Deac McCaskill scored the victory in Saturday night’s CARS Late Model Stock Tour at Langley Speedway. Photo by Glen Starek
Sometimes racers say it is better to be lucky than good, and Deac McCaskill was both on Saturday night at Larry King Law’s Langley Speedway in Hampton, Virginia.
A last-lap tangle between the leaders opened the door for the former CARS Late Model Stock Tour champion to claim his first win of the season and break a 14-month winless drought.
Layne Riggs rocketed around Langley’s .395-mile layout in qualifying to claim the pole position, establishing a tour track record in the process. He led the first two laps until Justin T. Carroll made a daring three-wide maneuver on lap 3 to snag the lead from Riggs and Bobby McCarty.
A series of early cautions allowed Carroll and others to save their tires, and the pattern continued throughout the race with misfortunes occurring approximately every 20 laps, creating a series of short runs for drivers throughout the night.
On lap 80, Bobby McCarty had enough of Carroll’s dominance and tracked him down for the race lead. After applying a small dose of front bumper, McCarty opened the bottom lane and drove through to set the pace, officially leading lap 81 onward until late in the race.
Brandon Pierce, driving a backup car for Tommy Lemons, Jr., after a practice crash wiped his primary machine out, spun in turn two with only a pair of laps remaining, necessitating a green-white-checkered restart.
McCarty and Riggs restarted on the front row, with Riggs nearly matching every move of the No. 22 for the first lap. After taking the white flag, Riggs slid behind McCarty and moved him off the bottom groove, stealing the top spot as the field exited turn two.
Not to be outdone, McCarty repaid the favor even harder in turn three, turning Riggs sideways in front of the entire field. While everyone else slowed to avoid a massive accident, McCaskill took advantage of his inside positioning to drive past the chaos and into victory lane in only his second career visit to the facility.
McCarty crossed the line second, followed by his teammate Sammy Smith in third and Adam Lemke in fourth. Riggs recovered from his half-spin to finish fifth.
“Unbelievable, man,” said McCaskill. “I was just kind of content with third place, you know. We had just charged back from tenth and the caution came out. You know, God always has a plan and I stuck with it, believed in it, trusted in His faith, and we’re standing here in victory lane, man. It’s unbelievable. My wife’s at home watching, and we’ll try to keep this together for all of them.”
McCaskill’s wife, Sandy, suffered two strokes in the offseason and has made it to a handful of races this year as she continues her recovery.
“We just charged through the field and got to position ourselves there, and we were really good on long runs,” he continued. “I didn’t think I had anything for Bobby, I thought I could get by Layne but I knew it’d be tough. It’s just not over, man. It’s the way these CARS Tour rules are. I hate it for Bobby, but what a class act to walk up here and congratulate me. That’s pretty special.”
Justin Carroll, Cameron Bowen, Stacy Puryear, Josh Berry and Tyler Matthews rounded out the top ten.
The next event for the CARS Racing Tour will be a standalone event for the late model stock cars on June 22 at Dominion Raceway in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Visit CARSRacingTour.com for more information.
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Langley Speedway – Hampton, VA
Race Results – June 8, 2019
1. 08 Deac McCaskill
2. 22 Bobby McCarty
3. 12 Sammy Smith
4. 98 Adam Lemke
5. 99 Layne Riggs
6. 57 Justin Carroll
7. 19 Cameron Bowen
8. 17P Stacy Puryear
9. 88 Josh Berry
10. 63 Tyler Matthews
11. 90 Terry Carroll
12. 1 Jonathan Findley
13. 07 Camden Gullie
14. 2 Brandon Pierce
15. 81 Mini Tyrrell
16. 19C Jessica Cann
17. 78 Corey Heim
18. 03 Brenden Queen
19. 17 Taylor Gray
20. 77 Trevor Ward
21. 91 Justin S. Carroll
22. 54 Drew Dollar
23. 14 Ryan Repko
24. 74 Ronald Hill
25. 25 Zack St. Onge
DNS: 27 Tommy Lemons, Jr.
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