The Snowball Derby week at Five Flags Speedway is always the Super Bowl of short-track racing. Super Late Models, big names, grassroots heroes, everyone chasing the Tom Dawson Trophy under the Pensacola lights. But this year, the biggest opponent isn’t another car, it’s the sky. Dark clouds and a nasty forecast have turned the whole schedule into a giant game of weather roulette. But will the event be canceled?

Friday night lights gone, Monday afternoon hope

Organizers looked at the radar and made the call everyone hated to make: the Modifieds of Mayhem feature, originally the big Friday-night show, is now bumped all the way to Monday afternoon, December 8. Everything else (for now) stays put: trucks, Sportsmen, Pure Stocks, Crown Stock Invitational, and the main Snowball Derby on Sunday

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