From what I understand Mingay’s injuries were a result of the wall being poorly constructed. Basically an otherwise light roll turned ugly because one section of wall moved and when the momentum carried the truck forward it hit a separate section of the wall that didn’t move. I haven’t heard of any other instance…

There are several down there that are owned by a few folks. Monster Jam is also in the middle of their three city Australia tour. Monster Jam is pretty safe across the board but I’ve seen some less than ideal things from the Australian promoters unfortunately.

Considering the number of birds in the terminal the past few times I’ve flown out of Newark, I would’ve thought for sure that’s where this happened when I read the headline.

Between Mike’s time with the ACC as well as his time spent being the lead commentator for Monster Jam on TNN his voice was a large part of my upbringing. Us monster truck dorks had a bit of a soft spot for Hogwood as even though he was totally out of his element calling this stuff in the beginning, he still managed to…

As somebody that works in motorsports and makes their living from it, few things aggravate me more than promoters/race tracks knowingly allowing the public to be in dangerous positions. The front stretch situations at Daytona and Talladega are some of the most prime examples of it. NASCAR has known for over 25 years…

So I know it’s not the most appropriate thing, but this is my all time favorite Doug Danger video for silly reasons. My good friend is the one announcing and totally forgot to cut his mic when he saw Doug start to go down. I can’t help but laugh hysterically every time I watch this video. Doug was okay thankfully and…

Rigg is the man. One of my favorite dirt guys to see when working events.

In his defense, the weather sucked all day and it was forecasted to rain during the event. If you weren’t a die hard fan of this stuff I wouldn’t expect you to sit in the pouring rain for it.

It’s out back of the stadium. If you come in off of Katella by the Honda Center, train station(?) and the Ayers into that back lot and hang a left. It’s fenced off but it’s there.

Pass to Mark!

This is one of the most laughable statements I’ve ever heard. $2 mil to do a two day race at a random airfield in front of maybe 8,000 to 10,000 people? Give me a break. If you managed to spend that much money on that event you’re too dumb to be operating a major motorsports promotion. The series always looked to be a…

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You’re quite a ways off. I too would like a prerunner and I’m on the completely wrong coast.

The electric Bigfoot is a gimmick. It was created to make use of a chassis that was out of date for competition but already assembled. It’s just a good marketing ploy for Odyssey Batteries and has also been used for smaller car crushes with audiences sensitive to noise like kids with autism. The rest of the Bigfoot…

The worst example I’ve got I was a passenger in the car. I think my friends and I were all 17-18 at the time. It was about 10pm on a slow winter night on the Outer Banks. Winters here are super boring as all the tourists are out and many locals take off in the winter for surf trips. A lot of business close as a…

I mean I guess you could say I’m a fanboy at heart. I think most of us that work this stuff are. A good majority are lifelong fans that are really passionate about what they do, the events we are a part of and the people around us. It’s a very dysfunctional family but a family nonetheless.

So to give you a bit of a breakdown, the Monster Jam fleet trucks from this event except for Max-D are pretty close to matching and mostly use the same spec parts. The matching fleet trucks are Grave Digger, Mutant, Megalodon, Mohawk Warrior and Whiplash. Max-D is built differently with a different chassis design,…

I had no idea that was you doing the driving experience in Anaheim. We probably walked past each other at some point over the course of the weekend.

When you work the events 30+ weekends a year across the country as well as working directly with a number of the teams and promoters in the sport during the week you tend to gain a little bit of knowledge of what’s happening.

If you’re talking about what’s directly behind the shocks, yes that’s a sway bar.