Report: Lidköping City Pull 2008
Finally! After a long winter in the workshop for the teams and a year of lots of work for Lidköpings Tractor Pulling Club it was “Grand Opening” of the new track at the Lidköping Motorsport Arena. A new arena for tractor pulling, folk race (a cheaper form of rally cross) motocross, gocart and RC-cars.This year the sun was shining from a blue sky and everybody was happy!
When I visited the arena at 6.30am the first team already had a arrived. When I came back at 3pm there was lot of activity and even the spectators was going to the arena. Totally there was over 6500 spectators at the event.
First out was the 600kg Modified class called “Garden Pullers”.
“Nasty Toy Jr” with driver Emma Nilsson was the winner of the class, “Sort Guld”, driver Pontus Sundqvist driving on second place and “Daddys Toy” with driver Olof Roth at third place.
After the official opening ceremony of tne new track and Lidköping City Pull 2008 it was time for the class 2500kg Modified.
Favourite Stefan Kronvall with “Wild Thing” only pulled 2 meters after problems with the connection from the engines to the rear end, but it was enough for a third place. Second place for “Belsebub” with driver Magnus Andersson that also had some problem with a broken radiator. “Mean Dragon with driver Angelcia Lindqvist was the winner of the class pulling nearly 70 meters.
“Team XL” is still number one in the class Two Wheel Drive. After a Full Pull the team was winner of the class. “Team Pluto” with driver Henrik Sundberg from Lidköping pulled 93 meters and was on second place. Peter Brodde with “Evolution” was ending at third place after two nice pull at 90 meters.
In class Pro Stock there was competers from Finland, Denmark and Sweden and the foreigner teams was in the top. Winner was legendary Pekka Herlevi from Finland driving “Sigma Power”. In first pull he did only 81 meters but in the second pull he did was one of the most powerfull pull I ever seen and he did a nice full pull. On second place was Danish “John Deere” with driver Rasmus Höjen and at third place was “Caesar” with driver Matti Herlevi. Best of the swedisg tractors was “Ooh My Deere” with driver Rolf Persson on sixth place.
In the class 3500kg Modified “Team Cougar” with driver Robert Andersson was the winner with a pull at 88 meters in the Pull Off. “Fox” on second place and “Wild Thing” at third place.
“Blue Griffin” with driver Jesper Lundqvist was on fire, and after the fire the team find a hole in the cover for the compressor. Swedens first alcy-burner “Silvia” did there first pull in Sweden. It was a nice pull but it ended outside the track at 50 meters.
The swedish Monster Truck “Thor” did a short but nice show running over cars and a caravan before the truck was broken.
Only two tractors was competing in the 950kg Modified class. Winner was “Nasty Toy” with driver Emil Roth and Per Nilsson driving “Burning Baby” at second place.
At 11pm it was time for the last class 4500kg Modified with expectations at Paul Heistermann from Germany with the tractors “Kiepenkerl” and “Dragon Fire”. There was no Full Pull in class and the winner was Fox with a pull at 98 meters, second place “Cougar” at 97 meter. “Kiepenkerl” at third place.
Paul Heistermann tried two times with “Dragon Fire” but didn´t reach more than 25 meters. But it is a fantastic tractor Paul and his friends has build and I hope a will see the tractor again than running well.
After all this was a great first evening at the new track in Lidköping and I look forward to Lidköping City Pull 2009!
Posted by admin June 2nd, 2008.
