Monster Photos: Monster Madness – Bristol, TN 2019

Event Information

Event: Monster Madness
Venue: Bristol Speedway
Location: Bristol, Tennessee
Date: July 13th, 2019
Photographer: Danny Maass (Check out Maass Media on Facebook)

Truck Lineup

Bad Company (John Gordon), BIGFOOT #19 (Darron Schnell), Dirt Crew (Tim Missentzis), Hooked (Bryan Wright), Jester (Matt Pagliarulo), Kraken (Nick Paliarulo), Quad Chaos (Aaron Cain), Stone Crusher (Steve Sims) [Read more…]

Monster Photos: Monster Madness – Bristol, TN 2018

Event Information

Event: Monster Madness
Venue: Bristol Motor Speedway
Location: Bristol, Tennessee
Date: October 27th, 2018
Photographer: Danny Maass (Check out Maass Media on Facebook)

Truck Lineup

Black Stallion (Mike Vaters), Buckshot (Brandon Budd), Ice Cream Man (Roy Pridgeon), Overkill Evolution (Michael Vaters Jr.), Predator (Allen Pezo), Snake Bite (Kris Kopperhead), Tail Gator (Doug Noelke), Xtermigator (Buddy Tompkins) [Read more…]

TMB TV: ActionTracks 7.8 – Thompson Metal Monster Truck Madness – Bristol, TN 2016

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Episode Information

Episode: ActionTracks 7.8
Event: Thompson Metal Monster Truck Madness
Venue: Bristol Motor Speedway
Location: Bristol, Tennessee
Date: July 16th, 2016
Videographer: Chris Parrish (Check out Mean Duck Productions on Facebook)

Featured Monster Trucks

Dawg Pound – Vern House
Dirt Crew – Jerry Beck
Heavy Hitter – Derick Anson
Hooked – Bryan Wright
Quad Chaos – Aaron Cain
Stone Crusher – Steve Sims
Summit Bigfoot #21 – Larry Swim
War Wizard – Shane Phreed

Featured Links

www.Bigfoot4x4.com
www.BristolMotorSpeedway.com
www.DirtShows.com
www.HookedMonsterTruck.com
www.StoneCrusherMonsterTruck.com
www.WarWizardRacing.com

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Monster Photos: Monster Jam – Memphis, TN 2015

Event Information

Event: Monster Jam
Venue: Fedex Forum
Location: Memphis, Tennessee
Date: February 14th, 2015
Photographer: Danny Maass (Check out Maass Media on Facebook)

Truck Lineup

Barbarian (Devin Jones), Bounty Hunter (Jimmy Creten), Captain’s Curse (Alex Blackwell), Fatal Attraction (Jeff Murphy), Hotsy (Mike Miller), Maximum Destruction (Tom Meents), Mechanical Mischief (Jim Burns), NEA Police (Lee O’Donnell), Scarlet Bandit (Dawn Creten), Strait Jacket (Kevin King) [Read more…]

TMB TV: Highlights – Monster Trucks – Clarksville, TN 2014

Event: Monster Trucks
Venue: Clarksville Speedway
Location: Clarksville, Tennessee
Date: June 17th-18th, 2014
Videographer: Macey Nichter

Lineup: Full Boar (Ed Eckert), Pouncer (Danny Tassone), Predator I (Allen Pezo), Prowler (Lenny Kuilder), Samson (Allison Patrick), Shotgun Harry (JJ Cook) [Read more…]

Monster Photos: Monster Jam – Memphis, TN 2014

Event Information

Event: Monster Jam
Venue: Fedex Forum
Location: Memphis, Tennessee
Date: February 14th-15th, 2014
Photographer: Danny Maass

Truck Lineup

Amsoil Shock Therapy (Steven Hill), Avenger (Jim Koehler), Ground Pounder (Brandon Lagarde), Monster Energy (Coty Saucier), Predator (Allen Pezo), Prowler (Lenny Kuilder), Spiderman (Bari Musawwir), Wrecking Crew (Steve Koehler) [Read more…]

