Anna Cashon
American Rock
Crawling
Race #2
This past weekend, hundreds
of people rolled into Wheelin’
in the Country in Summertown, Tennessee for the 2nd
American Rock Crawling Race of the season!
This race was particularly special because I
would be racing in the Powderpuff race that
afternoon; very exciting! Ty Turner, who runs
these events called us all for our driver’s
meeting at 9am that morning, where he had
a chaplain who had grown up in the racing
world to give us a devotion before we went
out to the course. Then of course, Ty threw
numbers in the hat and everyone drew numbers to get their line up on who would hit the
course first. Those racing Powderpuff however,
didn’t have to draw numbers; we just lined
up and went as is. After getting the numbers,
everyone hopped in their rigs and proceeded
in line towards the course to get ready for the
main event.
The course was a newer course that hadn’t
been used in a race before. It was rather
long and was made up of 5 different climbs
throughout the course (The Powderpuff racers
would only conquer the first 2 hills of this
course). The first two weren’t too bad, but
once you got to the last three the struggle was
real. Although there were few places where
people had gotten hung up, this was more of
a precision course instead of strictly for speed.
Lots of trees, and turns combined made this
course challenging in some ways. There was
only one roll over in the regular race and one
roll over during the Powderpuff race, and if
you know anything about rock bouncing, then
that’s not a normal thing! Like I said though,
this course was mostly a precision course and
you really got to see the skill come out in the
drivers.
28
April 2014