Cole Timm celebrates after scoring his second career CARS Racing Tour Super Late Model victory on Saturday at Tri-County Motor Speedway. Photo: Kyle Tretow/CARS Tour
Defending series champion Cole Timm beat out Brandon Setzer to score his first CARS Racing Tour Super Late Model feature victory of the season in the Do The Dew 200 Saturday night at Tri-County Motor Speedway in Hudson, NC.
Meanwhile, Josh Berry came out on top of the Late Model Stock Car portion of the event.
In the Super Late Model feature, Tanner Berryhill started from the pole after clocking in at 15.690 seconds (91.778 mph) with defending series champion Cole Timm alongside.
Timm grabbed the initial lead of the race in turn one as Berryhill fell quickly through the field. On lap 7, Setzer and Matt Craig both bypassed Timm for first and second, respectively, and began to pull away from the rest of the competition.
During the midstages of the race, Craig tried numerous times to bypass leader Setzer, battling through slower traffic and going three wide at times in an effort to steal the top spot. However, those slower cars became the downfall of both drivers in the closing laps of the race. Difficulty in passing slower cars allowed Timm to creep into the battle for the lead from over a straightaway behind.
Timm disposed of Craig and initially passed Setzer for the lead on lap 75 using the inside line. Setzer fought back in the outside lane, leading laps 76 and 77, but Timm got the final advantage on lap 78. The David Gilliland Racing driver then strolled to his first win this season and the second of his career. Setzer finished in second, with Craig third, Steve Wallace fourth and Tate Fogleman fifth.
“All these guys gave me a great opportunity and a great racecar today,” said Timm. “I still had a lot in the tank in case we had a late race caution or something. This thing was just awesome all weekend. We didn’t work on a whole lot of qualifying stuff, just mostly race stuff, and it definitely paid off for us.”
“The biggest thing is all of these guys right here, they do all the work and are phenomenal, simply awesome,” Timm continued when asked about getting the call to drive for a factory backed TRD team as opposed to his family-owned effort. “I love racing with my mom and my dad – he’s actually in Canada right now with his father, so this one’s for them right here – it means a lot to race with them, but it really means a lot to have the chance to race with these guys and do it in a dominant fashion.”
The 100 laps of action unfolded over the course of only 29 minutes and 37 seconds of caution-free racing. It was the shortest race in terms of elapsed time in series history.
Josh Berry took the win in the Late Model Stock portion of Saturday night’s CARS Racing Tour event at Tri-County Speedway on Saturday night. Photo: Kyle Tretow/CARS Tour
In the Late Model Stock feature, Deac McCaskill laid down a lap of 16.183 seconds (88.982 mph) in qualifying, earning him the pole. To his outside, Layne Riggs was celebrating his 14th birthday as well as his first day of age eligibility for CARS Tour competition.
As the race began, the intensity was high despite the fact that McCaskill shot out to the early lead. Just a car length behind him, a dozen drivers battled two and sometimes three-wide for position. Among those drivers was Tommy Lemons, Jr., who slowly began working his way to the front. His transmission, however, slowly began to leak fluid and his Ford began showing signs of smoke as he chased down the leader.
Race control was observing Lemons’ car closely, even when he took the lead from McCaskill on lap 35. But on lap 39, reports of oil from too many drivers and teams forced race control to black flag Lemons and bring him to pit road for the crew to check the machine. A quick, stop-gap repair allowed Lemons to rejoin the field one lap down, handing the lead back to McCaskill.
The lead swapped hands once again 13 laps later, as Austin McDaniel found his way around McCaskill for the point on lap 54. McDaniel had control of the event until a caution involving Justin Crider and Layne Riggs brought out the first caution of the night on lap 59. Lemons was the recipient of the free pass and was placed back on the lead lap.
Just six laps later, Jake Ruggles and Hayden Humphrey were involved in an incident in the middle of turns three and four, bringing another break in the action.
A spin by Craig Stallard on lap 83 set up a pivotal restart with only 17 laps remaining. McDaniel and Josh Berry led the field to the restart and Berry won the drag race into turn one, moving McDaniel up the racetrack slightly and stealing the top spot away.
McCaskill and McDaniel both wanted the lead to themselves and on lap 85, McDaniel and Berry made contact while racing three-wide with McCaskill, sending McDaniel spinning in front of the entire field. Numerous cars received minor cosmetic damage, the worst of which was sustained by McDaniel, but all were able to continue.
With 15 laps remaining, Berry jumped to the lead and never looked back as he went on to score the victory. McCaskill finished in second, with Lemons in third, Robert Tyler in fourth and Stefan Parsons in fifth.
“He just didn’t get a good start and we got position on him in one,” said Berry when asked about the pass for the lead. “It’s just so hard to pass here that anytime you get an opportunity you gotta take it and that’s what we did. We got the lead and, man, I felt like the car really came on there those last 20 laps. I felt like we really did a good job of keeping the tires on it til the end and was fast when it mattered, again, just like at Hickory.”
“There was definitely contact, but I really don’t know what happened,” replied Berry when asked about the incident in turn two on lap 85 that took Austin McDaniel out of contention. “They said we ended up three-wide and I had no idea we were three-wide. It’s just tight racing here. We knew that coming into this, that’s how it was going to be, and everyone – 15 to go or 20 to go or whatever it was – everyone’s racing hard for the win and you’re going to have contact. Luckily we were able to come through it without any damage or a flat tire or anything, but that was fun.”
The next event for the CARS Racing Tour is set for Saturday, June 25 at Greenville Pickens Speedway in Easley, SC. For more information, visit CARSRacingtour.com.
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Tri-County Motor Speedway – Hudson, NC
Do The Dew 200 – June 11, 2016
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Super Late Models
1. 97 Cole Timm
2. 6 Brandon Setzer
3. 54 Matt Craig
4. 66 Steve Wallace
5. 8 Tate Fogleman
6. 58 Tyler Ankrum
7. 99 Raphael Lessard
8. 17 Quin Houff
9. 88 Garrett Jones
10. 15 A.J. Frank
11. 2 Garret Archer
12. 16 Lucas Jones
13. 25 Stephen Leicht
14. 01 Jake Crum
15. 49 Jeff Batten
16. 56 Gus Dean
17. 22 Trevor Noles
18. 67 Clay Jones
19. 17B Tanner Berryhill
20. 7 Tyler Church
Late Model Stock
1. 88B Josh Berry
2. 08 Deac McCaskill
3. 27 Tommy Lemons
4. 88T Robert Tyler
5. 98 Stefan Parsons
6. 57 Justin Carroll
7. 95 Chad McCumbee
8. 12 Austin McDaniel
9. 74 Ronald Hill
10. 31 Thomas Beane
11. 88 Chris Davis
12. 42 Craig Stallard
13. 7 Justin Crider
14. 9 Charles Watson
15. 28 Chris Hudspeth
16. 07 Hayden Humphrey
17. 75 Landon Huffman
18. 5 Tyler English
19. 29 Jake Ruggles
20. 99 Layne Riggs
21. 1 Christian Eckes
DNS: 16 R.D. Smith
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