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Pittsburgh, PA - Mellon Arena
Monster Jam
Mellon Arena
Pittsburgh, PA
02/13-15/2004

US HOT ROD MONSTER JAM
Mellon Arena
Pittsburgh, PA
February 13-15, 20
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Monster Jam Racing Winner Monster Jam Freestyle Winner
Friday - Grave Digger
Saturday 2PM - Grave Digger
Saturday 8PM - Grave Digger
Sunday - Grave Digger
Friday - Grave Digger
Saturday 2PM - Grave Digger
Saturday 8PM - Grave Digger
Sunday - Grave Digger


Trucks: Grave Digger driven by Gary Porter, Vette King, Eradicator, Backdraft, The Broker, and Thrasher

Weekend Race Recap
Friday
Backdraft qualified #1 with Vette King #2 and Then The Digger#3. Backdraft was gettin huge air all night but was still very fast and made his way to the finals. On the otherside of the latter The Digger was on a roll as he worked through the and to was in the finals. When the green light lit it was a great holeshot from the Digger that won him the race.
 
In Freestyle Pat Summa and the Thrasher came out as the 2nd truck and rocked the house pulling down a score of 26. Backdraft got off to a good start but broke the rearend and didn't finish. The only one left was the Digger and when he did his donut he sealed the deal with a score of 29.
 
In Quad wars team NJ and PA went at it and they were one and one after two heats. In the finals it looked like NJ was going to win it but after a free for all in one of the turns between the two captains team PA won the main.
 
We also had the Harley three wheel pullers. They hooked up to two sleds side by side weighing 4500 pounds a piece. The raced as the pulled the sleds to the finish line and but on a great show.   
 
Saturday 2PM
The Gave Digger and Backdraft made it to the finals again and again the Digger got the holeshot at the start and won the race. He is still undefeated for the weekend.
 
In Freestyle we had a great show The Broker started off with a 23 and it just went up from there. The Vette King scored a 27 and The Eradicator did and awesome job and pulled in a score of 28 but again it was the Digger that edged them all out and won with a 29.
 
In Quad Wars team Pa, won then NJ and in the finals team NJ was DQed and the win went to PA.
 
Thee Hog pullers did another nice job of enteraining the crowd.


Saturday 8PM
The crowd was into it right off the bat as Digger and Vette King did great side by side sky wheelies and crashed together as they came down.
In racing the kid in Vette King was on his game tonight as he worked his way through the field and into the finals. On the other side of the ladder The Digger just barely beat Backdraft in a photo finish in the 2nd round. The finals had the teacher Gary Porter and the student Brandon Harrington against each other. The Digger hit the throttle first and won for the third time this weekend and is still undefeated.
 
In freestyle everyone wanted to knock the Digger off the top and when the Vette King came out he went for it. He hit everything on the floor and then did some awesome donuts, we all thought he had done it. His score was a 27. The Digger Came out and did a great job as well and he also finished with some donuts but stoped a little short of the full 60 seconds. The score keepers gave the Digger a 28 for a 1 point edge but received a lot of boos as everyone (except the judges)thought Vette King should have won it. None the less the Digger is still unbeaten in both freestyle and dragracing.
 
Team Pa. took the 1st heat and Team NJ the 2nd. In the finals team captain PJ Hall took out the Pa. captain and got the win. Then They put it all on the line in a captains race where team Pa. won it all.
 
The Hog puller had the crowd yelling as they went side by side and some of them hit the cars. 


Sunday
We started off with a sky wheelie that went a stray with Thrasher. He hit the cars and went vertical, then he went past vertical and feel over backwards while the crowd went wild. That ended the day for Thrasher and gave the Digger a by run in Rd.1. He bet the Eradicator in Rd.2 and made it to the finals for the 4th time this weekend. Backdraft won a very close race with Vette King and went to the finals for the 3rd time this weekend. When the light turned green the Gave Digger won the race and stayed undefeated through 4 shows and 12 rounds of racing.
 
In Freestyle the Digger was looking for another win here to complete the sweep. His big compitition would again be Eradicator who scored a 27 but again the Digger did just enough to keep the streak alive with a score of 28 giving him 8 event wins this weekend.
 
The Hog pullers did anothe great job as they kept the crowd excited with side by side pulling.
 
Team NJ won the first two heats but the main event went to team PA. in Quad Wars and PA won the Captains race as well.  





 
 
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