With 11 laps remaining in Saturday’s 125-lap CARS Tour race at Wake County Speedway, Landon Huffman and Ryan Millington got together entering turn three. Millington crashed. Huffman was penalized. Neither driver left Wake County with the finish they deserved, and both of them let the other know about it after the race. 

“You needed the finish, and we needed the finish,” Scott Millington, Ryan’s father can be heard telling Huffman in a video posted by Chase Folsom of Frontstretch. “You didn’t want that to happen either. It sucks for everybody.” 

.@LandonHuffman, Ryan Millington and Scott Millington have a discussion post-race at Wake County Speedway.

📹: @cfolsom_racing pic.twitter.com/hqlYDUauty

— Frontstretch (@Frontstretch) March 30, 2025

Huffman and Millington were battling for second-place behind race leader Mini Tyrrell in the closing laps Saturday night. Millington’s black No. 15 was to the outside of Huffman’s No. 57. Millington appeared to pinch Huffman a little bit, and Huffman held his ground causing Millington to spin and barely tap the outside wall. Huffman finished 12th after he was sent to the rear for being deemed to have caused the accident. Millington finished one spot behind him in 13th.

“Nothing was intentional, I can promise you that,” Millington said. 

“I’m not saying it was intentional. I would never run you like that,” Huffman replied.

“You had the better car all night. You could have waited another lap,” said Scott Millington.

“Wait another lap at Wake County? I got under him right there, Scott.”

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Watch: Landon Huffman and Ryan Millington get together during the CARS Tour race at Wake County on Saturday.

While it was a heated discussion, it was still a civil discussion between four people: Landon Huffman, his car owner Justin Carroll, and Ryan and Scott Millington, who work extremely hard for what they have in racing.

“I don’t know if he just lost his brain or what. He’s raced his whole life,” Huffman told Frontstretch after the discussion ended. “Maybe his spotter didn’t tell him I was there. I have a lot of respect for Ryan, but that was just really stupid. I was under him for like a whole lap. I got under him off two. I felt like I was there and he just came down and wrecked us both.”

For Huffman the frustration comes mostly from having a fast race car and nothing to show for it. Huffman and his Carroll Speedshop team brought a brand new Reynolds Racing Chassis to the track for the first time Saturday. They qualified third, ran no lower than third until the penalty, and then finished outside the top 10.

“It’s such a bummer to immediately be that good and still have nothing to show for it,” Huffman told FloRacing on Sunday. 

Meanwhile for Millington, that’s two incidents in the first two races of the season. He suffered heavy damage in an early crash at the season-opening race at New River All-American Speedway at the start of March, but rebounded to finish fifth. Then on Saturday he found himself in position for a podium finish only to end up 13th after the incident with Huffman.

“I think he was barely there,” said Millington to Frontstretch. "I for sure cleared him, and he for sure the hell didn’t back out. I don’t really know. It was nothing intentional from either party I don’t believe, but who the hell knows. We’ve got a long year ahead. I’m not trying to start anything with Landon. Me and him are buddies off the track. I’m just a little disappointed. We would have had another solid points night I feel like. Probably could have came out of here with a top five.”

Huffman and Millington and the rest of the CARS Tour will be back in action on Saturday, April 12 at Cordele Motor Speedway in Cordele, Georgia when the CARS Tour heads south to the Peach State for the first time in the tour’s history.

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