Breaker returns!

Hello,
some news for pulingworld.com:


The norwegian 2,5 mod "Final Countdown" Team sold their tractor to Holland and bought the Breaker from Karl Sofus Engen. They will keep the name and pull it in the 2.5 ton mod class.

Kristian Enoksen

Jan Schokkin lost the battle

I have been thinking for a while, whether I should write something about this or not, but this boy deserves it. I wish it would be for another reason though.

I didn't know Jan too well, but of course I have followed the sad story about him, the illness and his enormous fight against cancer, making it from day to day, trying to realize his dream of running a Pro Stock tractor.
For those who don't follow the dutch pulling scene:
The Schokkin family has been active in the dutch Hot Farm circuit for a long time and was trying to move it's way up into a bigger class, driven by the wish of Jan, to once compete with a Pro Stock tractor. By the age of 21 Jan got the horrible news, that changed everything: Cancer and only a few days left to live.
From that point on, Jan and his family fought an enormous battle against time, trying to make the wish come true in the little time that was left.
Together they've managed to get Jan on the "big track" at Lochem with a John Deere Diesel Super Stock, called "Dark Side of the Moon", and it was a moment creating goose bumps for everyone in the crowd, when Jan, knowing this might very well be an "one and only" occasion for him, went down the track in front of 10.000 spectators and was pulled back into the pits in front of the grandstands, his face covered with oil sprinkles and as exited as you can get, hoping for more in the future.

But for him there sadly was no future.
In the evening of the 24th of November, Jan Shokkin died by the age of 24 in the hospital of Nijmegen.

My thoughts are with the Schokkin family and I think they said it best by themselves:
Jan, we're proud of you!

Jan, rest in peace.
You'll be remembered as a true Tractor Puller with a big heart who showed us all, that personal effort can maybe not always get you wherever you want to, but a big step foward in the desired direction.

Condolance register Jan Schokkin

Part 3 of the dutch championship TV coverage

New on RTL 7 - the third part!

Video collection Team White Horse

Wllie van Dommelen, still on the track with his camera after 30 years, is sharing his collection of videos and fotos. Probably the best collection of European Tractor Pulling History is about to enfold on the White Horse team's website.
Check www.whitehorse.nl! For the videos go to their "archief".

As example some 1978 Pulling (first year of tractor pulling in Europe)

RTL 7 -. NTTO Tractor Pulling coverage

The second part of the RTL 7 NTTO Tractor Pulling coverage is online!
Check their online program review!

New Sportklasse Tractor Team Lindemann

Many diesel teams have used the help of Lindemann Dieseltechnik in the past. The involvement in the Tractor Pulling sport through his buisiness has now had it's addictive influence on company owner Andreas Lindemann.
After "playing" with a IHC 1246 at local brush pulls in the last two years and also taking part in the 2008 german championships for Sportklasse tractors, he is now building something a little more serious. A IHC 1455 (DT 402 german diesel with ZF transmission) is currently getting prepared to enter the north german tracks in 2009.

New Hot Farm Rules / Germany

The german Hot and Farm Pullers had a meeting last sunday and have changed a substantial part of the rulebook.
After the request from the ETPC T&S board to make sure anything over 500 hp is 100 % build to the Pro Stock safety sules, the decision was made to stay exactly below those 500 hp. To insure the power limit an Air Restrictor of 68mm diameter over 20mm for tractors with more than 68mm Turbo inlet was introduced to the rules.
Another request of the T&S people was a "serious" ROP. With help of the Trecker Treck Team Sonsbeck a calculated ROP was designed and will now also enter the rules for 2008.
For Hot Farm (Sportklasse, Super Sportklasse) from other countries this means, they can only pull in Germany using a smaller than 68mm Turbo or the air restrictor and have either a "Street legal" ROP, ETPC Rollcage or a homemade construction according to the DTTO rulebook.
Anything else will be considered a "Pro Stock" and teched by those specs and rules until clear guidelines for any classes in between are coming from the ETPC.

The new rulebook for 2009 will be confirmed at the next DTTO Board meeting and will be ready for download at www.tractorpulling.de by the end of december.

Dyno run of a new V8 engine for the Splendido Team

From now on, you can see the video of the dyno test of our engine on our site.

thanks & greetings
Splendido Team

www.splendidoteam.it

Fwd: Team Fox news

Hallo Sascha...

We have started building a new tractor, you can find pictures on our home page if you want them on the pullingworld, under "Winter 2008"

Team Fox Flemming

New book, also featuring our pulling friend "Jobbo" from Down Under

Aussie blokes may grow old but they don’t always grow up . . . in fact, often the only difference between men and boys is the size of their toys!

BIG BOYS’ TOYS:

Blokes and their magnificent obsessions

by Scott McGregor

Category: Australiana/Humour

Published by Arena, an imprint of Allen & Unwin

7 November 2008, RRP $24.95

► Meet ‘Jobbo’ and his champion tractor ‘Outlaw Too’. Jobbo hails from Quambatook, the tractor-pulling capital of Australia. With three chunky V8 Chevy engines, giant tyres and a maze of exhaust pipes and extractors, ‘Outlaw Too’ looks like a mobile oil refinery.

◄ Then there’s Andrew and Eddie, from Mullumbimby, who’ve built their own flying tricycle.

► And Bruce, from Cowra, who has restored a Centurion tank in his farm shed.

In the new book Big Boys’ Toys, these blokes and many more come together to stand up for what’s big and noisy and leaking oil everywhere. Tug boats, paddle steamers, top-fuellers, UFOs, truck buggies, a lighthouse: you name it, there’s a bloke out there fixing it, or painting it, tuning it up or replacing the brake pads – again!

Big Boys’ Toys has been a labour of love for author and train buff Scott McGregor, who has scoured sheds, hangers and waterways all round Australia in search of the grandest, the noisiest and, in some cases, the strangest backyard obsessions. With a foreword by Warren Brown, and packed with photos and vital statistics, Big Boys’ Toys lifts the dust sheet and scrapes back the paint to uncover the who’s, the hows and, most mysteriously, the whys, of oversized boys and their supersized toys.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Actor and well-known television personality Scott McGregor has a passion for trains. Scott is the proud owner of a 1:1 scale train set on his property near Mudgee, Ruwenzori. Visit his website to see more: www.ruwenzori.com.au.

Dutch Pulling on TV

Dutch Tractor Pulling Season 2008 Broadcast from RTL 7, first part from Wierden

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