Thursday, August 23, 2007

State Fair: Demolition Derby

The grand finale of the day was something that we definitely do not see at the Ekka, but can find if you are into it - demolition derby!

This is the ultimate redneck entertainment. A very interesting thing we found was at the same time as this, there was an African-American Christian soul concert on at the other end of the fair ground. The types of people attending each were completely opposite. Christian soul concert, or demolition derby. Yep, they seem at opposite ends of the scale to me. Of couse, we chose to see the demolition derby. Shawn said it was an experience like no other. We can go to a Christian concert another day :)

The crowd, the arena and the anticipating participants.

Ready to go in the consolation round. The last 3 cars here go on to the final.

It was loud and crazy.


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There was a little mayhem at one stage, but everything was OK in the end.
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This was the end product.

There was, of course a bit of a clean up between the consolation round and the final. This was as entertaining as the crashing. Very interesting choice of music, especially in the second video, given the redneck nature of the attraction and the audience!

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Then the final. No mishaps here (except, of course, the intended ones).
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Finally there was only one car left running and he was the winner.

2 comments:

Brad Ladewig said...

I love the crowd singing along to YMCA - that is fantastic! I just hope nobody tells them it's a gay anthem, that could get ugly...

Gemma said...

Yeh, I couldn't stop laughing at them throughout the whole song!