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[Engines Rev and Roar]
TOBY KRUSE: It is our inaugural Iowa State Fair Cup.
Some racing back out here at the Iowa State Fair.
We have ATVs, UTVs, like the four wheelers you see, the UTVs with the cage over the top
and we have entries ranging from 4 years up to 76 years old all participating here today.
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In total, we have 19 different classes out here.
If you watch the Supercross racing, we started from a standing start on the chalk line.
So it will be cheering for their favorite driver.
The heat races are a short run, like six laps in length.
With the tight corners they've been watching for a place where they can make the passes
and moves.
There's some families that they have their sons, their daughters all racing, and the
dads even race.
That's what's cool.
It is not only a family event in the pits, on the racetrack, as well.
JOHN BERG: I give my kids everything I didn't have.
The racing family is a huge family.
Everyone will help.
You take a liking to a lot of people.
We help anybody and everybody we can.
JOHN'S SON: My favorite part about racing is I depend on myself, I don't depend on other
people.
So if I make a mistake, it's on me.
So I look back and it's on me if I didn't win.
JILL BERG: I take videos to calm my nerves.
Otherwise I would be screaming.
TOBY: A lot of these UTVs here they start out basically on the farm.
But then they alter them a little bit.
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They'll lower them down to the ground, some high performance shocks.
A course like today is about a quarter mile in length, multiple right hand turns, left
hand turns.
You have some high speed portions, some lower speed, and then some jumps thrown into there.
We have on the one end what they call a joker turn, which is the farthest way around the
racetrack.
They have to make that turn at least one time during the event.
It's basically you throw them a curveball right in the middle of the race.
CAMERON MAPES: I was pulling over, because I was leading it, and I had to shut the car
off to restart it.
Then all of a sudden, I saw this car wreck in front of me.
So it was kind of good for me, because I got a restart.
Then I can go out and win it.
Just keep your eyes open and make sure you stay out of all the wrecks and drive smart.
The thing I like is the race family, coming to the track and seeing all your friends and
having fun.
I like winning, too.
I'm pretty competitive.
TOBY: A lot of camaraderie that goes on.
If they have an accident, something happens, they all hop in.
They want to make sure they get back on the racetrack, because it's like my gramp used
to say, friendship ceases in a card game, but before and after everybody is friends.
They want to beat you on the racetrack.
It's a racing family.
A tight knit group of folks.