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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:

  1. #12 Harrison Burton 00:16.273
  2. #53B Cole Butcher  00:16.327
  3. #48 Preston Peltier 00:16.344
  4. # 9 Jeff Choquette 00:16.378
  5. #14C Connor Okrzesik 00:16.430
  6. #11B Logan Boyett 00:16.457
  7. #26S Chandler Smith 00:16.457
  8. #18G Noah Gragson 00:16.468
  9. #7 John DeAngelis 00:16.479
  10. #51L Raphael Lessard 00:16.489
  11. #2 W Donnie Wilson 00:16.506
  12. #26 Bubba Pollard 00:16.519
  13. #18 Casey Roderick 00:16.521
  14. #112F Stewart Friesen 00:16.527
  15. #81 Chase Purdy 00:16.531
  16. #89 Perry Patino 00:16.537
  17. #30 Jesse Dutilly 00:16.544
  18. #75 Jeremy Doss 00:16.546
  19. #91 Ty Majeski 00:16.551
  20. #43 Derek Thorn 00:16.559
  21. #51A Michael Atwell 00:16.578
  22. #42 P Dennis Prunty 00:16.603
  23. #14N Austin Nason 00:16.608
  24. #58 Tyler Ankrum 00:16.609
  25. #37 Kaden Honeycutt 00:16.644
  26. #4 Kyle Plott 00:16.647
  27. #12G Derek Griffith 00:16.647
  28. #9K Derek Kraus 00:16.675
  29. #78 Corey Heim 00:16.698
  30. #29 Spencer Davis 00:16.720
  31. #7S Paul Shafer Jr 00:16.725
  32. #11R David Rogers 00:16.725
  33. #51N Stephen Nasse 00:16.726
  34. #66 Steve Wallace 00:16.726
  35. #19 Kason Plott 00:16.728
  36. #14 Chris Davidson 00:16.754
  37. #14H Carson Hocevar 00:16.758
  38. #53J Boris Jurkovic 00:16.763
  39. #25 Blaine Perkins 00:16.771
  40. #5 Jerry Artuso 00:16.798
  41. #79 Kyle Bryant 00:16.805
  42. #112 Augie Grill 00:16.820
  43. #5M Mason Mingus 00:16.836
  44. #91L Patrick Laperle 00:16.850
  45. #24 Mason Diaz 00:16.861
  46. #20 Jack Dossey III 00:17.018
  47. #64 Jan Evans 00:17.053

Sunday’s Snowball Derby can be viewed live on Speed51TV.com, a pay-per-view broadcast.

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