For some people, having a car is a dream. But in Canada, people use cars in a game called The Demolition Derby, where cars are crushed until they are wrecked and going nowhere.
It is a summertime event. You have four fairs that start in the middle of August to the end of September. The highlight of the evening particularly for the men is the Demolition Derby.
You basically have 6 cars-the the winners, 3 facing each other. The idea of the game is to be the last car moving. You crash into them.
The cars literally get torn apart, great fun particularly for young boys who see this. After maybe 5 minutes, there’s a lot of ste
am and smoke from wrecked cars that were brought along. It’s the winner.
It gets taken out of the system and another 6 cars come in, the same thing happens. After maybe 3 times, there’re only 3 or 4 cars left. They’re all broken.
They try to smash each other up and the one who is still moving, in the end, is the winner. There’re maybe 20 to 30 cars enter the derby, so you do 6 to 8 cars at a time, and then the next 6 to 8 cars, and then t
he winners from each round will go to the final, maybe 3 rounds, just depends on the number of cars. Some wonder why people take perfectly functioning cars and wreck them.
Most people in the countryside need 1 to 2 vehicles and the cars there are very cheap. You can get a 10-year-old car for 2-300 USD. And if you’re a mechanic, you do it up, you make it work, you only have to
make it
work for one night, and you basically have a car that can actually move rapidly.
So it’s not an expensive sport. It’s for mechanics and people who are interested in it. It’s great fun. It’s quite dangerous, but the distances that you can move when a car crashes another car maybe 10miles per hour, no more than that.
The safety standard is the drivers have to be still in
the cage and wear a helmet. It’s crazy but it’s legal.
There are safety standards, there are always ambulances standing by with equipment, there are always ambulance staffs, they have to prepare for the worst case, usually.
A lot of women love the Demolition Derby. You can enter if you want. But it’s something for mechanics, so many of the driver
s are mechanics, so they will fix their own cars.
