tour of destruction

Tour of Destruction

Hickory motor speedway - hickory, north carolina, saturday, may 15, 2021, school bus race fwd demolition derby skidcar race flag pole race reverse race chain race trailer race of destruction.

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Here’s a list of events where you can find Cleetus and the crew throughout the year. 95% of these events are a race in which the guys will be filming/competing in. They will likely have the merchandise trailer.

This schedule is subject to change, keep up with the videos to ensure if the guys are actually going. Sometimes Cleetus breaks all of the cars and we have to cancel on certain events!

2024 Tentative Schedule

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January 6th SRL Sportsman Series - Pure Stocks - Crown Vics - FF [Streamed]

January 12th - CMDE - FF

January 20th - Freedom Cars & Coffee 8 -10 AM

January 20th - Open Wheel Frenzy - Open Wheel Modifieds - Mini Stocks - Crown Vics - FF

January 26th - CMDE - FF

Jan 28th - Feb 2nd - Sick Week  [ Streamed ]

February 2nd & 3rd - Winter Warm Up - Sport Compacts - Enduro - Rangers - Stacker Cars - FF 

February 22nd-24th - Street Car Takeover BMP

February 24th - Freedom Cars & Coffee - FF 8 -10 AM -   In Person Tickets

March 2nd - Winter Series Storm - Outlaw Figure 8 - Crown Vics - Rangers - FF  [ Streamed ] - In Person Tickets

Mar 8th & 9th - Tour of Destruction - FF  [ Streamed ] -    In Person Tickets

March 16th - Freedom Cars & Coffee - FF 8 -10 AM -    In Person Tickets

March 17th - Freedom Factory Swap Meet Set Up 7:00 AM 9-12 

March 22nd -  CMDE - FF - In Person Tickets

March 23rd - FF Series - Pro Trucks - Pure Stocks - Crown Vics - FF - In person Tickets

April 5th & April 6th - FREEDOM 500 and Burnout Rivals – FF  [ Streamed ] -    In Person Tickets

April 20th - Freedom Cars & Coffee - FF 8-10 AM -    In Person Tickets

May 3rd & 4th - INDY 800 and Burnout Rivals – IRP  [ Streamed ] -    In Person Tickets

May 17 - CMDE - FF

May 18th - Freedom Cars & Coffee - FF 8 -10 AM

June 14 - CMDE - FF

June 15th - Freedom Cars & Coffee - FF 8-10 AM

June 15th - Open Track Night – FF

July 19th & 20th – The New England 900 & Burnout Rivals - Stafford Speedway  [ Streamed ] -    In Person Tickets

July 27th & 28th - ESP Jet Sprint Port Angeles

August 16 - CMDE - FF

August 17th - Freedom Cars & Coffee - FF 8-10 AM

September 7th - 8th ESP Jet Sprint Port Angeles

September 7th - Freedom Factory Series Open Wheel Modifieds - Crown Vics, SRL National Super Late Models - SRL Sportsman Series -  - FF [ Streamed ]

September 20 - CMDE - FF

September 21st - FF Series - Enduro - Modifieds - Crown Vics - FF  [ Streamed ]

September 21st - Freedom Cars and Coffee - FF 8-10 AM

September 24th-29th ArkanSTOL - Byrd’s Adventure Center

September 29th - Freedom Factory Swap Meet - FF

Oct 3rd - 6th FL2K - BMP

Oct 11th - CMDE - FF

Oct 12th - Danger Ranger 9000 - Pro Trucks - Spectator Drag World Championship - FF   [ Streamed ]

Oct 19th - Freedom Factory Cars and Coffee - FF 8-10 AM

Oct 26th - SRL Sportsman Series – Pure Stocks - Crown Vics - Trunk or treat - FF  [ Streamed ]

Oct 30th - Nov 3 - World Cup Finals - MIR

Nov 14th - CMDE - FF

Nov 15th & 16th - 2.4hrs of LeMullets and Burnout Rivals – FF  [ Streamed ]

