I heard that also, that makes no sense at all, Who started that bs???? If you didn't win the race then beating every other racer up one particular obstacle doesn't really matter anything, but whatever floats your boat. I was really hoping to see both of the tn boys finish. Probably just goes to show how hard the race actually is to finish.
That being said I got to thinking last night, I wonder if these cars have gotten a little to much technology built into them now. I wonder what a rig with the basics on it would do in the big race, Carb, mechanical fuel pumps, hei distributor, no electronics other than a gps because lets face it, it would be easy to get lost out there. You know just really simplify the crap out of them, then over build a couple of axles with some 2" stubs and 40 spline inners. Never know might not be any better but might just be dependable enough to get it finished any way.???????