Bubba Pollard captured his 14th Southern Super Series win and first CARS Tour victory by winning the co-sanctioned Border War 250 at Anderson Motor Speedway on Saturday night. Photo by Kyle Tretow / CARS Tour
Saturday night’s combined CARS Tour and Southern Super Series asphalt Late Model feature at Anderson Motor Speedway came down to a battle of the Georgia drivers.
Bubba Pollard of Senoia, Georgia came out on top of a late race duel with Lawrenceville, Georgia’s Casey Roderick to score the victory in the Border War 250 at the Williamson, South Carolina raceway.
Meanwhile, Josh Berry held off third-generation racer Ty Gibbs to the win in the Late Model Stock Car portion of the event.
In the Super Late Model feature, Matt Craig captured his second career Mahle Pistons Pole Award during qualifying, but was unsure of his starting position until after driver introductions.
Because of the co-sanction, a coin flip following qualifying determined whether the field lined up via CARS Tour (heads-up) or Southern Super Series rules (top eight redraw). Craig’s coin flip landed on the Southern Super Series rules, placing Garrett Jones and Jared Irvan on the front row while Craig redrew eighth.
Garrett Jones led the opening eight circuits, but quickly had company up front as third place starter Christian Eckes maneuvered his Toyota around Jones for the point on lap 9.
Debris in turn three forced a caution on lap 50, lining the field up double-file for a restart. Sixth place starter Roderick had worked his way to second before the caution, allowing him to restart outside of Jones where he took full advantage of the high line and snatched the lead away with 75 laps to go. A spin by Jimmy Doyle two laps later gave Roderick the inside, where he motored away from the field as the laps continued to click off.
Bubba Pollard leads the field en route to the CARS / Southern Super Seires victory at Anderson Motor Speedway on Saturday night. Photo by Kyle Tretow / CARS Tour
Pollard spent most of the race quietly and patiently picking off cars as he marched his way forward in the running order. By lap 97, he caught the leader and took full advantage of a rare miscue by Roderick when he was caught behind a slower car in turn one and grabbed the lead. A daring three-wide maneuver a few laps later solidified Pollard as the pacesetter until a lap 105 caution for Roy Hayes’ spin in turn two.
Pollard jumped out to the lead on the restart while Eckes and Roderick fought for second. That allowed Pollard to pull away to his 14th Southern Super Series win but his first CARS Tour victory, a triumph he will be credited with across both series.
“I was just sitting there, riding, because I knew we had a lot of racing left and I didn’t want to get there too fast so that when I got there I didn’t have anything to pass him with,” Pollard said in victory lane. “We started reeling him in real slow, and I was trying to use those lapped cars to my advantage and run a little faster on the laps he would catch them so I could run him down. We had an awesome racecar, this thing turned all night long, it was so awesome, and I can’t thank everyone enough for helping me out.”
“On the bigger tracks, you can be a little more patient because you have a little more room,” he continued when asked about the three-wide maneuver to hold onto the lead. “On small tracks like this, you’ve got to make stuff happen and you’ve got to make it happen fast. If not, that guy in second is going to run you down, catch you, and get up under you. I knew I had to do something fast, aggressive, and it won us the race.”
Josh Berry celebrates his tenth career CARS Late Model Stock Tour win at Anderson Motor Speedway on Saturday night. Photo by Kyle Tretow / CARS Tour
In the Late Model Stock feature, Ryan Repko captured his first career pole and led the opening quarter of the race after battling side-by-side with Josh Berry on the initial start.
On lap 34, Marietta, Georgia’s Cody Haskins clawed his way to the front around Repko for the first lead change of the evening and the first lead of Haskins’ CARS Tour career. After starting fifth and pacing the first Saturday practice, Haskins was one of the favorites early until Berry tracked him down and made a pass for the lead on lap 57.
