Early on in Saturday night's NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour race at South Boston Speedway (VA), Andy Seuss' looked like he had a great chance of repeating his 2009 victory in the race.
Seuss qualified second, took the lead at the start and led the first nine laps. But before Seuss could get his #47 Q Racing Oil Modified around for the tenth lap, he found himself pointed in the wrong direction on the racetrack. Although Seuss would recover to finish third in the race, this early incident ended any realistic chance of visiting victory lane.
“We got a great jump at the start of the race pretty much like we did at Caraway a few weeks back,” said Seuss. “We led and then people got impatient.”
Seuss doesn't exactly know what happened to send him around, but he does not it involved a bump from the rear.
“All I know is Tim Brown was running second when I spun,” said Seuss. “He's got brakes and he can use them if he chooses too. I was looking out my windshield and not in my mirror when it happened, so I don't know what exactly happened. I'm hearing mixed things now, but no matter which way you hear the story it was way too early to be driving that hard. I wasn't driving that hard. I left the inside groove open and they could have gone down there.”
Starting from the rear of the field with 10 laps down presented a challenge for Seuss, but he still turned his race into a podium finish.
“We spun and went to the back. We had to come back to the front at track where it's really hard to do that. We ended up third and I am proud of all my guys, the car was good it was just hard to loose so much track position there at the beginning of the race. I tried to save my tires coming back to the front, but as the laps clicked off I had to push it to pass people under green. By the time I got to third place, I was just pretty much used up.”
Seuss' next race will be the Icebreaker, a NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour event, this coming weekend at Thompson International Speedway (CT).