Nov 29th & 30th - Bigley Memorial Race – FF  [ Streamed ]

December 13th & 14th - Tour of Destruction – FF   [ Streamed ]

Dec 19th - CMDE - FF

Dec 20th - Christmas Tree Drags – BMP  [ Streamed ]

**Events subject to change/cancellations and additions

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Great Barrier Reef’s worst bleaching leaves giant coral graveyard: ‘It looks as if it has been carpet bombed’

Scientists stunned by scale of destruction after summer of storm surges, cyclones and floods

Beneath the turquoise waters off Heron Island lies a huge, brain-shaped Porites coral that, in health, would be a rude shade of purplish-brown. Today that coral outcrop, or bommie, shines snow white.

Prof Terry Hughes, a coral bleaching expert at James Cook University, estimates this living boulder is at least 300 years old.

“If that thing had eyes it could have looked up and watched Captain Cook sail past,” he says, back on the pristine beach of this speck of an island 80km offshore at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef .

It is not just Heron’s grand old bommie that is freshly bleached. The surrounding tangle of staghorn corals, or Acropora , are splashed in swathes of white, or painted a dappled mosaic of greens and browns that betray the algae and seaweeds growing over the freshly killed coral. Hughes estimates 90% of those branching corals are dead or dying.

Snorkelling above these blighted coral thickets evokes the imagery of forests annihilated by bushfires, or cities obliterated by missiles.

“It looks as if it has been carpet bombed,” says the Greens senator Peter Whish-Wilson, who has accompanied Hughes to Heron. “Like limbs strewn everywhere.”

Even Hughes, a man who has witnessed as much mass mortality of coral as any, looks shellshocked.

The Dublin-born, Townsville-based marine biologist already knew the coral ringing Heron had just experienced its worst recorded bleaching – and that this was no isolated event .

Last month the Australian Institute of Marine Science and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority released a report warning that the reef was experiencing “the highest levels of thermal stress on record”. The authority’s chief scientist, Dr Roger Beeden, spoke of extensive and uniform bleaching across the southern reefs, which had dodged the worst of much of the previous four mass bleaching events to blight the Great Barrier Reef since 2016.

Hughes saw in the institute’s aerial surveys results the most “widespread event and severe” bleaching event to date, not just in the south, but across much of the entire system – which stretches 2,300km up the Queensland coast.

But none of these metrics, it seems, could truly prepare him for the act of bearing witness to the unfolding calamity he has dedicated his life to preventing.

“It’s fucking awful,” the softly spoken scientist says, emerging from the ocean. “They said the bleaching was extensive and uniform. They didn’t say it was extensive, uniform and fucking awful.

“It’s a graveyard out there.”

Lethal hot water

The academic director of the University of Queensland research station on Heron, Dr Selina Ward, doesn’t mince words either. She describes this as “the year from hell”.

Storm surges washed away some of her favourite stands of corals, there have been outbreaks of coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish, cyclones and floods. But these “multiple assaults” pale compared with this most “horrendous bleaching”.

The bleaching peaked in February and March. At the end of March, Ward visited 16 sites around Heron and nearby reefs, including around One Tree Island – a scientific reserve with “the maximum level of protection you can get”.

“It was terrible, the worst bleaching event I’ve ever seen,” she says. “In those 16 sites, every single one was severely bleached – and some of the corals were starting to die already.”

Her big question, though, is what is happening under the water right now.

Corals bleach when sustained exposure to warmer than average water causes them to expel the photosynthetic algae that give them colour – and from which the corals polyps obtain much of their nutrients.

A coral can die or recover from bleaching. The weeks that follow a bleaching event are a brief window in which scientists like Ward and Hughes can assess how many corals have starved without their symbiotic algae. In a few months, those newly dead corals will be covered in weed and beginning to be broken down into barren rubble piles – the time and cause of their demise will become more and more obscured.

