Spencer Davis Finishes 10th; Learns How to Use Nerf Bar at Bullring Bash

15-Year-Old Battles the Best of the Best in Modified Racing at Lee USA Speedway

Spencer Davis traveled north to Lee USA Speedway in Lee, New Hampshire this past weekend to battle with the best in Modified racing at the 1st Annual Bullring Bash Tri Track Open Modified Series event.  The Dawsonville, Georgia driver started from the 19th position, battled in the top-10 during the later stages of the event, and crossed the finish line in the 10th position on Sunday.

"I'm very pleased with the way our Hillbilly

Racing Team performed today," said Davis. 

"We were all the way up to seventh when

(Todd) Szegedy got real loose.  We had

nowhere to go.  It's kind of hard just to move

a guy when he's sideways already, so we fell

back to 14th and came back up through the

field.

"At the start of the race, the car was vibrating

real bad and the car was real snappy-loose in

the back.  I thought we were about to go a lap down, but we kept getting cautions and we kept on coming in.  We came in, took our one tire, swapped tires and found our problem.  We had a tire going bad, it was probably shredding."

Davis' trip this past weekend wasn't his first racing trip to the Northeast - he traveled north in 2013 to compete in the Oxford 250 - but it was his first time racing Modifieds against Northern Modified drivers.  The NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour Rookie of the Year competitor learned a lot on Sunday about how to use the nerf bars on his car to gain valuable positions.

"It was definitely intense, for sure," Davis said.  "You can feel a lot more pressure racing around you and you're going faster.  On the Southern tour, you just kind of ride and ride before you go like you would at Pensacola (Five Flags Speedway).  Here it was all out from the start, sideways, beatin' 'n banging, and using those nerf bars the way they were intended to be used for."

"I can see today's experience helping out a lot.  I learned a lot about the cars and what more youc an do.  I learned a lot about how to get people out of my way without spinning or wrecking them.  Today was definitely a learning experience and I'm glad we came away with a top-10. "

Next up for Davis and the Hillbilly Racing Team will be a 100-lap Modified event at Bowman Gray Stadium (NC) on Saturday, May 17.  Davis says that he hopes to gain valuable experience at Bowman Gray so that he is more experienced when the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour visits the track in August.