Boston Louie would be proud.
Fans of open-wheel racing took notice of Jake Trainor’s victory as a rookie in the 2023 Little 500 and Hank Davis’ success at the last two Chili Bowls. While the two events seem unrelated, they share a common denominator; the crew chief for both was Matt Seymour.
Seymour is the 27-year-old son of 1987 Northeastern Midget Ass’n champion Bobby Seymour and the grandson of legendary car owner “Boston Louie” Seymour – a 2004 inductee into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame. His uncle, Mike Seymour, was the NEMA champion in 1994.
Family patriarch Louis Seymour started campaigning USAC midgets, sprint cars and Silver Crown machines in 1965, towing to the Midwest nearly every week from his home in Marlboro, Mass. Hence the “Boston Louie” nickname.
The cars were eventually wrenched by Seymour’s sons, Bobby and Mike, and success came frequently. Billy Cassella drove the No. 29 Seymour entry to the 1976 USAC National Dirt Championship; George Snider (1971) and Bruce Walkup (1972) topped the first two editions of the Hulman Classic USAC sprint car race at Indiana’s Terre Haute Action Track; and Ken Schrader claimed a pair (1989 and ’90) of Copper World Classic USAC Silver Crown wins at Phoenix Raceway.
Other victories came at some of the nation’s most iconic short tracks, including Winchester, Salem, Eldora, Indianapolis Raceway Park, Williams Grove and the Indy Mile.
The team’s driver roster also featured Doug Wolfgang, Sheldon Kinser, Joe Saldana, Rich Vogler, Eddie Leavitt, Dave Blaney and Bentley Warren. Matt Seymour was born four months after “Boston Louie” died, but he’s carrying on the Seymour racing legacy in a way that would make his grandfather proud.
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