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| Five Flags Speedway Releases Schedule for Golden Anniversary Season | Pensacola, Fla - Five Flags Speedway will kick off its'
50th consecutive year of racing with a USAR Hooters ProCup
Series 250 lap event on March 15th and close out the
golden anniversary season with the 36th edition of the
prestigious Snowball Derby, Decmeber 4-7. The 2003
season will also feature the return of weekly Friday night
racing after a six-year hiatus, as well as a handful of
late model extra-distance events and a June 20th USCS
sprint car race. The Southern All Star Asphalt Series
will bring its traveling show to the fast half-mile
speedplant with late models (May 16th) and trucks (August
8). Wade McNaughton, inhis third year of promoting at
the Pine Forest Road oval, feels that the car count has
grown enough over the past two seasons to sustain a weekly
racing format. The spectator and super stock classes will
run every week with the open-wheel modifieds joining the
action on a bi-weekly basis. Special events for late
models (100 or 150 laps - to be decided) will be held on
April 18, May 15, July 18, and September 20th. The
September 20th race, as well as the remaining three
regular season races, will be switched from Friday to
Saturday nights. The May 30th event will mark fifty
years of racing at the storied Gulf Coast oval, making
it the second oldest track in Florida behind Ocala
Speedway, which has operated every year since 1952. The
inaugural event at Five Flags on May 31, 1953 is most
remembered for a fourteen car pile-up on the first lap
of the first feature race. Two weeks later, Herb Thomas
won the speedway's only NASCAR Grand National race.
The track was patterned after Darlington Raceway and
was heralded as "World's Fastest Half-Mile Track" for
three decades. Kalamazoo, Michigan's Randy Sweet turned
a 14.01 in l985 for the track's all-time fastest lap.
The traditional competition-curtain-call, known as the
Snowball Derby, has been the facility's premier event
since 1968 drawing many of the nation's top late model
drivers.
For more information on the schedule or rules, go to
www.snowballderby.com or call (850) 944-8400.
FIVE FLAGS SPEEDWAY 2003 RACING SCHEDULE
March 15 - USAR Hooters ProCup
March 28 - Opening night of weekly racing
April 4 & 11 - Weekly Racing
April 18 - Late Models
April 25 - Weekly Racing
May 2 Weekly Racing
May 9 Weekly Racing
May 16 Southern All Star Late Models
May 23 Weekly Racing
May 30 50th Anniversary Race
June 6 Weekly Racing
June 13 Weekly Racing
June 20 USCS Sprint Cars
June 27 Weekly Racing
July 4 Fireworks Display & Weekly Racing
July 11 Weekly Racing
July 18 Late Models
July 25 Weekly Racing
August 8 Southern All Stars Trucks
August 15 Weekly Racing
August 22 Weekly Racing
August 29 Weekly Racing
Sept 5 Weekly Racing
Sept 12 Weekly Racing
Sept 20 Late Models (Saturday night)
Sept 27 Weekly Racing (Saturday Nights)
Oct. 4 Weekly Racing (Saturday Nights)
Oct. 11 Weekly Racing (Saturday Nights)
December 4 - 7 36th Annual Snowball Derby
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