Absolute Domination by Carson Brown - Leads all 200 in Summer Showdown Debut

It was his first trip to race late models in the Pacific Northwest, and Carson Brown made the most of it by leading every single lap of the CARS Tour West Summer Showdown at Evergreen Speedway.

(Photo by Amber Taylor, Elevate Racing Media)

Carson would qualify on the pole earlier in the day, and he did not look back from that moment. The green flag would drop, and the first 45 laps of the event were uneventful leading to the competition caution. The next 30 laps would remain caution free until the slightest of contact between Rackley W.A.R. teammates Keelan Harvick and Vito Cancilla would end with the #27 of Cancilla spinning off of turn 4. Both drivers would have to restart at the end of the field for a 20 lap shootout to the halfway break.

On the next restart, Jace Hansen would get a restart violation by entering the restart box before race leader Carson Brown. This would move Ethan Ebert to the front to try his hand at getting around the #81. Ebert would get a decent launch and try to stay to the outside of Brown, but Carson would be able to clear Ethan and hang on to the lead off of turn 2.

The caution would fall just five laps before the scheduled halfway break for Bryce Bezanson, who cut a tire going into turn 3 and made heavy contact with the outside wall. This caution would serve as the halfway break, setting up a 105 lap run to the finish.

Ethan Ebert would have another chance to try and take the lead away from Carson Brown on the lap 95 restart, and he made the most of it. The #9E and #81 would make slight contact entering turn 1 on the restart, but it was in turns 3 and 4 where it got dicey. Ebert would dive hard to the inside of Brown, but Carson was not going to give him any room, and would try and pinch Ebert down and the two made heavy contact.

Ebert would get the worse end of it, and he came away with a decent amount of right front damage, but he would be able to nurse the damage all the way to a fourth place finish. That would be the last chance anyone had at Carson Brown, as the remaining 105 laps would go without a caution, and Carson would go on to win in his first ever start at Evergreen Speedway by over five seconds.

Keelan Harvick would rebound from the early race penalty to a 3rd place finish in a car he had only made a handful number of laps in prior to the green flag. After a practice crash the day before, the Rackley team stayed up through the night swapping motors from Keelan's SLM to his father Kevin's PLM car at the Constance race shop. The team would finish getting the car ready and wrapped just in time to make a few safety laps before qualifying.

Unofficial Results

1 - #81 Carson Brown

2 - #08 Jace Hansen

3 - #62 Keelan Harvick

4 - #9E Ethan Ebert

5 - #22 Buddy Shepherd

6 - #10 Owen Riddle

7 - #92 Dylan Zampa

8 - #55 Haeden Plybon

9 - #17M Taylor Mayhew

10 - #43 Kody Vanderwal

11 - #11 Johvan Dillon

12 - #17S Max Schroeder

13 - #89 Doni Wanat

14 - #52 Ryan Philpott

15 - #57 Brad Clark

16 - #41 Gabe Sessler

17 - #15 Tayler Riddle

18 - #9H Kaden Holm

19 - #27 Vito Cancilla

20 - #51 Bryce Bezanson

21 - #13 Matt Doyle

23 - #9B Alex Boyatt

24 - #14 Chris Clyne

25 - #54 Trace Thompson

The next event for the CARS Tour West SLM will be at the Las Vegas Bullring on November 14th. The next CARS Tour Northwest PLM race is September 5th at Tri-City Raceway.