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Disgruntled Spectator
First of all, I have attended events all over the southeast for years, including the Diesels in Dark Corners event since my first time attending in 2020. And I must say, if they are going to continue doing business as they did this weekend, they will forever lose my attendance as well as many others it seems.

The track was the worst I had seen it there on Friday night, wayyy too wet & greasy, I thought they hired a dirt crew from the Carolinas to handle the track there? The track crew did not seem like they had a clue what was going on & took forever between hooks, and that huge hole at 250 feet, what was up with that??? Started the show at 6 Friday night & the last semi ran at like 2:15 am, over 8 hours for roughly 100 hooks??? Get real people!!! Thats over 5 minutes per hook! And why do they call it a truck AND TRACTOR pull with only one tractor class with a whopping FIVE tractors & one exhibition tractor??? I noticed a different sled was hired this year, and I noticed some big inconsistencies there, 2.6 trucks at almost 350' then kills the super stock trucks at 315 ish, then let's 3.0 run 350', and 3.6 runs way out, and the semi's almost 400 feet! And the dirt that sled threw out the sides, maybe thats why the big hole developed in the track, the sled threw it all off to the sides.

But the part that takes the cake.... I understand nobody can help the weather, but Saturday night they only completed the first two classes of six, they were less than halfway through the 3rd class, way less than halfway through the total amount of hooks for the night, & it started raining so they went into a rain delay. That rain delay lasted over TWO HOURS before they officially canceled the remainder of the show. So after getting soaked waiting for the inevitable & running way less than half the scheduled show, they call it & refuse any sort of a refund or even a rain check!!! I don't care what the circumstances are, but that is just plain bad business in my book. Did the promoters at least split the purse for the classes not able to hook or did they pocket all that gate money? There was a HUGE crowd Saturday night, so if they kept all that money without splitting the purse with the pullers then they are a bunch of thieves and pullers should remember that in the future!!!

I'm just a paying spectator but I suppose I should have known better considering it's basically just a glorified "brush pull" in the first place. Something like this was bound to happen at some point, but I really thought the folks at liberty truck & tractor pull were better than that....

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First off I want to thank Hank, Ryan and all the DIDC folks for having us there with the sled this year it was an honer to be part of an event like that. With that said we do over 200 events all over but mostly in KY and TN for most of you you understand that the dirt here in Kentucky is nothing like the Georgia red clay that actually has natural sand in it, so we had to adjust from what we are used to. We were instructed to let stuff run so it would put on a show and that was why most classes were hovering the 350 mark. As for the Super Stock trucks I was instructed that we were to tight on the setting Friday night where the winner was like 318 I think, so the statement was can you let them run and put on a show! Well if 318 at 32 mph was where we was and they said to let them run to do anything above that we're looking at them going 50 feet farther at least. The winner was like 380 but did 38.2 mph and the crowd went wild. So was that a bit to far? Probably so but
the fans loved it and that is what pays the bills. My point is we have to make everyone happy meaning the promotor, the pullers and the fans and sometimes you just can't win for loosing in doing that lol, but as a whole I wish the rain would have held off because I think Saturday night was gonna be a barn burner for sure. Also the level of competition there was top shelf , and above all the atmosphere there was the best iv seen anywhere meaning the fellowship and hospitality. And to the DIDC staff kudos to you for doing the money the way you did, iv been to many of events that absolutely would have not gave that purse money to the pullers, that was great big in my eyes and simply says the DIDC staff are the real deal when it comes to being honest and appreciating your competitors! Pulling people are the best people in the world my opinion.