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"Pulling For the Rookies"

Aspirated mini in action

World Ag Expo presents, West Coast Nationals, a three-hook truck and tractor power pulling series. The three hook means the trucks and tractors will hook up to the sled three times (once at each event between Santa Maria and two nights in Tulare). The souped-up, high-powered machine that pulls the farthest cumulatively in each class will be named the 2009 West Coast Nationals Series Class Champions. [Read More!]

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Motorsports is all about bragging rights.

You know tractor pullers are serious about coming in No. 1 when they shoehorn an 1,800-horsepower motor into something that looks vaguely like it was a garden tractor in a past life.

Even more dedicated are the pullers who can somehow wrench together as many as a quartet— count ‘em 4 — monster, blown fuel-burning engines totaling more than 5,000-horsepower to try and drag a sled weighing more than 60,000 pounds 300 feet without bogging down.

It's a Herculean challenge, filled with unbelievable noise, earth-rattling brute horsepower, and unparalleled excitement.
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