Monster Truck Radio With Host Jeff Richards
Date: Monday, August 30th, 2010
Guest #1: Rob French, driver of Twisted Dragon
Guest #2: N/A [Read more…]
Archives for August 2010
Monster Truck Radio 08/30/10 – Rob French
August 30, 2010 by
4-Wheel Jamboree Nationals – Olmsted County Fairgrounds – Rochester, MN – 08/29/10
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Video of the Week – 08/28/10
August 28, 2010 by
Week Ending: August 28th, 2010
Truck(s) Featured: Torqzilla (Chris Guzman)
Video Type: Fan Event Video
Courtesy: www.YouTube.com
Description: Chris Guzman nails a wild wheelie, bringing Torqzilla to a stop on the tail gate at the Torgerson Motorsports event in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.
4-Wheel Jamboree Nationals – Olmsted County Fairgrounds – Rochester, MN – 08/28/10
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Practice Jump Feature of Media Day for Bad Habit World Record Monster Truck Jump
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(Bad Habit PR – Weedsport, NY) Members of the media will get their first glimpse of Monster Truck Bad Habit, and driver Joey Sylvester on media day August 31st at the Miller Farm, home of the Cornfield 500, in Columbus, PA. The final tune-up before Sylvester tries to enter history books by breaking the world record Monster Truck Jump of 202 feet set by the legendary Bigfoot.
As part of the final tune up, Sylvester, who is still recovering from a back injury in a recent exhibition, will jump the two ton bad habit half the world record distance. “I’m still very sore from my accident last week, but I’ve put in countless hours to attempt this record and nothing is going to stop me,” Exclaimed Sylvester. “I’ve dreamed about putting my name in the record books, and a few bumps and bruises won’t stop it.”
Members of the media will also be able to speak with Joey Sylvester as he will answer questions during a press conference. Media day will begin at 2:00pm on Tuesday August 31st and is open to all members of the media.
The world Record Attempt will take place Labor Day weekend, Sunday September 5th at Baker Hill Farm in Columbus, P.A. The event will be broadcast across the globe on DIRTVision.com. DIRTVision.com is the fastest growing motorsports video streaming website. To view the broadcast simply sign in and purchase the 12.99 Pay per view subscription. Coverage will begin at 8pm .
For more information on the Jump and Media day contact Sabrena Miller 814-566-7498, or by email at info@bakerhillmotorsports.com. Directions and more info can be found at www.cornfield500.com. For more info visit www.teamemedia.com, or www.DIRTVision.com.
Zoo Games Inks Deal With Monster Truck Powerhouse BIGFOOT
August 26, 2010 by
(Cincinnati, OH) Just days after BIGFOOT’s won the 2010 Monster Nationals Racing Championship, Zoo Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ CM: ZOOG) is announcing that they have inked a software publishing deal with the innovators of the monster truck. This announcement comes just two years after the initial success of BIGFOOT Collision Course, the first BIGFOOT title published by Zoo on WiiT and DS. With the original collaboration resulting in over 250,000 copies sold, Zoo and “The Original Monster Truck®” are ready to bring mind blowing action back to its fans for a second time.
Developed and published by Zoo, the new BIGFOOT title will bring the realistic experience of monster truck racing to 4×4 fans and video game enthusiasts alike. By replicating the same innovative construction that has made BIGFOOT the leader in the monster truck industry, Zoo plans to bring the car crushing action from the arena to the living room. “Monster trucks are an assault on your senses, both visually and audibly,” said Mark Seremet, CEO of Zoo. “In order to maintain the realism of the trucks and the sport, we’re looking forward to working closely with BIGFOOT to produce another action-packed title that pays homage to the sport and its fans.”
With a track record of success with Zoo, BIGFOOT shares the same enthusiasm for the upcoming title. “After the overwhelming success of BIGFOOT Collision Course, we’re thrilled to be working with Zoo again,” said Bob Chandler, owner and operator of Bigfoot 4×4, Inc. “It’s an incredible opportunity to be able to share our love for monster trucks with the mass market, and we look forward to making our upcoming title a great success.”
Zoo will begin development this year and plans to release the upcoming title in 2011. For more information on Team BIGFOOT, check out www.Bigfoot4x4.com.
