February 24th - Season 1

The Checkmate of Thawn Oberhauser

This past Monday Night on Fuel saw the return of one of arguably the greatest race on the list of F-X race types: the One-KM Derby.

The last time we saw this contest, it ended the rivalry between Jim Kieck and John Kloof and it looked to do the same here… this time for the Formula-X Throne.

Just as before, the derby was contested for major stakes. This time, the stakes for one of the competitors was made easy: the Formula-X Crown. The other competitor and Claimant for the title decided to stake his claim entirely when he said that if he lost, he would not challenge Mandla so long as he was King.

As it turns out, Thawn's stake was the only reason that Mandla agreed to face off with Thawn as he said that he had won two of the three feature races they’d had and if he beat him again, he wanted to be rid of him.

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As such, there is no other race that could have been chosen to finally put a sense of finality to what has been called the rivalry of the Summer.

It was definitely a sight to behold as King Mandla and Thawn took their positions around the bend of the OG section of the Fuel Speedway.

The whole event was an unprecedented moment as this was the first time that  only a section of the track would be used since before the debut of the new Fuel Speedway.

There was also a never-seen-before hype that dominated the Speedway as live audience and viewers were treated to a pay-per-view quality race at the cost of a subscribers fee. The word fever-pitch had never been understated than like in this race.