Steven Davis celebrates with his family in victory lane after winning Saturday night’s Snowball Derby weekend Truck feature at 5 Flags Speedway. Photo by Eddie Richie/Turn One Photos/Loxley, AL
There were some awfully fine performances during the 48th annual Snowball Derby weekend.
After his strong performance in capturing the Better Built Tool Boxes Pro Trucks feature at 5 Flags Speedway in Pensacola, FL on Saturday, add Steven Davis’ outstanding performance the highlight reel.
Davis, the Pro Trucks track holder from earlier this season, won from the pole and never trailed. His orange-and-white No. 84 turned a fast time of 18.651 seconds in qualifying, nearly a full tenth of a second faster than the rest of the 30-car field, and he proved it 50 green laps later.
“I’ve run a few of ’em, but this is the first one I’ve ever won,” Davis grinned. “I can’t do it without all the guys here. This is my family; it’s amazing.”
Veteran driver and 2013 Super Stocks Derby champion Okie Mason earned a hard-fought runner-up finish while Bubba Gale took home third.
Davis led from wire-to-wire, but did feel heat from Mason and Gale, who jockeyed for second and third throughout the night in a throwback battle of seasoned drivers.
“I knew I just had to be smooth,” Davis said. “Okie was racing hard. Bubba was racing hard. I just needed to keep my truck straight and do what we do.”
Davis drove off from the very beginning, and got an early assist in the race when Senoia, GA’s Bubba Pollard, who figured to be one of Davis’ toughest competitors, had a quick end to his night because of mechanical failure.
Gale drove by Mason on lap 18, but the longtime Kushla, AL resident wasn’t about to be pushed around.
“It looks like Steven was strong tonight,” Gale said. “We were tight. I had fun racing my ol’ buddy, Okie. Steven just drove away from us.”
Mason fought back and moved back in front of Gale with some aggressive racing with just seven laps remaining.
“I’m glad I got to drive clean with Bubba,” Mason said. “Congrats to Steven on the win. That truck of his was working pretty decent.”
Indeed. Multiple times, Davis had to work his way through some rambunctious lapped traffic on lap 40.
But his lead stayed ahead more than 1.2 seconds despite all the slow cars.
It was plenty of cushion Davis needed for his first Derby weekend win.
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Snowball Derby – Dec. 5, 2015
Pro Trucks
1. 84 Steven Davis – Theodore, AL
2. 6 Okie Mason – Kushla, AL
3. 64 Bubba Gale – Mockville, NC
4. 39MC Mark Chrudimsky – Hutto, TX
5. 36 Rodney Benefield – Flowery Branch, GA
6. 9 Chris Wagner – Harvest, AL
7. 56 Darryl Rudd – Chipley, FL
8. 9J Kody Jett – Middleburg, FL
9. 40 Brian Weimer – Cumming, GA
10. 2 Cody Haskins – Marietta, GA
11. 47W Jami Weimer – Cumming, GA
12. 3 Mark Barnhill – Irvington, AL
13. 13W David Webster – Magnolia, TX
14. 21 Jason Welch – Daphne, AL
15. 8N Jim Nides – Denver, CO
16. 7 Chris Comalander – Beaumont, TX
17. 15L Mark Lindley – Katy, TX
18. 15 Josh Hughes – Keystone Heights, FL
19. 79 Michael Villarreal – Corpus Christi, TX
20. 96 John Heil – Floresville, TX
21. 02 Eric Wallace – Gold Hill, NC
22. R18 Jessie Reid – Eight Mile, AL
23. 33MD Mickey Dearmon – Semmes, AL
24. 12W Kristen Wallace – Charlotte, NC
25. 00 Beau Bukowski – New Brounfel’s, TX
26. 68 Lori Lindley – Katy, TX
27. 1 Howard Langham – Irvington, AL
28. 26 Bubba Pollard – Senoia, GA
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