Great Lakes Classic

 

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Special Events: 1st Annual Tracy Isenhart memorial Jackpot Pull Our 6th Annual Great Lakes Classic & NATPA Pull *Click on events tab for more information

 

Welcome tractor pull fans to the home of indoor antique tractor pulling;

The Great Lakes Classic

 

                Feel free to look around and check us out.  Then come and join us for a fun-filled weekend of tractor pulling indoors on 2 tracks.

                If you have never tried tractor pulling, Friday night is the night for you.  Track 1 features a Test and Tune session where you can come and hook your tractor for fun, try out a new setup, or just see what it is all about from behind the wheel yourself.  Meanwhile, on Track 2, some of the best in the nation vie for bragging rights and cash in the Jackpot classes.  Plus, this year, the preliminary rounds of the Tracy Isenhart Memorial Jackpot that includes a twist: random draw of weight class (out of 3 predetermined) minutes before the pull is also scheduled.

                Saturday is National Antique Tractor Pulling day and there is something for everyone.  5 Divisions are broken up into weight classes so small tractors compete against small and big against big.  Division I is for pure stock tractors.  No big investment is required and hot rod parts are not allowed.  This class competes at a speed limit.  Next is Division II, still speed limited, but all the weight brackets you are used to seeing on pullers are permitted plus some performance tweaks, but it is still an affordable class.  Division III is far and away the most popular class.  Still under a speed limit, but this is where we start finding the stroker motors and some horsepower.  Division IV takes off the speed limits and muscling the sled down the track takes precedence over finesse.  Division V is the home of the hot rods.  Everyone stops to watch the mountain motors run.  Have you ever seen 700 cubic inch Farmalls?  1000 cubic inch Cases?  1200 cubic inch Molines?  We have them!  Be sure to check www.natpa.com/rules.htm for specific rules.  Top it all off with the $1000 finals of the Tracy Isenhart Memorial Jackpot.

                Sunday is the last day of pulling in the state of Michigan every year, but we do not go out quietly.  The season ending sessions for the Michigan Tractor Pullers with rules very similar to National Day classes and the finals for the Thumb Tractor Pulling Association 6000lb. Farm class.  Then, we bring down the house with the ground-pounding V8 Hot Rod Jackpot and 6000lb. Michigan State Championship.