Seuss Keeps Sizzling With 3rd Straight Southern Mod Win

Andy Seuss and the No. 11 Ideal Racing team celebrate in victory lane after winning Saturday night’s Whelen Southern Modified Tour feature at Southern National Motorsports Park. Photo by Jason Smith/pixelcrisp for NASCAR

Andy Seuss continued his hot streak and George Brunnhoelzl III took a step toward his record fourth NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour championship Saturday in the G-Oil 150 at Southern National Motorsports Park in Lucama, NC.

Seuss won his third straight race.

He previously picked up wins at Caraway Speedway in Asheboro, NC, on Sept. 8 and Sept. 28. The first victory broke a winless streak that extended almost a year. He hasn’t stopped winning since. Southern National marked the 15th career win for the 26-year-old from Hampstead, NH.

Brunnhoelzl finished second to extend his lead to 32 points over Kyle Ebersole, who finished fourth, with one race remaining. The season finale is Thursday, Oct. 10 on the quarter-mile on the frontstretch at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Burt Myers was third, followed by Ebersole and rookie Luke Fleming.

The race was originally scheduled for Sept. 21, but rain moved into the area after qualifying and caused the race to be pushed to Saturday. Burt Myers had won the Coors Light Pole Award prior to the postponement. He has now finished in the top five in each of the five all-time Whelen Southern Modified Tour events at Southern National, including two wins.

Jason Myers, J.R. Bertuccio, John Smith, Danny Bohn and Thomas Stinson rounded out the top 10.
Bertuccio has recorded three top-10 finishes in a row for just the second time in his Whelen Southern Modified Tour career while Stinson has top 10s in all three of his starts as a part-time competitor this year.

It’s been a strong late-season push for Seuss, who suffered three non-lead-lap finishes in a row in August and sat fifth in points at the time.

“Our goal is to come and sit on the front row and lead every lap ever since we had our bad luck, and that’s what we’ve been doing,” Seuss said. “Eddie Harvey (car owner) and the guys give me a car good enough to do it, they don’t care if I burn the tires off it – that’s their job – and we’ve gone the same page.

“They did an awesome job at the halfway break – made all the right adjustments – because the 28 (Brunnhoelzl) and 1 (Burt Myers) were so fast that I wouldn’t have been able to run as hard as I did without them making those key adjustments, so that was big.”

For Seuss, Saturday was the third wire-to-wire win of his Whelen Southern Modified Tour career. His 15 career triumphs rank second only to Brunnhoelzl’s 20, and he moved past L.W. Miller into second – also behind Brunnhoelzl – on the career laps led list by pacing the field for all 150 on Saturday.

Even though Seuss held off the field from start to finish, he had a rear view full of Brunnhoelzl the majority of the race. Brunnhoelzl could close in on Seuss through the corners, but Seuss had a decided advantage on the straightaways. When lap traffic became a factor in the closing circuits, Brunnhoelzl almost caught him, but Seuss was able to hold off the challenger by barely half a car-length at the finish line.

“We were just a tick off, off the corner, we could get in and roll the center real good,” Brunnhoelzl said. “If we had a couple more laps, I think we could have done something there.”

As it was, Brunnhoelzl had to settle for his fourth consecutive runner-up finish, but it was a finish that all but clinched yet another Whelen Southern Modified Tour title. When Brunnhoelzl takes the green flag at Charlotte, the championship will be his for the fourth time in the last five years.

NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour
Southern National Motorsports Park – Lucama, NC
G-Oil 150 – Oct. 5, 2013

Fin	Str	Car	Driver	Team	Laps	Points	B/Points	Status
1	2	11	Andy Seuss	Newman Lawn Mowers Chevrolet	150	48	5	Running
2	4	28	George Brunnhoelzl, III	Epox-Z/Cool Roof Cooling/Oval Speed Chevrolet	150	42		Running
3	1	1	Burt Myers	Citrusafe/Adams Towing & Recovery Ford	150	41		Running
4	5	5	Kyle Ebersole	Ebersole Excavating Inc. Ford	150	40		Running
5	9	40	Luke Fleming *	Koma Unwind/Autos By Nelson.com Ford	150	39		Running
6	11	4	Jason Myers	West Bend Vineyards & Brewhouse Ford	150	38		Running
7	10	2	JR Bertuccio	Gershow Recycling Chevrolet	150	37		Running
8	7	25	John Smith	G-Oil/CycleMax Chevrolet	150	36		Running
9	12	65	Danny Bohn	Cedar Peaks /Rustoleum/Ray Evernham Ent Chevrolet	149	35		Running
10	14	7	Thomas Stinson	M & M Custom Painting Chevrolet	149	34		Running
11	8	4	David Calabrese *	Diamond Back Towing Chevrolet	148	33		Running
12	13	12	Mike Norman	North Pt. Chrysler Jeep/DMC Auto Chevrolet	148	32		Running
13	15	70	Jeremy Gerstner *	GMR Lawn Care/Fountain Mtsprts.Chevrolet	147	31		Running
14	6	02	Tim Brown	Hayes Jewelers/T&C Motorsports Chevrolet	116	30		Suspension
15	3	99	AJ Winstead *	Health Diagnostic/Clarke American Chevrolet	113	29		Mechanical
16	16	24	Daryl Lacks	Lacks Auto Service Chevrolet	28	28		Mechanical
17	17	97	Bryan Dauzat	O B Builders Inc Chevrolet	0	27		DNS

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* Denotes Sunoco Rookie of the Year candidate

Fastest Qualifier: Burt Myers, Time: 14.435 Seconds, Speed: 99.758 mph
Time of Race: 44 mins, 12 secs Average Speed: 81.448 mph Margin of Victory: 0.073 Seconds
Caution Flags: Laps 48-53 (Car #99 spin Turn 2 <70>); 77 (Competition caution – midway break <70>). <Beneficiary> 2 for 7 laps.
Lap Leaders: Andy Seuss 1-150.
Total Laps Led: Andy Seuss 150. 0 changes involving 1 drivers.