

9/22/2024
Five Flags Speedway
Results of Nite of Champions I
Night of Champions I Results
Night of Champions 1 Delivers, Crowns New Champions in 4 Divisions at 5 Flags
By Chuck Corder
5flagsspeedway.com reporter
Four lucky drivers reached immortality Saturday night at Five Flags Speedway.
For eternity, their names will be mentioned alongside a select group of wheelmen who have captured track titles at the famed half-mile asphalt oval.
Five Flags awarded its first four track championships Saturday on Night of Champions No. 1. Each division crowned new champions and two drivers have now captured titles in multiple classes for their careers.
Pensacola’s high banks will wrap up its regular season next Saturday when it hosts Super Late Models—as part of the Deep South Cranes Blizzard Series and the touring Southern Super Series—the Allen Turner Hyundai Pro Late Models and the Story & Bleich Roofing Crown Stocks for Harvesters Credit Union Night of Champions No. 1.
Lloyd’s Glass Pure Stocks 25
Feature: Johnston, Champ: M. Langham
Maddox Langham continues to rise to the occasion when opportunity knocks in his young career.
He basked in the afterglow of a Sportsmen track championship on the Night of Champions stage last season. Langham added another crown to his collection Saturday when he held off good friend Mason Johnston for the Lloyd’s Glass Pure Stocks title.
He celebrated on the front stretch as clouds of smoke billowed out his windows. Langham’s team had to push it back to Victory Lane.
“(Pure Stocks and Sportsmen) go hand-in-hand,” he said. “These are a little bit harder to handle.
“(Car owner) Robert Barber gave me a hotrod all year long.”
Johnston won the 25-lap feature, his second victory of the season, with Langham finishing runner-up and Connor Odom coming home third. The grandson of short-track legend Okie Mason learned a valuable lesson from his “Paw Paw” this season.
“We started off the season really good, and I thought we were going to make a good run for the championship,” Johnston said. “My Paw Paw told me not to worry about championships and just worry about winning races. If you win enough, championships will come. Shoutout to Maddox. He did a heckuva job and it was fun racing with him all year.”
1 6 Mason Johnston, Eight Mile, AL
2 97 Maddox Langham, Mobile, AL
3 2 Connor Odom, Pensacola, FL
4 197 Jonathan Langham, Mobile, AL
5 98 Payton Guy, Pace, FL
6 14 Ben Cranford,
7 24 Caleb Burkett, Pensacola, FL
DNS 14 Sean Barnes, Pensacola, FL
DNS 51 Randall Moye Bay Minette, AL
Gulf Coast Real Estate Pro Trucks 30
Christensen Wins Feature; Capers Champ
 but started sixth after the die-roll invert.
Griffin worked his way to the front in the first dozen laps and swiped the lead from Winslow on Lap 17 as the pair dove into Turn No. 3. He was quickly in the wind.
“I can’t thank Rawhide and all his partners enough,” Griffin said. “These guys make this possible. This thing hauls (butt). I guess I’m good enough to make it go forward.”
Winslow celebrated his best finish of the season.
“We got some work to do to catch Derrick,” Winslow said. “That’s who we’re shooting to beat. They’re the best right now. We’ll eventually get back to where we need be. But, heck, we’ll take second for the season we’ve had.”
1 29 Derrick Griffin Pensacola,FL
2 92 Bubba Winslow, Cantonment, FL
3 1 Logan Boyett, Pensacola
4 923 Carter Taylor, Lucedale, MS
5 28 Timothy Watson, Panama City, FL
6 23 Gary Goodwin, Pensacola, FL
7 4 Todd Jones, Pace, FL
8 54 Conner Sutton, Pensacola, FL
9 92 Cameron Henderson, Dothan, AL
10 11 Presley Johnson,
11 34 Scooter Grice, Pensacola, FL
12 22 Dylan Courtney, Citronelle, AL