I grew up watching this derby. its sad to think something that once had peoples respect is now the biggest joke in the midwest. Oh yea, mr.Edwards, i contacted the track, i see why noone can get this from you, guess if i had a close friend or family in thier i could hold it too.
I am however...
LOL!, big talk from a guy who announced it.
1: ONLY reason you draw a crowd is your living off the past. back when The Belleville derby was worth something.
2: Out of most derbies we go to, that was a failry small crowd, if thats what you call 80-90% filled seats, you need your eyes checked.
3...
Total BS. I plan on tryin to get a few good promoters to get intouch with the fairgrounds for taking over possibly next year.
Seems alot of people keep saying derby isnt a big deal in Belleville anymore. Well its a shame, i grew up watching county fair derbies in Belleville, hopefully with the...
There is a derby held every year in oregon Illinois called Metal Mayhem. Its a 2 day event. This year there, if a sedan won, it was 15,000. A wagon got 10,000. it was old iron, so it was all 70ies iron or older. 41 Roundback GM wagons alone were there. There were fresh built motors for sale...
Actually sir, George Simms stoped running it in 2000-2001? The Border Wars. We live derbying like you prolly live dirt track. This is the same crew that has had it since ARPI let it go. We know our promoters and tracks. These yahoos were not a regular derby promoter, but thier red shirts said...
It is set from promoter to promoter. But insurances have ALOT of say in it. We seen cars that could of got people killed. Like i stated ealier, pieces of glass around where the windshield was. No kind of saftey equipment, or cages in the cars. If their insurance provider would of been there...
If any of you, who frequent belle clair, can find out who actually put the derby on, could you please post it here. As someone who was born & raised in belleville, im embarrassed by what i experienced.
Thanks!
Im happy noone got hurt. So many underbuilt cars, that were basically stock, i seen one with shards of glass where the windshield was. Thank god for that!
St. Clair County is one of the bigger counties in southern illinois. You would think they would want to draw the best crowds for there...
it started with the flagmen who put the car back on the trailor. Then the boys runnin the show, in the red racing shirts, let it back in. THEN they said no money, even though we know of 2 other fords that were running sbc's.
Then the rent-a-cops pr whatever, belleville "finest" saying that...
They just dont care cause its a dirt track town. Derbying to them doesnt take much, thats why so many underbuilt cars. Can you imagine them in Hardin? Pickneyville? Pleasent Hill? LMAO
Nough Said!
P.S. Belle Clair Speedway, hire new people, from your rent-a-cops, to your pathetic flagmen!
First off. I am sorry to all the dirt trackers, if these same morons we dwalt with are your officials.
I run a website for Southern Illinois Demolition Derby. We are over 300 members strong, and growing daily. like you, we take our sport very seriously, its not just a joke to us.
We have a car...
St. Clair County Fair, Demolition Derby!! Saturday, August 11th, 6:30 pm.
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