Mason Mingus Wins Last Chance Snowball Qualifier

5 Flags Speedway – Pensacola, FL. Photo by Matt Weaver

Four more drivers punched their tickets into the biggest short track race in the country Saturday evening, but they weren’t the first four to cross the finish line.

Mason Mingus led wire-to-wire in the 50-lap last chance qualifier for the 46th annual Snowball Derby at Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola, FL. Brady Boswell followed him across the line in second, with David Rogers and Chris Wimmer filling out the rest of the transfer positions.

But Boswell and Wimmer’s triumph was short-lived, however. Both of their cars failed post-race inspection. As a result, late model racing veterans Cale Gale and Josh Hamner, who finished fifth and sixth in the last-chance race, will start the Snowball Derby on Sunday.

“We’ve worked really hard, and we caught a racing break,” Gale said afterward.

As for the race itself, Mingus made his own breaks. He and Rogers led the 17-car field to the green flag, and both quickly took off away from the rest of the field. While Boswell settled into the third position, the fourth and final transfer spot was filled by a revolving door of hopefuls in the opening laps.

Jeff Fultz brought out the first caution flag on the seventh lap as he looped his car off turn 2. Even though he spun across the track in the middle of the field, he escaped with his car unscathed.

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After another caution on lap 12 for a Kyle Bryant spin in turn 2, the race settled down and Gale and Hamner began marching back into contention. By the halfway point, they ran fifth and sixth respectively, just a few car lengths behind Wimmer in the final transfer position.

With just 10 laps to go, Gale was snugly behind the back bumper of Wimmer’s machine; meanwhile, Wimmer had run down Rogers in third. With five laps to go, four cars were battling for the third and fourth transfer spots.

But Rogers glued his car to the bottom of the track, and Wimmer stayed in his tire tracks. As Mingus cruised to the last-chance-qualifier victory and Boswell settled for second, Rogers and Wimmer held off all chargers to claim the final two transfer spots.

Nearly an hour after the finish, Boswell and Wimmer found out their transfer tickets were revoked. Meanwhile, Mingus was already thinking about his chances for Sunday’s 300-lap main event.

“We’ve got a good enough car to run with the fast cars (Sunday),” he said. “We’re going to try to pick off a few cars early and hide in the middle of the pack – and try to save a fresh set of tires for the last run.”