TMB TV: ActionTracks 4.1 – Monster Truck Madness – Bristol, TN 2013

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Episode Information

Episode: ActionTracks 4.1
Event: Thompson Metal Monster Madness
Venue: Bristol Motor Speedway
Location: Bristol, Tennessee
Date: July 20th, 2013
Videographer: Chris Parrish

Featured Monster Trucks

Barbarian – Devin Jones
Equalizer – Mike Hawkins
Hooked – Steven Sims Jr.
Red Solo Truck – Brandon Budd
Samson – Dan Patrick
Stone Crusher – Steve Sims
Summit Bigfoot #18 – Dan Runte
War Wizard – Randy Moore

Featured Links

www.Barbarian4x4.com
www.BIGFOOT4x4.com
www.DirtShows.com
www.E3SparkPlugs.com
www.EqualizerRacing.com
www.Samson4x4.com
www.StoneCrusherMonsterTruck.com
www.WarWizardRacing.com

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Video of the Week – 07/28/12

Week Ending: July 28th, 2012
Truck(s) Featured: Summit Bigfoot #16 (Larry Swim)
Video Type: Fan Video
Courtesy: www.YouTube.com

Description: Larry Swim freestyles BIGFOOT at Bristol Motor Speedway!

Randy Moore & Kirk Dabney Team Up to Break Monster Truck Speed Record

(Bristol, Tennessee – War Wizard Racing PR) – After two unsuccessful attempts at breaking the monster truck speed record since being set at 90.44 MPH in February by veteran Kirk Dabney, Randy Moore and the Aaron’s Outdoors team took a leap of faith and partnered up with the record holding rival.

Kirk Dabney, owner of Maximum Overkill, a well known pioneer in monster truck racing has been in a heated speed record battle with Bigfoot 4x4x4, Inc. since 2009. Previously Randy Moore, driving the popular War Wizard, held the speed record of 84.38 set in 2005.

Previously rivals, Moore and Dabney combined their vast knowledge of Randy’s drag racing experience with Kirk’s advanced technological skills in monster trucks and set out to clinch a speed record for Aaron’s Outdoors.

Randy Moore teamed up with Kirk Dabney to run an Aaron's body on the Extreme Overkill chassis and piloted it to a new speed record of 92 MPH.

Friday evening, September 9th, 2011, Randy Moore took to the strip at Bristol’s Thunder Valley Dragway to topple Dabney’s February speed record of 90.44. After a great launch off the line, Randy piloted the Aaron’s Outdoors monster truck down the quarter mile strip clocking a max speed of 91.88 MPH.

“I have my eyes set on being the first to break 100 MPH in a monster truck. It’s been a dream of mine since the first day my team started building War Wizard #1. We’re determined and will conquer the 100 MPH barrier, it can be done and we’ll get it accomplished. Working with Kirk, Aaron’s Outdoors and my team has been a blast, we’ll continue working together and we will be back to set a record over 100 MPH,” said an enthusiastic Randy Moore during his post run interview.

A future speed record attempt to break the 100 MPH barrier has yet to be set. Once a date is confirmed it will be released on www.warwizardracing.com.

Previous speed records:
• Kirk Dabney (OVERKILL), 90.44 MPH in February 2011
(http://www.bangshift.com/blog/Kirk-Dabney-Sets-Monster-Truck-Speed-Record-at-More-than-90-MPH.html)
• Dan Runte (BIGFOOT), 86.56 MPH in September 2010
(http://themonsterblog.us/2010/09/27/dan-runte-team-bigfoot-reclaim-monster-truck-world-speed-record/)
• Kirk Dabney (OVERKILL), 84.92 in 2009
• Dan Runte (BIGFOOT), 84.49 MPH in 2009
• Randy Moore (WAR WIZARD), 84.382 MPH in August 2005

About Aaron’s:

Aaron’s, Inc. (NYSE: AAN), the nation’s leader in the sales and lease ownership and specialty retailing of residential and office furniture, consumer electronics, home appliances and accessories, has more than 1,800 Company-operated and franchised stores in 48 states and Canada.

Founded in 1955 by entrepreneur R. Charles Loudermilk Sr. and headquartered in Atlanta, Aaron’s has been publicly traded since 1982.

