Wyatt Flowers Racing

09/22/2026

This past Saturday night we raced at Madera Speedway in the Pro Late Models and the Jr. Late Models.

We had a practice day on Friday. Everytime we went out, we were consistently hitting our marks and hitting good lap times. We weren't losing speed along runs we made either!

On Saturday, we went out for practice, and were pretty much where we left off. We qualified second in the Jr. Late model with my fastest ever time in the Jr Setup of a 15.198. We qualified 4th for the Pro and hit a 15.139.

We drew a 3 for the Jr card draw and a 5 for the Pro card draw.

The Jr race was mostly smooth through the first 40. We were running right behind the leader running around the same lap times. We decided to move to the top with about 10 laps to go tell the break to get the top line cleaned off and make sure the car was good there. At the break, we didn't change much on the car. Off of the restart, we had a tire going down. We limped around as much as we could. Went back to fourth. The two cars that had just passed me wrecked, and drew a caution flag. We pit, and changed the tire. We restarted 6th on the restart. Made an aggressive move to get up to 4th. Off of turn two off the green, another car came across my nose, making all my hood pins come off and the hood flew up and over the windshield. I went as much as I could with a hood covering the windshield. Luckily, another caution came out with 10 to go. We took the hood off and restarted 6th. Quickly made it to the inside and picked off positions and made it to 2nd with three laps to go. We picked the outside for the restart. We worked the outside for a lap and a half and got the lead. We finished first in the Jr. late Model!!

In the Pro race, things were off to a good start. I was making my ways forward. But, unfortunately, I ended up spinning out, locked up the brakes but unfortunately got hit which ended our night. these past few days we have been tearing the car apart and looking it over in the shop.

But, we can't sit on the wreck from the Pro race, as we have bigger things to focus on coming up in the next few days! My team has been working hard in the shop to get the ARCA Menards Series west Car ready for a shakedown this week before the race.

Thank you to all of my supporters and sponsors:
Mom and Dad
Grandma and Grandpa
The Bills Family
Mat-su Miners
Mountain View RV Park
KN4OPZ Radio
Red Point Construction
Kalani Capital
Copley Racing
Mat-Su Miners
GoSunoco
Republic Services
R.C. Detail
Central Welding Supply
Cruz Construction
Jay Childs and Jay Childs Race Cars
Agen's Automotive
Doug Sheldon Heidi Lawson Sheldon
Doug Hestes and Sheila Hestes
Big Dipper Homemade Ice Cream
Kuuk Water
Joseph Stewart
Carbotech Brakes
Jeff and Amy Brown King of Kings Missions
Vpdalaska
Heath Martin Klebs Mechanical
Ron Harvey
Al Palma
Keith Akers
Alaska Miata Club
J D Steel Co.
Randle Flowers
Allie Hewitt - State Farm Insurance Agent
Nascimento Motorsports
Madera Speedway
JD Steel Co Inc - Alaska

09/20/2026

Thank you to all the fans that came out to Madera Speedway! Can’t thank my guys from Nascimento Motorsports for keeping me in the race. They have helped me so much and can’t think them enough. Thank you to all my partners that put us on the track each week for giving me these opportunities. These are memories I will have for Life!!

WYATT FLOWERS ACHIEVES COME FROM BEHIND VICTORY IN JR. LATE MODELS AT MADERA

MADERA, CALIFORNIA (September 19, 2026) – Palmer, Alaska’s Wyatt Flowers stormed to an exciting first-career 51FIFTY Jr. Late Model Series victory on Saturday night at Madera Speedway, driving around series points leader Lane Christensen to claim the 70-lap feature. Flowers, age 15, overcame several incidents throughout the challenging contest in the come from behind triumph. Photo by Christian Rozell

“We had so much going on. We had such a good car in the first 40. We had a right front tire go down. Luckily got a caution and changed that. Then right after that, somebody got into us and it knocked the hood up. I ran like, I don’t know, 20 laps with the hood in my face. We got another caution to fix the hood and take it off,” Flowers said. “Man it’s so good to be talking to you (with the win). I just knew the only chance I probably had was running it on the high side. We did it completely clean so thank you to Lane for racing me so good. Just worked the high side probably the hardest I’ve ever done.”

Points leader Christensen drew the outside pole after leading time trials, with fellow Georgia native Dylan Bongiovanni drawing the top starting position. Bongiovanni led the first three laps before Christensen used the bottom to drive into the lead on lap four.

Bongiovanni drifted back to fifth by lap seven. Washington’s Mason Blodgett made a lap 39 pass to take fifth from Bongiovanni as well. The non-stop opening 40-lap segment saw Christensen lead Flowers, Connor Penix of Clovis, round six winner Jarrett Dickson, and Blodgett into the halfway break.

