Duncan Team Prepares for 2012 Return in HD

Lane Duncan has been preparing the Texas T-Rex tractor for a 2012 return to LSGTPA pulling competition, and when the season begins, will be pulling in HD ! In 2010, the team captured on-board footage, using a Kodak digital camera with video capability. The team then acquired the GoPro video equipment for the 2011 season and captured on-board video aboard the tractor as well as the LSGTPA sled. The team will again utilize the GoPro equipment for onboard video in 2012, and has now added a pair of High Definition video cameras for filming the pulls from the finish line and trackside locations ! As we learn and improve the GoPro filming from onboard, we hope to be able to add the trackside videos of each pass to the same video posting. In this way, competitors and fans will be able to view a pull from multiple camera angles !!







We will be posting our videos of the Texas T-Rex action on our TeamTxTrex YouTube channel (see link), and will also post the LSGTPA pulling action from other tractors on the new LSGTPApulling YouTube channel. Be sure and check out these video channels and add them to your favorites !!







Rumor has it, that the first pull is already scheduled for April 21 in East Tawakoni. The event will be held in conjunction with a chili cookoff near Lake Tawakoni !

***update****

tentative pull dates are being confirmed, and appear as follows:

March 17 Test and Tune
April 21 East Tawakoni, Tx (Lake Tawakoni chili cookoff)
May 5 Bonham, Tx (Heritage Days festival)
June 8, 9 Greenville, Tx (Hunt County Fair)
October 6 Farmersville, Tx (Old Time Saturday celebration)

Duncan Scores Top Three Finish in LSGTPA

With the 2011 LSGTPA tractor pulling season in the books, the points champions will soon be crowned.  Lane Duncan was able to put together a great start to the season and score a mid season win to lead the points for a time, and managed to hold onto a third place finish in the LSGTPA points.  Congratulations are in order for the Bonham Service Center team tractor, piloted by Kody Langham, in their 2011 Youth Class Championship run.  Langham was able to hold off the 2010 Champion, Aidan Hovind, by one point to top the class.  Lane Duncan pulled the 'Texas T-Rex' to a close third place, in the final standings. 

The final points standings came down to the next to last event, where the top three tractors battled to secure their positions in an exciting event held in Farmersville, Texas.  For full event results and season points standings in all of the LSGTPA classes, visit the LSGTPA web site at http://www.lsgtpa.com/

PULLING ACTION HEADED TO FARMERSVILLE

Preparations are underway in the Texas T-rex camp, to ready the tractor for the upcoming Old Time Saturday in Farmersville, Texas.  The LSGTPA pulling team is coming off of two pulls, in which the results were less than had been hoped for.  The driver has performed flawlessly, but tuning calls on tricky tracks and some untimely parts breakage have hindered the team in the last couple of outings.  We hope the Old Time Saturday celebration can lead to a 'good time celebration' for the T-Rex Team and friends !! 

Regardless of the results, you can bet that the Old Time Saturday will be a lot of fun !! For more information on the event, go to the farmersvilletx.com link:

http://www.farmersvilletx.com/docs/OTS_schedule_10_01_11.pdf


See ya in Farmersville !!
Let's check out the LSGTPA blog, over at:

http://lsgtpatractorpulling.blogspot.com/

LANE PILOTS T-REX TO GREAT 2011 SEASON

As the record breaking heat wave begins to close out the 2011 summer, Lane Duncan is preparing to close out his 2011 tractor pulling season with record breaking performances.   It might not seem difficult to set career records in your second season of competition, but when the competitors are those in the LSGTPA Youth Class, just keeping up is a monumental task.  Lane has managed to record his first win in 2011, held the points lead for a mid season stretch, and now is in position to record a top three finish to improve on his fourth place finish in 2010. 

The next LSGTPA pull for Lane and the T-Rex will be in Farmersville, Texas.  The pulling event will be held in conjunction with the Old Time Saturday celebration on October 1st. 

