Travis Braden was declared the winner of the 52nd Snowball Derby after Stephen Nasse was disqualified following postrace tech for a titanium violation.
Stephen Nasse overcame starting 36th, a power steering failure, and survived the late race carnage to come away with the victory in the 52nd Annual Snowball Derby at Five Flags Speedway on Sunday night.
Nasse inherited the lead during the second overtime attempt when Casey Roderick and Ty Majeski tangled, triggering a multi-car accident. Nasse, who was on the outside on the restart, avoided the incident that took place to his inside, then on the ensuing restart, the Pinellas Park, Florida driver rocketed away from the field and held on for the win.
“This is awesome,” Nasse said in victory lane. “I don’t know what to say man. To come from last, the power steering went out at lap 80. I thought we were screwed. I worked so hard I can’t feel my arms right now. I thought we were done. I don’t know what happened. Thank you everybody. Thank you, all the fans. This is awesome.”
Travis Braden raced his way to second while Jake Garcia, Cole Butcher, and Jesse Dutilly rounded out the top-five.
Majeski had dominated much of the race prior to the incident with two laps to go that took him out. After the wreck, Majeski criticized the restart rules.
“Silly rules,” Majeski said after the accident on the Speed51 broadcast. “I don’t know why we can’t just do NASCAR rules, leader fires in the box.”
Roderick, who was also swept up in the incident, led laps during the race, along with Jeff Choquette, pole-sitter Derek Thorn, and Jake Garcia.
The results can be seen below.
- Travis Braden
- Jake Garcia
- Cole Butcher
- Jesse Dutilly
- Preston Peltier
- Chandler Smith
- Casey Roderick
- Hunter Robbins
- Dan Frederickson
- Boris Jurkovic
- Dalton Zehr
- Derek Griffith
- Ty Majeski
- Jeff Choquette
- Derek Thorn
- Giovanni Bromante
- John DeAngelis
- Derek Kraus
- Matt Craig
- Brad May
- Michael Atwell
- Cole Moore
- Jeremy Doss
- Lucas Jones
- Bubba Pollard
- Kaden Honeycutt
- David Gilliland
- Augie Grill
- Josh Berry
- Connor Okrezesik
- Corey Lajoe
- Jeremy Pate
- David Rogers
- Rodrigo Rejon
- Kyle Plott
- Corey Heim
- Stephen Nasse