In 2009, Aaron Rents re-branded to Aaron’s, Inc to bring the company in line with the same name that all stores now operate under. Over 55 million households across North America know and trust the Aaron’s name.

About War Wizard Racing:

War Wizard Racing is a Bristol, Tennessee monster truck race team owned and operated by Randy Moore. Randy Moore has over 30 years experience in drag racing competing in IHRA and NHRA events nationally. In early 2000’s Randy built and raced War Wizard, a custom built drag racing monster truck. In 2005 Randy Moore set a world speed record of 84.38 MPH. Randy Moore and WWR compete nationally at Monster Jam events and is featured on SPEED channel and official Monster Jam merchandise.

Video of the Week – 05/21/11

Week Ending: May 21st, 2011
Truck(s) Featured: War Wizard (Randy Moore)
Video Type: Fan Video
Courtesy: www.YouTube.com

Description: Wild freestyle from Randy Moore in the War Wizard at the Rolling Thunder Motorsports Tour event in Gray, Tennessee results in an incredible near save but he ends up on his lid.

Old Skool Motorsports Making Big News – USA-1, New Events & Open Qualifying

The newest event series to hit the monster truck scene is going old school – Old Skool Motorsports, to be exact. The brand new promotion company based out of Ridgeland, South Carolina features some well known names in the monster truck industry, and has plans to promote summer events featuring both old school and new school style action. Old Skool Motorsports has made waves in the industry since announcing plans to return the legendary USA-1 to competition. But even bigger news may be their plans told hold one of the biggest events the industry has seen in years this fall.

Chandler Lloyd, Everett Jasmer and Rodney Tweedy pose with the original USA-1 truck.

It all begins with the company’s owner and founder Chandler Lloyd, a name many will recognize as the former owner/driver of the Overtime monster truck during the mid to late ’80’s and early ’90’s. After stepping back from competition, Lloyd has stayed connected to the sport and from time to time brought out his ‘Lil Truck – a lifted GMC Sonoma constructed from what was once the BIGFOOT Ranger/Ms. BIGFOOT machine.

Over the years Chandler Lloyd has never the lost his love for monster trucks and more recently began to make plans for a grand return. Rather than simply building a new truck and participating in existing monster truck events, Lloyd instead chose to create his own niche in the industry in a way that celebrates where the sport came from and mixes that with modern competition. Thus Old Skool Motorsports was born.

Chandler Lloyd's 'Lil Truck, the former Ms. Bigfoot/Bigfoot Ranger.

Working with Lloyd is none other than one of monster trucks’ winningest drivers in recent years, “Hot Rod” Rodney Tweedy. Tweedy got his start with Paul Shafer Motorsports and spent several years as one of the team’s top drivers, primarily piloting Monster Patrol and Captain USA, with stints behind the wheel of Bearfoot and Carolina Crusher. Tweedy moved on to Team BIGFOOT in 2007 and found great success, winning the 2008 AMP Tour Championship and the 2009 AMP Tour Racing Championship. Rodney departed Team BIGFOOT earlier this year after a dominant start to the season, recording 16 wins and logging an impressive 67% win percentage.

The story of these two coming together begins with a BIGFOOT display at a Firestone dealership in South Carolina.

“While touring the country with the Bigfoot team, I was in South Carolina for a Firestone display,” explains Tweedy. “It just so happened that Chandler Lloyd was from that area and he came to check out the display and introduced himself. Being a longtime monster truck fan myself, I knew Chandler was in the game during the TNT days with his Overtime truck and that he had purchased Ms. Bigfoot from Bob Chandler. We ended up talking most of the day and really hit it off.”

When news of Tweedy’s departure from the BIGFOOT team broke, Lloyd wasn’t about to miss the opportunity to work with his friend.

“I had just finished my employment at Bigfoot and shortly after I received a phone call from Chandler Lloyd,” Tweedy continued. “I knew Chandler had been itching to get back into the sport and was thinking of building a new truck, but what he told me blew me away! One of the first things he tells me was, “I’ve just made a deal with Everett Jasmer for USA-1. I want to build an all new USA-1 race truck and I want you to be the driver. Would you be interested?” I nearly fainted! Naturally I accepted and our partnership has grown beyond that even and we’ve accomplished a lot.”

