Stephen Nasse celebrates after scoring the CARS Racing Tour Super Late Model feature Saturday night at Orange County Speedway. Photo by Kyle Tretow/CARS Tour
Despite weather pushing the racing action into the early morning hours, Stephen Nasse held off Dalton Sargeant to score the win in the Super Late Model portion of the CARS Racing Tour Summertime Showdown 250 at Orange County Speedway in Rougemont, NC Saturday.
Meanwhile, Tommy Lemons made the trip to Victory Lane for a win in the Late Model Stock portion of the event.
In the Super Late Model feature, Nasse scored his first career series pole, and led the field to green. Defending event winner Brandon Setzer started alongside and was Nasse’s first challenger for the point in the opening laps.
Just 14 laps into the event, one of the most incredible crashes in CARS Tour history occurred when Tate Fogleman and Tyler Church made contact exiting turn four. The encounter sent Fogleman’s No. 8 machine into the turn four wall at a sharp angle, launching the car airborne and back into traffic where Preston Peltier was collected. Quin Houff, Tanner Berryhill, Jeff Batten and Wade Day also were swept up into the accident and piled into the Fogleman car after it had initially stopped. All drivers were able to walk away from the accident.
A rash of mid-race yellow flags, three of which involved previous event winner Matt Craig, set the stage for a 47-lap dash to the checkered flag between Nasse and Sargeant. Despite numerous attempts to move Nasse or otherwise bypass him for the top spot, Sargeant was unable to find a way around the leader.
Aggressive driving and substantial contact over the final two laps were Sargeant’s last-ditch effort, but Nasse kept his car under control and beat Sargeant to the checkered flag by .239 second. Tanner Thorson finished third, followed by Lucas Jones in fourth and Trevor Noles in fifth.
“Man, what a feeling, what a feeling,” exclaimed Nasse in victory lane. “DLP Motorsports and all the guys this weekend, everyone who puts their hands in, I couldn’t do it without them. I was just hoping every lap that went by where (Sargeant) kept trying to get to my inside that, please, let this kid wear out his stuff. I know these boys, they’re in way better shape than I am. Two hundred and fifty-pounds out here in this heat during a long race takes a toll on your body.
“But I knew Dalton was in good shape and I was hoping he would just wear his car out a little bit because I knew mine wasn’t going away and I wouldn’t have an excuse at the end of the race if I let him get by me.”
Tommy Lemons celebrates his second consecutive CARS Late Model Stock Tour feature win Saturday night at Orange County Speedway. Photo by Kyle Tretow/CARS Tour
In the Late Model Stock feature, Chris Denny led the field to the green flag from the pole in his second career start with the tour, but outside front row starter Stefan Parsons jumped out front, leading the first laps of his CARS Tour career.
Ten laps into the event, Denny and Parsons made contact in turn two while racing for the lead, cutting Denny’s tire and sending him into the concrete to bring out the first caution.
Point leader Deac McCaskill wrestled the lead away from Parsons on the ensuing restart, but by lap 25 Parsons was once again in command of the event, at times stretching his lead to over a straightaway on the field.
The most controversial incident of the evening took place on lap 43. Chase Purdy and Ryan Wilson, after battling for most of the race, made contact on the backstretch, sending Wilson’s car into the outside wall where he collected Craig Stallard in the aftermath.
Though both drivers were able to climb from their mangled machines, the incident did not end there for Wilson. After exiting his car, Wilson proceeded to confront Purdy on-track during the caution flag, landing punches through the window of Purdy’s car before walking away under the quick escort of CARS Tour officials.
Parsons once again jumped out to the lead following the restart and began to distance himself from the field until misfortune struck. As the alternator on his car began to fail, Parsons’ car started losing power, allowing Tommy Lemons to inherit the top spot on lap 59.
Lemons appeared to be en route to an easy victory until Deac McCaskill reeled him in from nearly a straightaway back over the final laps. McCaskill attempted to bypass Lemons high and low over last three circuits, even making contact with the No. 27 on more than one occasion.
But Lemons held off McCaskill’s advances and cruised underneath the checkered flag to claim his second consecutive CARS Late Model Stock Tour win. McCaskill finished in second, with Christian Eckes in third, Layne Riggs in fourth and Craig Moore in fifth.
“I knew once I got to the lead, I had to get away as much as I could because my car was a little too loose and I felt like the longer we ran, the worse it would get,” Lemons said. “I felt like Deac would come back up to us, and he did. That’s the hardest we’ve run all year long. It felt like we ran 100 qualifying laps. This place beats on you pretty good, but this is just awesome. “
Due to a nearly two-hour rain delay and an extended super late model feature, the late model stock contest was shortened to 100 laps in order to meet a “courtesy curfew” of midnight the track attempts to keep for all events.
The CARS Racing Tour returns to action on August 27 at Concord Speedway in Concord, North Carolina.
For more information, visit CARSRacingTour.com.
CARS Racing Tour
Orange County Speedway – Rougemont, NC
Summertime Showdown 250 – July 30, 2016
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Super Late Models
1. 51 Stephen Nasse
2. 55 Dalton Sargeant
3. 97T Tanner Thorson
4. 16 Lucas Jones
5. 22 Trevor Noles
6. 15F A.J. Frank
7. 6 Brandon Setzer
8. 58 Tyler Ankrum
9. 98M Jody Measmer
10. 29 Spencer Davis
11. 99 Raphael Lessard
12. 26 Chandler Smith
13. 54 Matt Craig
14. 67 Clay Jones
15. 57 Cole Timm
16. 16M Vinnie Miller
17. 7 Tyler Church
18. 8 Tate Fogleman
19. 33 Preston Peltier
20. 17B Tanner Berryhill
21. 17 Quin Houff
22. 96 Wade Day
23. 49 Jeff Batten
Late Model Stock Cars
1. 27 Tommy Lemons, Jr.
2. 08 Deac McCaskill
3. 1 Christian Eckes
4. 99 Layne Riggs
5. 1M Craig Moore
6. 12M Austin McDaniel
7. 41 Chase Purdy
8. 88B Scott Bishop
9. 88 Chris Davis
10. 28 Chris Hudspeth
11. 31 Thomas Beane
12. 74 Ronald Hill
13. 16S R.D. Smith
14. 7 Justin Crider
15. 98 Stefan Parsons
16. 12 Ryan Wilson
17. 42 Craig Stallard
18. 2D Chris Denny
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