{"id":27601,"date":"2024-05-18T22:15:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T22:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterjam.com\/?p=27601"},"modified":"2024-05-19T03:49:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T03:49:32","slug":"armando-castro-wins-great-clips-2-wheel-skills-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterjam.com\/en-us\/news\/armando-castro-wins-great-clips-2-wheel-skills-world-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Armando Castro Wins Great Clips 2-Wheel Skills World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<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>Armando Castro (El Toro Loco) won the Great Clips 2-Wheel Skills World Championship at SoFi Stadium on Saturday with a moonwalk into a Morgan &amp; Morgan backflip.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time he has pulled off such a move and it earned him the winning score of a 9.656.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is Armando&#8217;s second Monster Jam World Finals World Championship, having won the Speedster Racing Championship in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Castro was sitting last heading into the second round, having just scored a 3.305 on his first attempt. Castro was visibly emotional after his winning run, with the win coming on the day that would have been his late sister&#8217;s wedding day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">OH MY GOODNESS\u203c\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Armando Castro just set the bar HIGH in the 2Wheel Skills Championship ?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MonsterJam?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MonsterJam<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MonsterTruck?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MonsterTruck<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MJWFXXIII?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MJWFXXIII<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JdA4E9A9JG\">pic.twitter.com\/JdA4E9A9JG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Monster Jam (@MonsterJam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MonsterJam\/status\/1791951830836293813?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" 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