Former Southeast Series Champ Competes With Familiar Crowd
Jeff Fultz is a popular name in the NASCAR Southeast Series. However, it is one that hasn’t been mentioned too often this year as Fultz is competing for a different championship in the USAR Hooters Pro Cup series with his JCR3Racing team.
This weekend though, Fultz went back to his roots and made his season debut in the NASCAR Southeast Series at South Boston Speedway back behind the wheel of his familiar #54. Fultz was able to bring home a sixth-place finish. But it was not the debut that he was hoping for.
“We passed a lot of cars, but whenever I got around them I had to be careful because the car wasn’t handling,” said Fultz. “I will give credit to the guys though, they never gave up and they kept trying to get it better. We just came out here to have some fun and we did a good job trying to get the car better. We’ll get the next one, that’s all.
“This car has won probably 20 races before, but since we’ve switched to the Pro Cup Series this year, we haven’t paid attention to this car much this year. It was just kinda sitting in the corner and we decided to bring it out here last-minute.”
His sixth-place finish was hard fought, it wasn’t an easy ride to the top 10 for the former NASCAR Southeast Series Champion.
Jeff was back behind the wheel of his familiar #54 Southeast Series car.
f“Something happened on the right side of the car and we were just trying to fix it all night long. The car was loose and tight and that’s not supposed to happen. We made multiple pit stops trying to fix it and we worked on it all race long, but we never were able to get it figured out. We did pass a lot of cars though, that’s for sure.”
Fultz will be back in action this week when he returns to the USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series Southern Division, competing at USA International Speedway in Lakeland, FL. While it's his first trip to Lakeland with the Pro Cup cars this season, it won't be a new track for the veteran short track driver. Fultz has been to Lakeland numerous times in Super Late Model compeititon and ran well, so he's expecting another solid finish with the JCR3 Racing Pro Cup team.
