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This truck driver says sand, horsepower and speed are his recipe for fun.
Within slightly more than 4 seconds, Texas truck driver, Garry Corbitt reachs the finish line in one of the many sand drag races he enters every year. While traditional drag racers pilot their dragsters on 1/8- or 1/4-mile paved race tracks, Corbitt and thousands of other sand drag enthusiasts do their racing on a much shorter and less stable racing surface. Mar 1, 2008 - 12:26:52 PM
Motorcycle hillclimbs pit horsepower against gravity. Gravity often wins.
Ken “Mad Dog” Long didn’t get his nickname because of his temperament. The affable 50-year-old professional heavy equipment hauler from Brooks, Alberta, Canada laughs easily and often. Feb 1, 2008 - 8:33:45 AM
The only land-based form of racing where competitors could drown on their way to victory.
The annual Swamp Buggy Races in Naples, Florida each winter have to be in the Top Five when it comes to outrageous racing insanity. Drivers spend up to $50,000 to customize off-road vehicles or build ungainly (but wicked-fast) swamp buggies to compete in three races staged each winter. Jan 1, 2008 - 7:02:48 PM
Dan “Boone” McLaughlin is no shrinking violet. He not only runs
McLaughlin Freight Services and McLaughlin Freight Lines in today’s
ultra-competitive world of trucking, but spends his spare time racing a
700-horsepower Late Model race car on dirt tracks around the Midwest.Dec 1, 2007 - 8:22:05 PM
These guys race at speeds that create wind chills so extreme they don’t even register on National Weather Service charts!
Nov 1, 2007 - 12:11:26 PM
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