I-70 SPEEDWAY CARMEGEDDON

EVE OF DESTRUCTION

August 27th, 2005 - I-70 SPEEDWAY, ODESSA, MO

Time for more Dr. Danger!!  Its already apparent that this guy is nuts, blowing out the back of a school bus, but blowing up a car while he's inside of it!?!?  Well, he decided to do it, and it certainly was spectacular!!  The only thing I regret is that there wasn't a countdown to the explosion, because I missed getting a shot of the car before the explosion.  When it lit up, there was a giant fireball (I actually checked afterwards to make sure I still had eyebrows, the heat was pretty intense!!), and then Dr. Danger came running out of the fireball on fire!!  He leapt to the ground and began rolling around to put out the fire, and then the rescue officials were on hand to help and sprayed him with fire retardant.  Dr. Danger walked away and gave a huge wave to the crowd after another electrifying stunt!!

FREESTYLE - ROUND 2

 

WILDMANN

After thrashing on the truck to fix the problems from the previous round, Rod the WildMann came back out for another round of freestyle.  Rod was on his game for the second round, with a number of jumps launching the truck nearly completely vertical!!  The highlight of the run was a great hit over the set with the bus in the middle.  Overall, a great run by Rod Mann, and he definitely had the crowd pumped up for this second round!!

TORQZILLA

 

Time for the brand new truck to make its second run!!  Darren Crossman brought the truck out and went right for the car stack absolutely skying the truck across it!!  One quick run over the other carset, and then another sky shot on the set closest to us!!  Then Crossman brought it around in front of the crowd and roared down the frontstretch to end his run.

 

 

 

 

 

PLAYIN' FOR KEEPS

 

Time to see some more action out of Jesse Birgy and Playin' for Keeps!!  Birgy came out and made a few runs over the cars, getting the nose up in the air a few times, but the highlight of the run was when he decided to take on the RV!!  Birgy rolled up to the RV and pushed up against it very slowly crushing the side in, but instead of running on through it, he backed off for another approach.  Once again, Birgy pushed up against the RV, and with the fans going crazy wanting him to blast it apart, Birgy backed off again.  A little teaser for the Final Round, and the crowd was pumped up!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BEARFOOT

 

Don King was up next in the Bearfoot machine, and this run would be all about skying the truck off the cars (like most of the other runs on the night)!!  Every approach Bearfoot would just kick the front end way up, making for some great photo shots!!  King made two attempts on the single car, trying to get the slap wheelie going, but never quite able to get the nose to stay up long enough.  Overall, a solid run from Bearfoot, with the Final Round looming later on in the show.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WILD THING TOUGH TRUCK

 

Once again, thinking freestyle was over, the Wild Thing Tough Truck fired up.  It was hard to believe that the truck wasn't injured in the earlier round, after getting stuck on the cars.  Nonetheless, he came right out and blasted over the set of cars with the dirt ramp in front of them to the delight of the crowd.  He then headed to the near set (with no dirt ramp) just as before.  He carried a lot of speed to try to clear the set, but let up ever so slightly at the last second.  This let up would be very costly as once again the truck got stuck on the last car!!  Once more, the driver popped out, standing on top of the truck, and pumping his fist, and the crowd was just eating it up!!  Another unexpected, but great run from the tough truck!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

After that great run, the lights went out and it was time for an incredible fireworks display!!

 

 

After that amazing display it was time to get back to the action with the trailer race and Dr. Danger's Death Defying Jump!!

 

KEEP THE ACTION GOING!!