Complaint Review: Tournament of Destruction

Hook N Book Racing Team derbied for Tournament of Destruction/M80 Promotions for over 22 years. We recently complained about the promoters son Ian Penn cheating and we were suspended. Ian continued to race, when we went to the Lions Club whom are the owners of the Tucson Rodeo Grounds, we were expelled from racing. The Lions Club never helped us instead Dale Penn the promoter of the show who is ward member 1 on the board of the Lions Club (which we found out later) made a club in the middle of a points season to "legally" kick our team out and anyone else who complained about his son. We started picketing and protesting all of his events. Dale Penn has called the police every time we have protested. The police said we were within our civil rights and that there was nothing that they could do. Dale Penn then took it further and went to the courts to get an "Order of Protection". Court was supposed to be within 10 days of the day we filed to hear from the judge. The court date landed on the day of his Tournament of Destruction. he filed a continuance which was granted.

We are still waiting on court about dropping this thing because Dale was very vague on his reasoning as to why he got the restraining order. He stated the police were called which they were but he didn't state that there wasn't any violations and that we were only practicing our first amendment rights. The Promoter of Tournament of Destruction has now ruined our teams name saying that we are the cheaters and he continues to try to take our civil rights away! There used to be 25+ cars every show and now he has limited it down to only 6-8 cars. We have heard from some of the current drivers that Dale doesn't want any of his current drivers hitting any other car too hard (Sandbagging), and has threatened the other drivers that if they run in another event they will not be welcome back to his. Derbies are about cars smashing, mud flinging, every driver for themselves, and the last car running! It is supposed to be a fun event in which you have a chance to win a little bit of money in the end, now its just a nightmare!