#8 July 11, 2014
Southern Super Series Here with Fireworks
ook for a full field special Thank You ound three of the R four race shoot- Lof cars tonight Agoes out to the out starts tonight for because time is running Whites at Deep South the Buddy’s Home Furnishings Super Late Models. We have witnessed some of the best short track racing any fan could ever ask for in the first two Blizzard races. Drivers such as Daniel Hemric, Bubba Pollard, Augie Grill, Donnie Wilson and Anderson Bowen are on top of their games, but they will all be racing to improve their point’s standings and a checkered flag at this famous track that is known nationwide. rivers are gunning D to finish up both the Buddy’s Blizzard Series
and the Southern Super Series with a top ten in the final standings, making them eligible for a provisional starting spot in the Snowball. Last year’s benefactors were Texas driver Chris Davidson and Oklahoma’s Donnie Wilson.
out to get dialed in for the December spectacular.
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his weekend will also be a double header as these drivers will move over to Mobile International Speedway on Saturday night for another 125 laps of hard nose racing. The Super Stocks, Sportsman and Bombers will also be in action tonight. Tomorrow night in Mobile, the Pro Trucks, Sportsman and Bombers are added to the night’s activities.
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also want to change gears for a moment and remind everyone that in just two weeks our Demo Derby will be in action along with the Faster Pastor race, the Sportsman and Bombers. The Demo Derby is always a blast, so if you like to tear things up then this is right up your alley, and only $5.00
Crane Rental. They have come forward to sponsor our great fireworks display tonight!
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arlier I mentioned the Snowball Derby. Did you see the great performances turned in last weekend at the Chicagoland Speedway by our last 2 Derby winners? Chase Elliott won the NASCAR Nationwide race, and the teen sensation from Michigan who won the last two Snowballs, Erik Jones made his first Nationwide race a big one with a 7th place finish.
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efore we close this article I want to remind you that time is “RUNNING OUT” to renew your reserved Snowball Derby tickets, August 1st is the deadline.
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e will see you in the pits!!
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schedule
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Aug 8, Mods, SP, B, Demo Derby, Faster Pastor $5.00 Admis. Aug 22, PLM 20/30, SP, B, Vintage Sept 5, Pro Trucks, SS, SP, B Sept 19, Blizzard #4, SS, SP, B Sept 27 Whataburger Nite of Champions, Pro Late 100, Modifieds, Pro Trucks, Sportsmen and Bombers Nov 22 Snowball Derby (c) Preview Dec 3-7 Snowball Derby 300
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“Where Racers Begin”
Snowball Derby is on the way... and Chuck takes a look.
By Chuck Corder Steve Meyer turns 47 years young in a few months. A few months after that, Five Flags Speedway will celebrate the 47th annual Snowball Derby. Want to take a guess on how many of short-track Holy Grail races Meyer has missed? Zero, zilch, nada. Meyer is one of a handful of Five Flags’ faithful fanatics that can boast seeing every Snowball from its first twotime winner Wayne Niedecken Sr. (1968, 1970) to its most recent and reigning twotime champion, Erik Jones (2012-13) — even if his memory is a little fuzzy on those early races.
“If I had a dollar for every lap I saw at Five Flags, I’d be like Donald Trump,” joked Meyer, who works for Orkin Pest Control. Who can blame him or any other fan for those high expectations after the first two Blizzard Series races of the year left packed houses hungry for more? “This year has been so fun to watch,” Meyer said. “There has been so much competition toward the front, it gives you the feeling that 10 to 12 guys could win out there.” Sure, Bubba Pollard has won the first two legs of the Blizzard Series, but neither has been a cakewalk.
“That first one, I was in diapers,” Meyer remembered. “My dad took my brother and me out there. Mom went to some type of Tupperware convention, I think. We thought every race was going to be like the Snowball Derby.”
And the never-ending, door-todoor battle Pollard and Augie Grill, another two-time Snowball winner, engaged in at the Rubber & Specialties 125 in May was the stuff of legends.
All of his history and knowledge makes Meyer somewhat of an authority, an expert witness if you will, when the subject turns to Super Late Model racing at Pensacola’s high banks.
“As a matter of fact, the battle between (Pollard) and Augie Grill was a battle better than the Snowball Derby battles from a few years ago,” Meyer assessed, referencing the Chase ElliottD.J. VanderLey duel from 2011 and the Jones-Kyle Busch clash in 2012.
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