The 63rd annual Garland County Fair demolition derby kicks off tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Garland County Fairground and will welcome dozens of drivers to the fairground's stadium.

Demolition derbies are a national pastime and date back as early as 1947, with the first known event taking place at the Carrell Speedway in Gardena, California. The audience was wowed by the ...

Jeff Riddle grimaced a little as he reached down to pick up his 4-year-old daughter, Lily. It was Tuesday afternoon, and he had bested the field of 33 compact cars to win the demolition derby Sunday ...

"The rule is that you never quit,” said Kim Potocki, mother of two. — -- The muddy, rumbling arena in Pecatonica, Illinois, looked like a scene from “Mad Max.” Helmeted gladiators, strapped into ...

Some guys will go to great lengths to protect their cars from nicks, scratches and the tiniest of window cracks. Pete Sweeney, 42, is not one of them. When he isn't running his own property ...

He fixes cars all day. He races stock cars every weekend. Yet, there’s something different about demolition derbies. “It gets you jazzed up,” he said. “It’s a feeling like nothing else. You just get ...