Christopher Bell celebrates after scoring the Super Late Model victory as part of the CARS Racing Tour weekend at Southern National Motorsports Park Saturday night. Photo by FrameWorks Photography
When the CARS Racing Tour kicked off their 2015 season in March, two drivers, Christopher Bell in the Super Late Model feature and Deac McCaskill, saw their chances at victory slip away late in the going.
On Saturday night, the tour returned to Southern National Motorsports Park in Lucama, NC, with Bell and McCaskill winning their respective features.
In the Super Late Model feature, March winner Cole Timm picked up where he left off at Southern National and earned the pole position over Harrison Burton.
Timm took the early lead but it wasn’t long before Burton would find his way underneath and around Timm to take over the top spot before lap 20. Bell, in the Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota, moved around Timm as well and on lap 33 passed Burton for the lead.
Bell proceeded to check-out from the rest of the field and survived a pair of mid-race restarts to become the first two-time winner in the Super Late Model division of the CARS Racing Tour.
Timm backed up his March win with a second place finish and extended his series points lead, while Burton finished third with Clay Jones and Quin Houff completing the top five.
When asked about dominant performance in victory lane Bell replied, “It’s really special to be in this Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota Camry, No. 51. These guys worked their butts off and it wasn’t cool today. Nobody works harder than these guys on this 51 car.
“I was hanging on there those last 25, 30 laps. It’s tough, and you just make sure you slow down and don’t overkill your stuff. The more I slid around the worse it got, so I just tried to go slower and slower.”
Deac McCaskill raced to the CARS Racing Tour Late Model Stock win Saturday at Southern National Motorsports Park Saturday night. Photo by FrameWorks Photography
In the Late Model Stock feature, McCaskill claimed the pole position for the third time in four CARS Tour races this season and and his second at Southern National. Todd Gilliland, the race winner in March who moved McCaskill late in the season opener at the same track, qualified alongside on the front row.
McCaskill, a former track champion at SNMP, jumped out to the early lead from the start and led every lap to claim an emotional win. McCaskill challenged only once for the lead following the lone caution period on lap 20 for a spin by Chris Davis. Tyler Ankrum finished second while Gilliland rebounded from early race wall contact to come home third. Veterans Jamey Caudill and Mike Darne rounded out the top five.
“I just tried to run Tyler’s (Ankrum) pace and I was more worried about (Todd) Gilliland,” McCaskill said in victory lane. “I knew he was saving his tires and when he got to third I knew he was riding because that’s where he wanted to be if we got a late race restart. I just kept cruising and with about 20 to go Tyler picked it up a little bit and I picked my car up some. Car was absolutely flawless. We weren’t junk in practice, but I wasn’t really happy with it at all.”
“I’m 37 years old and I’ve been racing for 20 some years and I was in tears,” he continued, sniffling from the emotion. “This is what this sport means to me and I really appreciate CARS. I want to dedicate this win to my mom who was diagnosed with breast cancer and she’s here tonight; my wife and kids also for all their support.”
Incoming Late Model Stock point leader Brayton Haws’ win streak was stopped at two after he was never a factor all weekend and finished in 11th.
The CARS Racing Tour returns to action on June 12 at Tri-County Motor Speedway in Hudson, NC. For more info, visit CARSRacingTour.com.
CARS Racing Tour
Southern National Motorsports Park – Lucama, NC
Race Results – May 30, 2015
Super Late Models
1. Christopher Bell
2. Cole Timm
3. Harrison Burton
4. Clay Jones
5. Quin Houff
6. Ross Kenseth
7. Zane Smith
8. Garrett Jones
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10. Kyle Grissom
11. Steve Wallace
12. Jody Measamer
13. Stephen Nasse
14. Brandon Setzer
15. Chris Davidson
16. Garrett Campbell
17. Lucas Jones
18. Stephen Leicht
19. Joey Mucciacciaro
20. Grant Galloway
21. Kiel Spaulding
22. Brandon Lynn
23. Lucas Ransone
24. Dave Mader III
25. Nick Robinson
26. Matthew Craig
27. Gus Dean
Late Model Stock
1. Deac McCaskill
2. Tyler Ankrum
3. Todd Gilliland
4. Jamey Caudill
5. Mike Darne
6. Jeff Oakley
7. Myatt Snider
8. Austin McDaniel
9. Tommy Lemons, Jr.
10. Chris Hudspeth
11. Brayton Haws
12. Clint King
13. Robert Tyler
14. Blake Stallings
15. Craig Stallard
16. Justin Crider
17. R.D. Smith
18. Donnie Puryear
19. Thomas Beane
20. Roddy Sterling
21. Chris Davis
22. Michael Fose
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