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Monday, May 03, 2021
Super Stock competitor Lyle Hull has passed away
WPI/NTPA is saddened to learn of the passing of Lyle Hull, 75, of Waupun, Wisconsin. Mr. Hull was the owner and driver of several Minneapolis-Moline Super Stocks from the mid-1970s onward and was the father of competitor Aaron Hull.
The elder Mr. Hull's earliest appearance in the national records came in the 1976 season in 5,000 Super Stock with a M-M 5-Star. Dubbed "Northern Star," the tractor was the class' winner in Tomah in 1978 and finished third that year in the Grand National standings. Through 1985, Mr. Hull and his prairie gold machine were regulars in the lightweight Supers' top 10.
In 1986, Mr. Hull built his first methanol-fueled, 800-cubic inch G1000 Vista for pulling at the heavier end of the Super Stock spectrum. That tractor, which remained unnamed, qualified for a Tomah pull-off and finished fourth in its very first outing. It then won four times on the 1987 GN circuit (including twice, appropriately enough, at the Minnesota State Fair in Minneapolis) and earned a runner-up finish to Danny Dean in the 11,200 and the national Super Stock Puller of the Year Award. Mr. Hull and his teammate Craig Peterson also finished fifth in the 9,500 and second in the 7,500 to Bill Berg. All of that came in a season within which Mr. Hull fell seriously ill and was hospitalized after emergency surgery in Tomah.
From 1988 to 1993, Mr. Hull won GN events in Canfield and Fort Recovery, Ohio; Hamburg, New York; and Scribner, Nebraska en route to high finishes at the 7,500, 9,500, and combined weight breaks. He took a break from pulling between 1994 and 1999 while son Aaron carried on into the modern component-chassis era.
The elder Mr. Hull's earliest appearance in the national records came in the 1976 season in 5,000 Super Stock with a M-M 5-Star. Dubbed "Northern Star," the tractor was the class' winner in Tomah in 1978 and finished third that year in the Grand National standings. Through 1985, Mr. Hull and his prairie gold machine were regulars in the lightweight Supers' top 10.
From 1988 to 1993, Mr. Hull won GN events in Canfield and Fort Recovery, Ohio; Hamburg, New York; and Scribner, Nebraska en route to high finishes at the 7,500, 9,500, and combined weight breaks. He took a break from pulling between 1994 and 1999 while son Aaron carried on into the modern component-chassis era.
With Aaron, Mr. Hull owned and operated Lyle Hull & Son Equipment of Waupun, a construction and farm implement dealership.
Our deepest sympathies are with Aaron, John, Justin, and the entire Hull family on the occasion of their loss.
Charlestown, IN (May 3rd, 2021) – Sunday, May 2nd, 2021 the world of tractor pulling lost an icon the Super Stock class, Lyle Hull of Waupun, Wisconsin. Hull’s career in Super Stock competition spanned across six decades pulling on the state and national level, a trailblazer carrying the banner for alcohol-fueled Minneapolis-Molines for the entirety of his career.
Lyle began his career in the late Seventies wheeling a lightweight Super Stock Minneapolis-Moline 5-Star named “Northern Star.” In the mid-Eighties he switched to a G1000 Minneapolis-Moline for Heavy Super Stock competition, running that tractor until the late Nineties.
Lyle began his career in the late Seventies wheeling a lightweight Super Stock Minneapolis-Moline 5-Star named “Northern Star.” In the mid-Eighties he switched to a G1000 Minneapolis-Moline for Heavy Super Stock competition, running that tractor until the late Nineties.
The Lucas Oil Pro Pulling League family offers their sincerest condolences to the Hull family in their time of loss; at press time funeral arrangements have not been made.
