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Flashback: 1999 Snowball Derby

{nl}      The richest payday in Snowball Derby history was on the line for three drivers in 1999. Rich Bickle, Gary St. Amant and Bobby Gill won races at Five Flags earlier in the season to qualify for a $100,000 bonus should one of them win the Snowball Derby.      St. Amant was eliminated early in the race in a crash. Gill appeared to win the bonus, crossing the finish line just ahead of Bickle, who bumped Gill into the wall in Turn 2 after the race ended. As tempers flared, Bickle protested that Gill actually was a lap down. It wasn't until...

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