"The rule is that you never quit,” said Kim Potocki, mother of two. — -- The muddy, rumbling arena in Pecatonica, Illinois, looked like a scene from “Mad Max.” Helmeted gladiators, strapped into ...

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There are lots of things we’ve all done to pass the time during quarantine. That doesn’t mean we’ll ever do them again when things (hopefully) return to normal. Sure, making sourdough was okay when we ...

Jeff Riddle grimaced a little as he reached down to pick up his 4-year-old daughter, Lily. It was Tuesday afternoon, and he had bested the field of 33 compact cars to win the demolition derby Sunday ...

When Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” drowns out a cheering crowd eagerly waiting for an array of old American cars to start ramming one another in the mud, you can only be at one place: a demolition derby ...

IMLAY CITY, MI -- Demolition derby cars typically have a few things in common: they are usually beat up, windowless, with one seat and a gutted interior. At the Eastern Michigan State Fair in Imlay ...

#78 Hunter Wilhelm and #48 Ray Randall during the 8-cylinder derby. Car Demolition Derby at the 125th Carroll County 4-H & FFA Fair grounds, Saturday, August 6, 2022. #106 Brandon Small examines an ...

When flames erupted from the engine compartment of Car No. 45 C, I grabbed Mel Crane's arm and squeezed it tight. We were standing in the pits at this year's Monroe County Fair Demolition Derby when ...

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HELENA, Mont. — A woman was killed and at least seven others were injured when a car competing at a demolition derby in southwestern Montana drove over a chain-link fence into spectators. Powell ...

The brother of a man whose car ploughed into a demolition derby crowd, injuring 13 people, says the driver “blacked out” with his foot on the accelerator.