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Event: Monster Truck Throwdown
Venue: Huset’s Speedway
Location: Brandon, South Dakota
Date: August 29th, 2020
Photographer: Danny Maass (Check out Maass Media on Facebook)
Bounty Hunter (Jimmy Creten), Kamikaze (Paul Jensen), Rockwell (Dawson Rayas), Scarlet Bandit (Dawn Creten), Terminal Velocity (Jon Zimmer Jr.), The Black Pearl (Cole Venard),
[Read more…]Event: Summer Smash Monster Truck Show
Venue: Vanderburgh County 4H Center
Location: Evansville, Indiana
Date: July 10th-11th, 2020
Photographer: Danny Maass (Check out Maass Media on Facebook)
Avenger (Jim Koehler), Black Stallion (Mike Vaters), Bounty Hunter (Jimmy Creten), Brutus (Chris Koehler), Higher Education (Preston Perez), Iron Warrior (Matt Cody), Lone Eagle (Allen Pezo), Overkill Evolution (Brad Allen), Scarlet Bandit (Dawn Creten), Tail Gator (Doug Noelke) [Read more…]
Event: O’Reilly Outlaw Nationals
Venue: Lucas Oil Speedway
Location: Wheatland, Missouri
Date: October 19th, 2019
Photographer: Danny Maass (Check out Maass Media on Facebook)
Avenger (Jim Koehler), Barbarian (Devin Jones), Bounty Hunter (Jimmy Creten), Over Bored (Jamey Garner), The Black Pearl (Cole Venard), Scarlet Bandit (Dawn Creten), Spike (Brad Allen), Twisted Addiction (Tim Jones) [Read more…]
Event: All Star Monster Truck Tour
Venue: Mansfield Motor Speedway
Location: Mansfield, Ohio
Date: June 15th, 2019
Photographer: Danny Maass (Check out Maass Media on Facebook)
Bounty Hunter (Rod Schmidt), Crushstation (Greg Winchenbach), Lumberjack (Christopher Sawicki), Pretty Wicked (Lindsey Rettew), Master of Disaster (Zane Rettew), Red Baron (Alex Barden), Summit Bigfoot #21 (Larry Swim), Toxic (Cory Snyder), War Wizard (RJ Turner) [Read more…]
Event: Monster Jam
Venue: The Dome at Americas Center
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Date: March 2nd-3rd, 2019
Photographer: Danny Maass (Check out Maass Media on Facebook)
Avenger (Jim Koehler), Bakugan Dragonoid (Camden Murphy), Bad Company (John Gordon), Big Kahuna (Shane England), Bounty Hunter (Jimmy Creten), El Toro Loco (Brad Allen), Grave Digger (Morgan Kane), Hooked (Bryan Wright), Maximum Destruction Fire (Tom Meents), Megalodon (Justin Sipes), Monster Mutt Dalmation Ice (Cynthia Gauthier), Scarlet Bandit (Dawn Creten), Son Uva Digger (Ryan Anderson), Stone Crusher (Steve Sims) [Read more…]
Event: Summer Smash Monster Truck Show
Venue: Vanderburgh County 4H Center
Location: Evansville, Indiana
Date: July 13th-14th, 2018
Photographer: Danny Maass (Check out Maass Media on Facebook)
Avenger (Jim Koehler), Bounty Hunter (Jimmy Creten), Hotsy (Mike Miller), Raminator (Mark Hall), Scarlet Bandit (Dawn Creten), Summit BIGFOOT #21 (Larry Swim), Tail Gator (Doug Noelke), Wrecking Crew (Brad Allen) [Read more…]
Event: O’Reilly Outlaw Nationals
Venue: Ottawa County Fairgrounds
Location: Miami, Oklahoma
Date: June 8th-9th, 2018
Photographer: Danny Maass (Check out Maass Media on Facebook)
Avenger (Jim Koehler), Axe (AJ Gonzi), Bad Company (John Gordon), Barbarian (Devin Jones), Black Pearl (Cole Venard), Bounty Hunter (Austin Minton), Iron Outlaw (Tanner Root), Jailbird (Kaylyn Migues), Megabite (Chris Koehler), Nitro Menace (Darren Migues), Over Bored (Jamey Garner), Rage (Cory Rummell) [Read more…]
Event: Monster Jam
Venue: The Dome at Americas Center
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Date: March 3rd-4th, 2018
Photographer: Danny Maass (Check out Maass Media on Facebook)
Bad News Travels Fast (Brandon Derrow), Bounty Hunter (Jimmy Creten), Earth Shaker (Steven Thompson), El Toro Loco (Becky McDonough), FS1 Cleatus (Marc McDonald), Grave Digger (Morgan Kane), Lucas Oil Crusader (Lindsay Weenk), Mutant (Coty Saucier), Raminator (Mark Hall), Saigon Shaker (Ryan Disharoon), Scarlet Bandit (Dawn Creten), Slinger Driven (Scott Hartstock), Soldier Fortune (Chad Fortune), Zombie (Travis Mowery) [Read more…]
(Coverage By Christopher Allen, Photos By Jim Allen)
This time on “The Allen Report”, we return to one of our hometown venues, the Arizona State Fairgrounds. Bryan Wagner and his company All Star Productions have put together stadium motorsports events here several times before, but this show was different. Billed as a “thrill show”, three earth shaking monsters would be paired with plenty of great motorsports action. The main event of each show, monster truck single run freestyle, would be decided by fan applause, so every move would count. When a huge crowd piled in for every show, it truly was all or nothing for the drivers.
