{"id":7088,"date":"2022-11-11T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.monsterjam.com\/driver-news\/"},"modified":"2023-12-12T18:00:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T18:00:06","slug":"driver-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterjam.com\/en-us\/news\/driver-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dennis Anderson Update<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dennis Anderson will be unable to compete in Orlando, Fla. on Saturday, January 21, 2017.&nbsp; Long-time Grave Digger\u00ae&nbsp;driver and Anderson family friend, Carl Van Horn, will take the driver\u2019s seat in his absence.&nbsp; Anderson sustained an injury during the 7 p.m.&nbsp;performance of Monster Jam on Saturday, January 14, 2017, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla.&nbsp; Medical care professionals tended to Anderson on site and then transported him to a local hospital for further evaluation. No further updates are available at this time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd LeDuc replacing Damon Bradshaw<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Monster Jam driver Todd LeDuc will be joining Coty Saucier on the Monster Energy&nbsp;team, driving the SUV style truck on the FS1 West Series. Any points acquired by previous drivers will remain with the truck. Feld Entertainment wishes Damon Bradshaw all the best in his future endeavors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt Buyten driving Metal Mulisha<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 15.1488px;\">\u2122<\/span><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the announcement of Todd LeDuc moving to the Monster Energy team in 2017, current Metal Mulisha athlete and 12-time X Games medalist Matt Buyten will be piloting the Metal Mulisha\u2122 Monster Jam truck, debuting next weekend (Jan. 28) in Detroit, MI at Ford Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Anderson Update Dennis Anderson will be unable to compete in Orlando, Fla. on Saturday, January 21, 2017.&nbsp; Long-time Grave Digger\u00ae&nbsp;driver and Anderson family friend, Carl Van Horn, will take the driver\u2019s seat in his absence.&nbsp; Anderson sustained an injury during the 7 p.m.&nbsp;performance of Monster Jam on Saturday, January 14, 2017, at Raymond James [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7088","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>Driver News | Monster Jam\u00ae<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterjam.com\/en-us\/news\/driver-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Driver News | Monster Jam\u00ae\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dennis Anderson Update Dennis Anderson will be unable to compete in Orlando, Fla. on Saturday, January 21, 2017.&nbsp; 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