The math is still to be decided but there is a universe in which Carson Brown attempts to chase championships in both the ASA STARS national Super Late Model tour and the CARS Late Model Stock Tour.
The first two impediments to that goal cleared themselves this week. Earlier in the week, ASA moved its April Dominion race from a Saturday night to a Sunday matinee, clearing the way for him to race at Caraway with Lee Pulliam Performance on the same weekend.
On Tuesday, he dominated in the Anthony Campi Racing No. 81 to strike first in the premier Super Late Model division by sweeping all three stages en route to his second victory in ASA STARS. It was arguably a race that got away from him last year in his rookie season.
“A little bit,” Brown said. “We were running second here last year, passing for the lead, and ran out fuel. There’s that in the back of my head for how quickly things could go wrong but they counted cautions this year.
“I knew the restart box was kind of fixed and I had that in the back of my mind and I was just focused on hitting my marks and doing everything I could to keep the tires under it and maintain just in case we had a late race caution.”
Brown took second from Dawson Sutton on a restart after a massive parking lot crash on Lap 14. By Lap 35, he took the lead from pole sitter Tristan McKee and never looked back, leading the rest of the way.
At one point, near the closing laps, team owner and crew chief Anthony Campi came over the radio and told Brown to keep mixing up his restarts so Sutton couldn’t figure it out. The Richard Childress Racing development driver executed in all facets of the craft.
“I think the restart boxes helped but there’s always going to be games,” Brown said. “Everyone is going to try to game the procedure and that’s the reality of it. I feel like the box helped but our restarts in general were very strong tonight. We were able to make passes on the inside and outside and a good car always goes a long way.”
Ultimately, Brown and Campi just straight-up beat Sutton and Rackley WAR. There was some door slamming as they raced for second and it left Sutton a little miffed immediately after the race. Ultimately, he conceded that he just got beat on this night.
“I mean, you always lose sleep after a race you didn’t win but I don’t know if I could have done much different,” Sutton said. “He was really good all week and I feel like we ran a good race. You know, he doored me in 1 and I doored him right back, and that’s all you can do.
“My team brought me a really good car and I gave it all I had. We’ll be back to try to win another one of these races.”
The aforementioned incident on Lap 14 was best articulated as a ‘parking lot’ ordeal. It began with some contact between Gabe Sommers and Kasey Kleyn and then they wrecked into Turn 3, collecting a large number of drivers to various severities.
Gabe Sommers
Kasey Kleyn
Derek Kraus
Matt Craig
Michael Hinde
Casey Roderick
Spencer Davis
William Sawalich
Sawalich was also involved in the first incident of the day when he tagged Bubba Pollard from behind. The contact sent Pollard around and into the path of Hunter Wright. It eliminated Pollard from the race.
This next caution involved Carson Hocevar breaking a rear end and colliding with Kyle Benjamin. The next incident was the red flag from the parking lot crash and it allowed car owner Richie Watuters to rebuild the rear end and get the Cup Series contender back in the race.
Hocevar had already climbed out, did a TV interview, and was signing autographs for fans but was able to finish fifth in a race he had already more or less given up on.
As for Brown’s goal to win both marquee Late Model championships, that’s still TBD.
“We’re still working it out,” Brown said with a laugh. “I’ve got a lot of races on my schedule; over 55, so, so it’s going to be a really busy year between ARCA, CARS Tour and ASA so we’re kind of going to focus on what we have at hand and depending on how the points are working out for us. So the math is kind of math-ing but yeah, we’re still working on that.”
ASA STARS Clyde Hart Memorial 200
New Smyrna Speedway
February 10 2026
- Carson Brown
- Dawson Sutton
- Tristan McKee
- Spencer Davis
- Carson Hocevar
- Cory Hall
- Jade Avedisian
- Conner Jones
- Stephen Nasse
- Michael Hinde
- Matt Craig
- William Sawalich
- Kyle Steckly
- Derek Kraus
- George Phillips
- Kaden Honeycutt
- Jake Finch
- Derek Thorn
- Kasey Kleyn
- Chase Pinsonneault
- Nicholas Naugle
- Ty Fredrickson
- Max Reeves
- Anthony Bello
- Hudson Bulger
- Casey Roderick
- Brad May
- Gabe Sommers
- Kyle Benjamin
- Kole Raz
- Bubba Pollard
