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Posted on 12/07/2025 4:14:11 AM PST by WhiteHatBobby0701
PENSACOLA, FL – For days, race teams, drivers and fans have waited out the weather as Mother Nature refused to let up in Pensacola. Finally, in the wee hours of Sunday morning, Keelan Harvick took home the Allen Turner Snowflake 125 win at Five Flags Speedway. Harvick became the youngest winner in event history in his first attempt at the race.
“It’s really special,” Harvick told Matt Weaver. “Like I said, just to win it for my guys that put in a lot of hours for me to be able to do this. All my family, my sponsors, it just wouldn’t be possible without all of them.”
The day was set to start around 12:00 p.m. CT on Saturday, with Snowball Derby qualifying up first on the docket. After persistent rain throughout the afternoon pushed Snowball qualifying festivities well into the evening, Pro Late Model drivers were set up with a late night for their Snowflake portion of the day.
After 59 cars attempted to qualify, 30 were locked-in in on time with four more coming from a pair of 20-lap Snowflake LCQ’s (two per LCQ), and the final three spots handed out via provisional.
The Snowflake went green just past 1:30 a.m. CT Sunday morning, with polesitter Luke Baldwin leading the field to green. Defending Snowball Derby winner Kaden Honeycutt quickly jumped out to the early lead, seemingly having the dominant car early in the running. Meanwhile, Harvick quickly began working through the field after qualifying down in 15th. Harvick cracked the top-five for the first time on lap 39 and continued his march forward from there.
At the front, Honeycutt continued to lead all the way to the mid-race break at lap 75. The mid-section of the race was marred by several multi-car accidents both before, and after the halfway break that took out several big names including Jade Avedisian and Casey Roderick.
Just past halfway, Harvick stole the lead away from Honeycutt on a lap 78, but gave the lead right back after a mistake on a restart shortly after. While Harvick faltered, Honeycutt briefly reassumed the lead before Tristan McKee took the top spot away on lap 83. McKee held that spot while Harvick worked from fifth back to the rear bumper of the No. 7, eventually muscling his way to the inside of McKee in turn one with just 25 laps to go.
Harvick led the final 25 circuits, holding the field at bay on a late race restart to secure the first Five Flags Speedway win of his career.
With the checkered flag flying right around 3:30 a.m. CT, fans, teams and many drivers now have just a few short hours to rest up before turning around and facing the biggest race in pavement short track racing, the 58th Snowball Derby.
025 Snowflake 125 results (NOTE: Duplicate numbers are scored by their computer with a letter next to their car, first letter of their surname most likely; electronic scoring knows which is which) Position Car Number Driver 1 62H Keelan Harvick 2 7 Tristan McKee 3 54 Kaden Honeycutt 4 25 Isaac Kitzmiller 5 51 Luke Baldwin 6 35 Luke Yarborough 7 00 Jimmy Renfrew Jr 8 24B Gabe Brown 9 50 Evan Szotko 10 44 Conner Jones 11 99 Craig Slaunwhite 12 20 Sylas Ripley 13 29 Cole Robie 14 11 Dylan Cappello 15 54 Jarrett Butcher 16 67 Colin Allman 17 54 Matthew Craig 18 6 Brandon Lopez 19 42 Alex Labbe 20 15 Jace Hale 21 29 Dylan Zampa 22 96 Spencer Davis 23 24A Jade Avedisian 24 62R Casey Roderick 25 1 Kasey Kleyn 26 91 Jim Wall 27 68 Aiden Potter 28 33 Albert Francis 29 18 Jake Finch 30 55 Haeden Plybon 31 22 Chase Burgeson 32 46 Cole Williams 33 82 Rafe Slate 34 27 Vito Cancilla 35 67 Zack Dixon 36 51 Stephen Nasse 37 33 Dustin Smith
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The 100 green flag lap Pro Late Model race was extended to 125 green flag laps in 2025. The green flag waved at 1:30 AM CT and finished just after 3:24 AM CT.
Harvick surpasses Hunter Robbins, 14 when he won the Snowflake 20 years ago, and now husband of 2010 Snowball Derby winner Joanna Long, as the youngest winner of the Snowflake. The driver of the No. 62H Hunt Brothers Pizza Holden Commodore for Rackley Roofing Willie Allen Racing passed Tristan McKee, a developmental driver for TWG Global's Spire Motorsports, who was looking to make it three-for-three in the past seven days (Supercars championship with WAU, Formula E Sao Paulo race win with Andretti Global Saturday morning, and this for Spire), on Lap 101 of the 125 green flag lap race, spoliling TWG's attempt for domination, fending off another restart on Lap 116 with McKee and Honeycutt. No safety car laps count.
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Nice. Maybe there will be a new NASCAR when he gets old enough. NASCAR as we know it and have known it is toast.
Who in their right mind would name a car race the “Snowflake”???
Keelan and Braxton (son of Kyle Rowdy Busch) are two up and coming Stock Car drivers...
Kevin, why would you name your son “Keelan”?
I think you should have named him Piston or Cam.
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