Five Flags Speedway schedule for Snowball Derby; NASCAR drivers set for late model showdown
The 2019 Snowball Derby entries are rolling in. The Daytona 500 of Short Track Racing is just around the corner.
View the 2019 Snowball Derby schedule below.
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Yes! The one that causes all the drama. To the point that Stephen Nasse has to fight his own crew. Or maybe you remember the time the Steve Wallace tossed a hammer at the car of Kyle Busch.
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Are you currently in the Midwest? Shivering your way to the mailbox to retrieve your personal property tax bills?
Maybe it’s the Northeast? With plows attached to the Ford so you can get effectively reach the end of the driveway?
Florida, where they can’t relate to any of these issues above. You won’t be doing any of this if you head to the race track next week.
Five Flags Speedway is a half-mile paved oval. The short track is located in the heated environment of Pensacola, Florida.
The 2019 Snowball Derby week will conclude on Sunday, December 8th, 2019. The super late model feature is 300 laps.
Who’s running the 2019 Snowball Derby?
Corey LaJoie will make his first start since 2017. 2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Harrison Burton, Former NASCAR Cup Series driver David Gilliland, Former Roush Fenway Racing driver Ty Majeski and NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series driver Jordan Anderson are entered in the event.
Additionally, Chandler Smith ran a few races for Kyle Busch Motorsports in 2019. He’s entered in the race along with the 2019 NASCAR K&N Pro Series champion, Derek Kraus.
Rich Bickle made his Snowball Derby debut in 1989, finishing 2nd to Rick Crawford. Bickle now has a record five Snowball Derby wins, eight top-five, and nine top-10 finishes.
Bickle’s last Snowball win came in 1999 when he claimed the $100,000 bonus for winning a race prior in the season as well. He took more than a decade off the Snowball Derby entry list.
In 2017, he entered but failed to make the race due to a mechanical failure. Now for 2019, he’s back. The announcement was just released as a new car has been in the works.
“Normally, we’d have been ready for the Derby and a long time ago, but we have been building a new car for this race and we just didn’t get ahead of it until this past week,” Bickle said.
“It was only when we got the car close to being done this past weekend that we knew we could enter this year’s race.”
“I have loved running the Snowball Derby since I first competed in it in 1989. There’s something about 5 Flags Speedway that has always seemed to fit my driving style and produce a lot of great wins and memories,” Bickle concluded.
2019 Snowball Derby Schedule
The 2019 Snowball Derby is a five-day show. The week of racing all features seven classes.
Wednesday
Dec 4th, 2019
9:00am
Rig Parking
11:00am
SBD & SF Tech Opens
5:00pm
Cones up at SBD & SF Tech Line
6:00pm
Snowball/Snowflake Qualifying Draw
8:00pm
Green Flag Party, Muscogee Ridge Music on PFC stage in pits.
10:00pm
Pits Closed
Thursday
Dec 5th, 2019
8:00am
Pits Open
9:00am
SBD & SF Driver’s Meeting
10:00-11:00am
SBD Practice
11:00-11:45am
SF Practice
12:15am-1:15pm
SBD Practice
1:15-2:00pm
SF Practice
2:00-3:00pm
SBD Practice
3:00-4:00pm
SF Practice
4:30pm
Pro Truck, Sportsmen & Pure Stock Driver’s Meeting
5:00-6:30pm
Pro Truck, Sportsmen & Pure Stock Practice
6:45pm
Pro Truck, Sportsmen & Pure Stock Qualifying
7:45pm
