The folks at Dusty Track never cease to amaze us. For this latest edition, they added two more wheels to their Dusty track event: the “CARAMAGEDDOM.” Using the same dusty circuit where the bikes rode, a car race was formed in pure “demolition derby” style, where the goal isn't so much to cross the finish line first as it is to wreck your neighbor’s car or push them off the track. This is hardly surprising, given that there was barely enough room for one car in the lane. The specifications were very simple: chassis, engine, and steering wheel. Everything else is mere paraphernalia—reducing a utility vehicle to its bare essentials. The white smoke coming from the engines and exhaust pipes was an added bonus to the competition; we’re not sure if it was to confuse the opponent or simply because that low-displacement engineering only had minutes of life left. We thank the Dusty Track team for their hospitality and also for not mixing “apples and oranges,” meaning that cars and bikes didn't coincide on the track. Something we weren't very clear about on the way to the event. But they clarified very kindly that they didn't have enough ambulances to take away the amputated organs, which is why they decided not to mix them. We continue to hope that for the next edition, there remains the same insufficient number of ambulances. A fantastic day of plenty of dust, which was quite hard on our Derbi Variant Demolition carburetor air filter; we could barely complete 3 laps without having to clean it. A pleasure to run into the people from Tone Up, trinta & um garaje, photographer Ana Pina, and many other people related to Dusty Track again. A great find was discovering The Portuguese Moustache, a highly recommended local blog, and mulamotorcycles, with whom we had a good duel on the track for as long as our carburetor filter allowed. Here we leave you some of our photos and others from the photographers there. Photography: Ana Pina Photography: Filip Ribeiro Photography: Ana Pina Photography: Ana Pina
