Adam Anderson

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Adam Anderson

2024 Truck

Grave Digger

2024 Tour

Stadium Championship Series West

Birthday

December 5

Residence

Powells Point, NC

Son of Monster Jam Hall of Famer Dennis Anderson, Adam Anderson started competing in Monster Jam at a young age in 2005. His long career includes a lot of accomplishments, including five Monster Jam World Finals wins in three different trucks.

career highlights

2008 Monster Jam World Finals Freestyle Champion
2010 Save of the Year
2011 Arena Freestyle of the Year
2011 Extreme Air of the Year
2013 Monster Jam World Finals Racing Champion
2014 Monster Jam World Finals Racing Champion
2014 Stadium Wheelie of the Year
2015 WOW Factor of the Year
2016 Monster Jam World Finals Freestyle Champion
2016 FS1 Championship Series champion
2018 Monster Jam World Finals Racing Champion
2019 Stadium Championship Series 2 champion
2023 Stadium Series Red Champion

about

What do you do with your free time?
In my free time I just love to work on old trucks. I love to go to the beach and stuff like that but what I really love is messing with trucks. We do the same things on a smaller scale. Pretty much break ‘em and fix ‘em and break ‘em and fix ‘em. Now I like to go fishing, but I also build trucks to go fishing in. I like the old school trucks.
Do you have any pre-show rituals that you run though?
I really don’t and that’s something that I think helps me out a lot. Because I think that I’m a lot more laid back than the other guys. I sit in the truck and really don’t think about what’s going on. I mean I watch the show and enjoy it from the truck and then get ready for my turn. I really don’t do anything special to hype myself up. I don’t have any superstitions but I can say one thing. The fans give me little gifts and trinkets and if it’s something that I can hang in the truck like key chains, stuff like that, I do that, I carry those gifts in the truck with me.

career

How did you get started competing on the Monster Jam circuit?
I pretty much had no choice. It’s always been my life. It’s all I ever knew, from the beginning all I ever knew was Monster Jam trucks. It was the regular daily living that my Dad created when I was a baby. That was the start of things back then, now today it’s such a huge thing that my Dad’s created. I went with my Dad a lot. When I was younger we were gone all the time, until I had to start school. Once we were in school we’d go along on the weekends here and there, and in the summertime we’d still go out a lot with him. Dad was gone a lot making a name at the time so often he’d be gone for three months at a time. We had to be home going to school, we had to get that finished up before we could do anything. Then once school was over that was the end of my life as a regular person, I was back on tour. I’ve always watched the guys work on the trucks. I could have just driven the truck but that didn’t seem right to me because even though I was always around it I didn’t know everything. You will never know everything. These trucks are so unpredictable, something different breaks all the time. So just to go on the road and work on the trucks all the time you know the trucks better and I feel that because of that you can drive the trucks better. If you really know what is going on with the truck you are going to be a better driver because of that. When I started on a crew I worked for Lupe Soza, and he tears up more than a lot of other guys do, so on my very first tour of Europe as a crew member he worked me to death. So now I have a completely opposite driving style to him because of that.
You won your first Monster Jam World Finals Championship at such a young age, when you were 22. What are your thoughts about that accomplishment and the pressure to win more titles?
My first thought when I won was, “what’s next? You’ve won the championship already so what do you do next?” Multiple championships, that’s the answer. The way I look at it now though there are so many weekends that we don’t get to meet up with these other guys, some of the other guys who run in Vegas, so when I’m out now it seems like every weekend is a championship weekend to me. I want to do really well every time, I want to win every time, but at the same time I don’t like to tear the truck up. I like to put on an awesome show, to prove to people that I can run the wheels pretty much almost off of it, and then still drive the truck off the track. But that’s a chance you have to be willing to take to compete against these guys today. So with a championship I think it puts more pressure on me the year after winning it, the year you are carrying the title. It was awesome, an awesome feat to accomplishment so soon, and I want more of them.
Having won at such a young age do you think in the long term that beating Tom Meents’ record for Monster Jam World Finals titles is something that you want to eventually accomplish?
Yeah, there’s no doubt about it. Now I think that Tom’s got a few more (championships) left in him, but I think I’ve got a few more years left in me than he does. So that makes it easier for me. Tom and those guys have been doing it for so many years and I’ve got so many more years to go and I believe I can take a lot more of them.

fun facts

What’s your favorite food?
Shrimp
What’s your favorite movie?
Tommy Boy
What’s your favorite television show?
Fantasy Factory
What’s your favorite color?
Black

