2025 Snowball Derby

Today is the 9th day of rain we've had here. Just got home from town, live on SW side, had to have wipers on in fog. Real thick stuff.
 
DRAMA!

Ty Majeski jumped the final restart. They called it off. He appeared to jump it again, got black flagged, doesn't answer the black flag and they stopped scoring him.

The result, STEPHEN NASSE wins the 58th Snowball Derby.
 
A tough way for Ty Majeski to lose he was the class of of the field all day, but the rules are the rules.

Great job by Nasse to chip away and put himself in postion to make the most of the opportunity.
 
With all of the wrecks and other clusterpucks that happen? So now Majeski says you shouldn't call a restart? That pretty much says what he planned on doing....twice.
Sounds like he pulled a Hamlin but he didn't get away with it.
 
As a flagger albeit at the karting level, he definitely jumped the first one. The second one is close...I'd have let my race director call that one. But he did go a little before the line.
 
kkfan91 said:
As a flagger albeit at the karting level, he definitely jumped the first one. The second one is close...I'd have let my race director call that one. But he did go a little before the line.
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I get the frustration. That was close. But he jumped it after being warned.

It makes no sense to me either. Why push the envelope that much when you're like three-tenths faster than everybody? Dude had the literal ****** Millennium Falcon and was going to be a second ahead of the field by the time they got out of turn two.
 
Close call on the second one. Another interpretation by officials.
The rule states that you can increase your speed prior to the zone and then go in the zone.
 
The part that is wildest to me about Majeski's DQ is that over and over again the outside lane proved to be insufficient for drivers to get good bite on the restart. Car after car spins the tires and winds up drifting back. He could have waited until the restart zone, pegged it, and still gapped the field by a length or two by the start finish line. But no.

Nasse winning amused me.
 
You are supposed to start somewhere inside the box so Majeski mats it before the box...twice. Pretty sure that will get brought up if they have a drivers meeting. :cuckoo:
 
“The first time it happened, it was obvious, two and a half car-lengths probably and he admitted very candidly that ‘yes I did jump that one’ and didn’t argue that at all,” Rogers said. “The second one he rolls through there (and) it was way closer, probably a half to three quarters, but coming off an immediate warning, waving it off and warning him to make sure he is in the box, as it’s clearly stated, the rule book says a slow steady increase from turn 3 to the box.


“He tried to argue, ‘well that was my increase’ but when you pull away from another car rapidly, that’s not an increase.”

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Inside the Ty Majeski and Stephen Nasse restart that decided the Derby – Short Track Scene

Objectively, the 58th Snowball Derby was decided by race control but nominally, it’s no different than how the 52nd was decided in post-race technical inspection. Just ask Stephen Nasse. He kissed the Tom Dawson Trophy on the frontstretch in 2019 but was not allowed to keep it when Ricky...
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