The Central Square, NY native returns for his third full-time season with the Super DIRTcar Series, looking to improve on last season’s 11th place finish in points. Although Sears Jr. hasn’t competed since the season finale at the World of Outlaws World Finals in Concord, North Carolina in November, is optimistic about the upcoming season.
“I’m excited for this year,” Sears Jr. said. “We’ve been to a lot of these places. Now we’ve created notes on them. I feel like we’re in a little bit better place when we go to these places. We should download faster, hopefully we’ll do the redraws and go to run up front. I want to have good races this year. That would also boost our confidence a lot.”
His first taste of competition for the season will come March 31-April 1 at Atomic Speedway in Chillicothe. It will be his first visit to the track and the debut of the Series at Atomic. He plans to prepare his #83X machine with a simple approach.
“We’re just planning to bring a neutral car,” Sears Jr. said. “We really don’t know what to expect. No one had really been there before. We’ll just go with what we know. Hopefully we’ll get out of the box quickly.”
During the second half of the season, the Series will return to its home turf for the second annual SummerFAST with three races in three days, exclusively at New York Central locations. The event will begin at Brewerton Speedway, one of his home tracks with which he is particularly familiar, giving him a prime opportunity to excel in a Series race. He finished fourth there last year in the DIRTcar 358 Modified division and has scored two Big Block podiums in previous visits to the Series.
“We always run well at our home tracks, and I’ve had a lot of good runs at them,” Sears Jr. said. “I’m definitely excited to have a great race at our home tracks.”
With an abundance of opportunities for growth and improved results, he remains keenly aware that there is no secret formula for success other than hard work, repetition and persistence.
“If you want to be one of the best, you have to compete against them every week,” Sears Jr. said. “We’ve definitely made a lot of really good strides on our home tracks since we started the Series. And I think just running more, the more you do it, the better you get. We just have to keep trying to get time and keep going to all these places and eventually the results will come.”
Up Next: The Super DIRTcar Series Big Block Modifieds return to action at Atomic Speedway Friday-Saturday, March 31-April 1, for two Super DIRT Week 51 qualifiers and a $10,000 payday on Friday and $12,000 on Saturday. For tickets, CLICK HERE.
If you can’t make it to the track, you can watch every Super DIRTcar Series race live on DIRTVision, either at DIRTVision.com or by downloading the DIRTVision app.
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