Logan County Fair

Demo Derby provides plenty of excitement for the close of the 2015 Logan County Fair

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[August 11, 2015]  LINCOLN - On Sunday evening, the Logan County Fair came to an end with the annual Demolition Derby.

For the second year, the first feature of the night featured the youngsters in their power wheels. As the bumping and banging progressed in that feature, the lady drivers stood out over the guys. At the end of the show, the emcee interviewed one little such wildcat, making the comment that he didn’t want to be around when she got her driver’s license. He asked her if she enjoyed hitting people, and she gave him an emphatic, “Yes!”

In the first feature, the Bone Stock cars pulled onto the track. This year the first feature also featured the first lady driver for the evening. In Car 836, she proved to be a demon behind the wheel, and impressed the entire grandstand when she hung on for a second place finish. After the show, she exited her car smiling with arms raised in triumph as the crowd cheered.

The second class of the night was the compact cars. With the most entries, 16 vehicles lined the track, ready to rumble. It was a down and dirty show that awed at least one young spectator.

The feature included a lot of burning and boiling rubber with the smell permeating the entire grandstand area and beyond. Tires burst and even fell off the cars, but that didn’t stop the drivers in their pursuit to be the last set of wheels still moving.

Before the last feature of the night, the audience got a treat. Earlier in the day the Redneck Mudslingers had hosted mud bogs on the south end of the fairground. The event ran all day and featured several trucks specifically modified to navigate through a trench that was more than knee deep in gummy mud.

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One local Mudslinger, Ron Adams of Ron’s Towing in Lincoln, agreed to be part of a “Big truck” tug-o-war in front of the grandstand. Adams attached the rear bumper of his super-sized 2,000 horsepower Chevrolet to the rear bumper of the Oldmanuto driven by Scott Lewis of Springfield. As the two went at it, Adams truck, the Junk Yard Dawg 2, stood up and barked at the moon. The decibels coming from the two vehicles as they attempted to pull each other the length of the track was so deafening most everyone in the grandstand was covering their ears.

The final feature of the night was the semi-stock cars. Among the participants was local attorney Jim Grimaldi, returning for a second year to the local derby. Grimaldi hung in with his black number 8 sporting a large white flag, until about the half-way mark. Then the car succumbed to the banging and bruising of the competition.

The final heat also featured the second lady driver of the night, Ally Swan, who stuck it out with the boys for quite a while.

The 2015 Miss Logan County Fair Queen Lizzie Ford was on hand throughout the evening and at the end of the night did the drawings for the various prizes as well as the 50/50 drawing that benefited the Lincoln Rural Fire Protection District Explorers group.

Little Miss Logan County Preslee Sherren also made an appearance but called it a night early, exiting the field with her head resting on dad’s shoulder.

[Nila Smith

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