Introducing “TMB TV: ActionTracks” Video Series
August 25, 2010 by
TMB TV is proud to unveil a brand new series produced in conjunction with our own Chris Parrish and CP Action Art, ActionTracks!! Chris has put together a great new format in a spinoff of TMB’s popular TMB TV series that features great monster truck action, interviews and features.
What better way to debut this new series than by covering one of the summer’s premiere events, the Monster Truck Challenge from Bristol Motor Speedway!! By clicking the link below, you’ll see eight of the top monster trucks in the country do battle in the infield of one of the most famous race tracks in the world.
A big thanks to Chris for his great work on the new series and to the MTC staff for their hospitality, click the link below to enjoy all the action!!
TMB TV: ActionTracks Episode 1.1 – Bristol, TN
August 25, 2010 by
Event: Thompson Metal Monster Madness
Venue: Bristol Motor Speedway
Location: Bristol, TN
Date: July 29th, 2010
Host: Chris Parrish
Videographer: Chris Parrish
Lineup: Avenger (Jim Koehler), Bad Habit (Joe Sylvester), Brutus (Chris Bergeron), Equalizer (Mike Hawkins), Gun Slinger (Scott Hartsock), Hotsy Raminator (Mat Dishman), Tail Gator (Doug Noelke), War Wizard (Randy Moore) [Read more…]
Rick Long & BIGFOOT Awarded 2010 Monster Nationals Racing Title
August 24, 2010 by
(Hazelwood, MO) Team BIGFOOT is proud to announce that Rick Long, driver of BIGFOOT #15, has been officially crowned the 2010 Monster Nationals Racing champion!
Not since the 2005 Monster Nationals season has Team BIGFOOT fielded a vehicle for the full duration of the tour and challenged for the championship title. In fact, the last Monster Nationals title won by a BIGFOOT driver was Eric Tack in 2003 driving (you guessed it) BIGFOOT #15.
Although the 2010 season would be Rick Long’s first full trip through the Monster Nationals schedule, he is most definitely no stranger to the events, having competed in a number of them over the course of the 2006-2009 seasons.
Long’s road to the championship honors was a most impressive one, as the veteran driver showed he truly is one of Team BIGFOOT’s most aggressive and versatile wheelsmen. With only a couple exceptions, the Monster Nationals series primarily takes place on the bare concrete floors of various arenas across the country, due mainly to time constraints placed on the event organizers or venue regulations against using a track made of dirt. This, of course, presents the drivers and their crew with a host of challenges that they must conquer in order to find on-track success.
The Monster Nationals event format features several individual styles of monster truck competition, including the Wheelie Contest, Freestyle, and Side-by-Side drag racing over junk cars. Long and BIGFOOT showed no mercy in the side-by-side racing category! See the team’s jaw-dropping win statistics: over the course of 24 individual racing events, Long and BIGFOOT captured 16 event wins and took runner-up in a number of other final rounds. This 2-1 win ratio left Long with a total of 1,925 points at season’s end, nearly 1,000 points more than second place finisher Doug Noelke and Tailgator, who amassed 950 to his credit. With those facts on the table, it’s not hard to see why Rick Long is your 2010 Monster Nationals Racing champion!
Nearly as impressive as his racing success were Long’s achievements in both the Wheelie Contest and Freestyle segments of the events, where he finished in second place in both categories. This championship is Long’s second. His first was the 2007 Monster Madness
“We just had an outstanding year running the Monster Nationals tour,” said Rick Long. “Usually winning that many races means you’ve tore up a bunch of stuff, but we somehow lucked out and had it pretty easy this year,” he explained. He went on to add that “Our guys in the shop really took care of me this year, and whatever it is we did to the truck’s setup sure worked, because there wasn’t a truck out there this year that could run as fast and consistent as we did in side-by-side racing.” Perhaps even more interesting to note is the fact that despite its racing-biased tune-up and suspension setup, Long’s BIGFOOT truck proved to be a highly aggressive and successful competitor in both the wheelie contest and freestyle categories.
For the majority of the 2010 season Long competed as the only representative of Team BIGFOOT on the tour, the only exception being the 3-day Madison, WI event, where he was joined by teammate Chris Ludwig in Snake Bite (BIGFOOT #11). Ludwig would prove that Team BIGFOOT’s mastery of indoor non-dirt racing wasn’t strictly limited to just one truck, or one driver – Chris took second place honors in racing during the Saturday night event and captured his first ever indoor national event win on Sunday!