2021 NTPA Grand National Precommitment competitors are known!
2021 GN Light Super Stock competitors: https://ntpapull.com/news/2021-gn-divisional-precommitted-competitors-light-super-stock
2021 GN Super Stock Diesel competitors: https://ntpapull.com/news/2021-gn-divisional-precommitted-competitors-super-stock-diesel
2021 GN Super Stock Open competitors: https://ntpapull.com/news/2021-gn-divisional-precommitted-competitors-super-stock-open
2021 GN Super Farm competitors: https://ntpapull.com/news/2021-gn-divisional-precommitted-competitors-super-farm
2021 GN Two Wheel Drive competitors: https://ntpapull.com/news/2021-gn-divisional-precommitted-competitors-two-wheel-drive
2021 GN Four Wheel Drive competitors: https://ntpapull.com/news/2021-gn-divisional-precommitted-competitors-four-wheel-drive
2021 GN Super Stock Diesel 4x4 competitors: https://ntpapull.com/news/2021-gn-divisional-precommitted-competitors-super-stock-diesel-4x4
2021 GN Super Semi competitors: https://ntpapull.com/news/2021-gn-divisional-precommitted-competitors-super-semi
2021 GN Mini Rod competitors: https://ntpapull.com/news/2021-gn-divisional-precommitted-competitors-modified-mini
2021 GN Modified competitors: https://ntpapull.com/news/2021-gn-divisional-precommitted-competitors-modified
2021 GN Unlimited competitors: https://ntpapull.com/news/2021-gn-divisional-precommitted-competitors-unlimited
For further information, check here: https://ntpapull.com/
or check here: https://www.facebook.com/ntpapulling
Sunday, May 02, 2021
Tractor Pulling Volkmarst (GER) postponed to 2022
The statement from the organization:
2021 - No event with us in Volkmarst!
There will also be no alternative date this year when we could possibly hold an event in the second half of the year ... due to the ongoing pandemic, nothing can be foreseen or even planned, so we decided against an event this year even if this were "allowed" or feasible again.
In addition, our next event would be a 15-year anniversary and we are of the opinion that it should be an unforgettable anniversary! And that is only possible in the usual way with a party, tractor meeting, pulling and especially with YOU FANS!
We hope to see you again in 2022! 😌
Stay healthy and keep your fingers crossed that we can really start again in 2022 🤗
Your TTV Team
For further information, check here: https://www.facebook.com/TreckerTreckVolkmarst/
PPL 2021 pre-commits competitors are known
At the 20th, 22nd and 27th of April the Lucas Oil Pro Pulling League has released in 3 messages on their website the 2021 pre-commits competitors of the Champions Tour and the Silver Series. The pre-commits lists for this year are fully packed again with the best pulling tractors from all across the US and give hope for an exciting season!
Champions Tour 2021 competitors, check here: https://propulling.com/series/competitors/champions-tour
Here is the official 2021 Champions Tour division preview from the PPL:
Pro Pulling League Announces Champions Tour Pre-Commit Competitors – Part One
Charlestown, IN (April 19th, 2021) – As we emerge from a year of uncertainty and unique challenges, the 2021 pulling season for the Lucas Oil Pro Pulling League becomes clearer as a return to normality for pullers, promoters, and fans as well. With a full compliment of Champions Tour events lined up for this season, an elite group of competitors have stepped forward to be part of the pre-commit program with the PPL. Today we focus on five classes with the balance of classes and competitors announced later this week.
Charlestown, IN (April 19th, 2021) – As we emerge from a year of uncertainty and unique challenges, the 2021 pulling season for the Lucas Oil Pro Pulling League becomes clearer as a return to normality for pullers, promoters, and fans as well. With a full compliment of Champions Tour events lined up for this season, an elite group of competitors have stepped forward to be part of the pre-commit program with the PPL. Today we focus on five classes with the balance of classes and competitors announced later this week.
Nineteen pullers from eleven states have stepped up for the pre-commit program in the ever-exciting ARP Lightweight Super Stock Tractor class. Terry Blackbourn returns to defend his 2020 championship aboard the Team Chizek CaseIH named Armed and Dangerous-Excessive Force. The Haug family will have their Little Temptation Case back in action attempting to leap ahead of the Chizek juggernaut from their second place finish in 2020 while Brice and Tayton Terry have sights of improving on their third place finish on the Hystrung Allis-Chalmers machine. The Southern Illinois Showdown at The Track at Holzhauers in Nashville, Illinois will be the first hook for Lightweight Supers.
