![]() ![]() The first weekend he won a competition on the Monster Truck tour he called his father. When he was younger he raced go-karts, and then Mega Tucks for nearly a decade before joining Monster Trucks. "He trained me when I was growing up," Weston said. He had been well-trained for such an eventuality/inevitability by his father at the family home in Kill Devil Hills in rural North Carolina. "I got a call from Monster Jam," he said. Then, "I jumped in and started the tour." He did have to audition before Feld selected him. However, "It's still all family that drives it though," Weston said of the Anderson Grave Digger driving tradition. There have been more than 40 Grave Digger trucks assembled over timeĭennis Anderson eventually sold the Grave Digger team to PACE Motorsports, which in turn was acquired by Feld Entertainment. With his attitude and a flair for driving, he and Grave Digger rode to success when professional Monster Jam established a professional truck circuit. Dennis Anderson retired from driving in 2017. In a 2012 interview with the Telegram & Gazette when he was still driving Grave Digger, Dennis Anderson recalled the Grave Digger name came about when he had responded to some "choice words" from a competitor at an impromptu truck race in 1982. "I'm third in points right now."Īmong his competitors in Arena Championship Series East are Chad Tyler driving Stone Crusher and Brianna Mahon driving Whiplash. "I've been doing pretty good for a rookie," Weston said of his season so far. ![]() The top overall point winner from the four competitions wins the event. The audience gets to do the judging for the two-wheel skills, donut and free-style. The latter is "75 seconds to do whatever to wow everybody," Weston said. Within each event there are four competitions: speed two-wheel skills donut style (where drivers spin the monster trucks in circles to create a donut-like impression on the dirt) and free-style. There will also be two pit parties where fans can see the monster trucks up close, meet their favorite drivers and crews, and take pictures from 10:30 a.m. There will be four separate competitive events when Monster Jam is in Worcester - at 7 p.m. ![]()
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