For monster truck pioneer Everett Jasmer, this deal is the long awaited fruit from 18 years of labor.

“I first started trying to find a new home for USA-1 in 1993 and the process has been longer than I ever could have dreamed,” said Jasmer. “I was so close to throwing in the towel and auctioning everything off when Chandler Lloyd came calling. This is such a great fit as Chandler and I have a lot of similar thoughts about what direction the sport should be heading in. When he told me Rodney Tweedy was involved, it became clear that this was a match made in heaven. This deal is truly a blessing.”

Everett Jasmer turns over the keys to Chandler Lloyd.

Lloyd and Tweedy have been hard at work scheduling events and developing their own, unique style of events for the Old Skool Motorsports venture. Rather than doing just more of the same show format used currently in monster trucks, the idea was formed to pay homage to the early days of the sport by including the classic USA-1 truck in the events.

“One of the coolest things about the USA-1 acquisition is that Everett is going to be part of the shows as well,” Tweedy excitedly explains. “We felt it would be great to have Everett pilot the 1988 championship truck at the events and have him perform an old-school car crush to kick off each show. As far as other performances go, we’re not entirely sure as to how far we’ll take the truck other than performing car crushes, but you never know!”

The deal has come together quickly and Jasmer has been rushing to prepare for the first event.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve been on the road so I’ve been rushing to get prepared,” explained Jasmer. “I’m still scrambling but it’s very exciting as the event gets closer.”

Following the old school car crushing, the events will feature a lineup of current trucks competing in wheelie, racing and freestyle. The first event is scheduled for April 29th-30th at Gordon Park Speedway in Augusta, Georgia, while the second event will be held May 14th-15th at the Sevierville, Tennessee fairgrounds. The lineup for both events will include Predator, Ballistic, Clydesdale, Prowler and Defender, while Black Knight will also attend the kickoff event in Georgia.

“We’re really excited about everything we’re putting together for the shows,” said Rodney. “Our aim on the new school side of the events was to put together a lineup of trucks that will also look clean and run consistently and we’ve been able to do that. What’s cool is we’ve got the grounds to ourselves for both shows so we’re bringing in show and shine and local car clubs to be on display and the Extreme Team monster ride truck will be on hand giving rides. When possible, we’ll also be integrating things like burnout contests and tug-of-wars, all kinds of fun entertainment. We’ve got a lot more events planned so stay tuned for more details we’ll be releasing later on.”

The first Old Skool Motorsports event will be held April 29th-30th at Gordon Park Speedway in Augusta, Georgia.

Work has also begun on the all new USA-1 race truck that will debut at one of the events later in the summer.

“The new race truck is going to be a work of art!” exclaimed Rodney. “Chandler and I have both decided we want the best parts in the business and we are still in the process of researching the build. Concussion Engineering out of Ellis Grove, Illinois will be constructing the chassis and Rich and the guys are already in the process of putting it together. That’s all we can really say about it right now but we can promise you it’s going to be one awesome piece of equipment.”

The brand new USA-1 race truck will start out as a chassis from Concussion Motorsports in Ellis Grove, Illinois.

Although the truck will primarily be used at Old Skool Motorsports events, the team is open to competing in other events as well.

“We would definitely be up for testing the waters and we are open to offers from other promoters within the industry,” stated Tweedy. “We would love to be involved with the Monster Jam series and run USA-1 at their shows.”

For Everett Jasmer, the idea of Rodney Tweedy behind the wheel of USA-1 is very fitting.

“The thought of seeing USA-1 on a new truck with Rodney driving is very exciting to me,” said Jasmer. “Rod Litzau and Steve Wilke were amazing drivers and represented USA-1 great. Rodney will no doubt do the same and I have very high expectations for the team’s performance.”

Rodney getting comfortable behind the wheel of USA-1.

EDITOR’S NOTE:  A factual error was printed in the original version of this article stating that the event described below was being held at Daytona International Speedway. This was never the case as the event had always been scheduled to be held at the Volusia County Fairgrounds, just outside Daytona Beach in Deland, Florida. The misinformation was entirely the fault of TMB due to an assumption made during the interview process. We apologize for the erroneous reporting and will work to make sure nothing of this nature occurs in the future.