Texas T-Rex prepping for Heritage Day in Bonham, Texas

Lane and the Texas T-Rex are preparing for the Heritage Day festival in Bonham, Texas.  After the Hunt County Fair pull in Greenville, Texas, a few changes were made to the tractor that may affect the weight balance.

 Additional shielding has been installed, for driver protection, in the event of any engine or drivetrain component failure.  The weight of the shielding will need to be compensated for elsewhere on the tractor.  So, a little test session is planned for Saturday morning on July 23rd.  If all goes as planned, we will stop by at the Red River Valley Antique Tractor Club pull at the Love Civic Center, in Paris. 

The Red River Valley Antique Tractor Club will be having an event at the Love Civic Center, starting at 8am.  We were invited to perform an exhibition for the club, with plans to combine an LSGTPA event in the future with this event....so, we will have an opportunity to test while we put on a show for the club members and spectators.  After a test pass in Paris, we will then make any changes we feel are needed, and head to the Bonham event.
We are excited about the opportunity to pull at the Paris event, and hope that our appearance can lead to the addition of an LSGTPA show in Paris. If you're an early riser, venture out to the Love Civic Center in Paris, Texas to see Lane and his Texas T-Rex pull.  The antique tractors will put on an awesome show throughout the morning !

17TH ANNUAL RED RIVER VALLEY ANTIQUE TRACTOR CLUB POWER OF THE PAST
July 23rd--- Paris, Texas (Sat) at the Love Civic Center (Pull only)

Weigh in 7:00 A.M.
8:00 A.M.-5 P.M.
Red River Valley Antique Tractor Show
Contact: 903.395.3138 or 903.785.1365


Once the antique tractors wet your appetite for pulling action, head on over to Bonham with us, for the Heritage Day Festival Tractor Pull at the park !!!

HUNT COUNTY FAIR TIME !

The Hunt County Fair in Greenville, Texas is home to the only two day event on the LSGTPA tractor pulling schedule, and Lane has the Texas T-Rex ready to roll into town and take advantage of double shots at a trophy.  Lane made his pulling debut at the fairgrounds rodeo arena in 2010, so this will be the first time we are returning to a familiar track, and we will consider it our home track at least for this weekend !

The pulling action is scheduled to begin at 6pm on Friday and Saturday nights, June 10 and 11, to open the fair activities.


WINNING RESULTS

Turns out, the Hunt County Fair pull was the perfect place to celebrate Lane's first win !!!!

Lane took home the first place trophy after Friday night's pull.  After an awesome opening performance of the National Anthem by Haley Harrelson, Lane and the 'Texas T-Rex' displayed their own awesome performance to take the crown.

Lane followed up Friday nights victory with a third place finish on the Saturday night pull, for what turned out to be a great weekend of pulling action. 

Congratulations Lane, on a job well done !!!  We would like to thank all of the sponsors of the Hunt County Fair pull, including Crawford-Smith, Inc,  the Enloe Museum, and Bonham Service Center.

Texas T-Rex Going Pro !

Duncan Motorsports is proud to announce that the Texas T-Rex, driven by Lane Duncan, is Going Pro in 2011...GoPro that is !!!  That's right, the Texas T-Rex has been fitted with latest and greatest video equipment to ever be mounted on a motorsports vehicle, the GoPro video camera system.  The video footage shot from the 2010 season, was pretty rough...at best, from the onboard system on the Texas T-Rex.  But for 2011, the video footage should put our fans in the drivers seat with Lane !!  These extremely high-tech cameras offer views limited only by the imagination of the videographers.  Stay tuned to this site, or sign on to YouTube's  'TeamTxTrex'   channel for what should be some great video footage this year.  The TeamTxTrex YouTube channel will feature footage from the Texas T-Rex, as well as other tractors pulling with the LSGTPA group, and even from the sled !!!  We're excited to put GoPro on board the Texas T-Rex tractor, and look forward to providing viewers with many pulls down the track in 2011.

Check out some of the footage, from our first event in Groesbeck, below.

http://youtu.be/K-u_SqR8Sno



Stay tuned for more !!!