showcrop
Well-known Member
I posted on the above thread about the difference between a soft track and a power track. I attended a pull yesterday in MA that is billed as the New England Championships, although we all know that it is not. The pull does draw from All over New England and New York and even PA. There were a lot of hooks with some very big classes and we didn't finish until 8:30. The big difference here is that it is a soft track. I bring the drag and tractor, and it is a big challenge to keep the hills and valleys out. Not that we are successful at that, and the hills and valleys made for some displays of some extremely expert tractor pulling. The winners in most of the classes had to use a lot of finesse in their throttle control in order to get the sled over a hill crest and then on down the track for another ten-twenty feet. We had speed limits which did not affect the lower power tractor drivers, but speed limits combined with the soft track certainly put a damper on many of the high power guys. again and again we saw pullers that normally place well but not often win, take the win over the guys that usually win.