Trevor Noles (left) and Bobby McCarty (right) were victorious in CARS Racing Tour action on Saturday at Orange County Speedway. Noles scored the Super Late Model win, while McCarty scored the victory in the Late Mode Stock feature. Photo: Pit Row Media/Andy Newsome
Trevor Noles batted back from a flat tire under caution to score the CARS Super Late Model Tour feature on Saturday night at Orange County Speedway in Rougemont, North Carolina.
Meanwhile, Bobby McCarty scored his second CARS Late Model Stock Tour feature victory.
In the Super Late Model feature, Matt Craig started form the pole, and paced the event early ahead of Brandon Setzer until the field approached halfway.
As the lap count grew higher, Giovanni Bromante worked his way from deep into the top ten up to third and began to reel in the top two. Simultaneously, former third place driver Trevor Noles began to noticeably fall off the pace with an apparent mechanical issue.
A caution with 30 laps to go, moments before Noles would have gone a lap down, allowed the No. 22 team to change what turned out to be a flat right rear tire.
On the initial restart, Brandon Setzer lost control in turn three, sliding up into Matt Craig and causing his car to hit the outside wall, while everyone scattered behind the spinning car of Setzer. Aside from Setzer and Craig, all drivers made it through unscathed.
The second attempt at the restart allowed Giovanni Bromante to restart beside Craig, and the pair battled for the race lead over the final 20 laps, making contact multiple times as they fought for the win.
While they raced, Noles was quickly charging through the field with a fresher right rear tire, and caught the pair inside of ten laps to go.
Bromante took the lead briefly on lap 140, but after Craig drove back around him on lap 141, Noles moved into second and found a way around the No. 54 car on lap 146.
A restart following an incident involving Steve Wallace, Tate Fogleman and Kodie Conner was the closest competition Noles had after taking the lead. He pulled away over the final two lap sprint to a .602-second advantage en route to his first CARS Tour win.
Craig finished in second, followed by Bromante in third, Corey Heim in fourth and Stephen Nasse in fifth.
“I didn’t know what happened, I heard something pop and I thought it was in the front end, but evidently it wasn’t,” Noles said of the flat tire which ultimately helped him to win the race. “That was a gift from God right there. I think we had a really good car, a good enough car to win it. I just can’t thank everyone who’s helped me on this car (enough). This is, by far, one of the biggest wins of my career, and I couldn’t be happier than to do it with the CARS Tour.”
“I knew we had a good car, and had a good right rear on it,” he continued. “It was pretty hectic coming through the field, cars were going everywhere. It was a long race, but I’m glad we’re standing here in victory lane.”
In the Late Model Stock feature, Craig Moore led the field to green after pacing the competition in qualifying. Josh Berry gained the advantage on Moore during the first lap and began to set the pace for the event.
Leading the field into turn three on the third lap, Berry’s car erupted in white smoke, and over a half-dozen cars behind him slid into each other or the retaining wall, creating a massive melee in the oil left behind by Berry’s machine when the flywheel failed and punctured the oil filter. Moore, Mini Tyrrell, Brandon Pierce, Layne Riggs, Trevor Ward, Brody Pope, Ronald Hill, and Deac McCaskill were among those who received damage in the incident.
Jonathan Findley led the field to the restart, but Justin Carroll took the point from him after the lap three restart and showed the way until Bobby McCarty, from his deep starting spot, reeled in the leader and bypassed him for command of the race on lap 22.
McCarty dominated the rest of the event despite challenges from his teammate, Sammy Smith, in the closing laps. The defending series champion pulled away to a 1.621-second margin of victory.
Smith, Findley, Carroll and Deac McCaskill rounded out the top five.
“It started raining in qualifying and I couldn’t get the car to grip up, so we started eleventh or twelfth or whatever it was,” McCarty said. “I seen smoke, and I seen the left side of the 2 car in the fence. As soon as I seen the 2 car and the smoke, I just went low. At the end of the day, our cars haven’t been the best before this. We really need to get back to where we were last year when we were the car you had to show up to beat. We just have to focus on that and get back to winning races and I really feel like we were stepping in the right direction this weekend.”
Due to Berry’s misfortune early, the 11 point margin he enjoyed in the standings now flips to McCarty’s advantage. The defending titlist enters the race at South Boston with an unofficial nine point cushion.
“We’re going there to win. We can’t get caught up in the points, we have to just get our cars better,” McCarty stated. “We’re going to win, and I couldn’t care less where everyone else finishes. At the end of the day, they all have to beat this 22 car. We’re going to go to work, we still have some work to do. You gotta count your blessings, and we’ll move on to South Boston.”
The next event for the CARS Racing Tour will take place November 2 at South Boston Speedway. Both series championships will be decided in a pair of 125-lap contests at the south-central Virginia facility.
For more information, visit CARSRacingTour.com.
CARS Super Late Model Tour
Orange County Speedway – Rougemont, NC
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1. 22 Trevor Noles
2. 54 Matt Craig
3. 81 Giovanni Bromante
4. 78 Corey Heim
5. 51 Stephen Nasse
6. 14 Jared Fryar
7. 34 Nolan Pope
8. 6W Matt Wallace
9. 16 Molly Helmuth
10. 21 Carson Kvapil
11. 49 Jeff Batten
12. 21P Kyle Plott
13. 40 Toby Grynewicz
14. 45 Kodie Conner
15. 8 Tate Fogleman – Accident
16. 66 Steve Wallace – Parked
17. 13 Erik Nash – Mechanical
18. 6 Brandon Setzer – Mechanical
19. 17 Mike Speeney – Mechanical
CARS Late Model Stock Tour
Orange County Speedway – Rougemont, NC
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1. 22 Bobby McCarty
2. 12 Sammy Smith
3. 4 Jonathan Findley
4. 57 Justin Carroll
5. 08 Deac McCaskill
6. 17 Taylor Gray
7. 63 Tyler Matthews
8. 54 Drew Dollar
9. 74 Ronald Hill
10. 07 Camden Gullie
11. 81 Mini Tyrrell
12. 2 Brandon Pierce
13. 98 Adam Lemke
14. 11 Jeff Oakley
15. 17C Sarah Cornett-Ching
16. 19C Jessica Cann
17. 99 Layne Riggs – Motor Mount
18. 1D Terry Dease – Mechanical
19. 88 Josh Berry – Flywheel
20. 1M Craig Moore – Accident
21. 77 Trevor Ward – Accident
22. 1P Brody Pope – Accident
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