Sportsmen Decided, 3 More Up For Grabs

Congratulations go out to Super Late Model driver Johanna Long and Super Stock driver Shannon Jackson for claiming the 2009 championship in their respective divisions. Both drivers did just what they had to do on Sep-tember 25 to win the title. Long made history for the second time at Five Flags. She was the first female to claim a championship in 2008 in the Pro Late Mod-els and came back this year with a repeat, but this time it was in the Super Late Models. Jackson was also a repeat champion after winning the 2006 Super Stock Champion-ship. These two drivers can now breathe a sigh of relief but the other divisions are still up for grabs as they will be decided this tonight. See the story inside on these 2 drivers. The “Night of Champions” will determine the title in the Pro Late Model, Modified, Sportsman and Bomber classes. The tension will fill the air in and around the pits as sev-eral drivers will be on pins and needles until the winners are crowned. Just to give you an idea of how close it is in three of the four classes and how quick it can change, let’s break it down. We will start with the Pro Late Models. Keith Thorpe is holding a slim 8 point lead over Ronnie Smith. These two drivers have been back and fourth over the last few races. The bad thing is both of these guys are very,

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.well liked by the fans and are great peo-ple. Only one will go home a champion tonight. That is in my eyes, they are both champions regardless of the outcome. So, you’re saying “wow that’s close“. Well let me tell you that the same amount of points (8) separate Nathan Ingersoll and Chris Cotto in the Modifieds. College student Phillip Merrryman is in the chase too, one point behind Cotto. (All 3 are pictured above).These three should really give the fans some excitement because nobody races harder for a win.. Sportsman - Randy Thompson has been strong all season, and has clocked enough points to win the championship going into this race. That’s 3 in a row. A few weeks ago everyone pretty much was ready to hand the Bomber trophy to Michael Kitchen. Wait, not so fast. Where did William Goulet come from? He has closed with in 13 points of Kitchen and could easily claim the crown as good as he has been running. We want to wish all these drivers the best of luck and may the best man win. We also want to thank each and every driver in all the classes for supporting Five Flags Speedway in 2009. Most of all, we thank the “Faithful Fans of Five Flags” for their support throughout the years Steve Stokes is host of the BLAB-TV show “In The Groove”, is a veteran track official, and former driver.

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Champion Jackets

An important part of the Snowball Derby drivers introductions on Sunday Dec. 6th will be the awarding of the Hoosier Champion-ship Jackets to our 6 local division winners. Two weeks ago 3 divisions were deter-mined, and tonite, the other three season championships for 2009 will be decided.

Johanna Long won the Pro Late Model championship last year, and moved into the fast-er Super Late Models to compete in the Bliz-zard Series. She won 2 events, and at the final

Blizzard race 2 weeks ago clinched the 2009 title. Jo is in Rockingham this weekend to compete in the ARCA race in a D’Hondt Team car. This fall she is scheduled to race at Winchester Indiana, and Nashville TN.

The Superstock champ again is Shan-non Jackson of Pas-cagoula. He was cham-pion in 2006, and leads the points this year at Mobile Int. Speedway. This year he had strong challenges from

Chris Cotto and Randy Thompson, 2 drivers who were also running in other divisions. Randy Thompson has such a com-manding lead in the Sportsmen division that those points will earn him another jack-et, even before tonight’s final race. It is his 3rd,and that’s why we put Randy’s photo on the front of this newsletter. The Bombers, Modifieds and Pro Late Models will produce the winner in each of those three divisions tonite. You could be in a championship jacket next year. Chris Cotto and Tommy Rollins in the Superstock division have announced their cars are for sale. Check our web site for more deals on other used race cars.

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the 42nd Snowball Derby.

The last race in this series is in Mobile on Oct 24th, after a rain out on Sept 26th. The points show the total for the first 4 races at

each track. In brackets are points for Blizzard 5.The driver must race at Mobile on the 24th to get credit for the Blizzard 5 points, plus what points are credited for that rain delayed race.

A BlizzardBummer

for Bubba

1) B. Pollard 1016 (69)2) Augie Grill 959 (175)3) Jo Long 947 (159)4) Casey Smith 757 (163)5) Ed Mercer 749 (145)

6) H. Robbins 747 (155)7) John Bolen 651 (141)8) J. Colangelo 641 (96)9) DanBagwell 598 (92)10) Matt Smith 528 (36)

Georgia’s Bubba Pollard had it all heading in the right direction 2 weeks ago. He was leading in the Blizzard Series Points going into the championship race. He brought 2 back up cars, but had to start 12th in the 29 car field based on his qualifying time. Then it happened. He got caught up in a crash on the start/finish line of the first lap. His car slid down to turn one and stopped. Bubba’s crew went to work in the pits, pieced parts together to get him back out 30 laps down. He finished 20th, af-ter a herculean effort to get the car back in competition. Then on to Mobile Saturday nite for a run at the Gulf Coast Champi-onship. It rained, and the event was delayed until October 24th.

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1) 38 Keith Thorpe 4851) 27 Ronnie Smith 4773) 64 David Jones 4034) 81 Brandon Odom 3995) 40 Keith English 3906) 37 James Kimbrough 3827) 7 Shain Cheney 3558) 79 Kyle Bryant 3019) 10 Johanna Long 28710) 11 Jr. Niedecken 267

1) 42 Randy Thompson 8832) 33 Steve Butrick 7933) 98 Billy Hoover 7724) 07 Jim Pokrant 7395) 4 Willie Kitchen 6666) 12 Bubba Winslow 6457) 81 Shanna Ard 5088) 24 Wayne Burkett 4459) 51 Stevie Mercer 44010) 00 Brannon Fowler 392

1) 8 Mike Kitchen 9252) 87 William Goulet 9123) 2 Pete Kitchen 8154) 5 Mike Goraum 6535) 03 Michael Nelson 6466) 44 Bo Hancock 6007) 33 Sam Mellema 5518) 69 Daryl Lynchard 4429) 28 Dayton Sidner 44110) 77 Rick Thompson 438

1) 10 Johanna Long 8082) 112 Augie Grill 8033) 26 Bubba Pollard 7414) 99 Casey Smith 6995) 1 Eddie Mercer 6786) 6 Hunter Robbins 6367) 21 Scott Carlson 5958) 11 David Rogers 5849) 02 John Bolen 43810) 10 Danny Bagwell 475

1) 94Shannon Jackson 539 2) 42 Randy Thompson 5163) 53 Earl Polk 4934) 55 Mike Moore 4095) 11 Tommy Rollins 4056) 0 John Shuffler 3817) 17 Chris Cotto 3208) 44 Greg Young 2679) 0 Scotty Anderson 21110) 1 Howard Langham 205

1) 33 Nathan Ingersoll 417 2) 17 Chris Cotto 4093) 127 Phillip Merryman 4084) 14 Mike Maddox 3085) 91 Ron Schneider 2906) 6 Ricky Neal 1817) 127H Randy Herrick 1718) 7 Todd Jones 1469) 84 Jeff Darby 12810) 139 Mark Chrudimsky 116

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