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 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 |
