I've seen the Train races on Speedvision, driven in a demolition derby. It's
fun, but not something I'd make a regular diet of. What I really could get
into is the unlimited dirt buggies, but I bet they run towards unlimited
work and/or money too.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf
Of Susan Kahler
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 2:11 PM
To: Malaboge@aol.com
Cc: fot@autox.team.net; vintage-race@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Vintage Boat Races...
The VTR National this year had an event at the Rockford Speedway, which
hosts trailer races, on the same lines as the boat races except for hosing
down the track, but they add in the fun of having them race on the
figure-eight track configuration! I got to ride hot laps with one of the
drivers during the event, and he said that they just demolish themselves and
the track but no one has a better time racing! The aim is to crash everyone
elses' trailers and keep yours on to win.
Unfortunately, they did not run the trailer races while we were there, but I
looked up pictures on their Web site and there were boat trailers, travel
trailers, all sorts of trailers being towed and crashed around the track!
What fun! Brock, the driver I rode with, said they also run train races in
the figure eight configuration, where three cars are chained together with
the front one providing steering and the rear one providing gas and brake,
and races where one car sits on top of the other, with the top one providing
steering and the bottom one gas and brake.
The nail biter of the night was the regular figure-eight racing, where they
ran a figure-eight track and collisions were imminent after about the third
lap. To make it worse, one of the drivers spun out and did a big donut in
the middle and put a big smoke haze over the intersection, so I am amazed no
one smacked into anyone else!
I wish we lived closer to Rockford Speedway...
I also saw school bus racing in Florida. What a hoot!
Keep Triumphing,
Susan :)
Malaboge@aol.com wrote:
>So, my buddy sez "Let's go to the boat races, it's wild!"...
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