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Post by crusher71 on Jun 8, 2011 22:58:50 GMT -5
LAST YEAR THERE WERE AN AVERAGE OF 17 CARS AT ANY GIVEN KANSAS DERBY, THE YEAR BEFORE THERE WAS AN AVERAGE OF 28........ ECONOMY BAD? CROOKED PROMOTER? SCRAP PRICES UP? FUEL COSTS UP? WELDING WIRE COST UP.. CARS HARD TO FIND? NOPE........... WHAT GIVES? I THINK PEOPLES PRIORITY IN LIFE CHANGES ONCE THEY SEE THAT THIS IS A SPORT OF MANY COMPETITORS AND ONE VICTOR........ TIME EQUALS MONEY EQUALS WRECKED CAR EQUALS NO MONEY....... PRETTY SIMPLE..... FUNKY MUSHROOM PANTS.  ... JUST THOUGHT I WOULD THROW THAT IN.........YUP....... |
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Post by Brian McKeever on Jun 8, 2011 23:31:46 GMT -5
I think around here it is the one or two guys that DO spend the money, which is their right to do, on good cars and equipment that travel and win multiple derbies. The local guys, like myself, don't want to put the time and money into a car to battle for 4th. Personally, I would do it every year if I had the place to work and store, but I don't, so I have to do it when my uncles will let me use their shops and haulers.
In 2006, I ran one helluva derby and finished 4th in my heat, did NOT qualify for feature.
In 2010, I ran a HORRIBLE derby and finished 2nd in my heat, DID qualify for feature.
Difference? 2006 was a field of 48 full-size cars. 2010 was a field of 20 full-size cars. BIG difference when only half the competition is there.
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Post by crusher71 on Jun 14, 2011 0:02:48 GMT -5
LAST SUMMER I RAN THE FIRST CAR DERBY IN 6 YEARS SINCE I MOVED HERE, MINUS METAL MAYHEM TWICE.... HAD AROUND 5 GRAND - 5500 IN IT, AND MADE 550 BUCKS FOR 3RD... ITS ALL RELATIVE, I COULD HAVE SAT AT A BAR AND DRANK THAT MUCH BOOZEE, IF I WAS A BOOZER.....NOT....
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Post by schober20k on Jun 23, 2011 1:07:46 GMT -5
Our shows around montana average around 20-25 cars, the things I see hutring the sport I love, besides my chiorpractor telling me I am idiot, but back to my point, one is the economy/car prices, and Two is the younger generation not getting involved, I ran my first derby when I was 21, I couldn't tell the difference between a claw hammer or cresent wrench, and constantly got my ass handed to me, I had to mentor to lean on, no idea what cars to run, I thought its a big car lets crash it, but after 12 years of derbying I have finally got a small clue, Hell every year I try to find a local newbie you wants to run and find him a car and help him build it trying to bring new life to greatest thrill sport there is.
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Post by DerbyNinja on Jun 24, 2011 11:30:43 GMT -5
Ive alway said i believe kids my age and younger are just getting lazier. Demolition derby is not a lazy mans game. Wether you go all out on a drive line and clean impalas, or drive the 80's caprice with the stock motor, if you want a chance at all you have to put time in the car. Its gets triring after all these years to spend so much time on one car to smash. So if you add up old timers gettin tired, new timers being lazy, economy suckin hind nip, fuel up, all those factors together and it really has put a hurtin on the sport.....
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Post by Brian McKeever on Jun 24, 2011 12:22:31 GMT -5
I agree.
A lot of the older fellas that I was watching 10 years ago have hung it up because they did it for fun and the newer trend of expensive parts means you MUST place somewhere to even attempt a return, of any kind, on your investment. The old veterans don't want to spend the time and money to finish 6th place. Also, in my uncles case, the chiropractor is his new best-friend, which made him hang up the helmet.
Drivers hurt the sport too. If they can't use their DPs, tilted frames, rear-end braces, among other things, they simply won't run a show. If they would bite their pride, just a bit, and build a stock car for a stock show, I think it would help the sport. Same thing happens on the dirt-racing circuit. Drivers that don't like the rules, make a fuss and break them until the promoters give in and eventually change the rules to allow them.
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