So, when that day comes when everything opens up, they are ready to go. “They will come to the dyno more times just to find the extra horsepower. But people still have it in their blood,” noted Ryan Salenbien of Salenbien Performance, Maybee, Michigan. “The county fairs have really slowed up, which definitely hurts the business. Other positive factors for the NTPA include more than 15 years running on RFD-TV, which is a popular rural television network and an important selling point when soliciting sponsor support, and growing audiences on the sanctioning body’s live-streaming Internet feeds. It used to be everybody’s stuff was almost hand-me-down from drag racing,” one source said.
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So, we’ve got a full schedule set for next year.” There’s a growing number of dedicated parts now available for the pulling community, as the sport is becoming a major target for manufacturers.
“If there’s a silver lining to all this, we’re sitting on the contracts. “We’ve been wiped out from around 70 events to a half-dozen this year,” said Gregg Randall of the National Tractor Pullers Association (NTPA), Columbus, Ohio, who also noted that the 2020 date deposits all rolled over to next year. Yet, there is unmistakable optimism within the pulling community for next year and beyond. Always a fan favorite because of the flamboyant body styles, colorful paint schemes, and unlimited classes with radical multi-engine setups, pulling events have been severely curtailed this season, due in large part to many fair circuits being forcibly shut down. Massive horsepower and a growing sense of independence are helping to enhance the character and personality of the extreme motorsport of truck and tractor pulling-even in the current vacuum triggered by the COVID-19 crisis. Although events were harnessed this year due to COVID-19, the truck and tractor pulling segment is poised for continued gains thanks to an endless quest for more power and support from grassroots enthusiasts.
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