Team Boss Blue is coming to Yorkton August 19 and 20. The tractor pulling team operated by Ken Beauchemin of Saskatoon will offer motorsports fans a tractor pull competition at the Yorkton Exhibition grandstand.
Competition promoter Beauchemin says the event will offer two evening shows starting at 7 p.m. featuring several classes of vehicles each show. Competitors will include modified tractors, modified trucks, diesel 4x4 hot rods, two wheel drive modified trucks, a hopped up highway tractor, and some superstock tractors from Washington State. "We've got quite a batch of vehicles coming," he claims.
All competitors will attempt to pull a weighted sled over a 300 foot track set up in front of the Yorkton Exhibition grandstand.
Quite a popular sport at one time, tractor pulls haven't been held in Yorkton for some time. The biggest issue may be the expense of building and campaigning the tractors, suggests Beauche-min. It's a big job and many of the former promoters may have fallen by the wayside, he thinks.
Beauchemin and his Boss Blue team have been promoting tractor pulls since 1991 with a couple of breaks along the way.
Two years ago Beauche-min set up Pinnacle Motor-sports with some new help and new enthusiasm. "It's easy to do when you have lots of help but it's hard to do when you don't have any," he declares.
Two of the tractors which will be featured at the competition include the Dirt Wrangler and Boss Blue.
The Dirt Wrangler, just built this winter, has a supercharged Donovan hemi in it which will produce about 2,000 horsepower Beauchemin estimates. It will see its first competition in two upcoming shows in Mon-tana.
Beauchemin has run Boss Blue since 1982. The tractor which has been rebuilt several times has a 500 cubic inch hemi in it which churns out 2,400 horsepower.
He's been in the sport for about 34 years. A former drag racer, Beau-chemin watched the tractors pulls in Saskatoon in 1976. He liked what he saw. Hew also decided he could build one that would outperform anything he saw competing at the time. As a result he began to build machines to compete in tractors pulls as well as drag racing. "We built our first tractor in the fall of '77 and we out and started kicking butt and have continued to do so ever since," Beauche-min claims.
He recalls he's won every show he attended in Yorkton since he began in 1978. He invites local motorsports fans out to the shows to see if he can continue to claim his undefeated status.
