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If there is one thing the PurpleHull Pea Festival is known for - besides peas - it's the World Championship Rotary Tiller Race. In 2005, the race is once again sponsored by the wonderful folks at Weyerhaeuser. The track is 200 feet in length, so we referred to it as the Weyerhaeuser 200 World Championship Rotary Tiller Race. Begun as a lark at the very first PurpleHull Pea Festival in 1990, it has evolved into a monster. There simply is no other event like it. Unique among motor sports, we like to say it is the highlight of the tiller racing season. 'Course, to the best of our knowledge, our one-day event is the tiller racing season. Souped-up garden tillers from near and far come to compete in the world's premiere tiller racing event. There are several racing categories, including a "stock tiller" division for those who'd like to till their garden that morning, then compete later that afternoon. There are also some rules which have become a necessity. In fact, after the Great Tiller Racing Controversy of '93, the festival created the World Tiller Racing Federation specifically to address the issue of rules and proper running of the race. For instance, an officially sanctioned tiller track is 200 feet in length. Racers - or tiller pilots, as they are sometimes called - must wear shoes. (Yes, some weren't.) A complete list of the 2005 rules can be viewed by clicking on Tiller Race Rules. The rules are also available in pdf file format at Tiller Race Rules (pdf). There
are eight divisions in the 2003 race: Dirt Slingers, Rip Roaring Tillers
of the '90s, Ladies' Modified; Stock Tillers, Youth Stock Men,
Youth Stock Powder Puff, Flower
Bed Boys, and Flower Bed Girls. For specifics on each category, go to the
Tiller
Race Rules page. Interested in racing? To give you an idea of what it's like, the 2004 application is now online. Simply download the Tiller Race Application. For an application that is in the pdf file format, click on Tiller Race Application (pdf). Any questions, you may email the Commissioners of Tiller Racing David & Pam Cunningham at tillerracing@yahoo.com. If you want to see a motor race you'll never forget, be sure to be in Emerson, Arkansas, June 25, 2005. You won't regret it. See you there! We have other attractions at the World Championship Rotary Tiller Race. Check out the Tiller Girls. Click on tiller audio to hear an audio wav file of KZHE's Dave Sehon calling a previous World Championship Rotary Tiller Race (362K). We became a true "world" championship race in 1995. Read about our first international tiller racer, Dominique Niessen, of Holland.
2005 Tiller
Race Rules
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