If 12-foot high, 10-thousand-pound, thundering Monster Trucks with 66-inch wheels don’t get your heart pumping and your adrenaline racing, you may not have a soul. The Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam is returning to the Georgia Dome January 14, and some of the rawest beasts of the Monster Truck circuit will make their way to a custom-designed track on the Georgia Dome floor. These damage-seeking supercharged machines will soar over some obstacles and smash through others while delighting fans of all ages in what is sure to be the biggest lineup of Monster Trucks in twenty years at the Georgia Dome. It will take an eight-person crew three days to construct the course, with dump trucks taking 200 loads of dirt onto the Georgia Dome floor. Nearly 3,500 cubic yards of dirt will be used for the large fiberglass animals. Forty crush cars and four crush vans will also be wheeled out for certain destruction.
Fans will be treated to 16 different USHRA Monster Trucks including Grave Digger, Madusa, Maximum Destruction, Monster Mutt, El Toro Loco, Stone Crusher, Monster Magic, King Krunch, Grave Digger The Legend and Iron Warrior, among others. World class drivers Dennis Anderson, Lupe Soza, Adam Anderson, Neil Elliot, Chuck Werner, Joe Miller, Steve Sims, Madusa and Mike Vaters will be just some of the men behind the wheels of these incredible machines.
For new fans not quite familiar with what goes on at the Monster Jam events, the trucks will face off in two different forms of competition: stadium racing and freestyle. Stadium racing is just what it sounds like: two cars racing side-by-side up to 70 MPH with the first truck to cross the finish line with the least number of penalties being declared the winner. While the racing is incredibly exciting, the true fun is in the freestyle competition, which allows drivers a certain length of time to show off tricks on an open floor. Some tricks include stunts such as wheelies, while other tricks see the trucks soar over cars lined up in a row. Fans are the judges in the freestyle competition. Points in the freestyle competition are awarded by the number and variety of tricks, hitting the most obstacles on the track, the height of jumps, saves and Sky Wheelies, while points are deducted for rollovers, reverses and stops.
The Monster Jam event leads up to the World Finals in Las Vegas. The USHRA invites 24 of the top trucks to the event to compete in the World Freestyle and Racing Championships, much to the delight of Monster Jam’s four million fans across the country.
Unlike most other sports, the Monster Jam allows the fans to come right down and meet all of the drivers and see all of the trucks up close. Fans can participate in the Party in the Pits event, where they can take pictures and snag autographs for three solid hours leading up to the event with all of the drivers and the trucks. If you’ve never had the chance to catch a Monster Truck competition, check out Monster Jam at the Georgia Dome. Your pulse is guaranteed to race and your eyes will widen with each smash, crash and pop.
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