Quin Houff scored the CARS Racing Tour Super Late Model victory Friday at Tri-County Motor Speedway. Photo by Sherri Stearns
The CARS Racing Tour reached the halfway point of its inaugural season with fireworks and excitement at Tri-County Motor Speedway in Hudson, NC on Friday night, as Quin Houff took the Super Late Model feature win, while Brayton Haws won the Late Model Stock feature.
After a brief rain shower cancelled Super Late Model qualifying, the lineup was determined by the driver points, putting Cole Timm and Kyle Grissom on the front row to begin the 100 lap contest.
Grissom grabbed the lead on the start from Timm, but fast-moving Steve Wallace, who started ninth, began a quick charge through the field. By lap 16, when the first caution flew for an oil down from Stephen Leicht’s broken rear end, Wallace had made his way up to second behind Grissom.
The pair began a game on restarts that led to both receiving admonishment from race control. Brandon Setzer and Zane Smith tangled on lap 49, and on the ensuing restart Wallace once again stepped over the boundary set by race control for the restart tolerances and was penalized to the rear for jumping the restart.
Following the pivotal penalty, Quin Houff restarted alongside Grissom, and they, along with Jake Crum and Timm, battled side-by-side for the top four spots.
Chasing down Grissom, Houff was unable to make the pass until a late race yellow on lap 76. Houff muscled his way around Grissom by lap 78 and took command of the race, never relinquishing the top spot.
Houff to the win over Grissom, Crum, Wallace and Timm. It was the first career Late Model or Super Late Model victory of any kind for the development driver out of Weyers Cave, VA.
“I would’ve never thought I’d be this good at a track I’ve never seen before in my life,” said Houff in victory lane. “I can’t thank LFR enough, my dad and my family for standing behind me, this is great. I can’t believe we’re here.
“I never doubted those guys, they’re all great racer and I respect them all and race them clean,” he continued. “I ran my butt off until the last lap and never gave them an inch. They never gave me an inch and I never gave them an inch, but I never doubted and never slowed down. It hasn’t sunk in yet, this is unreal.”
Brayton Haws crosses under the checkered flag to win the CARS Racing Tour Late Model Stock feature at Tri-County Motor Speedway Friday night. Photo by Sherri Stearns
Just as with the SLM Tour, qualifying was cancelled due to weather and curfew restraints at the facility. Brayton Haws, already a two-time winner this season, and Deac McCaskill, winner of the last event at Southern National, consequently started on the front row for their 100 lap feature.
Haws shot out into the lead for the first 32 before the first of many caution flags flew, the first for an incident with Chris Hudspeth and Black Stallings in turn three.
After the restart, McCaskill and Myatt Snider moved around Haws for the top two spots and fought each other hard for the lead. When the field again restarted after another yellow on lap 55, Snider overdrove turns 3 and 4, slid into McCaskill, nearly crashing both cars, and cutting down a tire on the McCaskill’s Ford. McCaskill’s stopped machine warranted yet another caution, and Snider fell to midpack after the near-disaster in turn three.
The largest and most spectacular incident of the night occurred in turn three on lap 58. While battling for third, Tyler Ankrum touched tires with Todd Gilliland, sending the Ankrum automobile on top of Gilliland’s car in a shower of sparks. No less than eight drivers received damage and a number of top contenders were eliminated from contention.
Haws clung to the lead and did not relinquish it, despite several attempts by veteran Jamey Caudill to pass on a plethora of late-race restarts. Haws survived to pick up his third win in just five CARS Tour starts in 2015. R.D. Smith finished second ahead of Caudill, Snider, and Garrett Campbell.
“In the beginning of the race, I was riding the inside and I was kinda pulling away a bit until that caution came out,” Haws said. “I gave Deac the outside and that’s when he and Myatt got around me. So I tried the outside and my car just felt amazing on the outside. It was insane. I moved to the outside with about 50 to go and made it work.”
When Snider and McCaskill tangled on a restart, “I knew it wasn’t over, it couldn’t be over when you’ve got the guys I do working on this car. We went into three and all I saw was hard racing. It was just a racing deal and we came out of it. I couldn’t do this without all my sponsors and my family, even those from Iowa who made a 16-hour drive to come watch me race.
“Hopefully this win will start another win streak like we had a couple races ago. I can almost promise you that we will be a very hard contender throughout the rest of the season.”
The CARS Racing Tour returns to action on July 11 for the Food Country USA 250 at Motor Mile Speedway in Radford, VA. For more info, visit CARSRacingTour.com.
CARS Racing Tour
Tri-County Motor Speedway – Hudson, NC
LeftTurnsAndSunBurns.com 200 – June 12, 2015
Super Late Models
1. Quin Houff (17)
2. Kyle Grissom (31)
3. Jake Crum (01)
4. Steve Wallace (66)
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6. Tyler Church (7)
7. Zane Smith (77)
8. Clay Jones (67)
9. Chris Davidson (14D)
10. Joey Mucciacciaro (45)
11. Spencer Wauters (5W)
12. Stephen Nasse (51N)
13. Lucas Jones (16)
14. Vinnie Miller (5M)
15. Matthew Craig (54)
16. Dave Mader III (118)
17. Lucas Ransone (00)
18. Richard Gould (24)
19. Roger Lee Newton (33)
20. Brandon Setzer (6)
21. Stephen Leicht (25)
Late Model Stocks
1. Brayton Haws (41)
2. R.D. Smith (16S)
3. Jamey Caudill (50)
4. Myatt Snider (2)
5. Garrett Campbell (12C)
6. Deac McCaskill (08)
7. Chad McCumbee (21M)
8. Tommy Lemons, Jr. (27)
9. Austin McDaniel (12M)
10. Clint King (07)
11. Robert Tyler (88T)
12. Thomas Beane (31)
13. Justin Crider (7)
14. Craig Stallard (42)
15. Jeff Oakley (16)
16. Payton Ryan (23R)
17. Christian PaHud (63)
18. Tyler Ankrum (58)
19. Todd Gilliland (98G)
20. Roddy Sterling (59)
21. Michael Fose (54)
22. Stefan Parsons (98)
23. Chris Davis (88)
24. Shane Lee (00)
25. Mike Darne (99)
26. Blake Stallings (77)
27. Chris Hudspeth (28)
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