Pro Lates Go For A Twin Spin
It’s time to kick off the 2016 season for the Allen Turner Pro Late Models and the Faith Chapel Super Stocks and tonight we plan to have some spectacular races . W e start the action packed evening with a 50 lap shootout for the Pro’s. At the completion of the first 50 lapper we will bring out the Super Stocks to start their season and then the Sportsman and Bombers We will then line the Pro Late Models back up and do it all over again with a second 50 lapper to end this exciting night of racing action. From all indications with the amount of phone calls to the track, expect to see a very strong field of Pro’s to be on hand. See our web page for a story on Casey Roderick and Ronnie Sanders. Again, the Super Stocks will start their 2016 season tonight so we can also look for a strong field as this will be the first point’s race for their class as well. We welcome Shannon Jackson back!
After tonight we will move on to April 29th with the Deep South Cranes Super Late Models for the first of four Blizzard Series races. Also the Pro Trucks, Sportsman and Bombers will be on the schedule.
I hate to close this article on a sad note but our racing community lost one of our racing brothers a few days ago and everyone is very saddened by the loss.
“Chip” Bonds went to be with the Lord after losing his life in a tragic Make sure to view our website, 5flagsspeed- automobile accident here in way.com, tune in and Pensacola. call our live show, In The Groove, on BLAB/TV Chip, I watched you every other Monday night grow into adulthood from at 6:00 pm for all the recent a baby and it hurts to know and future racing events. that you grew up to be such a great young man for it to end so quickly. You will always be remembered here at Five Flags Speedway. God Bless you and your entire family. Super Stock Drivers
9 Todd Jones 9 David Nolen 12 Bubba Winslow 18 Dave Mader III 26 Corbitt Mosley 42 Randy Thompson 57 Charlie Skipper Jr. 94 Shannon Jackson 151 Gary Sutton
Chip Bonds 1971-2016
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2016 Schedule 4/23 Drifting By Chuck Corder
Niedecken’s Honest Approach Has Him Back among PLM’s Elite For all his 59 years, one of Wayne Niedecken Jr.’s most enduring qualities has been his honesty. The longtime veteran of Five Flags Speedway is never one to bite his tongue or play asphalt politics. So it came as no surprise to hear Niedecken talk candidly about the resurgence his career experienced in 2015, a season that saw him win close to a dozen times between Pensacola and Mobile en route to the Gulf Coast Pro Late Model championship. “(Before last year) I was struggling to keep up with technology and the results got away from me a little bit,” said Junior Niedecken, the son of Wayne Niedecken Sr., the inaugural winner of the Snowball Derby and a two-time champion of short-track racing’s pinnacle race. “The problem was the technology was changing weekly, not just monthly. It was hard to stay abreast of the latest things. But I had confidence in my abilities all along.” (Continued on next page).
4/29 Universal Fabricators Blizzard 125; Pro Trucks, Sportsmen, Bombers. 5/13 Mods of Mayhem, Super Stocks, Sportsmen, Bombers. 5/27 Rubber & Specialties Blizzard 100, Fireworks, Pro Trucks, Bombers, Sportsmen, 6/10 Kids Bike Races, Motorcycle Thrill Show, Super Stocks, Sportsmen, Bombers 6/11 Drifting 6/24 Pro Late Model Twin 50s, Pro Trucks, Sportsmen, Bombers. 7/8 Mods of Mayhem, Super Stocks, Sportsmen, Bombers. 7/22 SERF Blizzard 125, Pro Trucks, Sportsmen, Bombers. 8/5 Demolition Derby, Modifieds of Mayhem, Sportsmen, Bombers. 8/13 Drifting 9/2 Pro Late Twin 50’s Super Stocks, Sportsmen, Bombers. 9/17 Allen Turner Tune Up 100 for PLM, Pro Trucks, Sportsmen, Bombers. 9/24 Season Championships, Blizzard 150, Super Stock, Sportsmen, Bombers. 10/1 Drifting
Thanks to some welcomed direction from Gene Roberts, the former Bill Elliott crew chief during “Million Dollar” Bill’s Junior Johnson days, Junior Niedecken rediscovered the path to Victory Lane. “He was very knowledgeable, very savvy and very affordable,” Niedecken said of Roberts, putting a light-hearted emphasis on that latter trait. “He just doesn’t send you on a goose chase. He explains why this works the way it works, and why we’re doing this. “I was really in a tailspin with the new setups, packages. It helped take the guesswork out of it, which was big.”\ Niedecken first spoke with Roberts, an engineer by trade who today owns and operates Arob Performance Parts and Fuels, several years ago. The two would cover every nook and cranny on the car, but the main focus was setup. “Having (Roberts’ knowledge) was a major asset,” Niedecken said, “but it took a year or two to get your arms around it to get to where I needed to be. “We’re a shoestring operation, and we run on the dollar. The bigger teams might practice on a new set of tires, qualify on another new set and then race on a third set. Money’s not an object with them. Then, you have me on the other side, and I’m practicing on left-side tires that I’ve raced on. And, then, maybe I get a new, cold turkey set to qualify and race on. There’s a big difference.” In the lean years, many which passed by without the Milton driver hoisting a single checkered flag, Five Flags fans still adored their favorite son because he remained true to his grassroots.Now that fortune is once again shining on Niedecken, his loyal legions are being rewarded with some of the best racing of his storied career. (Read the rest of Chuck’s story on our web site).
Who is at the Wheel?
5 Derek Long; Bay Minette 8 BJ Leytham; Mobile 15 Robert Loper, Irvington 15 Preston Prevatte; Lillian 16 Brad Mosley; 8 Mile 22 John K Merritt; Pensacola 22 Zack Carpenter, Loxley, AL 24 Kerner Kafka, Pensacola 24 Caleb Burkett, Pensacola 29 Matt Thompson, Wilmer, AL 34 Cory Pittman, Cantonment 42 Brandon Sidner, Pensacola 44 Bobby Jones, Mobile 49 Jay Whalen, Pensacola 52 Robert Balkum, Pensacola 78 Tim Wilmot, Cantonment 80 Zack Jordan, Pensacola 86 Jonathan Smith, Theadore 88 Geno Denmark, Dauphin 91 Sarah Dority, Pensacola 95 Robert Riley, Gulf Breeze
00 Brannon Fowler, Molino 1 Jonathan Langham, Mobile 07 Jim Pokrant, Pensacola 13 Paul Mathis, Pensacola 28 Dayton Sidner, Cantonment 29 Shanna Ard, Milton 31 Johnny Greene, Daphne, AL 33 Steve Buttrick, Cantonment 51 Albert Pirez, Lillian, AL 60 Jimmy Goodwin, Milton 77 Shawn Laws, Gulf Breeze 81 Tina Davidson, Pensacola 97 Hunter Lambert, Pensacola 99 Billy Hoover, Pensacola
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