weekend in Virginia for the One Stop Toy Stop, Rockingham Boat-sponsored Modified and its driver, 19-year-old Andy Seuss.  Seuss and the #70 team ventured from New Hampshire to Motor Mile Speedway in Radford, VA, to compete in their second NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour race of the young season.  The Motor Mile race was delayed a day for rain and the weekend didn’t get much better after that, as Seuss struggled to a 14th-place finish in Sunday’s 200-lap feature.

“I think we got bit by a junk tire in the right rear,” said Seuss.  “They had some newer ones and some older ones and we went with the older ones just because it was our size and I think that bit us.  The car was fast in practice; we were just as fast as anyone else and we were really focusing on the long run.  The car didn’t drop off much, we had over 100 laps in practice and we were a tenth slower than when we were on our stickers.

“I don’t know if we would have had anything for LW (Miller, the race’s winner) and the rest of the top-five guys, but we could’ve left here with a good finish.  The car just didn’t show in the race what it had in practice.  The car acted very strange in qualifying and kept doing it in the race,  and we were kinda scratching our heads about that.  It just comes down to a junk right rear.”

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To help correct the handling issues caused by the right-rear tire, Seuss brought the #70 machine to the attention of his crew several times throughout the event to do anything and everything they could to get the car going the way it was in practice despite not being able to change tires per NASCAR’s rulebook.  Seuss was pleased with the car in the hour-long practice session, but the race was another story.

Andy leads the pack in practice at Motor Mile. 

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“It’s disappointing, but it wasn’t from a lack of effort,” added Seuss.  “The car shouldn’t go down three laps in a race, and that’s how this car was.  Everybody knows that we have been on a role and we will take it back and learn from it, and we will be at the next True Value race and hopefully run up front there.”

Seuss’ next race comes in the True Value Modified Racing Series, where he is contending for the season’s championship on May 6th at Canaan Fair Speedway in Canaan, NH.  Seuss is looking to keep the TVMRS momentum going after his runner-up finish in the series’ opening race at Monadnock earlier this month.