The Hit of the Year
Bad Company’s Kyle Shearer hits Reckoning’s Brian Anderson This may sound familiar: Reckoning’s Brian Anderson was cruising down the front straight away very near to the wall. Shearer streaked across the track and solidly collided with him. Shearer’s hit banged Anderson’s car against the wall, taking him out. The most impressive part of this hit...
The Hit of the Year, Second Runner Up
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 Most Outstanding Driver Award
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. ...
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 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 Most Battered Driver Award
The Most Battered Driver Award: RECKONING’S “SPEEDY” STEVE VOLLBRECHT Matt Wilson’s mother might have an issue with this recipient of this award, but Reckoning’s “Speedy” Steve Vollbrecht (unfortunately) truly earned it. As most people remember, Wilson was sawed out of his car and carted off to the hospital in the middle of the Damage Inc....
The “Most Drivers” Award
The Most Drivers: DAMAGE, INC On the teamdemos.com web-site, Damage, Inc. is listed as having 8 different drivers race for them this year, a number that ties them with Seek-N-Destroy for most drivers (there are 9 names listed for Damage, Inc., but Matt Wilson is listed twice). However, that doesn’t paint the full and complete...
Inside the Statistics (October 11, 2011)
I like statistics. I love reading how Vegas computes its NFL lines, enjoy pouring over the weekend box office totals each Monday morning and, while I hate watching baseball, am fascinated by the myriad stats that are now available to fans. In the latter case, it’s not simply OPS and WHIP, but FIP, WAR and...
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 #15 (September 27, 2011)
Race of the Night: Orange Crush vs. Reckoning The last month of the 2011 season was filled with a lot of uncertainty and skepticism. Not only were there numerous discussions about what the tiebreaker was and whether it had changed since 2010—it hadn’t—and the method that the night’s race schedule would be determined, but there...
TrackSide #13 (August 23, 2011)
Race of the Night: Mean Green Machine vs. Full Throttle There were several important races on the evening. The two most important were in the second round when Reckoning had a chance to clinch the season title against Orange Crush, and in the finals when Mean Green Machine battled tooth-and-nail against Orange Crush to secure...