Panama City, Panama - Rod Carew Stadium

Trucks: Donkey Kong (Kreg Christensen), Backwards Bob (Bari Musawwir), Monster Mutt (Ryan Anderson), Spider-Man (Dana Creech), Madusa, Maximum Destruction (Neil Elliot), Grave Digger (Rod Schmidt), and El Toro Loco (Lupe Soza).

Saturday

    It’s has been one great first night of competition here in Panama. The Rod Carew Stadium once again has been filled with the Panaminian fans, all of them in support of their favorite monster trucks.

    The track, in perfect condition, on a beautiful day, has allowed all of the Monster Jam drivers to really show off all of their driving skills during all the competitions. In Monster Jam Wheelies all of the trucks did great wheelies, but one thing that caught the eye of the judges was the great wheelie and the landing on the back wheels for a back wheelie. The fans reacted to it and the result was the highest score for Grave Digger with 26 points. Only coming closer to the winner was Backwards Bob with 23 points and Donkey Kong at 23 points.

     Monster Jam racing was also great and filled with challenging situations for the drivers. In round one of racing, Monster Mutt had to do a bye run due to Max D not being able to compete because of mechanical problems with the truck. Monster Mutt went in to the semi final round of racing.  El Toro Loco wins overs Backwards Bob driven by Bari Musawwir making his debut as a Monster Jam driver in Panama. Backawards Bob crashed against the crushed cars at the first curve of the track. Spider-Man won over Madusa in a very close race. Grave Digger wins over Donkey Kong  who also had problems at the curve where he got trapped at the crushed cars, and yet was able to come close at the finished line.

Semi-Finals

Monster Mutt wins over Spiderman, who lost control at the curve and ended up agains the crushed cars. El Toro Loco lost against Grave Digger in a close race.

Final

Monster Mutt runs agains Grave Digger, who takes advantage after a strong take off, and Mutt lost its momentum after losing control at the first curve of the track. Grave Digger wins the Monster Jam Racing.

Monster Jam Freestyle:

The first night of Freestyle in Panama was great. The excitement of the fans was manifested loudly and the drivers were highly motivated. The freestyle had a couple of flips and a broken axle. Madusa after a great take off and a rough landing was in competition for less than 10 seconds. According to Madusa the jump was easy, but the landing was too rough, and the truck just did not take it.  Grave Diggers also flipped to the side just barely after starting his 90 seconds of freestyle, and the same thing happened to Donkey Kong who came 9 seconds short of finishing his  time.. Donkey Kong came to a tie against Spider-Man, who had a tremendous performance. The Judges had to break the tie and gave the victory to Spider-Man, due to the fact that he finished all the of his freestyle  time. Dana Creech was excited to have won his first competition of the weekend in Panama.

We still have one more day of competition. We’ll keep you up to date!


Sunday

     It is the conclusion of another great Monster Jam event, reporting from beautiful Panama City. The weather was great and so it was the fans who came to Estadio Nacional Rod Carew to see all the famous Monster Jam stars. The pit party was again filled with fans. The presence of the media was tremendous with live coverage from the scene.

    The afternoon was great for a great run of competitions of Monster Jam. After having mechanical problems on Saturday, Max D finally came back  to the final day of competition. Starting with the right foot, Neil Elliot nailed the victory of the Monster Jam Wheelies with 24 points. Coming only closer to that score, it was Grave Digger with 22 points.

   In Monster Jam Racing, after having the draw for bracket positions, the first pair for round one was El Toro Loco (Lupe Soza) and Spider-Man (Dana Creech).  The very moment  they knew about their positions in racing, they both sentenced each other to defeat. El Toro finally defeated Spider-Man in round one, after Creech lost control by crashing against the crush cars at the second curve. Donkey Kong lost against Grave Digger. Same thing happened to Kreg Christensen who hit the crush cars and lost a couple of seconds resolving the situation, by that time Grave Digger had already gained some advantage. Backwards Bob lost against Monster Mutt, and Madusa lost against Max D.

Semi Finals

El Toro faces Grave Digger, and Grave digger lost control and crashes against an obstacle, Soza takes advantage and wins the round. Monster Mutt faces Madusa who returns as fast loser after Max D breaks after flipping to the side. Elliot tried hardly to save the flip by rolling his tires, but he couln’t do it. Finally Max D was broken again. Madusa lost to Monster Mutt.

Final Round

El Toro Loco lost agains Monster Mutt in a very close race.

Monster Jam Free Style

Ryan Anderson took another win tonight by winning free style. He got 25 points after a great combination of wheelies, donuts, and hittings the obstacles as many times possible. Donkey Kong came close with 24 points, Spider-Man with 23. Madusa 20, Backwards Bob 19, El Toro 20, Max D 15, and Grave Digger 7. Grave Digger after launching his first wheelie, at landing he loses his rear left tire. Max D broke again, and he wasn’t to complete his time.

It has been another great year of competition in Panama. We hope to see you again next year!! Gracias Panama!!!