Where crashing cars is the point

Tom Wolfe, a writer, called demolition derbies “culturally the most important sport ever originated in the United States”—closer to the gladiatorial games of Rome than even boxing. Annihilation is the point. The last car running wins. Sports reporters ignored them, wrote Wolfe, because they thought them puerile and low-class: too many kids with “sideburns, tight Levi’s and winkle-picker boots”.