The zMax CARS Tour visited Altamahaw, N.C. Saturday (May 3) for the fifth race of the 2025 season. In the end, the series ended up racing Mother Nature. Rain and thunderstorms loomed over the evening, adding drama to the night.
Late Model Stock Cars
Landen Lewis overcame multiple cautions to take the Late Model Stock car win at Ace Speedway in dominant fashion.
The race was a mad dash to beat Mother Nature as the CARS Tour scrambled to wrap things up while rain approached. There were many comers and goers in the top 10, as wrecks and cautions shook up the field in a chaotic sprint to the finish.
Lewis was unfazed by the chaos. Time and time again, he held off challengers such as Ryan Millington and Conner Jones on restarts to secure the lead. Millington and Jones were left to come home second and third, respectively.
Lanie Buice and Landon Huffman completed the top five. Buice competed for the lead in portions of the race, but was never able to pull away and faded to fourth in the closing stretch. Huffman recovered from a spin early in the race to climb back into the top five.
Kade Brown finished sixth and just missed the top five. It was an excellent run for the driver sitting second in points, who cut into early frontrunner Connor Hall‘s championship lead.
Caden Kvapil, Parker Eatmon, Donovan Strauss, and Doug Barnes Jr. rounded out the top 10.
Mason Diaz started on pole, but it was Hall that got off to an early lead. Unfortunately for Hall, it wasn’t meant to last. He fought an uphill battle through the evening, suffering a flat tire early and bringing his No. 88 JR Motorsports car to a crawl across the frontstretch early on at Ace Speedway.
This didn’t stop Hall, who rallied back into the top 10 later on. But unfortunately for the Virginian, his troubles weren’t over. Hall was spun into turn 4 and had to fight back again. He had rallied back into the top 10 a second time in eighth when Brandon Pierce spun ahead of him at the exit of turn 4. The right side of Hall’s machine drove over the hood of Pierce’s car, but he narrowly avoided the pit wall and was able to continue on.
Hall ended up finishing 11th in the race, salvaging a decent night as his points lead narrowed over Brown and Lewis.
LMSC Folsom Fence Supply 275 Results
- 29 Landen Lewis
- 15 Ryan Millington
- 44 Conner Jones
- 03 Lanie Buice
- 57 Landon Huffman
- 4 Kade Brown
- 8 Caden Kvapil
- 71 Parker Eatmon
- 4S Donovan Strauss
- 88B Doug Barnes Jr
- 88 Connor Hall
- 22 Carson Loftin
- 11 Buddy Isles Jr
- 00 Chase Burrow
- 28 Landon S. Huffman
- 12 Hudson Bulger
- 81 Mini Tyrrell
- 04 Ronnie Bassett Jr
- 1 Andrew Grady
- 2 Brandon Pierce
- 41 Mason Diaz
- 05 Mason Bailey
- 2W Ryan Wilson
- 71B Jake Bollman
- 7 Austin Green
Pro Late Models
The Pro Late Model Stock Car race was cut short as the weather arrived shortly after the race hit halfway and became official.
Carson Ware bested Ben Maier for his first CARS Tour victory. Ware wrangled the lead from Maier and kept his composure in the last laps before the rain hit, with Maier inching closer but unable to pass Ware in the race’s waning moments.
The most notable incident of the night occurred early on when a car leaked fluids onto the track, which caused the majority of the top-five to slide up into the turn 2 wall and resulted in a pile up.
Drivers such as TJ DeCaire, Keelan Harvick, Dylan Garner and Brandon Lopez were involved and eliminated from contention.
PLM Ace Speedway Results
- 51 Carson Ware
- 6M Ben Maier
- 54 Brody Monahan
- 15D Rodney Dowless
- 25 Jason Kitzmiller
- 8F Adrian Ferrer
- 62 Keelan Harvick
- 47 TJ DeCaire
- 97 Dylan Garner
- 6L Brandon Lopez
Logan Kendall joined the Frontstretch team in 2025 as the Tuesday News Writer and fills in other roles as needed. He resides in the Finger Lakes region of New York and spends his free time writing as a hobby creatively and is a self published author.
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