CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR 4 LOCAL DIVISIONS

1 Donald Crocker 4 Bill Cooley 04 Dawson Keener 7 Kody Brusso 9 Kody Jett 12 Bubba Winslow 14w Wesley King 14 Lee Carter 15 Kevin Chase 17 Chris Cotto 17 Chance Adkins 26 Corbitt Moseley 28 Rick Ortell 30 Ricky Vice 31 Jr. Niedecken 33 Joe Bathea, Jr 40 Todd Jones 41 Troy Grisaffi 54 Conner Sutton 57 Charlie Skipper 84 Joe Mahuron 88 Brandon Spreen 92 Bubba WInslow 94 Jason Johnson 95 Phillip Crownover 96 John Heil 96 Rick Pollaro 97 Hunter Lambert 98 Scotty Anderson 151 Gary Sutton 311 Michael Johnson

1 Howard Langham 2 Jensen Jorgensen M7 Raymond Dormer 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 38 Curt Britt 46 Jarrett Parker 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

Car Photos

Eddie Richie 251-232-8836

Schedule Friday

4pm Pits Open 5-9 pm Open Practice.

Tires & Fuel til 8pm

Saturday

1pm Pits Open 3pm Drivers Meeting 3:30 OS, PsT, SP, PS Practice (2 rounds) 5:30 Qualifying: OS, PT, SP, PS. (single car).

6:55 Pre race 7pm Championships

Outlaw Stock 50 Pro Truck 50 Sportsmen 30 Pure Stock 25 Video Ted Baber 850-458-2501

Local Classes to Crown Track Champions: Fowler Makes Quest for No. 5 Family Affair

By Chuck Corder

Brannon Fowler has left nothing to chance.

Sept. 23 “Night of Champions “ Allen Turner Tune Up 100, Blizzard #4 Oct. 7th AMA SUPERMOTO Nov. 18 Snowball Preview Nov 30-Dec 3 Snowball Derby

With only Saturday’s championship finale left, the 37-year-old Molino already has locked up his fifth career The Dock on Pensacola Beach Sportsmen crown thanks to one of the more dominant seasons in recent memory.

The 30-lap Sportsman feature Saturday will be a victory ride to Victory Lane for Fowler and will be one of four local classes to crown Five Flags Speedway track champions.

Fowler has a lot of people to thank from his many sponsors to his grassroots team that consists of dad Glenn, friend Rob Pollard, girlfriend Tiffany and an eager eight-year-old.

Collin Fowler’s presence in his dad’s shop has been both heartwarming and, truthfully, invaluable.

“He’s way beyond his years for eight years old. Definitely way ahead of dad and PawPaw,” Brannon Fowler admitted. “He takes it all in, and doesn’t forget. Any task you ask him to do — getting the car jacked up and needing all four tires taken off, and he knows how to put them back on, which is tricky because the lug nuts have a bevel side to them. For the average kid, that could easily be something to overlook. But, he has great attention to detail.

“It makes me proud, too, that he takes an interest in something like that.” The future of racing seems to be in good hands if there are enough Collin Fowlers out there.

In the present, Collin Fowler’s father has enjoyed a season for the ages at the famed half-mile asphalt oval. Brannon Fowler will be looking for his fifth feature win of the season Saturday. He also has six runner-ups and has only finished off the podium once in 12 races.

“It means a lot for all the local classes,” said Fowler, who has won six total track championships among two classes at Pensacola’s high banks. “The fans that come out and are there, you know they’re in the seats to see us. Plus, we get a chance to bask in the glory, and have our moment in the sun.”

Gary Sutton, like Fowler a former local class Snowball Derby champ, holds a 28-point lead over Todd Jones in the Outlaw Stocks points race.

Sutton has celebrated a few checkered flags, but the trend to his season has been his consistency in coming away with top-10 finishes in the inaugural season of the popular Outlaw Stocks.

“Honestly, I have no idea how big our lead is,” Sutton said. “We don’t race for points. I raced for points a couple years ago and it was the worst experience of my life.

“We’re going there to win, dude!

If we can’t win, we’ll get as close to the front as we can. The people that work and sponsor this car deserve to win. We’re not gonna ride around and race conservatively.

We’re going to (the track to) win.”

Sutton, the winner of the Super Stocks Snowball Derby in 2012, likes how the track continues to promote local racers with Saturday night’s backyard feel.

“It’s how it used to be,” Sutton said.

“Back in the day, the late models — they were the locals. Now, it’s a lotta big-money teams from outta town. It’s cool the guys that race here every week get their own night.

(Story continues on our web site.)

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Tony Boyd, Pensascola, Michael Nelson, Pensacola Johnathan Day, Mobile Cameron Leytham, Mobile Robert Loper, Irvington Brad Mosley; 8 Mile Butch Harvell, Pensacola John K Merritt, Pensacola Caleb Burkett, Pensacola Jimmy Hollingsworth, Mobilo Matt Thompson, Wilmer, AL Cory Pittman, Cantonment Brandin 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 111 David Johnson, Mobile 311 Bobby Suarez, Pensacola

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Brannon Fowler, Molino Johnathan Langham, Mobile Paul Schloss; Palm Coast, FL Mark Barnhill, Mobile, AL Jim Pokrant, Pensacola Johnny McNair, Pensacola B J Leytham 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 Hunter Lambert, Pensacola

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Johnathan Day

00

Brannon Fowler

26

Bubba Pollard

71

Tommie Blocker

3

Mark Barnhill

9

Jeff Choquette

52

Robert Balkum

33

Steve Buttrick

7

Casey Roderick

07

Jim Pokrant

26

Chandler SMith

55

Jimbo Walker

19

Kyle Plott

91

Sarah Dority

22

John K Merritt

3t

98 Jay Jay Day 46 Jarrett Parker

5t

151

Gary Sutton

18

Casey Roderick

29 Shanna Ard

40

Todd Jones

14

Chris Davidson

66 Andrew Johnson

92

Bubba Winslow

18

Ryan Paul

18 Clint Holmes 2 Jensen Jorgensen

82

Joe Mahuron

99

Junior Niedecken

97

Hunter Lambert

05

Bailey Currey

Sarah Dority’s Pure Stock after encounter with wall in turn 4.

Some IRMA evacuees camping last week in our parking lot.