Last weekend, 1320Video’s Garrett Mitchell, who occasionally moonlights in the company’s videos as a redneck persona known as “Cleetus McFarland”, put on an event at the Bradenton Motorsports Park in Florida known as Cleetus and Cars, which included, among other things, a drag racing demolition derby (cue the jokes from the anti-no prep crowd).

Now, we’d have to imagine that somewhere in the 70-someodd year history of organized drag racing that such a thing has been put on before, but in recent times, Bruce Allen and Kenny Koretsky’s Pro Stock mash-em-up in 2005 is about the closest thing we can think of.

Mitchell laid out some ground rules for the event beforehand — and the rule was there’s only one rule: you have to make contact with the opposing car at least once while traversing the 660-foot course; that, and wear a helmet. You were free to drive in reverse (as one competitor unsuccessfully attempted to do), beat the piss out of the other car ala a true demolition derby, cross the centerline, whatever you had to do, as long as you hit your opponent and crossed the finish line first.

As you can imagine (and see in the video), this became a mixture of cat-and-mouse games between highly-competitive individuals so as to avoid being spun out of contention, and those who just didn’t really give a hoot about winning and reveled more in bending up the other guys’ car. And then, hoping to put the NHRA’s 4-Wide Nationals to shame, Mitchell lined them up four-wide for a finale and let them have at it.

Most impressively, the Bradenton track staff was brave enough to leave all but one of it’s foam timing blocks on the surface, and at least as much as we can tell, not a single one was sacrificed in the making of this one-of-a-kind derby.