Adam Anderson Gallery

STADIUM SERIES EAST

POINTS THROUGH April 14, 2024

Position

Name

Truck

Points

Behind

Position 1

name Tyler Menninga /

truck Grave Digger /

points 571

behind –

Position 2

name Tristan England /

truck JCB DIGatron /

points 505

behind -66

Position 3

name Todd LeDuc /

truck Megalodon /

points 475

behind -96

Position 4

name Bryce Kenny /

truck Great Clips Mohawk Warrior /

points 443

behind -128

Position 5

name Tom Meents / Blake Granger / Coty Saucier /

truck Max-D /

points 412

behind -159

Position 6

name John Gordon /

truck Bad Company /

points 393

behind -178

Position 7

name Cole Venard / Mike Pagliarulo /

truck Black Pearl /

points 321

behind -250

Position 8

name Linsey Read / Charlie Pauken / Jamie Sullivan /

truck Lucas Stabilizer /

points 279

behind -292

Position 9

name Ryan Disharoon /

truck Shaker /

points 276

behind -295

Position 10

name Jamey Garner /

truck El Toro Loco /

points 261

behind -310

Position 11

name Matt Pagliarulo /

truck Jester /

points 232

behind -339

Position 12

name Mike Pagliarulo / Nick Pagliarulo /

truck Kraken /

points 183

behind -388

STADIUM SERIES WEST

Champion: Ryan Anderson

POINTS THROUGH March 30, 2024

Position

Name

Truck

Points

Behind

Position 1

name Ryan Anderson /

truck Son-uva Digger /

points 584

behind -0

Position 2

name Adam Anderson / Charlie Pauken / Tyler Menninga /

truck Grave Digger /

points 509

behind -75

Position 3

name Camden Murphy /

truck Bakugan Dragonoid /

points 479

behind -105

Position 4

name Bari Musawwir / Todd LeDuc /

truck Zombie /

points 442

behind -142

Position 5

name Cory Rummell /

truck Megalodon /

points 426

behind -158

Position 6

name Colt Stephens /

truck ThunderROARus /

points 407

behind -177

Position 7

name Chris Koehler /

truck Monster Mutt / Northern Nightmare /

points 324

behind -260

Position 8

name David Olfert /

truck Velociraptor / Rod Ryan Show /

points 321

behind -263

Position 9

name Kayla Blood /

truck Soldier Fortune /

points 321

behind -263

Position 10

name Joe Foley /

truck El Toro Loco /

points 318

behind -266

Position 11

name Jim Koehler /

truck Avenger /

points 262

behind -322

Position 12

name Mike Christensen /

truck Vendetta /

points 208

behind -376

ARENA SERIES CENTRAL

POINTS THROUGH April 14, 2024

Position

Name

Truck

Points

Behind

Position 1

name Weston Anderson /

truck Grave Digger /

points 1285

behind –

Position 2

name Fernando Martinez /

truck El Toro Loco /

points 972

behind -313

Position 3

name Brianna Mahon /

truck Scooby-Doo /

points 953

behind -332

Position 4

name Jamie Sullivan / Joe Dennis /

truck Monster Mutt Dalmatian /

points 910

behind -375

Position 5

name Brandan Tulachka /

truck Just Get Er Done /

points 885

behind -400

Position 6

name Alex Bardin /

truck Stone Crusher /

points 578

behind -707

Position 7

name Mikayla Tulachka /

truck Megalodon /

points 546

behind -739

Position 8

name Frank Krmel /

truck Zombie /

points 441

behind -844

ARENA SERIES EAST

POINTS THROUGH April 14, 2024

Position

Name

Truck

Points

Behind

Position 1

name Krysten Anderson /

truck Grave Digger /

points 1024

behind –

Position 2

name Armando Castro /

truck El Toro Loco /

points 1024

behind –

Position 3

name Zack Garner /

truck Wild Side /

points 900

behind -124

Position 4

name Coty Saucier / Chelsea Vancleave / Joe Dennis / Tony Ochs /

truck Dragon /

points 828

behind -196

Position 5

name Chad Tingler /

truck Over Bored /

points 610

behind -414

Position 6

name Angelina Nock /

truck Megalodon /

points 535

behind -489

Position 7

name Mark Hall /

truck Raminator /

points 529

behind -495

Position 8

name Kurt Kraehmer /

truck Rammunition / Hotsy /

points 345

behind -679

ARENA SERIES WEST

POINTS THROUGH April 7, 2024

Position

Name

Truck

Points

Behind

Position 1

name Brandon Vinson / Matt Cody / Tyler Menninga / Coty Saucier /

truck Grave Digger /

points 1312

behind –

Position 2

name Dalton Widner /

truck Jurassic Attack /

points 1251

behind -61

Position 3

name Tony Ochs /

truck ThunderROARus /

points 1198

behind -114

Position 4

name MJ Solorio /

truck El Toro Loco /

points 942

behind -370

Position 5

name Ashley Sanford / Loghan Ashline / Bernard Lyght /

truck Megalodon /

points 853

behind -459

Position 6

name Berto Treviño /

truck Monster Mutt Rottweiler /

points 700

behind -612

Position 7

name Joe Urie / James Calhoun / David Olfert /

truck Earth Shaker /

points 594

behind -718

Position 8

name Devin Winfield / Jeff Souza /

truck Velociraptor /

points 591

behind -721

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