With the 2010 Monster Nationals tour in the books, Rick Long and company will shift their focus to a number of non-point events and a handful of special appearances for BIGFOOT’s two primary sponsors – Firestone tires and Summit Racing Equipment. One can certainly bet that by the time the 2011 Monster Nationals season kicks off in January, Rick Long and BIGFOOT will be ready to defend their title!
“We’re going to approach the 2011 season just like we did the 2010 season, with two goals in mind: win races, and make our fans happy,” said Long. “Thankfully, those two go hand in hand.”
For more information on Rick Long, BIGFOOT #15, and the entire BIGFOOT team, visit their online home at www.Bigfoot4x4.com. You can find driver and truck bios, an online store, the schedule for the team’s fleet of seven touring monster trucks, and much more.
Monster Truck Radio 08/23/10 – Scott Hartsock
August 23, 2010 by
Monster Truck Radio With Host Jeff Richards
Date: Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Guest #1: Scott Hartsock, driver of Gun Slinger
Guest #2: N/A [Read more…]
Obsession Racing Press Release 12
August 23, 2010 by
(Menifee, CA) On the 14th and 15th of August Obsession Racing made their first appearance at the legendary RMR (Rocky Mountain Raceway) Clash of the Titans Event. This is one of the biggest West Coast Events held during the summertime season. RMR had twelve of the most competitive racing trucks. The giant figure eight course takes driving ability, horsepower, and your equipment needs to be at its best. The track is set up in the form of an hourglass design on asphalt. Instead of having the looped corners of a figure eight, you have very sharp corners with two short straight a way’s and two long straight a way’s plus racing at very high speeds it is very difficult to have any traction. This is defiantly a driver’s course!
Rick drove Obsessed and Jeff Jones was in Obsession. In the weeks leading up to this event Rick was told that first time drivers at this track usually do not make it out the first round. On Saturday night Rick qualified in the middle of the field. Unfortunately Jeff hit a cone during qualifying and this put him lower on the bracket but he was quick for his time. In racing Jeff in Obsession was taken out by King Krunch. Rick took Obsessed all the way to the semi finals again Dan Runte in Big Foot. He was very pleased considering first timers of RMR are never likely to make it to the top.
Sunday evening had both racing and freestyle. During qualifying Rick was doing awesome and unfortunately slid out in the corner costing him a broken input shaft in the transmission. Jeff did his qualifying run in Obsession and then immediately helped Rick try to get the transmission back together in Obsessed for racing. Jeff chose to stick with working on Obsessed, with the help of Michael Christensen while Rick jumped in Obsession and brought it to the semi finals. This was pretty impressive since the Obsession truck has the smaller motor. For freestyle they couldn’t get Obsessed back together in time. Rick continued the night in Obsession and did a great freestyle the pleased the crowd. We wanted to give special thanks and appreciation to all of the people that helped us. Michael Christensen for all of your help at the track, David Smith for getting us into this show, Jimmy Creten for the transmission parts, Jim Allen for the great photo’s, and Doug Binstock for booking us into this show and the awesome meal on Friday night. The Obsession Racing Team is looking forward to this show once again next year!
For more information on Obsession Racing, go to www.ObsessionRacing.com.
Video of the Week – 08/21/10
August 21, 2010 by
Week Ending: August 21st, 2010
Truck(s) Featured: Nitemare (Andy Hoffman)
Video Type: Fan Event Video
Courtesy: www.YouTube.com
Description: Andy Hoffman destroys an RV camper at Hank’s Jamboree at Lasalle Speedway in Mendota, Illinois.
BIGFOOT Bad Boy III Design Contest 2011
August 20, 2010 by
(Hazelwood, MO) Here is your chance to be a part of BIGFOOT history! You now have the chance to design an all-new paint scheme for the 2011 Bad Boy BIGFOOT III. Ever since Larry Swim and the Bad Boy BIGFOOT debuted for Checkered Flag Productions in 2009, it has been by far the most popular BIGFOOT to hit the series. Larry has brought a whole new attitude to BIGFOOT and came up with his own style of driving “Bad Boy style!” Larry and Bad Boy BIGFOOT are the 2009 and 2010 Checkered Flag Productions Champions!
