Friday January 25

Friday night would start off with the wheelie contest much like the rest of the year has on the CFP Crew.  Bar-none this was the BEST wheelie contest I have ever been apart of, but yet it was also the EASIEST to determine who the winner was as Rob French came out and hit the van stack with insane speed and sent that dragon to its tail, ripping the cars apart and continued to walk the Twisted Dragon Monster Corvette to the other end of the arena on his rear wheels, without even touching the front end to the ground, only to hear the crowd going nuts!

In Qualifying Rodney Tweedy came out as the new kid on the block behind the Bigfoot machine and laid down fast Qualifying time, beating RAMinator by a mere .01 of a second!  Bigfoot ran a 3.27, RAMinator a 3.28, followed by: Twisted Dragon: 3.41 / Reptoid: 3.59 / Bullet Proof: 3.78 / and Barbarian: 3.85 seconds. Racing saw the three big names of the night take their Round 1 wins, respectively: Bigfoot defeated Barbarian, Monster Corvette defeated Reptoid, and RAMinator defeated Bulletproof.  The Semi-Finals saw Jim Jack come back as the Fast Loser from Round 1, only to have to face off against Bigfoot who won that heat.  Mark Hall then put the Hemi to it in RAMinator to defeat Rob French in Monster Corvette.

Those who went down in Round 1 and the Semis faced off to see who walked away with what points, seeing Bulletproof defeat Barbarian for 5^th place, and Monster Corvette beat out Reptoid for 3^rd place.  The Finals were a good ‘ole brand war, with RAMinator taking the win over Bigfoot after the anxious Rodney Tweedy jumped the light!

Next up was some wild freestyle!  The crowd was in excitement as after Racing and the track was rearranged and even more van stacks were brought in for the car pounding, tail gate ripping, wheelie popin’ Freestyle contest!  Rob French had a spectacular showing, walking away with a perfect 30 to win the Friday night Freestyle competition, followed by RAMinator with a 28, Rodney Tweedy in Bigfoot close behind in 3^rd with a 27, local truck Barbarian – 22 Bullet Proof with a 17, and finally Reptoid rounding out the field with a 7 for the night.

Saturday January 26

Devin Jones came out with Barbarian and lined up for the wheelie car and skied that big old Ford out big time, then stood it up on the rear tires taking the wheelie win for Saturday night with no problem!

In Qualifying Rob French came out in Twisted Dragon the Monster Corvette fresh off of a Freestyle win from the night before and set fast qualifying time of 2.93 seconds.  Only 2 other trucks wound up running in the sub 3 second time range; RAMinator with a 2.97 second pass and Bigfoot with a 2.99.

Round 1 of Racing saw Monster Corvette defeat team truck Bulletproof, Bigfoot defeat Barbarian, and RAMinator defeat Reptoid.  The Semi-Finals saw Barbarian come back as the Fast Loser from Round 1, only to be put on the trailer again, with Monster Corvette and RAMinator moving onto the Finals.  In the Final Round RAMinator defeated Monster Corvette for the overall Racing win.

Now, after last weekend’s show in Florence having a bread truck and making for such awesome Freestyles, we knew we couldn’t just put a van stack out for Freestyle so we made a DOUBLE Van stack!  And it made for some HUGE air!  That made for the story of the night as Barbarian came out and got a slap wheelie off of the stack and tripped over a dirt hill and put the big Ford on its side for a perfect 30! After 5 trucks ran there was still one left…MONSTER CORVETTE!  Unfortunately Rob went to fire it up and hydro locked the motor.  While “Big” Ed Beckley and Mike Fonder kept the crowd informed and entertained the crews of all other trucks were back in the pits wrenching on Monster Corvette removing the plugs and wires to get the fuel out of the cylinders, and within a few short minutes Rob came out flying with some wild speed right off the bat, some INSANE reverse moves over the big stack, and great momentum.  But he was only able to score a 28 with the judges despite his attempt!  Barbarian was declared the clear winner with a 30, followed by RAMinator and Monster Corvette tying for 2^nd with a pair of 28s, then Bigfoot in 4^th with a 23, Bulletproof with a 20, and Reptoid with an 18.