As if all of this big news wasn’t enough, Tweedy dropped a bomb shell, revealing exclusively to TMB plans for a huge event this fall. Old Skool Motorsports will be hosting an open qualifying purse race at the Volusia County Fairgrounds in Deland, Florida on September 9th-11th with a grand prize of $25,000 going to the racing champion.

“We are very excited to announce a huge purse racing event just outside Daytona Beach, Florida this fall. Both Chandler and I want racing to become an integral part of monster trucks once again. We are inviting any and all trucks abiding by MTRA rules and specifications to attend and we feel our purse will be more than worth the trip for teams all across the country. The champion of the open qualifying race will win $25,000, while 2nd place earns $10,000, 3rd wins $5,000, and both 4th and 5th place will earn $2,500.”

The Volusia County Fairgrounds is no stranger to major monster truck events, as the venue in Deland hosted the 2005 Paul Shafer Motorsports World Finals event. Teams will be able to register to race in the event in the coming weeks. Registration will be available on the www.OldSkoolMotorsports.com website (coming soon), over the phone or by mailing in a registration form. Registration will close at a time to be announced, but planned to cutoff roughly one month before the date of the event. No day of show registrations will be accepted.

“We’re placing heavy emphasis on MTRA rules and specifications,” explained Tweedy. “We have hired a seasoned technical inspector whose resume includes professional inspection experience with premier motorsports companies including NASCAR and NHRA. We will have tools and technology on hand to measure engine cubic inch as well as blower overdrive ratios. We’re excited and already have trucks committing to the event. The response to the event has been overwhelming and beyond our wildest expectations!”

Plans currently call for a figure 8 style race course and no freestyle. The weekend’s events will include two opportunities to qualify for the racing bracket.

“We’ve put a lot of thought into the race course. Being a racer myself, I enjoyed the straight line drag racing, but I’ll be honest, we want to make this track a challenging, driver’s track. A tricky, figure 8 course will require both man and machine to showcase their best to come out on top. Chandler and I really want racing to become the backbone of monster trucks again, so we’re not currently including freestyle. We’re very confident that the racing action will leave no one disappointed. We’re still working on all the details of the event, but we’ll keep everyone posted once everything is official. We promise you this: It will be wild!

In addition to the monster truck racing, the weekend will also feature a massive mud race featuring mega trucks, lots of show and shine vehicles, burnout contests, truck tug-of-wars, R/C exhibitions and much more.

“One other special item planned for the Daytona event is that the weekend will mark the public return of the original USA-1 truck as it will be displayed along with the 1988 championship truck that will be at our other events,” revealed Tweedy.

With so many exciting things going on at Old Skool Motorsports, there is no doubt fans will be thirsty for more information. The new website is in the works and is expected to be released soon.

“In the coming weeks, we will be launching our website, www.OldSkoolMotorsports.com, which will house anything and everything a fan or team needs to know about our shows. We’ll have a comprehensive schedule, extensive information and registration forms for the open qualifying event in September, plus much more. Of course, when new things happen within the company, TheMonsterBlog.com will be the first to find out so stay tuned for more information regarding our events on this website as well. We promise big things to benefit the sport of monster truck racing!”

TMB would like to send out a big thanks to Rodney Tweedy, Chandler Lloyd and Everett Jasmer for their participation in this article. We are greatly looking forward to following the progress of Old Skool Motorsports, the new USA-1 and the big event in Deland. Stay tuned for more updates as they become available right here on TheMonsterBlog.com.

We are also happy to announce that you will be able to see all the excitement of the very first Old Skool Motorsports event from Gordon Park Speedway in Augusta, Georgia on TMB TV’s ActionTracks. Chris Parrish will be on hand to cover the event from top to bottom, complete with interviews from Everett Jasmer, Chandler Lloyd, Rodney Tweedy and much more. That episode will premiere on Wednesday, May 18th at 8:00PM Eastern.

(Article By Kaedon Berry and Ross Z. Bonar, Photos Courtesy www.USA-14×4.com)