2013 Rotary tiller racing world championship pictures
Ladies and gentlemen, start your tillers
The Purple Hull Pea Festival in Emerson, Arkansas annually sponsors a unique motorsport practiced in no other place on the planet, to wit: World championship rotary tiller racing. It is always a fun time and this year was no exception. Here are 16 pictures from the event which automatically advance. See the stories that go with these pictures at Corndancer dot-com and Weekly Grist for the Eyes and Mind.
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They start 'em young in rotary tiller racing. This boy is making his first mistake by watching the competition.
The girls race tillers too.
Youngster racing a stock tiller.
Former world champ racing a modified tiller.
Another stock tiller racer.
This woman racer is getting plenty of media attention.
Contestant steering a modified tiller (we're talking tiller hot-rod here).
The tillers raise a lot of dust at the start when the blades first bite mother earth.
He's off and running.
This young man crashed just a few seconds after this picture was taken.
A woman racer with a modified tiller.
More dust at the startuip.
Up close and personal just seconds from the start.
Tillin' on a dead run!
The women's finals. The racer in the foreground took the championship for her division.
The last hurrah for the 2013 tiller racing season.
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