Friday 7:30 p.m. - An exciting new chapter was added to the rich tradition of Monster Jam in Louisville, KY, with a star-studded line-up, all trucks that appeared at this year's Monster Jam NGK Spark Plug World Finals, putting on a crowd pleasing show in Freedom Hall at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center. Competing only 50 miles away from his North Vernon, IN, home, Tony Farrell powered the Built Ford Tough Blue Thunder to a popular Championship Race win over Marc McDonald in the Safe Auto Minimizer and Pablo Huffaker wowed the excited Louisville fans with a vintage Grave Digger run to take the freestyle victory Friday night in the opener of a two show Halloween weekend Jam in the Derby City.

The night's first triumph in the non-dirt Thunder National style event was claimed by reigning World Freestyle Champion Adam Anderson who launched a massive sky wheelie in Taz to win that battle. Taz landed so hard on the awesome wheelie that a huge hole was cut in the left rear tire, and Anderson's crew went to work, missing the racing and donut competitions but Taz did return for freestyle.

In racing on the Chicago style oval course Farrell was consistent round after round and with lots of his family and friends in the grand stands Farrell ripped through the racing bracket, with Blue Thunder eventually edging Safe Auto Minimizer in the event finals.

The donut contest was phenomenal with both Grace Digger and George Balhan in Escalade earning perfect scores of 30 to tie for the win. The officials then used a unique tie-breaker to determine a winner: since both trucks performed a dizzying set of cyclones, the officials used the video tape to give the win to the driver who actually turned the most complete 360 degree revolutions. So while Balhan taking the steering wheel off and shoving it up through his roof hatch earned him plenty of style points, Huffaker was credited with 19 full revolutions to 16 for Balhan and the wheelie win was taken by Grave Digger.

Every truck delivered a crowd pleasing performance in the freestyle competition with Candace Jolly's huge leaps throughout her run in the Monster Mutt Dalmatian claiming the lead early and holding on to it until near the end of the draw. The crowd came to its feet when Taz roared back in from the pits, his tire plugged and again holding air, and Anderson grabbed the lead with his high energy performance. Following the Taz run Huffaker turned up the wick even higher, whipping Grave Digger through the air and all over the obstacles on the Freedom Hall floor to take home the freestyle victory.

RACING RESULTS

1st round - Grave Digger def Escalade; Blue Thunder def Batman; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle bye run (Taz out with flat tire); Safe Auto Minimizer def Monster Mutt Dalmatian

Semifinals - Blue Thunder def Grave Digger; Safe Auto Minimizer def Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle

CHAMPIONSHIP RACE - BLUE THUNDER DEFEATED SAFE AUTO MINIMIZER

FREESYLE RESULTS

GRAVE DIGGER  27

Taz  26

Escalade  26

Safe Auto Minimizer  25

Monster Mutt Dalmatian  24

Blue Thunder  23

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle  17

Batman  17

DONUT CONTEST RESULTS

GRAVE DIGGER  30

Escalade  30

Blue Thunder  27

Batman  27

Safe Auto Minimizer  25

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle  23

Monster Mutt Dalmatian  9

WHEELIE CONTEST RESULTS

TAZ  27

Grave Digger  25

Safe Auto Minimizer  24

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle  19

Batman  18

Blue Thunder  18

Escalade  15

Monster Mutt Dalmatian  14

Saturday 7:30 p.m. - A near capacity crowd in spacious Freedom Hall witnessed just how competitive today's Monster Jam action is with four different drivers each claiming a win as a star-studded field of World Finals veterans kept the fans on their feet and roaring their delight throughout the action packed event.

In a line-up that included three current and former World Champions and some of the sport's most seasoned veterans it was one of the sports "Young Guns", Aaron Basl, who shocked the roster by winning the racing event when he drove his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle to a one wheel length victory over George Balhan and Escalade in the event Championship Race.

The freestyle performances were awesome from start to finish, with Adam Anderson showing the Louisville crowd why he is the current World Freestyle Champion. Anderson's huge air and wild donut filled run in Taz won the competition and the youngest champ in the sport's history began to build a huge fan base of his own in the city, and a building, where his father Dennis started building Grave Digger's historic legacy more than two decades ago.

Also grabbing a victory Saturday night was Marc McDonald, who won the wheelie contest in the Safe Auto Minimizer, and George Balhan, who despite being known for his amazing donuts has never been better than he was in that discipline Saturday night, Escalade winning the donut contest.

RACING RESULTS

1st round - Grave Digger def Blue Thunder; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle def Monster Mutt Dalmatian; Escalade def Taz; Batman def Safe Auto Minimizer

Semifinals - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle def Grave Digger; Escalade def Batman 

CHAMPIONSHIP RACE - TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLE DEFEATED ESCALADE

FREESYLE RESULTS

TAZ  27

Escalade  26

Blue Thunder  25

Grave Digger  25

Monster Mutt Dalmatian  21

Safe Auto Minimizer  19

Batman  17

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle  15

DONUT CONTEST RESULTS

ESCALADE  30

Batman  27

Taz  24

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle  20

Monster Mutt Dalmatian  20

Blue Thunder  19

Grave Digger  19

Safe Auto Minimizer  15

WHEELIE CONTEST RESULTS

SAFE AUTO MINIMIZER  25

Taz  24

Grave Digger  24

Blue Thunder  21

Escalade  21

Monster Mutt Dalmatian  20

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle  19

Batman  19