Let’s Kick Start the 2015 Blizzard Racing Season

April 24, 2015 #2

Casey Smith will come in as the Southern Super Series point’s leader after two races. Casey has started the season off on a good note with top five finishes at Opp, Alabama and Nashville, Tennes-see, with plans to take the first place trophy back to Texas. There is no doubt that Smith can get the job done, but he will have to outrun some mighty stiff competitors such as Donnie Wilson, Bubba Pollard, Augie Grill and a host of other drivers with the same thing on their minds…to be the first to the checkered flag.

This weekend will also be a double header as the Supers will travel over to Mobile International Speedway to do it all over again on Saturday night.

Jimmy White, owner of Deep South Cranes, has stepped up and will be the new sponsor of the Blizzard Series and the Super Late Models start-ing tonight.

It just seems fit for Deep South Cranes to be the sponsor, as long as they have been affiliated with the speedway. Jimmy is a “Die Hard” fan of racing and his company is a welcome sight at the track. He and his dad have been in business for many years and are well respected by all. Their business is located just a couple miles from the speedway. I just want to say WELCOME ABOARD BOYS!!

Also on the schedule for some exciting racing tonight are the Pro Trucks, Sportsman and Bombers to round out the evening. See storyi inside on Bran-den Harris moving to the Pro Trucks.

We will return in two weeks, May 8th, for a 100 lapper for the Allen Turner Hyundai Pro Late Models. Until then, stay safe, stay well and we’ll see ya at the track!!!

Casey Smith of Austin, SSS Points Leader.

Last week our fans were treated to a great 2015 season opener as the “King of the Wing” Sprint Cars made their first appearance at Five Flags Speedway. They really thrilled the fans with some fast paced action. Congratulations to Bobby Santos on his victory. All of last weeks winners are on the back page.

Don’t expect any less tonight as the Super Late Models invade the track; This is a class of race cars that don’t take a back seat to any other class. This will be the first of four Super Late Model races this year. It will be a Southern Super Series/Blizzard series show so you can expect a great and very competitive field of cars.

Just do a quick click throughGarrett Jones’ social media platforms.Check out his recent photographs. It’seasy to tell the pint-sized wunderkind,who made a splash as a 13-year-oldtrackchampionatFiveFlagsSpeedwaytwoyearsago,hashitagrowthspurt.

When he took the famed half-mileasphaltovalbystormin2013,win-ning theAllen Turner Pro LateModelSeries trackchampionship,Joneshadavoicethatwouldn’tstopcrackingandatalentthatwouldn’tstopblossoming.

Jonesnowfindshimselfbehindthewheel of a Super LateModel. Hewould love nothingmore than to get abreakthrough first SLM win here to-night.Joneshasn’texperiencedmanygrowingpainssincemakingtheleapto SLMs. A pair of fifth-place fin-ishesinthefirsttwoSouthernSuperSeries races has him comfortablyseated third in the points standings.(Read the rest of the story on our web site.)

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May 8 Pro Late Model 100 Plus Super Stock, Sportsmen and Bomber

May 22 Rubber & Specialties Blizzard plus Pro Trucks, Sportmen and Bombers

June 12 Modifieds of Mayhem #5 Plus Super Stock, Sportsmen and Bomber

June 26 Pro Late Double 20/30 Pro Truck, Sportsmen, Bomber, Vintage

July 10 Pro Late Double 20/30 Super Stock, Sportsmen, and Bomber

July 24 Super Late Blizzard #3, Plus Pro Truck, Sportsmen and Bomber

Aug 7 Modifieds of Mayhem #7 Super Stock, Sportmen, Bomber PLUS Faster Pastor and Demolition Derby

Aug 28 Pro Late Double 20/30 Plus Pro Truck, Sportsmen and Bomber

Saturday, Sept 19 Pro Late Model 100 Allen Turner Tune-Up , Super Stock, Sportsmen and Bomber

Saturday, Sept 26 Blizzard Pro Truck, Sportsmen and Bomber DSC Night of Champions

Friday-Sun Oct. 23 NOPI Nationals

Saturday, Nov. 21 Snowball Preview

Thursday, December 3 -Dec 6th 48th Annual Snowball Derby

2015 Schedule

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A 12-year veteran of local dirt tracks, Branden Harris rarely lets anything or anyone rattle his cage. The 25 year old has seen a lot in racing and doesn’t easily crack in pressure situations or if other drivers feebly attempt head games.

