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DOOMSDAY
TRAILER RACES AT ROCKY MOUNTAIN RACEWAYS
Salt Lake City,
Utah-September 7, 2009. The stands were packed
Monday night to witness the wildest event of the season at Rocky
Mountains Raceways as they watched the Doomsday Trailer Races.
“The trailers are awesome!” said
Scott Yeates of Bountiful. Yeates, age 10, and his family come
every year to the Doomsday Trailer Races at Rocky Mountain
Raceways.
The Trailer Races are a demolition
race where trucks strap on trailers and run around the track in
a figure eight and try to knock off the other racers trailers.
The race is through when there is only one trailer still left on
the back of a truck.
 “We’ve
been here for the past three years and just love them. At the
end of the race it the track looks like a tornado hit a trailer
park,” said Scott’s father Ben Yeates.
Before all of the wreckage at the
end of the night, the fans enjoyed the “real racing”, as one fan
called it.
Chuck Groat of Kearns broke the
track record in the Ford Focus Midget class during his
qualifying with a time of 15.195 seconds passing the previous
record of 15.250 set in July of this year.
“We had the motor out and the rear
of the car out this morning and were putting bolts and pieces
back on the car when we went out to qualify. It was amazing that
we even got the car out there,” Groat said.
In the final points race of the
season in the Maverik Modified class Michael Hale picked up
enough points to secure the season championship.
“I am just so relieved to have
won. After racing in this class for 12 years and coming close so
many times, I am just so glad to have won,” said Hale.
Hale didn’t win a main event or
even a heat race throughout the season but was consistent enough
all year long to stay at the top of the points for most of the
year.
The Maverik Modifieds is easily
the toughest class at RMR.
“This class is just so
competitive, so close. It is so tight that it is so difficult to
get up to the front consistently,” Hale said.
Mark Ith and Dan McCoy were able
to get to the front of the pack during the Maverik Modified main
race and showed the fans some good hard racing.
McCoy, who started the race fifth,
and Ith, who started in twelfth, were one and two respectively
at lap 18 of the 50 lap race. For the next fourteen laps they
were neck and neck with McCoy holding off Ith until lap 32 when
Ith started to pass McCoy on the outside then went inside on the
back straightaway to pass him.
Ith broke away from McCoy and the
rest of the pack over the next 16 laps but with two laps to go
the #41 car of Michael Haddenham spun out and caused a yellow
flag with a restart. The last two laps were exciting with Ith
holding off McCoy to win the race.
“We had a blast out there
tonight,” Ith said.
Complementing his crew Ith said,
“It is really easy to race when the car is set up perfectly.”
Other classes that ran tonight
included the Mini Cups and Legends.
The night’s winners included Ith,
Zac Atkinson (Mini Cups), Brandon Snow (Legends) and Kipp Posey
(Focus Midgets).
In addition to oval racing, Rocky
Mountain Raceways hosts drag racing, motocross racing, monster
trucks and drifting.
Rocky Mountain Raceways next
events include the Street Legal Series (September 11) and Tint &
Accessories Midnight Drags (September 11).
The Torch 100 on Saturday,
September 12 will be Rocky Mountain Raceways final oval race for
the 2009 season. |