The reef is now in that window, Ward says, where scientists can get into the water and observe the amount of bleached corals that – though left more vulnerable to disease and less fertile – might just regain colour and pull through. As well as those that will not.

But bleaching is only one coral reaction to what Hughes says is perhaps better described as a hot water event. Some corals will simply “cook”. Others turn a vivid blue or neon yellow – a garish shade our research vessel’s skipper says has been widespread on the corals around Heron.

These, though dazzling, are also disconcerting – this fluorescence is a protein corals produce as a kind of sunscreen. It is not a very effective defence though. According to Hughes, most of these neon corals won’t survive.

“The irony is that it looks beautiful in death,” Whish-Wilson says of a fluorescent coral while he and Hughes wade through knee-deep water as the tide recedes around Heron and coral tips emerge from the water like bones.

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The unseen national emergency

After the summer of 2023-24, the Great Barrier Reef is awash in cruel irony and dissonance. The first strikes the traveller to Heron as its Islander catamaran departs its berth and rounds a canal into Gladstone’s harbour.

A hulking and rusty bow is slowly revealed as a bulk carrier connected, by crane-like loaders, to great mounds of crushed black earth. Behind it, another ship is being loaded with coal. And another behind that.

Then, as the catamaran rounds Curtis Island, it ducks and weaves its way through bulk carrier after bulk carrier, lurking outside the harbour like a school of sharks at the edge of a reef. On his phone’s shipping app, Hughes lists 43 of the steel leviathans.

Whish-Wilson says the flotilla speaks to a government having “a bet each way”.

“But you can’t have a future for fossil fuels and a future for a healthy reef,” he says. “You just can’t.”

Later, reflecting on a trip he already feels will haunt the rest of his life, the Greens healthy oceans spokesperson says this devastating bleaching should trigger Unesco to declare the Great Barrier Reef’s world heritage values as “in danger” and demand a visit from the federal environment minister, as well as a declaration of national emergency.

If this were a bushfire raging across thousands of kilometres, he says, that declaration would already have been made.

“But because it is in the ocean, it is out of mind, out of sight.”

Slim hope of recovery

Another of Heron’s incongruities is that, even amid such underwater devastation, it still harbours breathtaking beauty. Green sea turtles cruise above stands of broken coral, giant coral trout open their mouths and gills for electric blue cleaner wrasse, manta rays glide gracefully through the shallows.

Hughes first came here as a postdoctoral researcher in 1985 and has often returned. Now, as he prepares to leave Heron once more, he ponders the future of a natural wonder of the world to which he has given so much of his life.

The 67-year-old has seen the coral ecosystems of the Great Barrier Reef degrade and knows that they are on the inexorable path of further decline. Yet, if global heating can be limited to well below 2C on pre-industrial levels , Hughes still believes it is possible to stabilise sea temperatures and allow those corals that survive to mount a slow recovery.

It is not a question of hope or resignation, he says, but “immediate action”.

Unless fossil fuel emissions are cut “ASAP”, he says, the corals of the world’s reefs will be replaced by something else, perhaps seaweed or sponges.

“There would still be a tropical ecosystem here,” Hughes says with a sweep of his hand. “But at some point we would have to say it is no longer a coral reef. We’d have to call it something else.”

So when will Hughes return to Heron to see what, if anything, recovers? Will he check on that grand old bommie, now snow white?

“I’m not sure I will come back,” he says.

And why not? To this, a long pause, as Hughes looks away and out at the ocean, the only sound a choked sob and the haunting wail of the black noddies that brood and swarm on this troubled coral cay.

“’Cause it’s so upsetting,” he says, eventually.

Not that Hughes plans on staying silent.

“I think scientists like me need to be as vocal as possible,” he says. “To show people what’s happening.”

• Great Barrier Reef
• Climate crisis
• Marine life
• Australian politics

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