Super Late Models Bring Blizzard Back

For a select few the 2010 season has started out on a positive note. D J Vanderley set a new Pro Late

Model track record and then backed it up with a feature win. His plans are to compete for the PLM championship and is surely headed in the right direction. He also will be entering college in the fall. Sometimes your ability to drive a racecar is not all you need. A little luck comes in handy. It definitely showed up on Greg Young’s side on March 26th. Young got wrecked on the first lap and after pitting for repairs, he returned to the track hoping for a decent finish, and wound up in Super Stock victory lane. The Sportsman and Bomber divisions have pretty much been domi-nated so far by Stevie Mercer and Mike Goraum by winning the first two features in their respective divisions. Vanderley, Young and Goraum are eyeing champion-ships while Mercer could have a change of plans in the near future.

The first Blizzard race this week-end for the Super Late Models begins the 5 race series with hopes of getting an ear-ly season win and racing toward a guaran-teed starting spot in the 2010 Snowball Derby. Some of the best Super Late Model drivers in the country are on hand and they should supply you with “Hair Raising” “No Holds Barred” excitement in tonight’s Pepsi Max 100. Johanna Long will be out to defend her title while Brandon Carlson will take over his father’s (Scott) Super Late Model ride looking for his first win in the series. He is no stranger to Five Flags Speedway and surely knows how to get it done. Just look at his prior wins in the Pro Late Model division which includes a Snowflake 100 victory. Photos of some of tonights SLM drivers are inside. Next week we will feature the top 5 in each lo-cal division. The staff at Five Flags Speedway would like to send out our “GET WELL” wishes to Momma Bryant for a speedy re-covery. “Get Well Soon”. We miss you and need to see your smiling face again. -Steve Stokes is a former racer, a track official, and BLAB-TV host.

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Track champion Johanna Long was giv-en a Special Achievement Award by the Pensacola Sports Association this week at their annual banquet. The teen driving sensation was lauded for her achieve-ments in motorsports for the second year in a row, a rare distiction for the PSA.

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April 16 PLM, MOD, SP, BMRApril 30 PLM, SS, SP, BMRMay 14 PLM, SS, SP, BMRMay 28 Papa John’s 100 SLM, MOD, SP, BMRJune 11 PLM, SS, SP, BMR Kids Bicycle RacesJune 25 USA Digital 100 SLM, SS, SP, BMR plus FireworksJuly 16 PLM, SS, SP, BMR Celebrity Race for UCPJuly 30 PLM, MOD, SP, BMRAug 13 Miller Lite 100 SLM, SS, SP, BMR Aug 27 Winged Sprints, MOD, SP, BMRSept 10 PLM, SS, SP, BMRSept 24 Carpenter’s Campers 100 SLM, SS Championship,SP, BMROct 8 Nite of Champions PLM, MOD, SP, BMR

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Ricky Brooks Our Technical Director, Ricky Brooks is a wanted man, not by drivers, but other race tracks to supervise their special events. SPEEDFEST at Lanier GA, the GAS series in Georgia, are among the offers he has received. Ricky is also working with FASCAR at Smyrna Speedway to have one set of specs for Super Late Mod-els statewide. He is also technical director at Mobile International. The cream rises to the top!

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Tonight’s Pepsi Max 100 is the first in a series of 10 events that makes up the Sunoco Gulf Coast Championship Series. The Blizzard Series races are paired with the Miller Lite 100 races at Mobile Interna-tional Speedway to make up the Sunoco Series. The series gives the race crews the opportunity to drive to the Gulf Coast for two races in one weekend, 5 times a year. Drivers earn points at each event, and the combination of the points, deter-mines the standings in the Sunoco series. In order to earn series points, the driver must compete in both events each week-end. You can see many of the same drivers tomorrow night at MIS.

1) 2 D J Vanderley 651) 27 Ronnie Smith 613) 64 David Jones 564) 12 Tommy Rollins 545) 36 Keith Thorpe 486) 79 Kyle Bryant 437) 40 Dave Mader III 428) 28 Thomas Praytor 328) 88 Robert Royce 3210)12 Michael Pitts 29

1) 72 Stevie Mercer 148 2) 12 Bubba Winslow 1413) 33 Steve Buttrick 1374) 07 Jim Pokrant 1125) 83 Bo Resmondo 1096) 42 Randy Thompson 1077) 00 Brannon Fowler 1068) 102 Marty White 959) 4 Willie Kitchen 8810) 72 Tommy Warren Jr 80

1) 44 Greg Young 73 2) 93 Paul Jean 723) 42 Randy Thompson 694) 53 Earl Polk 62 5) 17 Chris Cotto 576) 84 Joe Mahuron 567) 55 Mike Moore 528) 14 Eric Wood 51

1) 66 Ryan Redmon 65 2) 145 Bill Melvin 593) 127 Phillip Merryman 554) 54 Bobby Ingersoll 545) 17 Chris Cotto 496) 71 Josh Goodwin 437) 33 Nathan Ingersoll 428) 91 Ron Schneider 329) 9 Ricky Johnson 9

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1) 5 Mike Goraum 1482) 87 Will Goulet 1303) 68 Daryl Lynchard 1254) 12 Brandon Burks 1235) 52 Tony Boyd 1056) 03 Michael Nelson 1037) 8 Mike Kitchen 1018) 44 Bo Hancock 849) 25 Eddie Hobbs 7510) 52 Robert Balkum 74

1) 10 Johanna Long2) 112 Augie Grill 3) 26 Bubba Pollard 4) 99 Casey Smith 5) 1 Eddie Mercer6) 6 Hunter Robbins 7) 21 Scott Carlson 8) 11 David Rogers 9) 02 John Bolen 10) 10 Danny Bagwell

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