The Strangest Season Split
The Strangest Season Split: DAMAGE, INC.’s MATT WILSON While pondering the Rookie-of-the-Year award, someone mentioned the name of Damage, Inc’s Matt Wilson. I was considering awarding it to him for a while until I looked at Wilson’s season splits. It was then that I realized that Wilson had completed one of the most unusual seasons...
The Have Helmet Will Travel Award
The Have Helmet Will Travel Award: MATT “OPIE” PIERCE Matt “Opie” Pierce started out the season on Seek-N-Destroy. After one night with them, he went to Bad Company. After two nights with Bad Company, he left the team. By Fifth Night, Pierce was in Mean Green Machines’ pits, sporting a Mean Green Machines T-shirt and...
The Upset of the Year
The Upset of the Year: STRANGLEHOLD defeats ORANGE CRUSH (Third Night) This is purely a numbers award. Stranglehold was in last place the night they faced Orange Crush and Orange Crush was in second place at the time. The two teams met, Stranglehold won and it was the upset of the year.
The Best Help Wanted Ad
The Best Help Wanted Ad: JASON TWITE In looking to help bolster his camera crew that shoots the demos, Jason Twite placed a help wanted ad with the following wording: “Looking for the best of the best! Amateur cameramen need for a night of thrills with other men and cars. No breaks allowed.” Now that...
The Mel Noble Jr. Award
The Mel Noble Jr. Award: STRANGLEHOLD’S MEL NOBLE JR. Most people wait a year or two before changing the name of an award—in this case The Crazy of the Year—to something honoring an athlete’s contributions to said award. In this case, I’m not waiting a second to officially change The Crazy of the Year Award...
The Best Race of the Year
The Best Race of the Season: FULL THROTTLE vs. ORANGE CRUSH (First Night) There were a handful of races I could have chosen for my Race of the Season. I enjoyed Full Throttle’s race against Mean Green Machine Fourth Night that both sides could lay claim to winning and I think Bad Company’s race against...
Best Race of the Year, Runner Up
Best Race of the Season, Runner Up: BAD COMPANY vs. RECKONING Fans of the demolition derby, and particularly the team demolition derby, like action. They like fast cars, hard hits and fire. And beer. But mostly they like fast cars and hard hits. First Night’s race between Bad Company and Reckoning delivered this in spades....
The Worst Race of the Year
The Worst Race of the Year: STRANGLEHOLD vs. DAMAGE, INC (Fifth Night) While I could have gone in several different directions with the Best Race of the Season award, there is only one true contender for the Worst Race of the Season; Stranglehold vs. Damage, Inc Fifth Night. It was a race that was so...
Worst Race of the Year, Runner Up
Worst Race of the Year Runner Up: MEAN GREEN MACHINE vs. ORANGE CRUSH (Second Night) Sometimes things happen and teams are forced to race 3 on 4. Such was the case in Second Night’s race between Mean Green Machines (3) and Orange Crush (4). However, what separated this race from the majority of other 3...
The Pink Floyd Award
The Pink Floyd Award: (TWO WAY TIE) MEAN GREEN MACHINE’S RYAN DECKER and RECKONING’S “SPEEDY” STEVE VOLLBRECHT Getting an opponent’s car up on (Pink Floyd’s) the wall is one of the harder things to do in the demos. In order to do so, you have to go against both the laws of physics and gravity. ...
The Busiest Driver Award
The Busiest Driver Award: ORANGE CRUSH’S PETE RYAN Technically, if you want to go by the sheer numbers, this should have gone to either Chris McGuire, Steve Gursky Jr. or Brian Anderson, all of Reckoning, who raced in 14 races this year; Orange Crush’s Pete Ryan only managed 10 or 11. However, it’s the nature...
The Antsy in his Pantsy Award
The Antsy in his Pantsy Award: Damage, Inc.’s Dave “Repo” Swan Here’s a trivia question for you: what percentage of Damage, Inc’s races featured Dave “Repo” Swan getting out of his car during the middle of the race? Half of them. Damage, Inc raced six races this year and in three of them, Swan got...