Butcher Qualifies P2 for Prestigious Snowball Derby December 1, 2018 Regional PENSACOLA, FL – Cole Butcher, from Porters Lake, NS, has qualified second for Sunday’s 51st running of the Snowball Derby at Five Flags Speedway. Harrison Burton, son of retired NASCAR Cup Series driver Jeff Burton, had the fastest lap (16.273) and will sit on the pole for the race. Butcher’s lap was just a tick slower at 16.327-seconds around the 1/2-mile oval. Preston Peltier will start third with a lap of 16.344, Jeff Choquette fourth (16.378), and Connor Okrzesik fifth (16.430). Forty-seven cars took times in the session including NASCAR truck series drivers Noah Gregson (8th, 16.468), and Stewart Friesen (14th, 16.527). Short track superstar Bubba Pollard qualified 12th at 16.519. Butcher, a two-time Parts for Trucks Pro Stock Tour champion, is driving a car prepared by Donnie Wilson/Wilson Motorsports out of North Carolina in the Snowball Derby. Butcher’s outside pole qualifying effort comes on the heels of a duplicate effort in last months All American 400 at Nashville’s Fairgrounds Speedway, but that race was postponed by rain and will not be held until April 2019. This is Butcher’s second Snowball Derby; he finished 15th last year in a Wilson Motorsports car. Complete unofficial qualifying results follow: #12 Harrison Burton 00:16.273 #53B Cole Butcher 00:16.327 #48 Preston Peltier 00:16.344 # 9 Jeff Choquette 00:16.378 #14C Connor Okrzesik 00:16.430 #11B Logan Boyett 00:16.457 #26S Chandler Smith 00:16.457 #18G Noah Gragson 00:16.468 #7 John DeAngelis 00:16.479 #51L Raphael Lessard 00:16.489 #2 W Donnie Wilson 00:16.506 #26 Bubba Pollard 00:16.519 #18 Casey Roderick 00:16.521 #112F Stewart Friesen 00:16.527 #81 Chase Purdy 00:16.531 #89 Perry Patino 00:16.537 #30 Jesse Dutilly 00:16.544 #75 Jeremy Doss 00:16.546 #91 Ty Majeski 00:16.551 #43 Derek Thorn 00:16.559 #51A Michael Atwell 00:16.578 #42 P Dennis Prunty 00:16.603 #14N Austin Nason 00:16.608 #58 Tyler Ankrum 00:16.609 #37 Kaden Honeycutt 00:16.644 #4 Kyle Plott 00:16.647 #12G Derek Griffith 00:16.647 #9K Derek Kraus 00:16.675 #78 Corey Heim 00:16.698 #29 Spencer Davis 00:16.720 #7S Paul Shafer Jr 00:16.725 #11R David Rogers 00:16.725 #51N Stephen Nasse 00:16.726 #66 Steve Wallace 00:16.726 #19 Kason Plott 00:16.728 #14 Chris Davidson 00:16.754 #14H Carson Hocevar 00:16.758 #53J Boris Jurkovic 00:16.763 #25 Blaine Perkins 00:16.771 #5 Jerry Artuso 00:16.798 #79 Kyle Bryant 00:16.805 #112 Augie Grill 00:16.820 #5M Mason Mingus 00:16.836 #91L Patrick Laperle 00:16.850 #24 Mason Diaz 00:16.861 #20 Jack Dossey III 00:17.018 #64 Jan Evans 00:17.053 Sunday’s Snowball Derby can be viewed live on Speed51TV.com, a pay-per-view broadcast.