Bubba Pollard celebrates in victory lane after scoring his third CARS Super Late Model Tour victory of the season Saturday night at Motor Mile Speedway. Photo by Glen Starek/Glen Starek Photography
Bubba Pollard has been tough to beat when it comes to the CARS Racing Super Late Model Tour this season.
The Senoia, Georgia native powered to his third victory on the Asphalt Super Late Model tour of 2019 on Saturday night at Motor Mile Speedway in Radford, Virginia.
Meanwhile, Bobby McCarty scored his first CARS Late Model Stock Tour victory in nearly a year.
In the Super Late Model feature, Pollard edged ahead of pole sitter Matt Craig to lead lap one before Craig retook the top spot. He would hold the point for over a third of the race.
Pollard began to show his speed on lap 47 when he bypassed Craig for the top spot, but Craig found a way back around on lap 59. The pair continued to trade blows, moving each other out of the way multiple times before Pollard ultimately took the lead for the final time on lap 78 after a caution for Mike Speeney’s problems in turn three.
Despite Pollard’s late-race dominance, Craig threw everything at the Georgia speedster when he attempted to outduel Pollard on a lap 114 restart. Having none of it, race control thwarted his work when the restart was called back as a jumped restart and reattempted with Pollard on the inside lane where he motored away after the green flag.
Pollard extended his lead to a .686-second advantage at the checkered flag, beating Craig for the win. Stephen Nasse came home in third, followed by Tate Fogleman in fourth and Kodie Conner in fifth.
“When you drive good stuff, got good people behind you, they make it easy on you,” said Pollard in victory lane when asked about how he has pulled off three wins so far this season.
“When you drive me dirty, I’m going to drive you back dirty, and that’s all there is to it,” he continued when prompted about the battle with Craig. “When you run me up the racetrack, I’m going to let you know it. It could have been a lot cleaner than what it was, and it wasn’t. It’s part of racing if he wants to drive like that.
“You’re looking at a new Bubba Pollard. I’ve kinda been easy on people, kind of just rolled with the flow, but I ain’t taking no (expletive) off nobody no more. If you touch that 26 car, you’re gonna be ready for it.”
Josh Brock, Jeff Batten, Colin Garrett, Jared Fryar and Brandon Setzer rounded out the top ten.
Bobby McCarty made his first trip of the season to victory lane in the CARS Late Model Stock Tour Saturday night at Motor Mile Speedway. Photo by Glen Starek/Glen Starek Photography
In the Late Model Stock feature, Josh Berry brought the field to the green flag from the pole, and moved out to an early lead over Deac McCaskill.
The opening two thirds of the race was saw only two caution flags on laps 40 and 80, thrown by rule according to the series’ competition caution policy. After lap 80, however, things got crazy when Taylor Gray lost control exiting turn four, triggering a massive chain reaction melee that collected at least ten cars in one fashion or another. Multiple drivers were eliminated from the race afterwards.
Bobby McCarty, who had moved to second during the opening two stints, challenged Berry on the restart, but was unable to steal to the top spot. A slew of late-race accidents, including four cautions in the final scheduled 25 laps, gave McCarty multiple opportunities to bypass Berry, but none of them yielded any results.
Josh Berry took the white flag after 124 laps and appeared to be en route to his 16th career win when Brandon Pierce sent Ryan Repko for a spin in turn two, forcing officials to throw the yellow before the leader had taken the checkered flag, prompting a green-white-checkered restart.
On the initial attempt, Berry bypassed McCarty in turn three, but washed up the track, allowing McCarty to drive to his inside in turn one. The two made contact, and Berry went spinning up the track, handing McCarty the race lead and relegating Berry to the tail.
The second attempt at a finish saw McCarty choose the high line for his restart lane, while Justin Carroll started underneath. The pair leaned on each other while others pushed and shoved behind them. They took the white flag in a near dead heat, and made the final circuit door-to-door before racing off turn four to the checkered flag where McCarty edged out Carroll in a photo finish of .029 seconds.