Pre Race Festivities
8:00pm
-WCI Parts.com Pro Truck 50
-Dock on Pensacola Beach Sportsmen 50
-Lloyd’s Glass Pure Stock 35
Friday
Dec 6th, 2019
Country Pleasin’ Sausage Pole Night
8:00am
Pits Open
9:00am
SBD & SF Driver’s Meeting
10:00-10:45am
SBD Practice
10:45-11:30am
SF Practice
11:30am-12:30pm
Mod Practice
12:00 noon
-Tech Closes for SBD & SF Cars
-SBD Qualifying tires released
1:00pm
SBD Practice
2:00pm
-SF Practice
-Mods to Pre Qualifying Tech
3:00pm
-Modified Qualifying (Lock top 28)
-SBD Cars to Pre Qualifying Tech (by group)
4:30pm
Mod Driver’s Meeting (in turn 1)
6:00pm
52nd Snowball Derby Qualifying
7:45pm
Pre Race Festivities
8:00pm
Modifieds of Mayhem SBD 75
Saturday
Dec 7th, 2019
8:00am
Pits Open
8:30am
Snowflake tires released at Tech
9:00am
SBD & SF Driver’s Meeting
10:00-11:00am
Snowflake Practice
11:00-11:45am
Outlaw Practice
11:30am
Snowflake Cars to Pre Qualify Tech by group
11:45am-12:45pm
Snowball Derby Practice
1:30pm
Outlaw Qualifying (Lock in top 28)
2:00pm
-Snowflake Qualifying (lock top 30)
-Snowflake Qualifier (50 Laps, transfer 4
-Snowball Qualifier (50 Laps, transfer 4)
-Outlaws B-Main (if necessary)
6:00pm
Outlaws Driver’s Meeting
7:00pm
-Allen Turner Snowflake 100
-Faith Chapel Outlaw SBD 50
Sunday
Dec 8th, 2019
7:00am
Pits Open (team members only, Haulers must exit by 9am)
8:00am
Pits Open
9:30am
SBD Driver’s Meeting
10:00am
Worship Service
12:00pm
-Engine Warmups Cars to grid
-Pre Race Festivities Begin
12:30pm
-2019 SBD Class Photo (on stage)
-Recognition of 2019 Champions
1:15pm
Driver Introductions
1:45pm
Pre Race Festivities
2:00pm
Snowball Derby (300 Laps)
2019 Snowball Derby Entries
Car | No | Driver | Location
1 Michael House
Columbia, TN
104 Kaden Honeycutt
Willow Park, TX
11 David Rogers
Orlando, FL
112 Augie Grill
Hayden, AL
119 Dalton Zehr
Verona, WI
12 Harrison Burton
Huntersville, NC
12G Derek Griffith
Hudson, NH
14 Austin Nason
Roscoe, IL
14 Carson Hocevar
Portage, MI
14 Chris Davidson
Pearland, TX
14 Connor Okezesik
Grand Bay, AL
15 Rodrigo Rejon
Mexico City, Mexico
16 Lucas Jones
Mooreville, NC
17 Taylor Gray
Denver, NC
18 Hunter Robbins
Pensacola, FL
2 Derek Kraus
Stratford, WI
20 Anthony Sergi
New Smyrna Beach, FL
20 Cole Moore
Granite Bay, CA
20 Jack Dossey, III
Indianapolis, IN
21 Jeremy Pate
Pensacola, FL
21 Trey Bayne
Knoxville, TN
22 Casey Roderick
Lawrenceville, GA
26 Bubba Pollard
Senoia, GA
26 Travis Braden
Wheeling, WV
30 Jesse Dutilly
Bradenton, FL
36 Dan Fredrickson
Northfield, MN
37 A J Wernette
Hondo, TX
4 Kyle Plott
Marietta, GA
43 Derek Thorn
Bakersfield, CA
45 Rich Bickle
Sun Prairie, WI
48 Preston Peltier
Brighton, CO
5 Jerry Artuso
Saulte Ste Marie
50-97
50 Jett Nolan
Orlando, FL
51 Chandler Smith
Talking Rock, GA
51 Michael Atwell
Naples, FL
51 Stephen Nasse
Pinellas Park, FL
53 Boris Jurkovic
Manhattan, IL
53 Cole Butcher
Porters Lake NS
54 David Gilliland
Mooresville, NC
54 Matt Craig
Kannapolis, NC
57 Josh Berry
Statesville, NC
5m Mason Mingus
Nashville, TN
64 Garrett Evans
East Wenatchee, WA
7 Corey LaJoie
Concord, NC
7 John DeAngelis
Hubertus, WI
71 Johnny VanDoorn
Nunica, MI
75 Jeremy Doss
Upper Lake, CA
78 Corey Heim
Marietta, GA
79 Joe Aramendia
Sequin, TX
79 Kyle Bryant
Navarre, FL
8 Colten Nelson
Moss Point, MS
81 Giovanni Bromante
Locust Valley, NY
88 Jordan Anderson
Forest Acres, SC
9 Brad May
Ovideo, FL
9 Jeff Choquette
West Palm Beach, FL
90 Tim Curry
Allegan, MI
91 Ty Majeski
Charlotte, NC
97 Steven Davis
Mobile, AL
Late Model Entries: 58
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