Chris Burns scored his third career Late Model victory in Saturday night’s 60 lap race at Carteret County Speedway.
Burns inherited the lead on lap 26 when Connor Hall and Jeff Oakley got together racing for the lead. Hall spun off the front bumper of Oakley and race control sent Oakley to the rear of the field, handing the lead to Burns. The race ran caution free from there, with Burns scoring the win.
“The car was pretty consistent all night,” Burns said in victory lane. “We weren’t as good as we would have like to have been. I think if Oakley or Hall could’ve got stretched out, it might have been a different story. The car actually stayed pretty good throughout the whole race. We developed a vibration toward the end. It paid off.”
Oakley and Hall, who normally race in Virginia, recovered from their incident to finish second and third respectively. The second-place finish for Oakley was his second runner-up finish in his second start at Carteret County Speedway while Hall was making his first career Carteret County Speedway appearance.
“We got together with Connor,” Oakley said. “We certainly didn’t mean to. We were racing hard and our cars were pretty equal. It’s tough to pass on this racetrack.”
Eric Winslow, who had won in his two most recent Carteret County Speedway appearances, was taken out of the race in an early incident with Tyler Horne.
Results
- Chris Burns
- Jeff Oakley
- Connor Hall
- Kenneth Mercer
- Jim Kelley
- Zach Henshaw
- Joshua Yeoman
- Tyler Horne
- Malik Koonce
- Lynn Waller
- Eric Winslow
