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 Best On Car Prank
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 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 Good Luck Award
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...
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 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. ...
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...
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...