Blade Gone Sweet

​Morgan Bartley – Blade Gone Sweet

The sport of truck and tractor pulling is just about as “grass-roots” as motorsports gets.  Its easy to imagine men taking their horses (and later tractors) out into their back field, and competing to see who had the strongest team.  I can only imagine what the woman’s role was in the early years of this sport, probably preparing lunch for the men to have after a full morning of competition.  Fast forward to 2016 and the role of women in truck and tractor pulling has dramatically changed.  It is quickly growing into a more popular form of motorsports, and with that there has been a dramatic increase in female drivers. Women like Rodalyn Knox, the driver of the Sassy Massey, were the trailblazers in the sport, leading the way for the dozens of female drivers today.  In fact, it is becoming so popular that last year at the National Tractor Pulling Championship in Bowling Green, Ohio, in the super modified two wheel drive class of 53 competitors, 11 were female drivers
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One of those drivers is seventeen year old Morgan Bartley from Saluda, South Carolina.  Morgan is the driver of a super modified two wheel drive truck that she calls Blade Gone Sweet.  Her truck features a 1923 Ford T-Bucket body and a 526 Keith Black Hemi.  She competes at a Grand National level with the National Truck and Tractor Pullers Association throughout her summers.  2015-2016 may have been her rookie year driving, but she is no rookie to the sport of truck pulling.  Morgan’s family have deep roots in the sport of truck and tractor pulling, with her dad being a 25 year veteran of the sport.  It was only natural for Morgan to follow in the footsteps of her father and brother and become a driver when her time came

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