Racing deep into the night in Pensacola, Florida, 13-year-old Keelan Harvick became the youngest winner in the history of the Snowflake 125. He won the prestigious Pro Lade Model race in his first-ever attempt as well.
The event didn’t go green until around 1:30am local time, with Luke Baldwin starting the race from pole position. Keelan, the son of 2014 NASCAR Cup Series champion Kevin Harvick, started down in 15th, but steadily marched through the field.
He was inside the top five by Lap 40, but Kaden Honeycutt (the defending winner of the Snowball Derby that follows the Snowflake 125) was in control until the Lap 75 race break.
Harvick completed an outside pass on Honeycutt on a later restart, but fell back to fourth on the following restart. Undeterred, he quickly regained the lost ground and put his No. 62 car back in contention.
With just 25 laps left in the race, 15-year-old Tristan McKee (who won an ARCA race on debut earlier this year) was leading the way when Harvick got under him, and snatched the lead away once more. This time, he never relinquished it, hanging on through a late-race restart to capture the checkered flag around 4:30am local time on Sunday morning.
McKee finished second, Honeycutt third, Isaac Kitzmiller fourth, and Luke Baldwin fifth. Luke Yarborough, Jimmy Renfrew Jr, Gabe Brown, Evan Szotko, and Conner Jones filled out the remainder of the top ten.
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