Cole Rouse celebrates in victory lane after winning Saturday night’s CARS Racing Tour Super Late Model feature at Concord Speedway. Photo by Alexandra Bijowski/CARS Tour
Cole Rouse improved his championship hopes by scoring the CARS Racing Tour Super Late Model feature on Saturday night at North Carolina’s Concord Speedway.
The same can be said for Josh Berry, who took the win in the Late Model Stock feature.
In the Super Late Model feature, Preston Peltier stole the Mahle Pistons Pole Award with his last-minute qualifying effort, earning him the right to lead the field to the green flag. He set the pace for only two circuits until Cole Rouse took over the point and led from lap 3 until lap 36.
On a lap 37 restart, former series champion Cole Timm snagged the point from fellow Toyota driver Rouse, but he also was only there for a short time until Rouse retook the top spot on lap 43.
A caution for debris on lap 79 set up a restart with Peltier, who had been stalking Rouse most of the race, as the field came to green. Peltier motored his way around Rouse two laps after the restart.
Tyler Ankrum’s car lost a hub on lap 93 and pounded the turn two wall, an accident which allowed Rouse another shot at Peltier on the restart. Peltier was able to hold the point until the waning laps of the event when Rouse began to up the pressure.
The pair dueled side-by-side for a handful of laps before Rouse used the bumper to move Peltier, skating through to take the lead with only five laps to go. He proceeded to pull away to his second career series win, a victory which vaulted him from second into the top spot in the point standings going into the season finale at South Boston Speedway on October 14.
Peltier, Christian Eckes, Matt Wallace and Matt Craig rounded out the top five.
“What was going through my head was that it was going to be the last lap when, if I wasn’t already past him, I was just going to have to hit him and move him,” Rouse admitted in victory lane. “I had to do it for these guys, we’ve had so many taken away from us this year, so I’m really happy for these guys and that we could get it done today.”
“He started to fall off a bit, so once I got past him I wasn’t really worried since we were about 10 car lengths past him,” he continued when asked about the move to get the lead and its championship implications. “South Boston wasn’t on our schedule, but we’re going to have to make it part of our schedule now. We’ll be happy to get there, and it’ll be a new racetrack.”
Josh Berry scored his 12th career CARS Racing Tour Late Model Stock victory on Saturday night at Concord Speedway. Photo by Alexandra Bijowski/CARS Tour
In the Late Model Stock feature, Deac McCaskill captured his ninth career Hedgecock Racing Pole Award, moving his series-leading record ahead by another mark. Following qualifying, however, McCaskill and team discovered a leaking tire on his machine, forcing the team to change it and placing him to the rear of the field by series rules.
By virtue of his cousin’s misfortune, Bradley McCaskill led the field to green alongside of Josh Berry. McCaskill shot out to the early race lead and set the pace until a lap 54 caution for a spin immediately in front of him in turn two.
Berry gave McCaskill fits on the ensuing restart, ultimately making the pass for the lead on lap 58 after a side-by-side fight. Berry’s teammate and championship rival Anthony Alfredo was involved in an incident in turn one which brought out the second caution on lap 69, setting up another restart with McCaskill beside Berry.
Berry kept the lead on the restart, but two laps later McCaskill and Justin Carroll made contact entering turn three, sending McCaskill for a spin which ultimately collected a number of other.
After five additional cautions between laps 76 and 113, the race came down to a 12-lap shootout with Berry leading and young Brandon Grosso, with Deac McCaskill and others immediately behind. Berry executed a flawless restart to assert himself as the dominant car.
The JR Motorsports driver cruised to his 12th career series win by 1.018 seconds over Grosso, McCaskill, Tommy Lemons and Cody Haskins. The victory allowed Berry to bypass teammate Alfredo in the standings and close to within single digits of Layne Riggs entering the season finale.
“It’s so tough, I can’t put it into words how tough it is on those restarts and you see it on Sunday,” Berry said. “Nine out of ten restarts you can be perfect, but the one that you don’t is the one that everyone remembers you for, so I was just trying to be perfect and do my job. We had a great racecar. I wasn’t sure how good we were going to be, but it obviously paid off. Deac had trouble before the race, and I know he would’ve been tough to beat, but that’s how it goes.”
The CARS Tour visits South Boston Speedway on October 14 for the season finale, the first time the tour has visited the facility.
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Race To Remember 250 – August 26, 2017
Super Late Models
1. 51 Cole Rouse
2. 33 Preston Peltier
3. 15 Christian Eckes
4. 6 Matt Wallace
5. 54 Matt Craig
6. 34 Nolan Pope
7. 87 Matt Thomas
8. 4 Brandon Setzer
9. 49 Jeff Batten
10. 58 Tyler Ankrum
11. 57 Cole Timm
12. 37 Dan Speeney
13. 7 Tyler Church
Late Model Stocks
1. 88b Josh Berry
2. 32 Brandon Grosso
3. 08 Deac McCaskill
4. 27 Tommy Lemons, Jr.
5. 2 Cody Haskins
6. 12m Austin McDaniel
7. 24 Craig Stallard
8. 99 Layne Riggs
9. 23 Terry Brooks, Jr.
10. 14 Ryan Repko
11. 07 Bradley McCaskill
12. 18g Ty Gibbs
13. 88 Chris Davis
14. 74 Ronald Hill
15. 12g Andrew Garcia
16. 81 Jared Fryar
17. 8 Anthony Alfredo
18. 28 Chris Hudspeth
19. 57 Justin Carroll
20. 18 Evan Swilling
21. 96 Danny O’Quinn, Jr.
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