Minor Points Second Night: Part 1
Minor Point #1: Junkyard Dogs’ Owner Mark Ziesmer Did Not Lose His Mind When The Junkyard Dogs trotted out both Gerritt “Big Kahuna” Vanderbilt and Brice Martin as their runners Second Night, I experienced a combination of emotions that ranged from utter confusion to anger to depression to absolute joy; the latter coming when my...
First Night Minor Points: Part 2
Minor Point #5: Slow and Steady Wins the Day Speed sells, high horsepower engines are sexy and chicks dig fast cars (and demo drivers dig fast chicks). Yet, in the first round, two of the drivers who got the checkered flag, Mean Green Machines’ Matt Pierce and Reckoning’s Wally Hartung, got it by driving slow and...
First Night Minor Points: Part 1
Two things I’d like to note before getting to the First Night Minor Points: 1) I live-tweeted the First Night of racing. You can read this at www.twitter.com/truedestruction It’s great if you like things 140 characters at a time. You do not need to have a twitter account to read this; you do, however, need to...
TrackSide #16 (October 4, 2011)
Minor Point #1: Transparency Made Its Way to the TDA It brings me great pleasure to be able to write that the TDA handled the scheduling of Fifth Night’s races with as much transparency, class and grace as could have been imagined. In hindsight, there wasn’t one element of the process that I would have...
TrackSide #14 (August 30, 2011)
Minor Point #1: Roster Changes I love the team demolition derby. I am enamored of so many different facets of it, I probably could write an interesting column simply by listing the myriad things I enjoy about the TDA. To wit: I love Kyle Shearer’s fearlessness, Johnny Ryan’s ferocity, Ryan Bleuer’s speed, Steve Gursky Jr.’s...
TrackSide #11 (August 2, 2011)
Minor Point #1: Stranglehold had a really tough night of racing You want to talk about having your work cut out for you… Stranglehold started out the evening of Third Night in last place (along with Damage, Inc). In the bracket that was pulled, Stranglehold ended up facing the third place team in the first...
TrackSide #7 (June 28, 2011)
Minor Point #1: Damage, Inc’s Matt Wilson is Mr. Persistent During the first two races of his young racing career, Matt Wilson has been active, fearless and determined. This is almost the exact opposite of the Damage, Inc team as a whole. At numerous points during Damage, Inc’s opening round match-up against Full Throttle, Wilson’s...