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| Location | Pensacola, Florida, USA |
| Time Zone | UTC -5/-4 (DST) |
| Capacity | 6,000 (grandstands) |
| Opened | 1953 |
| Major Events | World Stock Car Championship Round of Pensacola Snowball Derby |
| Oval | |
| Surface | Asphalt |
| Distance | 0.500 mi (0.804 km) |
| Turns | 4 |
| Banking | Turns: 15° |
Five Flags Speedway
Five Flags Speedway is a paved half mile (0.8 km) auto racing oval in Pensacola, Florida, United States. It opened in 1953 and is located on Pine Forest Road.
It runs several local classes during the regular racing season (March – October). These classes include Super Late Models, Pro Late Models, Pro Trucks, Outlaw Stocks, Sportsman, and Pure Stocks. The races are usual held on Friday nights bi-weekly. The track has also hosted many regional touring series.
The track's signature event is the Snowball Derby, run every December since 1968. The earliest iterations of the race were sanctioned by the World Stock Car Championship as its season finale; it is now a late model stock car race.
Five Flags is also well known for having an abrasive surface that quickly wears tires. This characteristic rewards drivers who do not abuse their tires and is considered by many to be part of the appeal of the track.
History[edit | edit source]
Five Flags hosted a National Stock Car Series (now World Stock Car Championship) race the year that the track opened (1953), and would host races for the series off and on during the 1950's and 1960's. It hosted the season finale from 1968 until 1976; in 1977 it became the season finale for the newly-debuted World Stock Car Lites series.