| Wednesday, March 19, 2008 |
| Long Road leads Seuss south to Riggs Racing |  After making the biggest driver announcement in NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour history in the offseason, driver Andy Seuss and Riggs Racing knew it was time to get down to business with Saturday night’s Whelen Southern Modified Tour 150 looming large on their horizon.
Seuss and his family recently started looking for a van to make the long commutes to the Whelen Southern Modified Tour races from their home in Hampstead, N.H.
"We found a van on e-Bay that was relatively close to the Riggs' shop,” said Seuss, “so we stopped and picked it up while we were down there a couple of weeks ago to get my seats fitted into their race cars.”
However, after spending a couple of hours in Martinsville (Va.) at the Riggs Racing shop, things took a turn for worse on their return home to New Hampshire.
"The van we bought ended up having transmission trouble and we had to pull over for the night near the Delaware state line," Seuss said. "We called the guys in New Hampshire to come down with an open trailer to tow the van home."
Racers tend to make the best of bad situations and this episode would be no different.
The Seuss' van would not fit onto the open trailer due to the fenders being welded on, so they towed the trailer around to find a shop that would cut them off so they could get the van home.
Once they were back in New Hampshire, Seuss called team owner Jeff Riggs to let him know he was home safely and the teasing began.
"I had called Jeff and the guys to tell them about the trouble we had on the ride home and the guys at the shop all thought it was pretty funny," Seuss said with a laugh.
“Hopefully that will be the last of my troubles for a little while.”
For now the Seuss-Riggs duo hope there is smooth sailing on the track as they ready for this weekend’s season-opener and the battle for the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour championship.
"The communication is great and it feels like we've been together for a long time already,” Seuss said. "Hopefully my travel troubles are behind me so I can just worry about winning races now."
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