Chase Burrow Claims First zMAX CARS Tour Win at Langley

Chase Burrow claimed his first zMAX CARS Tour win on Saturday night, capturing the flag in the Visit Hampton 125 at Larry King Law's Langley Speedway.

It was a race that had a little bit of everything, including a brief rain delay for a passing shower inside of 50 laps to go. When the race resumed, Burrow showed he had plenty of speed in his No. 00, charging from fourth to the lead.

After an intense battle with Connor Hall for the top spot, Burrow took the lead for good on lap 97 and led the rest of the distance for the win.

"We've had speed all year," said Burrow in victory lane. "We just, you know, couldn't put it together. To put it together is awesome and just like I said, huge shout out to these guys. It's all up to them. All I've got to do is wheel it.

"It's just a good race car. These guys just gave me a great race car, and I saved enough tire, just barely, I feel like."

Burrow felt he had saved just enough tire because Jared Fryar was also on the move late in the race. After an early pit stop to change shocks on his No. 14, the Orange County winner and former series champion began his own march through the field before finishing second.

"'Nutrition' and the pit stop we made early in the race," said Fryar when asked about his key for the night. "We fired off, we were terrible. It was bad. They made a good call to come down pit road, chang eth rear shocks, and it just woke up after that, I don't know. It was kind of surprising to me.

"That thing just went to the front, started passing cars and drove good. Could get around the cars and obviously, it got harder as I got to the front and a couple of cars fell out, which helped. Got in the right line, things finally started going right.

"Congrats to Chase and his crew, man," continued Fryar. "That's awesome for him. That's his first CARS Tour win, so it's a big deal for him. They were good tonight. I didn't really have nothing for him there at the end. My tires were pretty much used up, trying to run hard to come through the field there."

Former Langley Speedway track champion Matt Waltz qualified on the pole at his home track, quicker than the traveling CARS Tour stars. Landen Lewis jumped out to the lead at the green flag, but mechanical issues sidelined him shortly after the rain delay.

Waltz went on to finish third, a solid showing after a qualifying effort that even surprised him.

"We're glad to get the pole today," said Waltz. "It was a little unexpected for me. We had a really good driving race car. We just didn't know what kind of raw speed it was going to have. We were definitely excited to get us a pole, our first CARS Tour pole.

"The race just fired off, we were really good and just kind of riding the first bit. As we went on, the car tightened up on us a little bit. It was all we could do, all I could do there to just hang on, just keep it turning enough where I could stay up there."

Tristan McKee finished fourth, while Chad McCumbee rounded out the top five.

The zMAX CARS Tour Late Model Stock Cars return to action on Saturday, June 14 with another trip to Virginia at Dominion Raceway.

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