Open Wheel Modifieds, Trucks, Sportsmen & Pure Stocka

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Tonight’s Schedule Friday June 16th 2pm Pits Open 3pm Mod drivers meeting, 4-5pm Mods practice 5:15-6:30pm Practice for Pro Trucks, Outlaws, Sportsmen, Pure Stocks.

7pm Modifieds & Truck qualifying.

7:50 Pre Race festivities 8pm Racing starts with heats for Sportsmen and Pure Stocks.

Kids Bike Races by age groups.

5 and under 6 thru 9 years old 10-12 years old.

Modifieds of Mayhem 50 lap feature.

Pro Truck 30 lap feature.

Sportsmen 25 lap feature.

Pure Stock 20 lap feature.

Donald Crocker Citronelle, AL 7 Ryan Worsham, Niceville 8 Donnie Hamrac Semmes, AL 10 Nathan Ingersol Robertdale, AL 14 Mike Maddox

Meridian, MS 17 Chris Cotto Milton, FL 31 Parker Pugh Madison, AL 33 Jason Mormon Seabrook, TX 36 Lance Blacker Marianna, FL 41 Rocky Rogers Jasper, AL 64 Adam Crawford Mobile, AL 66 Korey Ruble,

Dothan, AL

79 Joe Aramendia

N Braunfels, TX 81 Dillon Spreen Converse, TX 88 Larry Hughes Houston, TX 99 Brandon Howell Lucedale, MS 131 Jeff Letson Madison, AL 145 Billy Melvin Trussville, AL 1 Howard Langham 2 Jensen Jorgensen 8 B J Leytham 11 Raymond Dormer 12 Brandon Burks 15 Colt James 15 Mark Lindley 18 Clint Holmes 18 Jessie Reid 21 Jason Welch 29 Shanna Ard 36 Rodney Benefield 54 Kaden Honeycutt 56 Darryl Rudd 58 Jake Moore 66 Andrew Johnson 67 Daniel Bradford 68 Lori Lindley 95 Chris Comalander 96 Steven Davis 96 Rick Pollaro 98 Jay Jay Day

Riding High Off First Win, Blocker Grateful to Those Who Helped

By Chuck Corder

Tommie Blocker is too polite and too thankful to admit he was frustrated.

It’s the truth, though. When you finish on the podium at Five Flags Speedway in four of the first five Lloyd’s Glass Pure Stocks 20-lap features, including runner-up in three straight races, even the most chivalrous characters must be allowed time to vent.

“It felt like I was never win gonna win one of these things,” said Blocker, the 51-year-old Irvington, Ala., driver who is in his fourth year competing at Five Flags.

The racing gods, uncharacteristically perhaps, heard Blocker’s call. They repaid him for all his sweat with his first career trip to Victory Lane earlier this month at Pensacola’s high banks.

“It was a major monkey off my back,” Blocker said, recalling his milestone win June 2. “ ’Cause it seemed like it wasn’t gonna happen. It was a major pressure relief.

June 30 Allen Turner Pro Late Models Outlaw Stock, Sportsman, Pure Stock; Plus Annual Fireworks Show July 14 Outlaw Stock, Pro Truck, Sportsman, Pure Stock July 28

Universal Fabricators

Blizzard #3 Super Late Models, Outlaw Stock, Sportsman, Pure Stock Aug.11 Demolition Derby Modifieds Pro Truck, Sportsman, Pure Stock Aug. 25 Allen Turner Pro Late Model Series, Outlaw Stock, Sportsman, Pure Stock

“It doesn’t matter what class you’re in, to win feature race at Five Flags, you’re king of the mountain. It puts you on a list in select company of drivers that have stood there in Victory Lane and who can claim they’ve won a feature race at Five Flags. It’s a wonderful feeling. One I hope to experience again.”

Sept.16 Outlaw Stock, Pro

As soon as this Friday night, in fact.

It promises to be another big night at the famed half-mile asphalt oval.

Blocker has been “round-track racing,” as he calls it, for only a handful of years. But, he has been a racer most of his life,(Con’t on our web). site).

Nov 30-Dec 3 Snowball Derby

Truck, Sportsman, Pure Stock Championship Night Sept. 23 “Night of Champions “ Allen Turner Tune Up 100, Blizzard #4 Nov. 18 Snowball Preview

Video Ted Baber Eddie Richie 251-232-8836 850-458-2501 Car Photos

Holmes Chomping at Bit, Looking for Breakthrough Victory

By Chuck Corder

For so many years, Clint Holmes found little delight in going to Five Flags Speedway or any other racetrack, for that matter.

An engine builder in a previous life, racetracks often meant work all over and no play for Holmes.

And, the collateral damage of racing drivers who you’re building engines for. “Competing against your customers is not the best idea,” Holmes readily admits.

But after the Pensacola native, who turned 42 earlier this week on Monday, closed the machine shop in 2014 he found a better reason than work to head to the track.

Holmes was in the shop of Greg Janes, who builds and helps with many local cars that race at Five Flags, and feasted his eyes upon Shanna Ard’s Pro Trucks truck. “I loved the look of it,” said Holmes, who owns and operates Clint Holmes Automotive, a used car dealership at the corner of Nine Mile and Chemstrand.

“Two weeks later, I had the truck.” (story continues on our website.)

Who is at the Wheel?

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Tony Boyd, Pensascola, Michael Nelson, Pensacola Johnathan Day, Mobile Robert Loper, Irvington Preston Prevatte; Lillian Brad Mosley; 8 Mile Butch Harvell, Pensacola John K Merritt, Pensacola Caleb Burkett, Pensacola Matt Thompson, Wilmer, AL Cory Pittman, Cantonment Brandon Sidner, Pensacola Bobby Jones, Mobile Jay Whalen, Pensacola Robert Balkum, Pensacola 71 Tommie Blocker, Mobile 80 Zack Jordan, Pensacola 86 Jonathan Smith, Theadore 91 Sarah Dority, Pensacola 95 Robert Riley, Gulfbreeze 311 Bobby Suarez

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Brannon Fowler, Molino Johnathan Langham, Mobile Mark Barnhill, Mobile, AL Jim Pokrant, Pensacola Johnny McNair, Pensacola Hunter McNair, Cantonment Paul Mathis, Pensacola Dayton Sidner, Cantonment Johnny Greene, Daphne, AL Red Dog Reynolds, Mobile Steve Buttrick, Cantonment Donald Hardy, Cantonment Jimbo Walker, Mobile, AL Jimmy Goodwin, Pensacola

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11

Johnathan Day

00

Brannon Fowler

26

Bubba Pollard

71

Tommie Blocker

33

Steve Buttrick

9

Jeff Choquette

52

Robert Balkum

07

Jim Pokrant

26

Chandler Smith

91

Sarah Dority

55

Jimbo Walker

7

Casey Roderick

22

John K Merritt

3

Mark Barnhill

19

Kyle Plott

98 Jay Jay Day

97

Hunter Lambert

18

Casey Roderick

46 Jarrett Parker

151

Gary Sutton

18

Ryan Paul

84

Joe Mahuron

14

Chris Davidson

18 Clint Holmes

54

Conner Sutton

43

Justin South

29 Shanna Ard

92

Bubba WInslow

99

Junior Niedecken

2

Jenson Jorgensen

Fuel Cell Holds The metal housing of Dalton Armstrong was broken, but the inner bladder held, preventing a fuel leak and possible fire in crash 2 weeks ago in the Blizzard race.