The contest begins August 23rd and goes through September 30th, 2010 at midnight. The Bad Boy BIGFOOT III design must include the CFP Bad Boy of racing logo and BIGFOOT logo (see website for logos). The winner will be picked on October 15th and announced on October 18th. He/she will receive the following:
1) Framed 8X10 picture of Bad Boy BIGFOOT, Driver, and YOU!
2) 2 all new Bad Boy BIGFOOT 1/64 scale toys
3) 4 Tickets to a CFP event near you.
Good Luck to Everyone! CFP and BIGFOOT 4X4, Inc reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to disqualify any submission(s). Please send your design images (preferably in jpg, gif or pdf format) to the following e-mail address: badboy@bigfoot4x4.com. For more info on the contest and on Team BIGFOOT, go to www.Bigfoot4x4.com.
Monster Truck Radio 08/16/10 – Jimmy Creten & Nick Owens
August 16, 2010 by
Monster Truck Radio With Host Jeff Richards
Date: Monday, August 16th, 2010
Guest #1: Jimmy Creten, driver of Bounty Hunter
Guest #2: Nick Owens, driver of Iron Outlaw [Read more…]
Obsession Racing Press Release 11
August 16, 2010 by
(Menifee, CA) In the last four weeks Obsession Racing has done four events in three weekends. It started out on Rick’s Fathers Birthday which was Sunday, July 18th. The event was held at the Turlock fair for John Shipman Motorsports. This was a freestyle show that consisted of three rounds. The first round was donut display. The second round was sky wheelie exhibition and the third and final round was a one minute freestyle exhibition. Jeff drove the Obsession Monster Truck and Rick was in Eric’s Obsessed truck. What we thought would be a laid back fair exhibition turned out to be more strenuous than expected. During our brunch we received a phone call telling us we needed to show up at the track because Obsession’s tire was leaking air and needed to be attended to before the show. We got to the track and worked in 105 degree (humid) weather and patched the tire 3 times and after the third try we didn’t have enough time to let the patch dry before the show. We were fortunate that Living the Dream Racing let us borrow a tire for the show! Everyone put on an awesome show! We were so grateful to hit the hotel showers when the event was over!!
From Turlock we headed to Salinas California for another John Shipmen’s Motorsports event. The event was held on August 1st and we couldn’t have asked for better weather! The weekend started out on Friday and Saturday displaying the trucks to promote Sunday’s event. Once again it was Jeff and Rick piloting the trucks. This was a standard show format with racing and freestyle. Rick started the show with the fastest qualifying time. Jeff was put up against Bigfoot on the first round of racing. This was a very tough course consisting of a double Chicago style with both left and right turns. Rick in Obsessed and Bigfoot were in the finals. Rick took the victory so he could uphold Eric image! Freestyle was awesome Jeff and Rick both made the local newspapers. I think this was the some of most air that Obsessed has ever flown! It was a fun show and meaningful as the proceeds went to the local Children’s hospital.
This past weekend Rick and Eric went over to Victoria Canada to do an event for Big Toyz Racing for Western Speedway. This was a two day show and exhibition only. This was Eric’s first trip out of the United States. The Canadian were excited to see a 14 year old piloting a Monster truck. He was the talk of the show! Friday night Eric was a natural behind the wheel going over jumps and doing some wicked donuts on the asphalt! When Rick was in his third round he was doubling up a jump and on the second hit he broke the right rear spindle in half. Rick was driving Obsession, so of course he had to blame Jeff for the damage” Obsession must have got weak from the event in Salinas when Jeff drove”. Rick never seems to break the truck on his own!
Rick and Eric got the truck back in running order on Saturday, but due to rain the show was postponed until Sunday afternoon. Sunday Rick and Eric put on another great show and the local papers proved it as they did a special article on Eric. They had a great time but they are very pleased to be back in the good old US of A! We would like to thank Brad Campbell for helping Obsession Racing and transporting our trucks for us. This weekend Jeff and Rick will be in Salt Lake City Utah for Rocky Mountain Raceway’s event on Saturday and Sunday August 13th and 14th.
For more information on Obsession Racing, go to www.ObsessionRacing.com.