But there is one guy, a go-kart driver no less, who won’t be silenced and constant-ly needles Harris whenever there’s an opportunity.“He talks a little bit of trash, anything he can,” Harris said of the heck-ler. “He thinks he runs the show.”

So who is this pain in Harris’ side? None other than Landen Harris, Branden and wife Whitney’s 6-year-old son.Branden’s toughest critic will be front and center Friday night at Five Flags Speedway to see his daddy make his Pro Trucks debut.

For all his miniature bloviating, Landen is a fixture in his father’s shop. “He’ll go get wrenches, screwdrivers, whatever you need,” Branden Harris said of Landen, who competes in go-karts at Pensacola Kart Raceway on Old Corry Field Road.

Sportsmen and Bombers, who made their season debuts last Friday, continue their seasons, tonight. The Pro Trucks are making their first race of the new year.

While he might be a relatively new face at the famed half-mile asphalt oval, Branden Harris has plenty skin in the game when it comes to racing.

It’s simply that Harris has spent his 13 years on the dirt tracks of Southern Raceway in Milton and up at Floma-ton (Ala.) Speedway, places he is by no means abandoning in favor of Five Flags.

“We’ll still be racing on dirt,” ensured Harris, who co-owns the truck along with his father, Ronnie. “An opportunity came up and the trucks class has been really cool to watch and develop, and I wanted to be a part of that. Plus, they only race once a month.”

On dirt, he competes in the Street Stock class, which is somewhere between a Sportsman and a Super Stock, but “closer to the Super Stocks,” according to Harris.

He got one taste of Five Flags in the mid-2000s, driving a Bombers ride.“But that was a one-race, one-time deal,” Harris said. “I think we converted it over to dirt and somebody else drove it.”

A graduate of West Florida High School, Harris was born and raised in Pensaco-la. Now a Molino resident, Harris’ time on Friday nights is typically spent at a dirt track and away from the grandstands of Five Flags.But like Ronnie Harris did for his son, Branden Harris has instilled a love for racing in his son’s genes.

Read the full story on Branden Harris by Chuck Corder on our web site:www.flagsspeedway.com

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The Locksmith Leader

1 11 Johanna Long 7652 88 Garrett Jones 7633 99 Jr. Niedecken 7474 14 Ryan Luza 6235 21 Larry Blount 5686 30 Rusty Sanford 5407 4 Elliott Massey 5388 33 Dustin Smith 4969 9 Ronnie Osmer 454

10 51 Perry Patino 450

1 6 Okie Mason 7632 98 Jay Jay Day 6333 99 Teras Hodivsky 5944 1 Howard Langham 3855 16 Jessie Reid 3146 50 Ty Roberts 3127 26 Ray Hoey 2988 72 Greg Leachman 2849 47 Andy Wojtaszczyk 281

10 56 Darryl Rudd 254

1 26 Bubba Pollard 4412 112 Augie Grill 4203 2 Donnie Wilson 3974 98 Daniel Hemric 3785 1 Mike Garvey 3526 29 Anderson Bowen 3037 11 David Rogers 3018 18 Hunter Robbins 2749 21 Johanna Long 259

10 79 Kyle Bryant 245

FINAL

1 10 Okie Mason 6542 13 David Beale 5703 17 Chris Cotto 3944 8 Donnie Hamrac 3215 66 Heath Mills 3096 57 Jason Huffmaster 2187 7 Robert Chason 1858 117 Michael Swilley 1739 88 Joe Thornton 170

10 99 Brandon Howell 127

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