Blodgett and Bongiovanni collided in turn four when racing resumed but Bongiovanni was able to rejoin the race without the race requiring a caution. Dickson used the high line to drive into third. Flowers, Penix, and Dickson jostled for the second position. Dickson and Penix then came together in turn four, sending both cars to a stop in turn four for a caution flag. Flowers escaped to the pits with a flat tire.

Flowers then was involved in a restart incident which sent his hood up into his windshield. He stayed on the race track and soldiered forward. A caution on lap 60 allowed Flowers to pit and remove the hood.

Christensen led a resurgent Bongiovanni on the restart while Blodgett tried to hold serve in third. Blodgett was shuffled back on the high side to fifth. Blodgett and Penix then came together in turn two, causing race ending damage for Blodgett on lap 67. The caution set up a three-lap shootout between Christensen and Flowers. Flowers drove around the outside of Christensen to grab the victory, with Dickson returning to the front of the pack by driving around Christensen as well. Christensen settled for third followed by Bongiovanni and Texas’ Dylan Reese.

Matt Erickson of La Grange earned his second win of the season in the Mission Pro Late Model Series. Points leader Jason Aguirre used a back up engine and drew the pole. Aguirre then led the first five laps of action. ARCA Menards Series, West rookie Gavin Ray of Las Vegas, the second fastest qualifier, took the lead on lap six. A red flag flew on lap eight when Wyatt Flowers spun in turn two and collected Auburn’s Colton Nelson. Both drivers were uninjured.

Erickson ran down Ray over the course of the 40-lap opening segment. Erickson then slid past Ray to take the lead on the 40th lap and in time for the Mission Foods break for adjustments and RACER Network interviews.

Erickson dominated the final 30-lap segment while Ray held off challenges from Dylan Bongiovanni and 2026 Roseville champion Kenna Mitchell of Loomis. Aguirre finished fifth.

Bakersfield’s Kade Godbehere benefited from a wild lap 27 INEX Legends restart to earn his first Madera Speedway victory. Godbehere muscled past Bakersfield’s Colton Page on the restart to drive into the top spot. Turlock’s Antonio Gonzales recovered from an earlier spin to finish second and preserve the points lead with Jared Torres finishing third.

Madera Speedway returns for its biggest race on the season on Saturday September 26 with the 53rd Mission Foods Harvest Classic. The ARCA Menards Series, West compete in the Madera 150 along with the largest Speed Tour Super Modified field in several seasons competing. NCMA Sprint Cars host their championship round along with racing for the INEX Legends and Legends of Kearney Bowl. Tickets are available at the gates or at www.racemadera.com

Madera Speedway returns with televised stock car action on September 19th. More details at www.racemadera.com

The 2026 season would not be possible without the support 51FIFTY LTM, Mission Foods, 805 Beer, Race 2B Drug Free, Competition Carburetion, Hoosier Tires, Franks Radio, and Sunoco Race Fuel.

Madera Racing on RACER Network airs Monday nights.

09/15/2026

This weekend, we will be heading to Madera Speedway for two great weekends of racing.

I will be running late models this weekend, and then will make My ARCA West Debut Next weekend. It is getting really exciting! I look forward to seeing all of you guys at Madera Speedway!!

09/09/2026

This last weekend at Alaska Raceway Park was an amazing weekend of racing! We started out fast out of the gate in practice. We ran 17.0s-17.1s pretty much all of practice consistently.

We qualified 1st at a 17.043.

Started first in the heat, battled for a couple laps for the lead and got ahead. Won the heat race.

Had a great start to the feature. Got up to about a 5.5 second lead before a caution came out. Restarted with about 10 to go restarted on the inside, took the lead and took the win!

We were the only car In the late model class to podium in every single race we did! We qualified 1st 4 out of the six times we qualified. We won every heat race we were apart of.

We finished 3rd in points just 3 points off 2nd and 30 points off first. After missing those two races we did, I certainly did not think we would finish this well in points!

There was some really good competition this year and I cannot wait for next year!

Now, we turn our sights to Madera Speedway for the next two weeks In the Jr. Late Model, the Pro Late Model, and The Arca car!

