Hot wheels in more ways than one

By Rohan Aldous

Mar 20, 2023

Centre stage: An Evel Knievel lookalike takes charge of waving the chequered flag to declare a winner of the Hot Wheels stunt display.

In three years the Elmore Tractor Pull will celebrate hosting its 50th event, having hosted the first ever Australian modified tractor pull in 1976.

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The Elmore Events Centre site is where it all began, and the 2023 staging of the event at the weekend was another successful joint effort between the Elmore Field Days committee and St Joseph’s Primary School, Rochester.

Airborne: Few of us wouldn’t have sent a Hot Wheels car flying through the air at some time in our lives, but very few would have been inside an actual working Hot Wheels car over a jump on a dirt track at Elmore Events Centre.

Volunteers: St Joseph’s Primary School students Patrick O’Sullivan and Charlotte and Jaxon Wolfe at the school’s stand at Elmore on Saturday.

They again partnered-up to present the event, this year in hot, windy and dusty conditions. It did not detract from what is, without fail, a spectacular occasion.

Again this year the tractor pull involved modified tractors dragging a weighted sled along a 11m wide and 100m long dirt track.

When the tractor ‘pulls’ the whole 100m this is called a full pull. Tractor pulling is still considered the most powerful motorsport due to some tractors having more than one engine and some of them being more than 1000 horsepower.

Off the track there was all the usual attractions; this year’s event including the Hot Wheels stunt team and an association truck full of children’s entertainment.