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As we found our seats the first round of trucks had already finished. I was not that mad about missing the first round anyway. They were not the more popular trucks that everyone came to watch. Second round of racing was about to commence. I was a big fan of Monster Jam as a kid, so I knew a lot of the trucks’ names. Maximum Destruction came powering through the tunnel like he did not have control of the truck. The stadium starts playing a song. All I hear is “Who let the dogs out!?” As I thought, Monster Mutt came out of the tunnel and lost one of his left ear. The crowd started to whistle and cheer, because you come to Monster Jam to see trucks crash. The race has one main jump, a turnaround, another jump, then about three cars to drive over. …show more content…

An underdog by the name of Soldier Fortune. He was in the military before he was a Monster truck driver. His opponent was a mainstream truck, the top name of all Monster Jam, Grave Digger. I’ve known Grave Digger ever since I was in the 2nd grade. Grave Digger was driven by Pablo Huffaker. He was the original driver before he retired, his son, Adam Anderson took the role of driving the truck for the Monster Jam events. After Adam won the 2008 freestyle he sold Grave Digger to Charlie Pauken, the current drive of Grave Digger. This Monster Jam would be the first Monster Jam I would see Charlie drive. I was hoping he would not ruin the reputation of the truck and how iconic it is. The lights change again. They were neck and neck through the whole race up until the second lap. Soldier Fortune did not take the corner as well as planned and could not catch enough speed to hit the main jump. He and Grave Digger were still neck and neck, but when the both took off, Soldier Fortune didn’t make it as far. He ended up hitting the back of the landing ramp and losing the race. Grave Digger won as everyone wanted and expected. It was intermission time, so Dustin, Andy, and I went to find something to eat. The lines looked as if there we were at a retail store on Black Friday. We all agreed on sitting back down and waiting for a guy to come around that sells those little snacks in a box or we could wait it out and go eat after the event was …show more content…

The final two competitors would freestyle at the same time for three minutes, the two came out of opposite sided tunnels. The two trucks were doing mirrored stunts for almost 2 minutes of the event. Then El Toro Loco parted off and revved his engine. He then shot forward heading towards a ramp. The ramp was a strange one. It went straight up then had cars at the top. I didn’t know what was going to happen. El Toro Loco went up the ramp then all of a sudden his truck started doing a backflip. I was in amazement and shock at the same time. I was also scared and worried how he was going to land and amazed that he actually just did that. When Toro Loco came down he landed on his rear wheels and bounced up and then rode a wheelie for 3-4 seconds, the crowd went crazy. El Toro Loco was everyone's new favorite and not the underdog anymore. It was sad to see Grave Digger not finish top but he has been around for a long time. It was the new comers’ turn to run the show. Until next time I’ll still be rooting for Grave Digger, but I will be watching for El Toro Loco from here on

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