Practice Day at 52nd Snowball Derby Calm and Chaotic

PENSACOLA, Florida (December 6, 2019) — Thursday was practice day at the 52nd Snowball Derby, and while there were no major incidents on track, the action was fast and fierce as Jesse Dutilly, and Cole Butcher were the fastest cats in town, topping the Super Late Model charts. Dutilly, fastest overall on the day, was fastest in the first session, while Butcher reigned over sessions two and three.

“We had a lot of speed right off”, said Dutilly. “We still have stuff to work on to make it better, but we are really happy with what we have.”

“We’re pretty confident,” said Butcher. “We did a couple race runs and couple mock runs and we were good both ways so we’ll see what happens Friday night, weather permitting and we’ll go from there.”

Butcher is no stranger to speed at the Snowball Derby, having started from the front row in last year’s edition. Staying dialed in for the money lap in qualifying, however, is the tricky part.

“Its all about the weather, and that could play a big factor, but it takes a little bit of luck, a little bit of talent and good crew behind you.”

For the Snowflake 100 Pro Late Models, Carson Hocevar swept the first two sessions, while Mason Diaz closed out the day on top of session three.

“It’s been pretty, good but I messed up a little bit on the last run there,” said Hocevar. “I got really loose there and kinda blew the lap, but to be P1 overall is not bad. KBR Development has put together a pretty good piece for the race.”

While Diaz topped the final session of the day, he remarked that his day was, “all over the place.”

“Out of the box it was pretty fast,” he said. “Then we ran into some issues when the starter went bad. We lost a couple of runs in the session but it didn’t set us back too far.”

Here are the combined fastest speeds on the day for the Super Late Models:

1. Jesse Dutilly 16.458
2. Cole Butcher 16.481
3. Giovanni Bromante 16.528
4. Jeremy Doss 16.609
5. Boris Jurkovic 16.638
6. David Gilliland 16.641
7. Corey Heim 16.662
8. Derek Thorn 16.665
9. Hunter Robbins 16.668
10. Mason Mingus 16.669
11. Ty Majeski 16.673
12. Jeremy Pate 16.675
13. Chandler Smith 16.700
14. Travis Braden 16.706
15. Dan Fredrickson 16.719
16. Corey LaJoie 16.720
17. Kaden Honeycutt 16.722
18. Preston Peltier 16.727
19. Bubba Pollard 16.734
20. Josh Berry 16.739
21. Matt Craig 16.757
22. Derek Kraus 16.778
23. Stephen Nasse 16.781
24. David Rogers 16.783
25. Derek Griffith 16.790
26. Trey Bayne 16.795
27. Michael House 16.800
28. Jeff Choquette 16.800
29. Brad May 16.801
30. Casey Roderick 16.809
31. Jack Dossey III 16.817
32. Harrison Burton 16.831
33. Jett Noland 16.834
34. John DeAngelis Jr 16.835
35. Lucas Jones 16.837
36. Augie Grill 16.846
37. Michael Atwell 16.847
38. Jake Garcia 16.853
39. Austin Nason 16.854
40. Kyle Plott 16.860
41. Dalton Zehr 16.890
42. Connor Okrzeisk 16.910
43. Casey Smith 16.911
44. Jerry Artuso 16.932
45. Derrick Griffin 16.932
46. Johnny VanDoorn 16.934
47. Rich Bickle 16.948
48. Carson Hocevar 16.963
49. Jordan Anderson 16.976
50. Kyle Bryant 16.983
51. Cole Moore 16.989
52. Steven Davis 16.998
53. Chris Davidson 17.028
54. Rodrigo Rejon 17.171
55. Colten Nelson 17.224
56. Tim Curry 17.27
57. AJ Wernette 18.322

– Daniel Vining, Twitter: @danielvining

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