{"id":33818,"date":"2025-01-31T15:27:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T15:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterjam.com\/?p=33818"},"modified":"2025-01-31T15:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T15:27:19","slug":"zimmer-jr-and-winfield-look-strong-after-first-month-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterjam.com\/en-au\/news\/zimmer-jr-and-winfield-look-strong-after-first-month-of-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimmer Jr. and Winfield Look Strong After First Month of Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<section \n  id=\"main-custom-content-block\"\n  style=\"padding-top:px;padding-bottom:px;background-color:;color:;\"\n>\n  <div class=\"container container-c\">\n    <div class=\"split\" style=\"gap:px;\">\n                        <div class=\"side\">\n\n                                          <p>A few weeks ago, I highlighted the Central series on the arena circuit as possibly the most entertaining battle from top to bottom as we began the \u201cRoad to World Finals\u201d in Salt Lake City. A month into the season and those eight Monster Jam superstars continue to live up to the hype. As the 2025 season rolls into the second month, there is a new series points leader as his name is Jon Zimmer Jr.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The series roared into the Prudential Center in Newark with El Toro Loco\u2019s Fernando Martinez on top. When the dirt cleared after four events though, Jon Zimmer Jr. had Terminal Velocity on top and primed for a solid run in February. I get asked a lot of I think an independent driver will ever win a series championship. My answer has always been yes, and it may very well happen this year as \u201cLil Zim\u201d continues to impress.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last year I wrote about a young man out of Las Vegas, NV, who won his first career Overall Event Championship in his hometown. Flash forward to year two, and Devin Winfield is lighting it up on Arena Championship Series West.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Team Throttle Monster driver currently ranks second on the series and went toe-to-toe with Weston Anderson in Sacramento, splitting the event championship trophies. Devin\u2019s rise in Monster Jam has been widely publicized and, in what was one of the most talented rookie classes in history last year, Winfield\u2019s second-year jump may end up being the best of the bunch. The former USHRA Tech Official is an early favorite for the 2025 Monster Jam Rising Star Award.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To find out if Jon Zimmer Jr. keeps Terminal Velocity on top, tune into Arena Championship Series Central this weekend from the Barclay\u2019s Center in Brooklyn. And if you want to see Devin Winfield chip away at Weston Anderson\u2019s lead, you can find all the West series FargoDome action on our YouTube Channel.<\/p>\n                          \n          <\/div>\n                  <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":33819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Zimmer Jr. and Winfield Look Strong After First Month of Season | News | Monster Jam\u00ae<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Scott Jordan looks at two of the top-performing independents of 2025 as they fight to 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