Carter, the son of longtime NASCAR team owner Travis Carter, drove a Ford for Larry Clement in the race that featured 18 caution periods that consumed 114 of the 204 laps on the half-mile track. Some of the caution laps were run to help dry the track from persistent rain. The race also was red-flagged for nearly two hours because heavy rain.
"What a great day all around for this team," Carter said. "We were absolutely horrible yesterday in practice and qualifying, but the team dug down and fixed up a really good handling car for the race.
"All the guys that raced me for the lead raced me really clean, and it certainly could have gone the other way considering all those restarts that close to the end."
Dexter Bean finished third, followed by Justin Allgaier, NASCAR Sprint Cup driver David Ragan, Scott Speed, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Andy Hanson and Ken Schrader.
"Our car was pretty fast all day long," Ragan said. "We needed some more green-flag racing there at the end and I think that if that weather wouldn't have come along it would have been different. The best car didn't win today, but that's why there's another race sometime down the road."
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