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Weekend Race Recap

Saturday: 7:30 PM-
A few rather new names "nudged" the veterans tonight, but in the end it was the years of experience that won out in every facet of the monster truck competition. In monster racing qualifying, it was relative new comer that made even the cagiest of veterans take notice. Not only did we have brothers behind the wheel of a monster tonight, but "twin" brothers. It was one of those two young guns that set the time to beat. Blacksmith and Aaron Basl was the brother that had the rest scratching their race helmets. He also worked his way up to the semi-finals, but in the end, seat time and years of competition won out as Norm Miller and the big Blue Thunder Ford quietly worked his way into the finals and the win.

In the Stadium Pro-Truck competition 8 trucks qualified to complete the field. Working their way through a bracket system of two trucks at a time, and in the end it was the Jeep Wrangler out of Modesto, CA and Randy Avery taking the final checkers.

With the Suzuki Motorcycles free-style motocross coming next, the fans in the seats had NO idea what was to come. HECK!!!! The USHRA officials had no idea either for that matter. The contest started out rather tame, but ended up ROCKIN THE HOUSE!!!

Kenny Bell, Tim O'Brien, Destin Cantrell, Mark Phillips, and Darren Wright kicked out trick after viscous trick. Every run seemed more violent but yet poetic pass after pass. On the very last jump off the 75' gaps, the last rider, Mark Phillips NAILED not one, but TWO HUGE BLACKFLIPS! To say that a few flashbulbs went off is putting MILDLY!

The last thing up tonight was the Snap-On Tools Monster Truck Free-style competition. Even with 10 trucks running in front of him, Pablo Huffaker and Grave-Digger STOMPED and I mean STOMPED the entire field of 11 trucks with an absolutely PERFECT run and PERFECT score of 30! At the closing of the night and after all the interviews were done, still no one was leaving. If you can have the "warm fuzzies" with thousands of fans tonight was the night. I hate to say this but it will be another year before we are back, but we hope to see you down the road at a Monster Jam event sometime soon.