Steve Gursky Sr., Mechanic of the Year
The Team Demolition Association awards banquet was held this last weekend and the event provided quite the pleasant evening. Pete Millette Jr. and Levi Turnbaugh gave a tag team acceptance speech for the ages rivaling even the Three6 Mafia’s Oscar acceptance speech, “Papa” John Millette earned a well-deserved ‘Legends’ award, Reckoning’s championship trophies were taller...
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 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...
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 #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 #10 (July 26, 2011)
Let’s start this off right. As of Sunday night, both Matt Wilson and Nick Hartung were released from the hospital and are resting uncomfortably at their respective homes. Wilson reported that his neck hurt, his ribs were really sore and that he found it hard to move, but that he was well on the road...