Link-up smooths way to victory
A Shropshire team has forged a winning partnership with a Shrewsbury lubricants firm to power to a triumph in the 2018 British Tractor Pulling Championship.
The Bear Essentials team, based near Shrewsbury, uses oils and lubricants from county town firm Morris Lubricants for its 2,000hp tractor, Ice Bear, which takes part in competitions across the UK and Europe.
The team clinched the British Championship in the Prostock category – for production-based tractors running on diesel fuel with a single turbocharger – after competing in rounds across England and Scotland.
It was also the leading British tractor to finish in the top 10 at the European Championships and the highly contested Eurocup Series held this year in the Netherlands, Denmark, Hungary and the UK.
The goal of tractor pulling is to drag an increasingly heavy sledge as far as possible. In the Prostock category, a weight of up to 60 tonnes is hauled down a 100m track in about 10 seconds.
The Bear Essentials team travels almost 20,000km a year to compete across the UK and Europe, where tractor pulling is a major spectator sport.
