One of our most popular nights of the year is our Annual Kid’s Bicycle Race, and tonight is going to be filled with excitement for all ages. The two requirements for the bike races are a helmet and of course a bicycle. As a reminder, we will have a special area marked off for the bikes until we are ready to bring them down on the front straightaway and line them up to race. All kids who are in the pits and plan to enter cannot be riding around the pit area during racing activities. This Friday will also be the first appearance of the year for the Vintage cars. As I always mention, these old Ford and Chevy Coupes and Sedans really bring back memories at Five Flags Speedway. Also racing will be Super Stock, Sportsman and Bombers. To cap things off we have a Motorcycle stunt show.
We will be right back in action on Friday, June 24th with round two of the Allen Turner Hyundai Pro Late Model twin 50 lappers, along with Pro Trucks, Sportsman and Bombers. Be sure to join Tim and Steve by watching “In The Groove” on BLAB/ TV every other Monday night at 6:00 pm. Also tune in to ESPN 1450 Radio on Tuesday’s at 6:00 pm with Robbie Harvey on “Rubbing Is Racing” Our prayers go out to the family of a true “angel”. Thank you for serving our country and Rest in Peace Blue Angel #6 Captain Jeff Kuss.
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Maddie Mae Driskell racing a few days later at Baker’s Northwest Florida Speedway.
Real Men Drive in Pink Anyone questioning the toughness it takes to wheel a stock car hasn’t met Kraig Crossley. The 33-year-old Milton driver, who builds swimming pools for a living, has a horrific story that’s sure to make even the staunchest doubter eat a little crow. Two years ago at Flomaton Speedway, a nearby dirt track just across the state line in Alabama, Crossley flipped and rolled his 1934 Vintage sedan. Crossley was not only unharmed thanks to the harnesses but, preposterously perhaps, raring to continue racing that same night. “I would’ve completed the race if I could, but the car wasn’t able to go,” he said. “It was just another ride to me. No big deal. Like a roller coaster ride that slings you upside down.” Crossley certainly hopes history doesn’t repeat itself when the ever-growing Southern Vintage Racing Association makes its annual pilgrimage to Five Flags Speedway on Friday night. If another wild ride did occur, though, Crossley has the utmost confidence in his crew made up of his father, Dave Crossley, Ron Narvesen and car owner Denny Argabrite among others. After he flipped and barrelrolled and kicked up all kinds of dirt across Flomaton, Kraig Crossley was
“It was messed up bad,” Kraig Crossley said. “Me and the crew busted our tails from Sunday to Friday, cut up a spare body I had, put it on the car, replaced some bars, and we were back out racing the next Friday night.” This Friday, Crossley will test his mettle on the abrasive asphalt of Five Flags for just the second time in his career. Capping off a big Friday will be the death-defying stunts of motorcyclist Tim Dyson. (Read the rest of Chuck’s story on our web site.)
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5 Derek Long; Bay Minette 8 BJ Leytham; Mobile 13 Jimmy Hollingsworth, Mobile By Chuck Corder 15 Robert Loper, Irvington Brian Daniels always gets a warm- 16 Brad Mosley; 8 Mile 22 John K Merritt; Pensacola fuzzy feeling each time he comes to Five 22 Zack Carpenter, Loxley, AL Flags Speedway. After all, the 42-year-old 24 Caleb Burkett, Pensacola Vintage car driver spent most of his childhood at the famed half-mile asphalt oval, 29 Matt Thompson, Wilmer, AL watching his father hold his own against 34 Cory Pittman, Cantonment short-track legends, such as Dickie Davis. 42 Brandon Sidner, Pensacola 44 Bobby Jones, Mobile Bill Daniels got his racing 49 Jay Whalen, Pensacola career going around 1966 in the Specta52 Robert Balkum, Pensacola tor Class at Five Flags. Young Brian 56 Kerner Kafka, Pensacola Daniels would cheer his daddy on from 78 Tim Wilmot, Cantonment the pits or the big hill where all the kids 80 Zack Jordan, Pensacola gathered. “It was neat — getting to watch 86 Jonathan Smith, Theadore him and see what he did out there on that 88 Geno Denmark, Dauphin track,” said Brian Daniels, a Pensacola 91 Sarah Dority, Pensacola native now living in Bay Minette, Ala. 95 Robert Riley, Gulf Breeze This Friday, their roles will be reversed as father will be rooting for son when Brian Daniels accompanies his Southern Vintage Racing Association compatriots in their annual stop at Pensacola’s high banks. With assistance from Jerry Venable, Bill Daniels founded the Southern Vintage Racing Association a few years ago with the mission to grow a fun, affordable class. “He wanted to revive a class that had dwindled away,” Brian Daniels said of the elder Daniels. “He likes to see the growth. He didn’t expect it to get as big as it has. It’s gotten huge and continues to steadily grow.” (Continued on our web page: www.5flagsspeedway.com).
00 Brannon Fowler, Molino 1 Jonathan Langham, Mobile 07 Jim Pokrant, Pensacola 09 Hunter McNair, Cantonment 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 81 Tina Davidson, Pensacola 97 Hunter Lambert, Pensacola 99 Billy Hoover, Pensacola
Vintage Drivers R2C Kraig Crossley 26 Brian Daniels 29 Ben Spears 47 Jerry Bohlman 48 Jamie Mozingo 55 Jay Dotson 55 Chris Bayhi 63 Blake Martin 77 Matt Culbertson 94 Levi Donaldson
Super Stock Drivers 2 Kenny King 2 Bobby Baria 9 Todd Jones 9 Andrue Nolen 9 Kody Jett 14 Wesley King 42 Randy Thompson 57 Charlie Skipper Jr. 94 Jason Johnson
52 Robert Balkum
33 Steve Buttrick
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29 Shanna Ard
B J Leytham
22 John K Merritt
07 Jim Pokrant
91 Sarah Dority
28 Dayton Sidner
56 Kerner Kafka
31 Johnny Greene
3
Taylor Jorgensen
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Howard Langham
94 Jason Johnson
6
Okie Mason
57 Charles Skipper Jr
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Steven Davis
14 Wesley King
46
Jarrett Parker
9
2
Bret Holmes
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Zane Smith
9
Derek Thorn
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Kyle Grissom
14 Chris Davidson
7
Casey Roderick
18 Ryan Paul
12
Harrison Burton
Todd Jones
Kurt Jett
99 Casey Smith 14 Connor Okrzesik For points of all competitors, check our web site.