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Las Vegas, NV - Sam Boyd Stadium
Monster Jam
Sam Boyd Stadium
Las Vegas, NV
03/28-29/2008
Monster Jam Racing Winner Monster Jam Freestyle Winner

RACING RESULTS
Fast qualifier - Maximum Destruction

1st Round - Team Suzuki def Stone Crusher; Superman def Scarlet Bandit; Escalade def Destroyer; Bounty Hunter def Iron Outlaw; Taz def Monster Mutt Dalmatian; Black Stallion def El Toro Loco; Grave Digger def Donkey Kong; Avenger def Pastrana 199

2nd Round - Maximum Destruction def Team Suzuki; Monster Mutt def Superman; Safe Auto Minimizer def Escalade; Bounty Hunter def Blue Thunder; Batman def Taz; Air Force Afterburner def Black Stallion; King Krunch def Grave Digger; Captain's Curse def Avenger

3rd Round - Maximum Destruction def Monster Mutt; Bounty Hunter def Safe Auto Minimizer; Batman def Air Force Afterburner; Captain's Curse def King Krunch

Semifinals - Maximum Destruction def Bounty Hunter; Batman def Captain's Curse (Bounty Hunter advanced to Championship Race when Maximum Destruction was unable to return)

2008 MONSTER JAM NGK SPARK PLUGS WORLD FINALS CHAMPIONSHIP RACE - BATMAN DEFEATED BOUNTY HUNTER

2008 MONSTER JAM NGK SPARK PLUGS WORLD FINALS FREESTYLE CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS
TAZ 37
SCARLET BANDIT 36
MONSTER MUTT DALMATIAN 32
BLUE THUNDER 30
GRAVE DIGGER 30
CAPTAINS CURSE 29
EL TORO LOCO 28
MONSTER MUTT 27
DONKEY KONG 26
BLACK STALLION 25
STONE CRUSHER 24
SAFE AUTO MINIMIZER 24
TEAM SUZUKI 23
PASTRANA 199 20
ESCALADE 18
AIR FORCE AFTERBURNER 18
AVENGER 17
BATMAN 16
KING KRUNCH 13
BOUNTY HUNTER12
SUPERMAN 8
MAXIMUM DESTRUCTION 6
DESTROYER 5
IRON OUTLAW 4


Monster Jam crowned its two new World Champions Saturday night in Las Vegas at the Monster Jam NGK Spark Plugs World Finals with John Seasock driving Batman to the racing title for the second straight year and Adam Anderson winning the freestyle crown in Taz, becoming not only the first second generation star to take a world title, but also becoming Monster Jam's youngest ever World Champion.

Tom Meents topped the double down festivities Friday night by turning in the fastest qualifying time, then Saturday Meents looked dominant throughout the race competition, roaring through the upper half of the bracket, then defeating Jimmy Creten in Bounty Hunter in the semifinals to earn a berth in the Championship Race. That's when mechanical problems stunned the Max-D team, the truck unable to start for the Championship Race allowing Creten and Bounty Hunter to get back into the battle for the crown, taking Max-D's spot in the finale.

In the bottom half of the bracket Seasock methodically mowed down the competition round after round, eliminating surprising Alex Blackwell and Captain's Curse in the semifinals. The Championship Race was Seasock's for the second straight year, following up last year's final round win over Grave Digger with this year's triumph over Bounty Hunter. Seasock joins Meents as the only drivers to win back to back World Racing Championships, Meents having won three racing titles in a row from 2000 to 2002.

With the crowd coming to its feet for standing ovation after standing ovation throughout the freestyle competition, the 24 truck field was put on notice from the start that it would take a truly special performance to win that title. Coming out first in the event Chad Tingler powered Monster Mutt Dalmatian through an amazing run that grabbed the lead with a score of 32. Tingler's score would stay at the top for most of the first half of the competition, then it was Dawn Creten turning in maybe the greatest freestyle of her career to knock Tingler out of the Hot Seat. Creten not only filled the clock in Scarlet Bandit with an incredible start to finish run, her final move, a wild leap over the triple bus stack threw her Ford Expedition into a barrell rolling, then pirouette style flip, with the truck landing back on its wheels and continuing on to finish filling the clock. Dawn moved into the top spot with a score of 36, and she stayed on top as superstar after superstar came out and rocked the house but ultimately came up short of Scarlet's score.

With only three trucks to go the possibility of having the first husband and wife World Champions was alive (Jimmy Creten having won the World Freestyle Championship in 2005), but in the end Monster Jam has its first father - son World Champion combo. Adam Anderson's run in Taz had everything including some of the most amazing high-flying cross thread moves ever seen, and Anderson grabbed the lead by getting extra points for filling the bonus time, ending with a total  

of 37. His Dad, a former three-time World Champion, had a strong performance but Dennis flipped Grave Digger with too much time on the clock to win this year's title. The final contestant was Meents, but Max-D broke a wheel and flipped early in the run, leaving Adam Anderson as the last man standing, claiming his first World Championship.






 
 
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