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TASS / Viktor Pogontsev
Every year Rostov-on-Don holds an unusual race, in which participants prefer tractors to racing cars.
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28 racers and farmers from all across Russia took part in this year's race.
TASS / Viktor Pogontsev
The 7-mile track consisted of eight difficult stages, with fewer and fewer tractors left after each of them.
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The machines, weighing up to 3 thousand pounds, reached crazy speeds of 60 miles per hour.
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About 35 thousand people came to see tractors hurtling through the air, pulling wheelies and hairpin turns, and getting all mucked up.
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You could also see tractors rolling over and even catching fire.
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Racing through the fire gate, one tractor caught fire. Luckily the flame was put out in no time.
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Another machine, on landing badly near the finish, broke its front strut, rolled over and immediately received a blow to the body from an opponent.
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There were four finishers. Two of them got new tractors as an award.
