Thorn Picks Up Where He Left Off in Thursday Snowball Derby Practice

by Zach Evans / Racing America

Stop us if you’ve heard this before: Derek Thorn is fast during Snowball Derby week.

The California driver who won last year’s event set the fastest time of the day across three Super Late Model practice sessions for the 56th Annual Snowball Derby presented by Hooters and Safe Locator. Thorn clocked in at 16.482 seconds early in the first round of practice, a time that would not be matched the rest of the day.

Ty Majeski was fastest in the second round of Super Late Model practice, while Jacob Gomes logged the quickest lap of the third and final practice session of the day.

The biggest setback of the day for the Snowball Derby field went to Kole Raz, who suffered a mechanical issue during the second round of practice and will be going to a backup car for the remainder of the weekend.

2005 Allen Turner Snowflake 100 winner Hunter Robbins was fastest in practice among Pro Late Model competitors on Thursday, with a lap of 16.840 seconds. Mike Hopkins was fastest in both the second and third rounds of practice.

Snowflake 100 practice ended with an incident involving Dawson Sutton. Sutton’s Rackley WAR team had already changed engines earlier in the day, and now will be going to a backup car following the frontstretch incident.

Combined practice results for both divisions can be viewed below.

Snowball Derby qualifying is scheduled for Friday at 6 p.m CT/7 p.m. ET. Fans can watch the qualifying session as well as Saturday and Sunday’s Late Model action live on Racing America by clicking here.

Meanwhile, feature racing for the 56th Snowball Derby weekend begins on Thursday night with the ZOOM Equipment Pro Trucks, Dock of Pensacola Beach Sportsmen and Lloyd’s Glass Pure Stocks. Click here to watch Thursday’s racing live with a RacingAmerica.TV subscription.

COMBINED THURSDAY PRACTICE RESULTS
56TH ANNUAL SNOWBALL DERBY PRESENTED BY HOOTERS AND SAFE LOCATOR

POS NO DRIVER TIME
1 7t Derek Thorn 16.482
2 16 Jacob Gomes 16.520
3 18r Hunter Robbins 16.544
4 22r Gio Ruggiero 16.548
5 32t Treyten Lapcevich 16.563
6 7b Jackson Boone 16.594
7 14h Carson Hocevar 16.615
8 28b Cole Butcher 16.631
9 91 Ty Majeski 16.638
10 54c Matthew Craig 16.665
11 48 Preston Peltier 16.669
12 50 Jett Noland 16.671
13 24 Stephen Nasse* 16.676
14 2s William Sawalich 16.679
15 26p Bubba Pollard 16.685
16 21 Travis Braden 16.697
17 35g Jake Garcia 16.700
18 44j Conner Jones 16.703
19 26f Luke Fenhaus 16.710
20 4 Erik Jones 16.729
21 12 Derek Griffith 16.730
22 44d Jeremy Doss 16.733
23 28w Timothy Watson 16.733
24 62 Ryan Preece 16.738
25 51f Jake Finch 16.746
26 30 Noah Gragson 16.769
27 74 Ryan Moore 16.779
28 23b Billy VanMeter 16.781
29 35k Carson Kvapil 16.787
30 55 Haeden Plybon 16.798
31 2b John Bolen 16.798
32 69 Michael Hinde 16.802
33 32k Caden Kvapil 16.809
34 112 Augie Grill 16.818
35 14o Connor Okrzesik 16.822
36 08 Jace Hansen 16.824
37 1 Michael House 16.841
38 51n Stephen Nasse 16.845
39 5 Johnny Sauter 16.873
40 63 Kole Raz 16.894
41 22s William Sawalich* 16.919
42 9 Derek Kraus 16.925
43 33s Dustin Smith 16.942
44 54s Conner Sutton 16.986
45 58 Johnny Aramendia 17.004
46 23e Ed VanMeter 17.006
47 18b Chase Burda 17.092
48 33f Albert Francis 17.158
49 32d Stuart Dutton 17.214
50 27 Travis Rodewald 17.428

*-Stephen Nasse practiced in both his car and William Byron’s No. 24 during practice. William Sawalich practiced in his car and Sammy Smith’s 22s.

ALLEN TURNER SNOWFLAKE 100

POS NO DRIVER TIME
1 18r Hunter Robbins 16.840
2 11c Dylan Cappello 16.917
3 15h Mike Hopkins 16.928
4 7b Jackson Boone 16.982
5 00r Jimmy Renfrew, Jr. 16.989
6 15b Luke Baldwin 17.003
7 70 Gavin Graham 17.005
8 54b Jarrett Butcher 17.010
9 54c Matthew Craig 17.021
10 89 Dylan Fetcho 17.042
11 22s Kyle Steckly 17.066
12 67 Colin Allman 17.080
13 69 Michael Hinde 17.082
14 18s Terry Senneker 17.096
15 39 Max Cookson 17.098
16 43g Augie Grill 17.112
17 91 Jim Wall 17.117
18 33d Dustin Smith 17.117
19 24 Brent Crews 17.121
20 08 Nicholas Naugle 17.137
21 25b Gavan Boschele 17.144
22 17 Hudson Bulger 17.150
23 43n Nick Loden 17.154
24 27 Jeb Burton 17.178
25 51 Stephen Nasse 17.184
26 407 Jason Vail 17.193
27 3s L.B. Skaggs 17.200
28 18b Chase Burda 17.203
29 54g Clayton Green 17.216
30 48 Ed Vecchiarelli 17.221
31 5m Jeremy Miller 17.224
32 54t Grant Thompson 17.227
33 15s Brett Suggs 17.234
34 47 Dustin Bryson 17.242
35 33b Bryson Shaffer 17.260
36 77L Logan Jones 17.262
37 9c Anthony Cataldi 17.265
38 1k Kasey Kleyn 17.265
39 22o Brandon Oakley 17.287
40 11w Jolynn Wilkinson 17.295
41 9h Kaden Honeycutt 17.313
42 26 Dawson Sutton 17.323
43 2 John Bolen 17.330
44 77j Jensen Jorgensen 17.337
45 11s Randy Sargent 17.341
46 32 Nick Jenkins 17.360
47 1f Ryan Fleming 17.454
48 4 Elliott Massey 17.480
49 00c Ryan Colby 17.495
50 0 Glenn Styres 17.530
51 88 Boston Oliver 17.539
52 3m Chris Munson 17.545
53 22c Dylan Courtney 17.767
54 12 Christopher Hogan 17.985
55 116 Jay Nelson 18.041
56 11r Brian Reeves 18.137