Thank you to all of our sponsors:
Cruz Construction Inc
J. D. Steel Co Inc
Ron Harvey
Allie Hewitt - State Farm Insurance Agent
Kuuk Water
GoSunoco
Doug Hestes and Sheila Hestes
Big Dipper Homemade Ice Cream
Mt View RV Park
Randle Flowers
R.C. Detail
Heath Martin - KLEBS Mechanical
Joseph Stewart
Jeff Brown - King of Kings Missions
Nascimento Motorsports
Republic Services
Alaska Miata Club
Al Palma
Jay Childs
Jay Childs Race Cars
Carbotech Brakes
Agen's Automotive
Doug Sheldon
Mat-Su Miners
Vpdalaska
Papaw and Meme
The Bills Family
Red Point Construction
Cork’s Auto Inc
Kalani Capital
Copley Racing

09/03/2026

Practiced the late model the other day and hopped back into a legend aswell. It was a lot of fun to go try the legend again!

Gained time everytime we went out in the late model, excited for Saturday!

09/03/2026

Thank you Charlie and Freddy for taking the time to come out to Alaska Raceway Park today! If you have never been to the track come out and support what we love and let us put on a great race.

Palmer teenage auto racing star eyes NASCAR dream while staying true to his Alaska roots 👉 https://tinyurl.com/mtvbwvue

08/27/2026

What a crazy good weekend! From making my biggest racing announcement yet, To finishing very well In both the Jr. and the Pro!

We started the week on Thursday by heading to the Nascimento Motorsports race shop to get fitted for the ARCA Car!

Unloaded the car on Friday Madera Speedway and was fast! Got up to speed quickly and ran some of my fastest laps consistently!

We started Saturday off by getting down to a 15.194 in practice for the pro.

Qualified 5th for a 15.30 in the Jr. and then ran a 15.118 to qualify third for the Pro!

Drew a 3 starting spot for the Jr, and a 6 for the Pro.

The Jr. race started chaotic. Had to miss a couple spins but still kept my nose pretty clean. After catching up to the leaders at around lap 30, a caution came out. Finished 4th at the halfway.

After the break, I made it up to third, was just starting to follow the two infront of me and pull away when the two cars infront of me wrecked. I had the slightest bit of nose contact with them. Held on to lead one lap before a caution for fluids from the backstretch to turn 4.

Restarted the Jr race, made a bit of a mistake and followed the 8 to finish second! Great job to Jarret on the win!

Started the pro race in 5th after a car infront of me elected to start in the rear.

Worked my way up to third by lap 10. A caution had just came out. Worked the top side and made it to second. By the end of lap 40, I had closed the gap to the leader the half a car length!

Restarted after the break in second. By lap 47 I made it to the lead.

A caution then came out. After that, me and the 12 had a great side-by-side battle. The 12 won the battle, we still showed we had really good pace against some really good competition.

I am looking forward to the next one!

Next weekend we finish our season Alaska Raceway Park. We are a close 3rd in points even with missing 2 races. Come check it out!

Thank you to all our sponsors:
Mom and Dad
Grandma and Grandpa
The Bills Family
Mat-su Miners
Mountain View RV Park
KN4OPZ Radio
Red Point Construction
Kalani Capital
Mat-Su Miners
GoSunoco
Republic Services
R.C. Detail
Central Welding Supply
Cruz Construction
Jay Childs Race Cars
Agen's Automotive
Doug Hestes and Sheila Hestes
Doug Sheldon
Big Dipper Homemade Ice Cream
Kuuk Water
Joseph Stewart
Carbotech Brakes
Jeff Brown
Heath Martin
Vpdalaska
Ron Harvey
Al Palma
Keith Akers
Alaska Miata Club
J. D. Steel Co Inc
Randle Flowers
Allie Hewitt - State Farm Insurance Agent

I hope I got everyone. There is so many of you that help me get to where I am and I cannot thank you all enough!

08/23/2026

Really good racing in the first 10 laps of the Pro Late Model race!

Finished P2 in the Jr. and finished P2 in the Pro. Recap coming later. In the meantime, here’s a video!

08/22/2026

What do you do after a successful practice day? You go to Perko’s and order your very grown up chicken tenders and mac n cheese with an apple juice!

08/21/2026

Just got to California and hit the ground running.
We got to work on some future plans. In a little over a month, I will be making my first ARCA Menards Series West start for Nascimento Motorsports at Madera Speedway. Tommorow we practice for the race this weekend. Doug Sheldon will be here so look for updates.

Over the years, we have had great partners. Without you guys, this would not be possible.

Vpdalaska
Big Dipper Homemade Ice Cream
Ron Harvey
Jeff Brown
Cruz Construction Inc
Allie Hewitt - State Farm Insurance Agent
Heath Martin
Alaska Miata Club
R.C. Detail
Central Welding Supply
Mat-Su Miners
Joseph Stewart
Al Palma
Randle Flowers
Carbotech Brakes
Kuuk Water
Jay Childs
Jay Childs Race Cars
GoSunoco
Republic Services
J.D. Steel Co
Katana Capital
The Bills Family
Mt. View RV Park
Red Point Construction