A familiar name in a familiar position returns to defend his 2020 championship in the newly-named Line-X Pro Modified Four Wheel Drive Truck division with Terry Hagedorn at the wheel of his mountain-motor Kickin’ Up Dust Chevrolet. Ten other hard-charging pullers have their sights set on dethroning Hagedorn, including 2020 points runner-up Graham Young in the Renegade Dodge and third place finisher Jim Bosch in the Midnight Raider. The Mackville Nationals in Mackville, Wisconsin will host the class for their first hook on June 18th.
Robust is one way to describe the Summit Racing Mini-Rod class as twenty pre-commit pullers are lined up for 2021. 2020 Champion Bruce Slagh and the Show No Mercy machine returns to defend his title, while former champions Abbey Leischner (Bobcat Jr.) and Richard Peters (Buckeye Special) lead the chase to upend Slagh’s 2021 campaign for another championship. The Mini-Rod season kicks off on May 21st at the GALOT Mule City 300 on May 21st in Benson, North Carolina.
Two-time class champion Bethany Nelson and her Sweet Revenge Chevrolet leads a huge offering of Optima Batteries Super Modified Two Wheel Drive Trucks with thirty-one total entries in this division. Second place competitor Brandon Simon returns again in 2021, and third place puller Jessie Petro seeks out his first PPL Championship in the P5 Ford Ranger. Two Wheeler competitors answer the call to the track with a season debut at the GALOT Mule City 300 on May 21st in Benson, North Carolina.
Wrapping up today’s announcement is the ARP Super Stock Diesel Truck class. Multi-time champ Kent Crowder has the Scheid Diesel Dodge set once again for another title run with fourteen other entries looking to knock him off the top of the mountain in the most powerful of all the diesel truck classes. Longtime foe Van Haisley and his Rock Hard Ram looks to claim that elusive class championship coming off a second place finish while former class champion Cody Hastings and his Against the Grain Dodge look to return to championship form in 2021. Super Stock Diesel Trucks kick their season off at the Battle at the Fort in Fort Recovery, Ohio on June 4th.
Pro Pulling League Announces Champions Tour Pre-Commit Competitors – Part Two
Charlestown, IN (April 22nd, 2021) – Today we shift our attention to the remaining elite competitors vying for a Champions Tour title across five outstanding classes. Like many of you they’re ready for the 2021 pulling season and a chance to be back on the track!
Multi-time class champion Jeff Hirt and the Runnin’ Bare CaseIH return in 2021 to defend their 2020 title in the Unlimited Super Stock Tractor class against nineteen other entries. The 2020 second-place contestant Bob Gansemer and the Ruttin’ Deere return as well, this time with a second Ruttin’ Deere in the stable with teammate Brandon Block. Speaking of team efforts, Josh and Terry Blackbourn who finished 3-4-5 in the points standings in 2021 look to get back to the top of the class with their Team Chizek trio of CaseIH machines. The GALOT Motorsports Park in Benson, North Carolina will be the scene of the debut of this high-winding, massive horsepower class on May 21st and 22nd for the GALOT Mule City 300.
In the AirDog Super Farm Tractor division it has been a battle of “Wisconsin vs. The World” for years. In 2020 Wisconsin had a rare shutout with the title finding its’ home in Francisco, Indiana with Josh Miley and the High Maintenan$e CaseIH. Josh will be defending his title against seventeen other pullers, among them the second-place contestant and fellow Hoosier Jeremy Roberts aboard the Wicked Whitetail Deere and third place standout, Michigan’s Shane Masten on the Thumpin Pumpkin AGCO-Allis. The AirDog Super Farms start their season in Fairfield, Illinois for the Southeast Illinois Summer Heat event on July 10th.
MAC Trailer Hot Rod Semis return in 2021 with five sessions of competition. Class champion Mitch Cloudt and the Rubber Duck Mack defend their title with former champ Ryan DeBroux and the Playin’ with Fire KW hot on the trail for another championship. Third place finisher Jon Rees and his old school Diamond in the Rough Diamond-T also make a bid for the championship. The first event for this outstanding class is in conjunction with PPL member-state OSTPA in Millersburg, Ohio on July 8th.
