The Chase is On - Chase Elliott’s Snowflake 100 Victory

Pensacola, Fla. - We’re living in Chase Elliott’s world. We just don’t know it yet.
Elliott drove from deep in the field to win the Allen Turner Snowflake 100 at Five Flags Speedway on Saturday night.

Elliott had his Snowflake 100 qualifying time rejected after his car was found illegal in post race tech inspection. Race officials ruled that the nose of his Ford was too low and his starting time was revoked. The penalty forced Elliott to race his way into the Snowflake via the last chance race.
Elliott started that race eighth of eight cars and battled his way to the front, taking the lead on lap 10 of 25. The 15-year old son of Bill Elliott would run away over the final 15 laps to win the heat and start 31st in the Snowflake 100 .

Augie Grill dominated the feature before dropping off over the final third of the race. Grill would eventually settle for seventh place.

Elliott passed Bubba Pollard for the lead on lap 86 and never looked back.
“It just shows how hard we worked for this thing,” said Elliott. “To have as many problems today as we’ve had and to comeback from them all, I’m just really thankful. We’ve been really fast here all year and I really felt like we were too loose at times.”
Pollard finished third while Charlotte’s Landon Cassill took home second. Cassill’s car was later disqualified in tech inspection after his right side was found to be too light.
“I’m not mad at all,” said Cassill. “We ran a really good race just to get to second place. Things just happen sometime and we’re really looking forward to tomorrow.”
As is the rest of the late model racing community.
Elliott starts on the outside of row five on Sunday afternoon and has one of the better chances at winning the 43rd Annual Snowball Derby. Should he win, the legend could very well begin here in Pensacola. This just may be the stuff of greatness.

Matt Weaver is the Sports Editor for the Vanguard (USA) and can be reached at jmatthewweaver(at)aol.com

Additional photos and a complete running order can be found after the jump.

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