Sammy Smith finished third, with Brandon Pierce fourth and Tommy Lemons, Jr. fifth.
“I really hate that with the 88 (Berry), I really do, he knows I don’t race that way,” McCarty said after thanking his crew in victory lane. “He was trying to pinch me, and I was trying to run him up a little bit, and we hit wheels. It yanked the wheel right out of my hand. I’ve never wrecked nobody for a win, I never have and I never will, that was just a racing incident. Hopefully he and I can talk about it and come to an agreement. But, like I said, a big thank you to everyone at Nelson Motorsports. My wife and son are here, and it’s he first time they’ve come in a long time, so this is a really cool moment for me.”
McCarty was asked about the setup for the finish.
“When that (lap 124) caution came out, I was worried, because they can cause a lot of problems,” he said. “You never know how these restarts are going to play out. Josh didn’t get to the throttle really good coming out of four, and I was able to pull the crossover and we got position on him and that was unfortunate and I really hate that happened.
“I didn’t know whether to take the inside or the outside on the last restart because I was losing forward drive and that’s where the 88 was killing us. I felt like if someone was on our outside, I wasn’t going to be able to get the throttle down. We took the outside, Justin’s a really hard racer, he races hard but he races clean, and I hope the fans enjoyed that show.”
The next event for the CARS Racing Tour will take place June 8 at Langley Speedway in Hampton, Virginia. For more information, visit CARSRacingTour.com.
CARS Super Late Model Tour
Motor Mile Speedway – Radford, VA
Heritage Truck Centers 250 – May 18, 2019
1. 26P Bubba Pollard 125
2. 54 Matt Craig 125
3. 51 Stephen Nasse 125
4. 8 Tate Fogleman 125
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6. 17B Josh Brock 125
7. 49 Jeff Batten 125
8. 24 Colin Garrett 125
9. 14 Jared Fryar 125
10. 6S Brandon Setzer 125
11. 37 Dan Speeney 125
12. 74 Ryan Moore 125
13. 34 Nolan Pope 125
14. 51B Amber Balcaen 125
15. 21 Toni Breidinger 124
16. 6 Matt Wallace 123
17. 16 Molly Helmuth 114 Accident
18. 50 Jett Noland 113 Brakes
19. 17 Mike Speeney 77 Accident
20. 96 Josh Reeves 52 Mechanical
21. 21J Trey Jarrell 46 Mechanical
22. 33 Preston Peltier 45 Mechanical
23. 2 Jared Irvan 40 Brakes
24. 7 Justin Crider 0 DNS
25. 40 Tovia Grynewicz 0 DNS
26. 00 Anthony Cataldi 0 DNS
27. 5 Spencer Wauters 0 Withdrew
CARS Late Model Stock Tour
Motor Mile Speedway – Radford, VA
Heritage Truck Centers 250 – May 18, 2019
1. 22 Bobby McCarty 127
2. 57 Justin Carroll 127
3. 12 Sammy Smith 127
4. 2 Brandon Pierce 127
5. 27 Tommy Lemons, Jr. 127
6. 16 Chad McCumbee 127
7. 08 Deac McCaskill 12
8. 81 Mini Tyrrell 127
9. 63 Tyler Matthews 127
10. 74 Ronald Hill 127
11. 1 Craig Moore 127
12. 17 Taylor Gray 127
13. 17P Stacy Puryear 127
14. 88 Josh Berry 127
15. 14 Ryan Repko 127
16. 77 Trevor Ward 126
17. 19C Jessica Cann 124
18. 51 Matt Cox 121
19. 98 Adam Lemke 108 Accident
20. 99 Layne Riggs 100 Accident
21. 54 Drew Dollar 81 Accident
22. 23 Terrry Brooks, Jr. 81 Accident
23. 25 Zack St. Onge 81 Accident
24. 22K Derek Kale 81 Accident
25. 4 Jonathan Findley 80 Accident
26. 07 Camden Gullie 80 Accident
27. 19 Cameron Bowen 37 Mechanical
28. 1P Brody Pope 33 Mechanical
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