Weekend Race Recap
Friday - 8:00PM-The crowd was packed tonight as the Monster Jam blew through Albuquerque tonight. Eight of the best trucks came to town to do business.
The first order of business was Monster Truck Qualifying. The drivers would be racing Chicago Style this weekend. The top qualifier was Tony Ferrell in Blue Thunder. The brackets were set from qualifying. The first round was really close. Round One: Blue Thunder defeated Cyborg, El Toro Loco defeated Arachnaphobia, King Krunch defeated local favorite Pit Bull, and El Matador ended up with a bye run since Shattered broke in qualifying and didn't make the start. Round Two was even better. Round Two: Blue Thunder defeated El Toro Loco, and King Krunch defeated El Matador. The final was the closest race of the night. Blue Thunder defeated David Smith in King Krunch.
The final event of the evening was Monster Truck Freestyle. One at a time, 60 seconds of mayhem. Charles Benns didn't make the start in Freestyle. Pit Bull out with transmission problems. Shattered also didn't make it out for Freestyle. The scores would go up and down in Freestyle. Cyborg with a 16, Arachnaphobia a little higher with a 20, El Matador ended up with a 23, his teamate would do some awesome donuts and get a 25, Blue Thunder getting big air but popped his right rear near the end of the run and would score a 21, and the last truck would stand his truck on the tailgate a few times and would eventually take the win. Lupe Sosa, El Toro Loco would score a 26 and take the close win in Freestyle.
Saturday - 8:00PM-The Tingley Coliseum was completely full tonight as the Monster Jam came through Albuquerque tonight. You could definetly tell the Monster Jam World Finals are coming soon. The drivers were driving awesome tonight.
Racing was the first order of business tonight. We had to qualify one truck at a time first. The top three qualifyers were: Blue Thunder, King Krunch, and El Toro Loco. After the qualifying was done, the brackets were set for the racing. Round One: Blue Thunder would get a bye run for being fast qualifyer, Arachnaphobia defeated El Matador, El Toro Loco defeated Cyborg, and King Krunch defeated Shattered. The semi-finals would be really close. Blue Thunder defeated Arachnaphobia, and King Krunch defeated El Toro Loco. We had a rematch from Friday Night. Blue Thunder against King Krunch. Each driver would push his truck to it's limit. King Krunch would take the win.
The final event of the evening would be Monster Truck Freestyle. One at a time, 60 seconds anything goes. The Dirt Wurx crew would bring out an Advance Auto Parts Van Stack for Freestyle. The scores seemed to be really close and really fair tonight. Shattered would score a 17, Cyborg 19, Arachnaphobia a little higher with a 22, then King Krunch would ended up with a 26, Blue Thunder a 25 and the winner with an awesome Freestyle would be Lupe Sosa in El Toro Loco with a high score of 28.
Sunday - 2:00PM-The last show off the weekend was exciting and action packed. We had 7 awesome trucks in the house.
The first order of business this afternoon was Monster Truck Qualifying. Fast Qualifier would be Tony Ferrell in Blue Thunder. Second and Third would go to King Krunch and El Toro Loco respectivly.
The brackets were set for Chicago Style Monster Truck Racing. We would have three different Racing winners this weekend. Round One: Blue Thunder with a bye run, Arachnaphobia defeated Shattered, El Toro Loco defeated El Matador, and King Krunch defeated Cyborg. Round Two was even closer than round one. Blue Thunder defeated Arachnaphobia, and El Toro Loco defeated King Krunch. We would have teamates in the final round. Lupe Sosa would get off the line first and never look back. The Racing Winner would be El Toro Loco.
The last event of the weeked would be Monster Truck Freestyle. The tech officials, track crew and Dirt Wurx would set up a Van Stack for the trucks. We had a three way tie on top of the leader board for a long time. Shattered, Cyborg, El Matador were leading with 23's. Then Arachnaphobia would take the lead with a 27. King Krunch would score a 26. El Toro Loco would finish with a 28. The Freestyle Winner with the only perfect score of the weekend would be Blue Thunder!
Story by: Scott Deubler
