On Sunday, Pensacola, Fla., hosts the 48th annual Snowball Derby Super Late Model race at Five Flags Speedway. The tentative 67-driver field will be vying for the $20,000 prize to the winner. NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver John Hunter Nemechek will return to defend last year’s Snowball Derby championship in his #8 McDonald’s Chevy for NEMCO Motorsports. Since the first edition of the Derby in 1968, there have only been eight repeat winners of the 300-lap event. Among other NASCAR and ARCA notables entered in Sunday’s main event are: Johanna Long, Harrison Burton (son of Jeff Burton), Grant Enfinger, Christopher Bell, Dalton Sargeant, Mason Mingus, Chase Elliott, Rico Abreu, Ross Kenseth, Corey LaJoie and Daniel Hemric. The Snowball Derby will be broadcast live on Speed51.com on Sunday, beginning with the pre-race show at 1:00pm/et.(NBC Sports)(12-6-2015)
UPDATE: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver Christopher Bell’s victory in the 48th annual Snowball Derby in Pensacola, Florida lasted less than 30 minutes. After taking the checkered flag, Bell, 21, was subsequently disqualified after post-race technical inspection at Five Flags Speedway found his Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota over the limit of left-side weight. As a result, runner-up Chase Elliott – who will replace Jeff Gordon in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in 2016 – was awarded the victory in the 300-lap Super Late Model race on the ý-mile asphalt track. It was Elliott’s second Snowball triumph, having also won there in 2011. Zane Smith finished second, followed by Ty Majewski, Dalton Sargeant and Bubba Pollard. It is the fourth time in the last 10 years that the Derby winner has subsequently been disqualified. Elliott can probably feel for Bell, as he went through a similar situation in the 2013 Derby. Elliott was initially declared the winner, only to be disqualified in post-race inspection. The win that year then went to Kyle Busch Motorsports driver and 2015 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champ Erik Jones, who also won the 2012 Derby.(NBC Sports)(12-6-2015)
