Saturday 8:00 p.m. - Charlie Pauken won the latest chapter of the Grave Digger-Maximum Destruction rivalry, Grave Digger winning the event racing finals, then Meents and his crew put Max-D back together yet again and the seven-time World Champion won his second freestyle competition of the day Saturday night at the Gelredome.
With every person in the Dutch crowd standing for the highly anticipated Championship Race Pauken and Meents put on a great battle on the lengthy race course, with Grave Digger taking a slight lead into the final turn. At that point Maximum Destruction flipped over violently and ripped off a wheel as a pumped up Pauken roared across the finish line victoriously.
While Meents and his crew worked fevoriously to make it back out the freestyle competition began, and Bobby Parr set the bar high, coming out first with a wild run that ended with the funny car body destroyed and the truck upside down. That proved to be a wild trend that had the fans screaming in delight throughout the night, with several more trucks rolling over at the end of their runs. World Champion Adam Anderson came back from an afternoon where his truck shut down early, but the time Taz held together the entire time, plus a 30 second bonus period, leaving Adam in first place when Meents shocked the crowd by rolling Max-D back on to the track, the wheel fixed and Meents went ballistic to claim another Arnhem freestyle victory.
RACING RESULTS
Fast qualifier - Maximum Destruction
1st round - Maximum Destruction def Swamp Thing; Superman def Monster Mutt; Thor def Jetix; El Toro Loco def Jurassic Attack; Grave Digger def Donkey Kong; Taz def War Wizard
2nd round - Maximum Destruction def Superman; El Toro Loco def Thor; Grave Digger def Taz (Taz advanced to semifinals as fast loser)
Semifinals - Maximum Destruction def Taz; Grave Digger def El Toro Loco
CHAMPIONSHIP RACE - GRAVE DIGGER DEFEATED MAXIMUM DESTRUCTION
FREESTYLE RESULTS
MAXIMUM DESTRUCTION 40
Taz 39
Grave Digger 38
Monster Mutt 34
Donkey Kong 31
Superman 28
Jetix 28
Thor 27
El Toro Loco 27
Swamp Thing 24
War Wizard 22
Jurassic Attack 14