Representing the home state was McGruff. In the opening performance on Friday night, Rod Wood was the man behind the monster for the first time since shoulder surgery sidelined him a few months ago. Step-son Murph “Werewolf” McCrorey would take the wheel for the remaining shows throughout the weekend. Proudly performing for the Navajo Nation was second generation driver Derek Edd piloting the Fanatic. This truck is a southwestern monster finally coming back to this venue after an extended retirement. Finally, former World Champion Jimmy Creten arrived in Bounty Hunter. With each show featuring a single round of freestyle decided by crowd applause, every last move would count. [Read more…]
(Coverage By Christopher Allen, Photos By Jim Allen)
This time on “The Allen Report”, we make our third and final trip this year to the Stanislaus County Fairgrounds in Turlock, California. This show was the season finale for our friends at WGAS Motorsports with five high flying, dirt slinging and crowd pleasing monster trucks ready to square off in two rounds of freestyle. A maximum of 100 points per round would be on the line with the highest combined score between the two rounds taking the Overall Championship.
The “Flying Spaniard” Tony Canedo brought all three of his trucks to the fairgrounds. Tony himself took the wheel of Playin’ for Keeps. Local driver Jeff Souza once more got into the seat of Enforcer. Finally, David Tucker climbed back into the Survivor machine. Defending spring event champion Bounty Hunter returned and driver Jimmy Creten was ready to defend his title. Finally, teammate and wife Dawn Creten arrived in her trusty Scarlet Bandit, ready to take the boys head on. [Read more…]
(Coverage By Christopher Allen, Photos By Jim Allen)
EVENT DATE: August 12th-13th, 2017
This time on “The Allen Report”, we hit the road back to Rocky Mountain Raceways in West Valley City, Utah, for the ninth consecutive year. Once again, we arrive to a stacked lineup of twelve well known monster trucks ready to do battle on the oval track’s figure-8 course, a track that has been equally tough on rising stars and experienced veterans alike.
Again this year all four members of 2Xtreme Racing came to take on each other, the competition and the track. Not surprisingly, Jimmy Creten took the controls of his trusty Bounty Hunter, complete with the original rendition of his popular and patriotic American Sniper Chris Kyle body. Dawn Creten was again at the helm of her trusty Scarlet Bandit. Mikeal Christensen came along to drive the prestigious Iron Outlaw truck. The fourth member of the equation, Knucklehead, had a different driver each of the two days, Austin Minton on Saturday and Christian Norman on Sunday. [Read more…]
Event: Summer Smash Monster Truck Show
Venue: Vanderburgh County 4H Center
Location: Evansville, Indiana
Date: July 14th-15th, 2017
Photographer: Danny Maass (Check out Maass Media on Facebook)
Avenger (Jim Koehler), Brutus (Brad Allen), Bounty Hunter (Jimmy Creten), Lucas Oil BIGFOOT #18 (Josh Gibson), Raminator (Mark Hall), Rammunition (Mat Dishman), Scarlet Bandit (Dawn Creten), USA-1 (Roger Gauger) [Read more…]
(Coverage By Christopher Allen, Photos By Jim Allen)
This time on “The Allen Report”, we head to the annual San Diego County Fair in the picturesque town of Del Mar, CA. Our friends at WGAS Motorsports have been entertaining fans at the annual fair for 22 straight years with a vast variety of motorsports entertainment, from tuff truck racing, to UTV racing, to freestyle motocross, and much more. But on the closing days of the fair, the shows held at the Del Mar Arena were headlined by six dirt slinging, high flying, bumper dragging monster trucks in freestyle action.
From just up the road in Menifee, CA were the father and son team of Rick and Eric Swanson. Twenty year old Eric continued to run his 1968 Ford F-100 body on Obsessed while Rick carried on with his Top Notch Tee’s sponsored yellow body. For the first time ever, Jim Creten had all four of his trucks in the house. 2Xtreme drivers Mikeal Christensen, Christian Norman, Austin Minton and Sinjan Gergick all took turns driving Knucklehead and Iron Outlaw. Once more, Dawn Creten took the helm of her usual Scarlet Bandit and Jim Creten lead the charge in his traditional Bounty Hunter, complete with the updated version of his American Sniper Chris Kyle Foundation body. [Read more…]
Event: Minnesota Monster Madness
Venue: ERX Motor Park
Location: Elk River, Minnesota
Date: June 23rd, 2017
Photographer: Danny Maass (Check out Maass Media on Facebook)
Big Kahuna (Shane England), Black Stallion (Michael Vaters), Bounty Hunter (Christian Norman), Higher Education (Preston Perez), Incinerator (Ryan Rice), Iron Outlaw (Mikael Christensen), Iron Warrior (Matt Cody), Jailbird (Kaylyn Migues), Midnight Rider (Tom Herzog), Monster Patrol (Michael Phelps), Nitro Menace (Darren Migues), Overkill Evolution (Michael Vaters Jr.), Rat Nasty (James Trantina), Snake Bite (Vinny Venom), Summit Bigfoot #21 (Larry Swim), Twisted Addiction (Tim Jones) [Read more…]
Event: All Star Monster Truck Tour
Venue: Howard County Fairgrounds
Location: Cresco, Iowa
Date: June 21st, 2017
Photographer: Danny Maass (Check out Maass Media on Facebook)
Bounty Hunter (Christian Norman), Iron Outlaw (Mikael Christensen), Jailbird (Kaylyn Migues), Nitro Menace (Darren Migues) [Read more…]
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