Lidköping City Pull 2009
For the second year “Lidköping City Pull” was held at the new arena in Lidköping. The weather forecast looked good but unfortunately we had some rain this evening.
This years big happening was the 4500kg Modified euro cup class. It was really nice to walk through the pit and see all the teams from Holland, Germany and Denmark. From Belgium we had the Mariman family and theirs Volvo BM 810.
First on track was the tractors in the 600kg Modified (Garden Pullers) class. Only three tractors ended up and winner was Bo Larsson “Bamse”, second place Rikard Sundberg “Åbäket” and on third place Beatrice Alexandersson “Lucky Duck”.
Mattias Nilsson “XL” was the winner in the class “Two Wheel Drive”. Henrik Sundberg “Pluto” on second place. Evolution was disqualified after running of the track.
Only two teams was competing in 2500kg Modified. Stefan Kronvall “Wild Thing” was the winner, Johan Samuelsson “D-Power” on second place.
The Mariman family showing of in the Pro Stock class. This was the second visit for the Marimans in Lidköping. Bart Mariman “Red Fire” and Herman Mariman “Red Rose” both did Full Pull and Bart was the winner, Herman on second place and swedish Richard Franzén “Maja Peraja” on third place.
After some changes in the program it was time for the 4500kg Modified Euro Cup. First out was Hans Zuurbier “Whispering Giant” and he did a nice very silent Full Pull. Next tractor was “Green Spirit IV” who did a nice pull but went out of track and was disqulified. “Iwan” from germany also did a very nice pull, went out of track and was disqulified. Willem Dingerink “Intertechno Lambada” run fast and reached Full Pull quickly.
Danish Martin Larsen “Fox” is very popular in Lidköping and did also a Full Pull. The only team from sweden was Robert & Fredrik Andersson “Cougar”, Robert was driving and reach Full Pull. They had some problem and didn´t came to the Pull Off. Enrico Vollerthun “Green Fighter” did the fifth and last Full Pull.
With four competitors in the Pull OFF “Intertechno Lambada” was the winner with a really nice pull (111.29m). “Whispering Giant” (89.02m) second place, “Fox” third place (86.83m) and “Green Fighter” fourth place (76.70m). In the swedish 4500kg Modified class “Cougar” was the winner. Daniel Svensson “Återfallet” on second place and Bo-Inge Ljunggren “Silver Spirit” on third place.
Anders Flogård drives the monster truck “Thor” and did a nice show. “Thor” is the first european monster truck that is a part of “Monster Jam”
Emil Roth “Nasty Toy” was the winner in 950kg Modified (Mini puller) class. On second place Per Nilsson “Burning Baby”. Gert Dingerink “Lambada” from Holland on third place and Pär Håkansson “Crazy Whitch” on fourth place.
Finally we had 3500kg Modified. A little bit late, dark and wet but still with lots of spectators Stefan Kronvall “Wild Thing” was the winner. Daniel Svensson “Återfallet” on second place, Markus Korneliusson “D-Power” on third place. “Cougar” was disqulified.
We had a rainy evening but still a good show from all competitors and a fantastic audience. Thank you all!
Also published at Pulling World.com
Posted by admin July 5th, 2009.
