Elliot Dynasty Overthrown with DQ, Jones Captures Back-to-Back Snowballs
Chuck Corder, Pensacola, FL – It what was a virtual coronation Sunday of Chase Elliott’s growing kingdom of trophies in Victory Lane at Five Flags Speedway rose another power in the Tech Shed.
A few short hours after Elliott had hoisted the Tom Dawson trophy for his second career Snowball Derby victory, he was stripped of the crown under technical inspection.
Instead, Erik Jones went from settling for second to successfully defending his historic 2012 Snowball Derby win by capturing a second consecutive crown.
Not surprisingly, Elliott had no comment to share about his feelings following the official ruling of “unapproved weight” to his No. 9 Super Late Model.
“It was all a fair process,” Five Flags general manager Tim Bryant said. “There were no arguments from the Elliotts on that.”
Elliott and crew chief Ricky Turner have been simpatico for the duration of the 18-year-old’s entire late model career.
“It was an oversight on my part,” Turner told Speed51.com, short-track’s online bible. “I messed up”
The disqualification meant Elliott’s apparent weekend sweep of the 46th annual Snowball and Saturday night’s Snowflake 100 for Pro Late Models went poof.
More importantly, it meant once-bridesmaid Jones was now back-to-back champion Erik Jones. (more…)
Tampa, FL – The Eagle Jet Top Gun Sprints had 29 cars registered for their 25 lap $1,000 to win feature sponsored by Buddy’s Home Furnishings. Also racing were the Limited Late Models, Q Auto & Injury Attorneys Street Stocks, V8 Warriors and the Motorstats.com 4 Cylinder Bombers.
Orlando SpeedWorld wrapped up calendar year 2013 with a great evening of racing in front of a nice crowd on a very balmy night weather-wise for early December while much of the country was in a deep freeze. The TBARA Sprint Cars finally got to run their program that was postponed by rain in June and 15 teams came out to support the event. Fifteen-year-old Garrett Green looked like a veteran in winning heat race number one after early leader Tommy Nichols’ car partially lost power with two laps to go. Joey “The Ace” Aguilar took the checker second with Nichols hanging on for third. The second heat race was dominated by Leesburg’s Dude Teate who led every lap to finish in front of Ben Fritz and John Gilbert, Jr. Gilbert would later turn his mount over to Mickey Kempgens for the feature race.
November 30, 2013 – Tampa, FL – It was a packed house as David and his Father Buzzie Reutimann would battle it out for bragging rights in the Gagel’s Open Wheel Modified Reutimann Foundation 50 Lap Feature. Also racing were the Late Models, V8 Warriors, Outlaw Fours and Q Auto & Injury Attorneys Street Stocks.
The end of the year is on the horizon, and the 2013 Racing Season is in the rear view. But wait!! The best has yet to come. The 46th Annual Snowball Derby presented by Jegs is just days away and the anticipation is at an all time high. The regular season has been stellar here at 5 Flags Speedway, with plenty of action, some first time Winners, some first time Champions, new track records, and of course, a few crash and burns along the way. Quite a year indeed. So why should we expect anything different at the Snowball? This year’s Derby is boasting the strongest entry list in recent memory. Seven Divisions of racing, over 700 laps of action. At last Saturday’s Snowball Derby Preview presented by Sit-N-Charge, 98 cars took practice laps. Race days are expected to triple that number. A complete entry list is located at 
Ocala, FL- The inaugural Leftovers Classic at Bubba Raceway Park hosted the Bubba Army Mini Sprints, Hobby Stocks, 1-800-ASK GARY Thunder Stocks, TQ Late Models, and Rent-N-Roll Gladiators in a wonderful Sunday show.
Eagle Jet Top Gun Sprints will return for their final appearance at East Bay Raceway Park in 2013 on Saturday, December 7th. Buddy’s Home Furnishings will be the presenting sponsor for the $1,000.00 to win feature event.
Ocala, FL- “What offseason?” is the question that has been running around the paddocks and pits of all forms of motorsports and that does not skip over the local short tracks. Bubba Raceway Park will keep the gates open and run a Sunday show right after Thanksgiving with five of the grittiest divisions in Florida running for some cash just three-and-a-half weeks before Christmas!
Black Friday has become a day full of shopping carts crashing and wallet-deflating craziness, but Orlando SpeedWorld has just the cure for folks who have been out in the shopping madness all day…. A night of motorized mayhem called Crash-A-Rama.
We had 24 Late Models take the grren flag for the season finale Sunday at Auburndale Speedway. Jesse Dutilly was the race. We also ran several other classes.