Motorsports News for June 8th, 2018

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Kids Bike Races: Still Racing for Glory, Local Driver Boyd Reflects Fondly on His Bike Win Decades Ago

By Chuck Corder

Tony Boyd still has the first winner’s trophy he ever won at Five Flags Speedway. The 30-year-old mechanic, who runs his family’s automotive repair shop, has come so close time and time again to claiming a checkered flag at the famed half-mile asphalt oval in a stock car.

That’s why the hardware Boyd won two decades ago still means the world to him.

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Boyd won his age group during the annual children’s bike races, and it remains an indescribable feeling even today.

“You are the entertainment there for quick second,” he said. “The bike races make you feel like you’re part of something.”

Just like Boyd before them, a slew of young racing enthusiasts are hoping to enjoy those same emotions when they descend upon Five Flags this Friday night for the annual kids bike races.

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One of the more popular racing nights of the season at PenFriday, June 08, 2018 sacola’s high banks, the bike races are a true family event with dads and moms helping their 4:00pm Pits Open little tykes get those little pistons pumping on the pedals and rooting on their pre-teens — the old, 5:30 OS, SP, PS Practice (2 rounds) veterans of the group.

7:00 OS Qualifying

Age groups consist of 5-and-under, 6 to 9, and 10 through 12. All will receive a trophy, a water and 7:30 Drivers Meeting a shaved ice.

7:55 Pre-Race Festivities

Boyd hopes to be back Friday 8:00 PS Heats competing once again in the Lloyd’s Glass Pure Stocks division after taking his familiar blue SP Heats No. 16 up to Bristol Motor Speedway last month during the Short OS Heats Track U.S. Nationals.

Either way he’ll be in attendance Kids Bicycle Races to root on his daughters, 12-yearold Kameryn and 10-year-old Kayla, as they make their pursuit PS Feature (20 Laps) for glory on their bikes.

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SP Feature (25 Laps) OS Feature (25 Laps)

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“(Kameryn) usually finishes second or third,” Boyd said, “and she’s always mad because I think my nephew has won two or three in a row — he’s won quite a few — and they always have to race each other because they’re in the same age group.”

The Boyds are a competitive group. Rocky Boyd, Tony’s father, was a part of the weekly races at Five Flags in the late 1970s and both of Tony’s grandfathers raced as well. “I’m not sure there was any asphalt back then,” Tony cracked.

He also had uncles and cousins race, too. The Boyds didn’t care if it was on dirt or asphalt or mud; didn’t care if it was racing with wheels or with their legs and feet.

“My uncles used to do mudbogging out at the (Pensacola State) Fairgrounds,” Tony Boyd said. “Then, the folks would let the kids get out there, like my friends and me, and we’d run through the mud in our bare feet.

“We like competition. You can’t get to the fridge without getting bumped into.”

Growing up around the track, the younger Boyd couldn’t wait to be old enough to enter the pits and help his father out. Once, he cleared the age requirements, Tony Boyd wasted little time in making himself useful to his father.

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