The Hit of the Year, Second Runner Up: MEAN GREEN MACHINES’ RYAN DECKER on BAD COMPANY’S KYLE SHEARER Watching a lot of demolition derbies, I’ve grown somewhat accustomed to seeing cars being pulled off the track with their parts in wildly unusual places. After Mean Green Machines’ Ryan Decker hit Bad Company’s Kyle Shearer in...
The “No TV and No Beer Make Homer… Something… Something…” Award: THIRD NIGHT It seems strange now to think that there was a time when it was 105 degrees outside with 80% humidity, but that was the case Third Night. Ah, Chicago in July… In preparation for the extreme heat, the Route 66 management decided...
The Best Beauty Car Experience: ORANGE CRUSH As Teams 5 and 6 respectively, Stranglehold and Orange Crush line up next to one another in the beauty contest. This is always interesting to me because the two teams generally seem to have the biggest fan bases and they come out to the beauty contest with as...
The Worst Beauty Car Experience: DAMAGE, INC When people ask me why I’ve been hating on Damage, Inc this year, I explain that the team seemed to have found a level of sub-par effort below even ‘not trying’. One night featured a race with a Damage, Inc car that wasn’t painted; another featured team members...
The Best On Car Prank: RECKONING’S “SPEEDY” STEVE VOLLBRECHT on TEAMMATE BRIAN ANDERSON I don’t know how many of you have had the pleasure of chatting with or spending any amount of time around Reckoning’s “Speedy” Steve Vollbrecht, but, I highly recommend it if you get the chance. Vollbrecht has an impish sense of humor...
The Behind the Destruction podcast is sponsored by Driven Restorations in Randolph, Wisconsin. PODCAST NOTES: Our guest for today’s podcast was supposed to be demolition derby driver Kyle Shearer. However, as occasionally happens, we ran into a few technical issues when we switched recording locations between Episode 3 and 4 and were unable to get...
The Surprise Win of the Year Award (Two Way Tie): STRANGLEHOLD’S BILL MCMAHEN and FULL THROTTLE 1) STRANGLEHOLD’S BILL MCMAHEN Bill Mcmahen was the driver who grabbed the checkered flag in the upset of the year, when Stranglehold beat Orange Crush. The fact that Stranglehold won was a surprise, yes, but the reason Mcmahen earns...
The topic of an MVP or a Most Outstanding Driver for the year has come up in conversation a number of time with different people involved with the league. And with it always comes a debate. The situation tends to unfold in a similar manner. Someone will ask me who I think the MVP is. ...
Most Outstanding Driver, Runner Up: MEAN GREEN MACHINE’S RYAN DECKER Mean Green Machine’s Ryan Decker had a pretty impressive 2011 season. He was the best driver on the second best team, won numerous races after taking out several of the opposing teams’ cars and helped lead Mean Green Machine rise from the ashes of Second...
The Behind the Destruction podcast is sponsored by Heavy Metal Performance of Rockdale, Illinois. PODCAST NOTES: I always find it interesting when sportswriters and columnists discuss why they voted for a player or driver as the MVP/D of a given league. Steve Gursky Jr. and I take this opportunity to get into our picks for Most Valuable...
The Good Luck Award: MEAN GREEN MACHINE Call it the luck of the Green. For the second year in a row, Mean Green Machine figure out a way to lose… and still move on to race again. Fourth Night of the season, Mean Green Machine took on Full Throttle in the first round in one...
The Bookend Award: RECKONING and FULL THROTTLE First Night of the 2011 season kicked off with Reckoning and Full Throttle facing one another in the finals, one of the teams having upset the pre-season favorites, Orange Crush, in the first round. After a tough battle against Full Throttle third round, Reckoning went on to win...
