2015 LOGAN COUNTY FAIR LINCOLN DAILY NEWS.com August 2-9, 2015 page 165
provides plenty of
excitement for the
close of the 2015
Logan County Fair
Story By Nila Smith
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
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