Brandon Setzer celebrates his second CARS Super Late Model Tour win Saturday night at Myrtle Beach Speedway. Photo by Kyle Tretow
Brandon Setzer played the tire strategy game to perfection on Saturday night to score the CARS Racing Tour Super Late Model win at Myrtle Beach Speedway in Myrtle Beach, SC.
Sam Yarbrough also worked tire strategy out to his advantage, as he drove to the Late Model Stock victory.
In the Super Late Model feature, Setzer claimed the pole for the second time this season and led the field to the green flag. Most recent race winner Steve Wallace jumped out to the early race lead from his second-place starting spot as Setzer slowly began to drop through the field.
The race saw its first lead change when Kyle Grissom, who started 11th, bypassed Wallace in turn one. The field settled into mostly single file formation as Grissom and Coulter Motorsports driver Clay Rogers contested the lead several times with Grissom retaining the top spot until a lap 46 caution flag for fluid leaking from the car of top-five runner A.J. Frank.
Once the race resumed, the lead battle was the most intriguing fight of the night with Grissom, Rogers, Kaz Grala, Cole Timm and Wallace all swapping spots each lap around the notoriously abrasive .538-mile track.
Tyler Church spun on lap 78, bringing out the event’s final caution period and setting up a dash to the checkered flag. Setzer, who was running outside the top ten, clawed his way into the top three by lap 90. With ten laps to go, Setzer moved past Wallace for third and quickly reeled in Grissom.
On lap 93, Setzer moved around Grissom with ease and checked out by over ten car lengths. He was unchallenged for the final seven circuits and crossed the line to take his second win of 2015, becoming only the second CARS Tour super late model driver to make a repeat visit to victory lane. Grissom, Wallace, Rogers and Quin Houff rounded out the top five finishers.
“I didn’t think we were all that good in the middle of the race but I can’t thank these guys enough to give me a racecar to go do this,” said a relatively speechless Setzer. “I never really did (think I had a car that could win the race). It just happened that way and we got lucky, I guess.”
Sam Yarbrough, a former Myrtle Beach Speedway track champion, pulled off an upset during the CARS Late Model Stock Tour event at his home track to win in his first tour start. Photo by Kyle Tretow
In the Late Model Stock feature, Deac McCaskill continued his dominance in qualifying by capturing his fifth pole award of the season. Former Myrtle Beach track champion Sam Yarbrough used his knowledge around the .538-mile facility to earn the second starting position.
McCaskill jumped out the early lead over Yarbrough, Tommy Lemons and Robert Tyler, who all circulated single file behind the leader during the opening stages of the event. Though the leaders were visibly running a much slower pace, Bradley McCaskill, the tour’s most recent late model stock winner, had risen to third in the standings by lap 21.
A spin by Bryant Barnhill late in the race set up a sprint to the checkered flag, much like the Super Late Model feature. As the lap count neared 20 laps remaining, Yarbrough made his move for the lead on McCaskill. Despite McCaskill’s best efforts to fend him off, within two laps he built up a 15-car length lead and looked poised to join a short list of first-start winners in the CARS Tour.
Though Yarbrough was in control and appeared ready to take his first win, a spin by Kate Dallenbach as the field came through the white flag brought out the race’s final caution period and setup a green-white-checkered finish to the 100-lap contest.
McCaskill restarted underneath Yarbrough and paced the former track champion through the first pair of turns, but down the backstretch Yarbrough was able to pull away and solidify himself as the leader over the final two laps. Yarbrough led the field to the checkered flag at his home race track over Deac McCaskill, Bradley McCaskill, Tommy Lemons and Tyler Ankrum.
“You can’t think about the (late) cautions too much, you just gotta go up there and do what you’ve got to do,” said Yarbrough. “It was easy to save tires, I just rode behind Deac the whole time. He dictated the pace and we did what we did. When it was time to go, I made a move and it stuck, and away we went.”
The inaugural CARS Tour will close out the season on Sunday, November 1, at Hickory Motor Speedway in Newton, NC. Two championship battles will be decided and one driver has the potential to walk away with over $60,000 if they win both races and claim the extra bonus money up for grabs.
For more information, visit CARSRacingtour.com.
CARS Racing Tour
Myrtle Beach Speedway – Myrtle Beach, SC
Bakerdist.com 200 (Unofficial) -Sept. 19, 2015
Super Late Models
1. Brandon Setzer
2. Kyle Grissom
3. Steve Wallace
4. Clay Rogers
5. Quin Houff
6. Zane Smith
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8. Cole Timm
9. Garrett Campbell
10. Clay Jones
11. Joey Mucciacciaro
12. Matt Craig
13. Gus Dean
14. Lucas Jones
15. Trevor Noles
16. Tyler Church
17. R.S. Senter
18. Vinnie Miller
19. Lucas Ransone
20. A.J. Frank
Late Model Stocks
1. Sam Yarbrough
2. Deac McCaskill
3. Bradley McCaskill
4. Tommy Lemons
5. Tyler Ankrum
6. Todd Gilliland
7. Myatt Snider
8. Brayton Haws
9. Josh Berry
10. Christian Eckes
11. Robert Tyler
12. Austin McDaniel
13. Michael Fose
14. Spencer Davis
15. Blake Stallings
16. Craig Stallard
17. Chris Hudspeth
18. Justin Crider
19. Thomas Beane
20. Kate Dallenbach
21. Ryan Hall
22. Christian PaHud
23. Matt Cox
24. Jeff Oakley
25. Roddey Sterling
26. Haley Moody
27. Chris Davis
28. Bryant Barnhill
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