We often overlook the drivers of rockbouncers, mainly because we’re focused on the rigs themselves, the altitude they gain, the crashes, and the sheer violence of the whole spectacle. It’s hard to look past a giant tube-frame buggy with a screaming V8 defying gravity and physics while ascending a rock or root-strewn hillside that an Abrams tank wouldn’t be able to conquer, for sure. But it takes a very special breed to strap into the seat, aim the nose at the impossible and use the violent capabilities that one prod of the right foot can provide to do what should be the impossible. You can use whatever adjectives you can come up with to describe the pilots of these rigs but they are tied to this sport and they give it all.
Busted Knuckle Video is usually right there with these racers as they traverse the Southeast looking for hell to raise, and they know the drivers well enough that this year they’ve started featuring some of the more notable pilots. In this video you will see Wes Kean and his “rat rod” bouncer, complete with a blown LS mill, run just about every kind of obstacle that these racers see in a season. Sandy, sloppy, and in some cases literally straight up, Kean has no trouble taking on each and every course. That isn’t to say he makes every last one…broken axles, rollovers and more will doom pretty much any rockbouncer at some point. But as long as the rig is together, Kean takes on all challenges the same way: foot down until the blower is yelling louder than the engine!
Will some kind soul please bring rock racing to the UK…..
Keep our flag off the ground!
So should they take it off of soldiers uniforms too? I mean they are always on the ground.