Talk:Demolition derby

How did Wikipedia go this long without an entry on this? Thanks! BenFrantzDale 05:26, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)

I removed this sentence: A popular PC game series of the 1990s, "Carmageddon" allowed players to choose from various vehicles to race on a course while wrecking other competitors and also attempting run down pedestrians. While it's true, I don't think it's relevant. Lot's of racing games involve trying to destroy your opponent, and this one really didn't have anything to do with demolition derbies. -LtNOWIS 01:34, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC) --- The page needs a Glossary or a link to a Glossary... example: I was trying to find out what "Stadium Shot" meant.

I agree, but until someone can actually provide a viable glossary (I'm afraid I don't really know enough about the subject to write one myself) I'm going to delete the currently-empty 'glossary' section. It just looks messy. Jimeree 17:45, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Worlds largest demoliton derby?
While this is true on the number of cars I'm sure it is not the largest...the company who puts on the show (JMProductions) calls all their demoliton derby events "the worlds largest demolition derby".

In short this should be deleted...

Team Demolition Derby?
Why is there no entry for Team Demolition Derby? While it is admittedly unknown (Joliet, IL is the ONLY known place for this type of racing to exist on an official basis), it carries it's only history and deserves a bit of recognition, IMHO.

Read more below...

LynnyrdSkynyrd 05:59, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

From http://www.chicagolandspeedway.com/cgi-bin/r.cgi/rt66_schedules.html?SESSION=klH8wJPh9&N=&e_cat=Dirt+Oval&event_id=1956


 * The Team Demolition Derby that was postponed on May 26, 2007 has been rescheduled for Saturday, September 22, 2007. Tickets that were purchased for the May 26 date can be redeemed for the rescheduled September 22 date or they may be exchanged in advance for another dirt oval event during the 2007 season.

Route 66 Raceway will once again host the popular Team Demolition Derby.

Team-Style Demo Derby Racing: Team demo style racing is fast and catastrophic, with 50 mph head-on collisions, heavy side swipes and cars totaled in just one hit. Team demo always has eight teams. Each team has four cars, squaring off two teams at a time, in a round-robin until there's a winner. To win the evening's event, the team must win three rounds.

The one-of-a-kind Team Demolition Derby will have four events at Route 66 Raceway with the fourth event serving as the Finals. Team Demos are a Saturday night favorite for fans who want to see an adrenaline pumping two hour spectacular where eight pro teams face off in what can only be described as roller derby with automobiles.

From http://www.teamdemo.com/about.shtml

... In the early 1950s, the promoters of the old 87th Street Speedway in Chicago began running Team Demolition Races using brand name manufacturers such as the Ford Team vs. the Chevy Team, the Dodge Team takes on the Chrysler Team, etc. Soon after, Raceway Park in Blue Island followed with its own team races. Veteran announcer Wayne Adams tells us that “Back then, they would put concrete in the doors and steel bars behind the bumpers for reinforcement.” That’s all illegal today.

In the late 1950s, promoter Howard Tiedt of Santa Fe Speedway in Hinsdale started demolition races using eight teams. This format continued until Santa Fe’s closing in 1995. In 1999, the new Route 66 Raceway in Joliet picked up where Santa Fe left off and continues to host Team Demolition Derby, The Tournament of Destruction, with standing room only crowds. ............

Other variations of demolition derby are also not mentioned; such as those types put on by the Crash-a-Rama promoters and others, such as 'chain racing', skid plate racing, boat-and-trailer racing, (called 'caravan racing' in the UK), and other variations, all involving the eventual destruction of the participant vehicles. wilke339 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.211.212.206 (talk) 18:00, 18 May 2013 (UTC) As well, the concept of "team demolition derby" needs to be explained, generally two teams of four cars each, (example: the red-car team vs. the blue-car team), where the object of the race is that the first team that can get at least one car to complete four laps around a small track, is the winner. The intent of two or more of the drivers on each team is not to complete the laps, but rather to use their vehicles to forcefully prevent the other team's cars from completing the laps. wilke339

Toy
There is a section for video games but what about the Smash Up Derby toy? topher67 (talk) 00:37, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

American naturally but...
Opening para atm: "originated in the United States and quickly spread to other western nations....". Did it? Is it like, you know, English and apple pie and manifest destiny, or did it really? I see there's Banger Racing in the UK as a subcategory of Stock Car, and that's close, but it says there that "this is not a Destruction DerbGM with a girl in Michigan and this has just come ct I'll survive. Hakluyt bean (talk) 04:54, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

In Banger racing the cars follow a racetrack as they attempt to force competing cars to drop out while demolition derbies just try to ram each other not go anywhere. In a way it is more like roller derby with cars than demolition derby. RichardBond (talk) 06:45, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * "Demolition derbies originated in the United States and quickly spread to other western nations. In Europe, this type of event is called banger racing"

Yeah, it quickly spread. I guess that's why the banger racing page is in english only. And this page has articles in german, polish and some obscure dutch low-saxon. Seriously, I don't think this sport has spread very much in Western Nations out of North America. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.195.215.53 (talk) 22:13, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

There appears to be a factual discrepancy in this article. The "Rollover competions" section states, "Also included at many demolition derbies in the US and UK are rollover competitions..." and yet in the "History" section it states, "In 2011, the UK witnessed its first ever demolition derby". It doesn't seem logical to talk about something that happens at "many" events when supposedly the first one only happened last year. However, I dispute the statement in the "History" section as I attended several "Stock Car" or "Banger" races at Walthamstow Stadium in the 1970's which finished with a last-car-moving competition. As the Wikipedia article on "Banger Racing" states, "On many occasions, though, the last event of the day at a banger racing event may be a demolition derby". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.81.28.204 (talk) 13:21, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

There's an inconsistency in the 2nd paragraph. It starts with "demolition derby was invented in america" and finish with 'the first demolition derby was held in australia". either it was invented in americal or australia, not both! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.137.218.196 (talk) 12:15, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

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