First Pontiac of the Year, USHRA

[Tim Smith]

Lineup:
TRUCKS:
BearFoot Racer (Fred Shafer)
High Voltage (Jeff Bainter)
Hot Stuff (Debbie Rhoden)
Samson (Dan Patrick)
Bigfoot (Jim Kramer)
Evil Force (Ray Piorkowski)
TANKS:
Storm Trooper (Ricky Rodman)
Trak Attack (Ernie Brookens)
Orange Blossom Special (Allen Gaines)
Bigfoot Fastrax (Bob Chandler)

------------------------------------Track Setup-------------------------------
This track started out with about a 40 feet of straight then a 2 car set, then another 200 feet straight, turn, then go down straight, hit a set of 6 cars, then turn and cross the finish. They moved a car down and put a mound of dirt where the car would be on the 6 car set.

TRUCKS:
-------------------------------------First Round-------------------------------
High Voltage def. Samson (Samson broke on the first turn, something with the steering pump.)
BearFoot Racer def. Hot Stuff (Debbie had the lead till the first turn and over-steered, she couldn't catch up from there.)
BigFoot def. Evil Force (Kramer took him by 2 trucks, got deep in the corner.)
------------------------------------Semi Finals--------------------------------
High Voltage def. BearFoot Racer (Fred really got wild on the 6 car set, wheelied it on the 5th car and couldn't make up the difference.)
Bigfoot def. Hot Stuff -Fast Loser- (Debbie lost her helmet and Kramer started leaking some fluid out of the rear axle, but Kramer had her beat.)
--------------------------------------Finals------------------------------------
Bigfoot def. High Voltage (Very close, Kramer would speed off in the straights but Bainter would make it up in the turns, Kramer took him by just 1 1/2 truck.

TANKS:

----------------------------------Semi Finals----------------------------------
Trak Attack def. Storm Trooper (Trak Attack had the race and spun and stalled, but was able to JUST make it to beat Storm Trooper by a half a tank.)
Bigfoot Fastrax def. Orange Blossom Special (Both of em spun, Chandler first, then Gaines, and Fastrax stalled! But Gaines didn't realise and started to go and park it while Bob tried to refire the engine and won it.)
-------------------------------------Finals-------------------------------------
Bigfoot Fastrax def. Trak Attack (Trak Attacks one of wheels that turn the tread bounced and moved into another, and then realigned it, but at that point the race was done and Chandler won it.

=============TANK VS TRUCK FINALS============

Bigfoot def. Bigfoot Fastrax (Very close race, they had both run the fastest of the night but Kramer was able to beat him by half a truck.)



Video of the Tank vs Truck finals: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRKhJhEgimg

[snakebitefan91]

i thought this was in 1991

[snakebitefan91]

invisblesoul8 post it and said 1991

[dave3ba]

No, Tim is correct. This was from the Winter of 1989, probably in February.

Jim Kramer was driving Bigfoot VI. Dan Patrick was driving Samson II.

[Tim T]

This race had to be in 1989. Had to be early 89 too because you can see that Bigfoot #7 still has the real truck bed on it and not the fiberglass bed. You can see when the tire comes up into the front fender though that it is fiberglass so it was around the time they starting putting fiberglass components on #4 and #7.

Another way you can tell it is #7. When you see the in-cab footage, Bigfoot #7 has a blue roll-cage whereas Bigfoot #6 had a silver colored one.

Great show.

Tim