Josh Berry recorded his third CARS Late Model Stock Tour victory of the season on Saturday night at Carteret County Speedway. Photo: Pit Row Media / Wayne Atkinson
Josh Berry made the most of his second career trip to Carteret County Speedway in Swansboro, North Carolina by winning Saturday night’s CARS Late Model Stock Tour race.
The victory was his third of the season and gave him a double-digit margin in the series championship standings with three races remaining.
Mother Nature did not play nice most of the day, as persistent pop-up rain showers kept the track wet most of the afternoon until a single 15-minute practice for the CARS Tour could hit the track at 4pm, followed by time trials where Chad McCumbee claimed the Hedgecock Pole Award.
McCumbee was the rabbit everyone chased for the first part of the race, leading a bumper-to-bumper train of competitors around the .410-mile layout for laps on end. A handful of relatively minor caution flags peppered the opening portion of the race before the aggression level picked up.
Once the race crossed the halfway point on lap 63, eight additional caution periods came over the speedway. Following one of the many restarts on lap 70, Josh Berry took advantage of a slip by Chad McCumbee to steal the lead off of turn two on lap 73. Berry had slowly begun to pull away until the next caution on lap 82 for a spin by Stacy Puryear.
A caution for Ronald Hill’s accident on lap 108 led to the most consequential accident of the night. With 16 laps to go, Deac McCaskill appeared to slip off of turn two and moved to the inside to attempt to block the oncoming advances of Bobby McCarty. The pair made contact, sending McCarty sliding sideways into the outside wall and triggered a seven-car pileup. Among those involved were contenders Layne Riggs, McCarty, Justin T. Carroll, Brandon Pierce, Josh Yeoman and Brandon Clements.
With most of his competition eliminated, Berry jumped to the lead on the ensuing restart and pulled away to his third victory of the season over Deac McCaskill by nearly a full second at the checkered flag.
Sammy Smith came from 24th starting spot to finish third, while Layne Riggs and Justin S. Carroll completed out the top five.
“It was tough, we just tried to manage it early on. The outside is tough on these restarts and we wanted to try and keep ourselves on the bottom,” Berry said. “We got to second and was hoping to pressure for the lead and then the caution came out so we got stuck on the outside for a bit. We had a great car at the end, and I know Deac was pretty good, he made a good run there before we caught all that traffic.”
“Just an awesome night, I’m so thankful to be doing this still, I’ve been doing this for a long time.”
The CARS Late Model Stock Tour is rejoined by the Super Late Model Tour on August 2-3 at North Carolina’s Hickory Motor Speedway for the 3rd annual Throwback 276. For more info, visit CARSRacingTour.com.
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1. 88 Josh Berry
2. 08 Deac McCaskill
3. 12 Sammy Smith
4. 99 Layne Riggs
5. 91 Justin S. Carroll
6. 77 Trevor Ward
7. 63 Tyler Matthews
8. 81 Mini Tyrrell
9. 07 Camden Gullie
10. 16 Chad McCumbee
11. 7 Brandon Clements
12. 22 Bobby McCarty
13. 2 Brandon Pierce
14. 57 Justin Carroll
15. 2Y Josh Yeoman
16. 74 Ronald Hill
17. 51 Matt Cox
18. 17P Stacy Puryear
19. 4 Jonathan Findley
20. 90 Terry Carroll
21. 54 Drew Dollar
22. 19 Cameron Bowen
23. 1 Craig Moore
24. 19C Jessica Cann
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