Evan Swilling went for a spin in turn one on lap 58, forcing a restart with Berry, Haskins and Repko bunched tightly in a group as the field raced back to turn one. Berry emerged as the leader once again and continued to set the pace until the most scary incident of the night on lap 90 when Robert Tyler’s car erupted in flames in turn three after an apparent mechanical failure. Tyler was able to escape the inferno unscathed.
On the ensuing restart, Repko lined up beside Berry but slipped in turn two, losing a half-dozen positions and taking him out of contention for the win. Youngster Ty Gibbs, the grandson of NASCAR owner Joe Gibbs who was making only his second career series start, began to motor his way forward after the restart and worked his way to second with less than 30 laps to go.
Gibbs was unable to track down Berry in time to mount a challenge for the win, sealing Berry’s tenth career CARS Tour triumph in only 20 career starts.
Josh Berry works underneath of Cody Haskins for the lead on Saturday during the CARS Late Model Stock Tour feature at Anderson Motor Speedway. Photo by Kyle Tretow / CARS Tour
“I tried to save my tires because I knew it would be tough on them, but I know the 14 was really strong, and I have no idea what happened to him on that restart, but I think he would’ve been tough to hold off,” Berry said. “We definitely had to manage our tires, that’s so important in these races. I’m really happy to get a win. We were here last week and didn’t have the best of luck, but we wanted to learn for this week and obviously that paid off. I’m just so excited because we’ve had speed all year long and we’ve had motors blow up, overheating, breaking wheels, and stuff go by that we really didn’t deserve. These guys work really hard, so I’m glad to put them in victory lane.”
“We’ve really had some random stuff happen to us and I don’t know why,” he continued. “I told them at the beginning of the race that tonight was the night we turn our season around and start getting the results we deserve. We were able to do that tonight, so now we’re going to take one race at a time. Orange County is next, so we’re going to try to win there.”
The CARS Tour visits Orange County Speedway in Rougemont, North Carolina for the rescheduled Orange Blossom 300 on June 24. For more information, visit CARSRacingTour.com.
Meanwhile, the Southern Super Series returns to action on July 1 for the Rumble by the River 125 at Alabama’s Montgomery Motor Speedway. For more information, visit SouthernSuperSeries.com.
CARS Super Late Model Tour/Southern Super Series
Anderson Motor Speedway – Williamston, SC
Race Results – June 10, 2017
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1. 26P Bubba Pollard
2. 15 Christian Eckes
3. 18 Casey Roderick
4. 88 Garrett Jones
5. 4P Kyle Plott
6. 54 Matt Craig
7. 98 Paul Kelley
8. 14 Connor Okrzesik
9. 83 Scotty Ellis
10. 26S Chandler Smith
11. 43 David Calabrese
12. 51N Stephen Nasse
13. 81 Derek Scott, Jr.
14. 6 Brandon Setzer
15. 34 Nolan Pope
16. 16 Lucas Jones
17. 11 Jordan McCallum
18. 15H Roy Hayes III
19. 71 Jimmy Doyle
20. 4M Kyle McCallum
21. 10 R.S. Senter
22. 28 Jared Irvan
23. 37D Dan Speeney
24. 16M Chad McCumbee
DNS: 99L Raphael Lessard
DNS: 99G John Gustafson
CARS Late Model Stock Tour
Anderson Motor Speedway – Williamston, SC
Race Results – June 10, 2017
1. 88B Josh Berry
2. 18G Ty Gibbs
3. 44 Justin Johnson
4. 8A Anthony Alfredo
5. 81 Jared Fryar
6. 14 Ryan Repko
7. 18 Evan Swilling
8. 99 Layne Riggs
9. 74 Ronald Hill
10. 28 Jared Irvan
11. 88 Chris Davis
12. 2H Cody Haskins
13. 44H Landon Huffman
14. 88T Robert Tyler
15. 42 Craig Stallard
16. 21D Judson Dyar
17. 32 Brandon Grosso
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