Andy Looks to His Future After Speedweeks
18-Year-Old Will Be Back in TVMRS, Would Like to Try Out Mod Tour
Last month, Andy Seuss turned heads by winning the Florida Speedweeks Modified championship. The 18-year-old bested drivers from the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, RoC Modified Tour and several local tracks to take the top crown. He will race in the True Value Modified Racing Series in 2006, but would love to try his luck on the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour during non-conflicting dates.
“I’d definitely like to do more racing,” said Seuss. “We are committed to running our car in the True Value Modified Racing Series and I don’t want to take anything away from that.”
Seuss and his team would like the opportunity to go Tour racing together, given the opportunity, but they currently lack the budget do to so.
“If a sponsor came along, we’d like to run our car on the Modified Tour because we are really confident in it, but right now the money is not there to do that. So I would like to step up and maybe get a competitive ride.”
The young driver wouldn’t rule out any other Modified rides either. He’d be happy running several nights a week in fact.
“I’d love to drive anything,” said Seuss. “A SK Modified would be great, especially at Stafford because that place looks like a tough place to drive. Running there would make me a better driver. An RoC Modified would be fun, especially if I could run at Oswego. I grew up watching the Supermodifieds, so Oswego is a really special place to me. I’d even drive someone’s Southern Modified if there was an opportunity.”
Racing against a strong field at Speedweeks has been quite a learning experience for Seuss.
“Anytime that you can race with the best, it makes you a better drive,” said Seuss. “At first, I struggled a little bit because they are the best Modified racers around. They race hard, but they race clean. You might get into somebody, but afterwards you are still probably both going to be going in the right direction.
“I’m not taking anything away from the True Value guys, because they are tough too and I’m looking forward to racing them. Tour racing is something that I would like to do more of in the future though and I’ve always learned better getting thrown into a situation and becoming prepared.”
