Donny Lia had one of the quickest cars in testing at New Hampshire International Speedway. He started the race sixth after qualifying was rained out and the field was set by points and he made forward progress early in the race. But tire problems rained on Lia’s day during the 100-lap race and left him with a finish of 14th in the Wisk/Snuggle #18.
“We had two bad right rears in a row,” said Lia. “The car was unbearable and we had no grip in the right rear. The car was fine in practice, but we couldn’t get it to drive with the tires that we had on there. It’s impossible to set the car up for. This happened to us at Stafford last year as well.”
The tire problems weren’t isolated to Lia’s team either.
“A lot of guys got bad right rears. The #3 car [Eric Beers] had a bad one and when they came in, they got lucky and put a good one on. They almost won the race.”
After the NHIS race, Lia went to Stafford Motor Speedway (CT) and finished eighth in the SK Modified race.
Lia has a busy week ahead of him now that NHIS is in his rear view mirror. He plans to compete at Seekonk Speedway (MA) on Wednesday and Beech Ridge Motor Speedway (ME) on Saturday with his #18 Modified and at Stafford Motor Speedway (CT) on Friday and Sunday with the #47 Wisk/Snuggle SK Modified.
