Demolition Derby

Dan and I took the kids to the demolition derby tonight over at the Fairgrounds. Talk about a GREAT time.....it has white trash, hill billy, red neck fun, written all over it and is WORTH EVERY PENNY. We have so much fun watching these cars speed around the track in a real life game of bumper cars.

During the first half of the derby 8 cars at a time race around the track for about 6 laps. They cut each other off, slam into one another, drive with smoke flooding out of the hood, drive in reverse when the drive gear no longer works and the list goes on . Pretty much anything goes. Whatever it takes to ensure their car is first to cross the finish line. Once a race is over fork lifts come out on the track to carry off any non functioning cars and then another 8 cars come out for the next race.

Below is the car our kids were rooting for this year. An American army tank with a little SpongeBob riding atop. During our favorite cars second race another car smashed him into the guard rail and his car got stuck and wasn’t able to finish the race. A fork lift type of machine had to come and lift him off the wall and he was done for the rest of the night :(

The best part of course is that after all the races finish, each car that is still running enters the arena and pulls up to the guard rail. At the sound of the gun, it becomes a free for all game of "smash the other guy before you get smashed". At full speed, in reverse or forward, getting rammed from the side or from behind, or going head long into your opponent, it is and ANYTHING GOES game of bumper cars and it is a blast to watch.

The rule is that once your car can't drive anymore, because it is too smashed up or broken to go another inch....YOU’RE OUT.

LAST MAN STANDING WINS!!!

How cool is that.

Next year we might try the rodeo to see how bulls throwing grown men around the ring like rag dolls compares to metal crunching, engine exploding, race car driving bumper cars.