Sixteen outstanding pullers are set to compete in the roaring Big River Steel Super Modified Tractor class in 2021 with defending champion Ricky Long on the MAVTV machine leading the charge. Ricky’s brother Keith is back in 2021 as well looking to improve on his second-place position in points with his own four-engine monster carrying Lucas Oil colors. Grayson Shelton seeks to stir the class up with his Ruckus machine after a third-place finish in 2020 that included a win at the 300 Raceway Farley Nationals. The Big River Steel Super Mods open their season in Benson, North Carolina at GALOT Motorsports Park for the GALOT Mule City 300 on May 21st and 22nd.
The Pro Stock Tractor class rounds out our announcements on the Champions Tour. Twenty-six machines have answered the call to pre-commit in 2021 with the class legend Don Masterson’s Tinker Toy Deere campaigned this year by Darryl and David Folz in defense of the 2020 title. The duo of Peter Norton and Brad Moss return with the Money on Black Deere to improve on their second-place finish from 2020 while third-place finisher Kevin Masterson has Patrick Gentry assisting on the River Rat Deere in 2021. The 300 Raceway Farley Nationals in Farley, Iowa play host to the first event for Pro Stocks on June 11th and 12th
The official 2021 Silver Series division preview from the PPL:
Pro Pulling League Silver Series Pre-Commit List Announced
Charlestown, IN (April 27th, 2021) – Three outstanding classes headline our coverage today as an elite group of competitors have answered the call for Silver Series competition in the Lucas Oil Pro Pulling League. Limited Pro Stock Tractors and Pro Stock Diesel Trucks have been joined in 2021 by the Light Pro Stock Tractor division as Silver Series offerings across the Midwest.
In the Limited Pro Stock Tractor class, a new champion will be crowned as multi-time class champion Justin Wagler and the Real Deere have moved on to Pro Stock Tractor competition on the Champions Tour. Twenty-eight outstanding entries have answered the call to the track with Mike Bousema and the Limited Edition Deere looking to improve on their second-place finish from 2020. Joining once again in the battle is 2020 third-place points competitor Travis Wisel and the Irrational Behavior CaseIH with fourth-place finishers Tom and Nick Gallitz gearing up for a championship run on the Runnin’ in the Red IH. Limited Pro Stocks begin their season at the Southern Illinois Showdown at the Track at Holzhauers in Nashville, Illinois on June 5th.
The race to the top of the Pro Stock Diesel Truck was a close one in 2020 with Matt Penn and the Penn Farms Dodge edging out the Ranch Hand Dodge of Carl Butler for the top via a tiebreaker for most wins/second-place finishes. Their battle continues again in 2021 with the third-place ride returning with a new driver. The Scheid Diesel Dodge, campaigned by Brad Ingram in 2020, will have Brady Ingram going full-time in the seat in 2021. Eleven pre-committed pullers total are scheduled to answer the call at the first hook for Pro Stock Diesel Truck at the Southern Illinois Showdown at the Track at Holzhauers in Nashville, Illinois on June 5th.
The exciting Light Pro Stock Tractor class begins its’ inaugural Silver Series season on May 21st at the GALOT Mule City 300 held at the GALOT Motorsports Park in Benson, North Carolina. The past PPL Light Pro Stock Champion in the Ag Protect 1 Midwest Region, the Bare Necessities Deere campaigned by Mark and JD Wiederhold, leads a group of eighteen exceptional entries in the class that has ten hooks across six states.
For further information, check here: https://propulling.com/
or check here: https://www.facebook.com/LucasOilPullingLeague/?ref=page_internal
Saturday, May 01, 2021
Silver Bullet Reloaded chassis sold!
Jordan Lustik competed with the super stock for the last time at the 50th National Tractor Pulling Championships in Bowling Green in 2016.But unfortunately in session 1, the 6 cylinder Deutz power plant gave up its ghost during the pass and kicked some engine parts out of the block.
The new owners of the Silver Bullet Reloaded chassis will put an old White 2255 sheet metal hood on the component chassis. The guys from Kentucky want to bring Gene Donaldson’s Mean Gene White super stock pulling tractor on component base back to life.
For further information, check here: https://www.facebook.com/meangenewhite
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