Tuesday’s demolition derby had to be canceled due to severe weather, but to the delight of derby fans throughout the Chelsea area (and probably the fair board, too), Thursday’s derby had no such trouble.

As you may recall from the figure 8 demolition derby post, the goal of this non-numerical demolition derby is not to complete any number of laps, but to use your car to demolish your opponents’ cars until they can no longer move.

When this car was on the road, it had a trunk:

One of the more fragile and vulnerable parts of a car is the radiator. When something happens to the radiator, it’s often hard to miss.

Especially for the driver.

There are three reasons the officials will pause the derby: an injured driver, a fire, or a potentially dangerous car part lying on the ground. You know, like this one:

There was one round of trucks mixed into the Thursday derby:

This driver exhorted the crowd to make some noise before he resumed smashing into the 4570 truck:

When the trucks finished, the cars were back at it.

Remember what I said about the radiator?