By Gary Daughtrey

Suffolk News-Herald

Greg Edwards started on the pole and led all the way to pick up his seventh victory of the year in the Subway 125 Late Model Stock Cars race, the featured event of the Sept. 19 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series program at Langley Speedway.

With the win, Edwards overcame a 10-point deficit to edge his brother, Danny Edwards Jr., for the 2015 Late Model crown.
The Edwardses shared the front row for the start of the event and ran 1-2 for 47 of the first 51 laps. On Lap 52, Mark Wertz worked past Edwards Jr. to take over second, bringing Connor Hall along with him to third.

Needing only a top-10 finish to clinch the title, Edwards Jr. rode comfortably in fourth until just past the 100-lap mark, when he gave way to Nick Smith, Terry Carroll and Tyler Hughes, dropping to seventh.

Two laps from the scheduled finish, Edwards Jr. suddenly veered into the outside wall off Turn 4, the victim of a flat right-front tire. On the pit lane, Edwards Jr.’s team replaced the tire and sent him back into the fray, a lap down, as the race headed into “overtime.”

When the sixth and final caution flag appeared, at Lap 129, Edwards Jr. received the wave-around, “lucky-dogging” his way back onto the lead lap.

Coming to the last green flag, 11th-place Edwards Jr. should have occupied the final spot in the longest line. Instead, he bypassed three lapped machines, as well as 10th-place Macy Causey, before the finish line.

At the finish, after 141 laps, Greg Edwards was the winner by four lengths over Wertz.

Carroll, Hall and Smith completed the top five. Edwards Jr. was ninth to the checkers. For jumping the last restart, though, he was bumped to 11th, last on the lead lap and one position shy of the championship.