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Real Racing Monster Trucks
sporting fully blown supercharged Drag racing
1500 horse powered engines capable of speeds
over 100 kilometres per hour, contesting a wheel
standing sky wheelie
competition will take to the arenas, check out
our events page for a show near you!
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Jump Mania -
Sydney
Those raucous ground-pounders are back -
Monster Trucks take to Acer Arena with
the Sydney staging of Jump Mania
... Saturday 6 September.
No less than six of the big-wheel, big
horsepower giants will go for broke - or
go home - with awesome point-to-point
racing and a stunning freestyle wheelie
shootout.
The new-look BATMAN
will make its first Sydney appearance
taking up the car-crunching challenge
from favourites MONSTER PATROL,
the new-generation OUTBACK
THUNDA and everyone’s favourite
- SCOOBY-DOO!
Fire-breathing dragon TRANZILLA
- all 14 tonnes - will light up the
night air. There’s zany freestyle
motocross, celebrity JUNIOR
TRUCK action (1/2 scale monster
trucks), even a crash-for-cash
DEMOLITION DERBY.
Full-on family Motorsports entertainment
in all-weather comfort.
Townsville Showgrounds Nth Qld,
Australia May 3 2008
Monster trucks returned to the
tropical north Queensland Fairground
venue for their second year in a row,
the prior years going to the now
demolished Townsville Speedway. What a
show it turned out to be USA driver
JAMES TIGUE flew in just 24 hours
before the event and was given back
his old truck Batman, which was
monster patrol on his last visit.
James didn’t waste anytime getting
back into action with the biggest
jumps this truck has ever seen. In the
sky wheelie comp, James won with three
breath taking wheelies one that almost
went over on the side, his final score
being 9 out of ten. A very close
second was 16 Year old Billy Featherby
driving Scooby Doo with 8. He blew his
chance of a victory by making his last
jump a high air jump that doesn’t
score under Aussie rules, they must be
real sky wheelies. Third was 14 year
old Jaye Featherby with 6 driving the
old Bearfoot truck and fourth Barry
Gaunt with 4 driving Aussie Predator.
It was also the first time ever that
Outback Thunda Promotions had staged
three separate full on shows on the
same night with the four Trucks, jet
vans, freestyle moto X and fireworks
at Townsville. Three trucks a rock
concert, freestyle Moto X, demolition
derby and fireworks at Tamworth 1725
Kilometres away. Two trucks, sprint
cars and fireworks at the Brisbane
speedway 574 Kilometres away. Overall
26000 people witnessed the three
shows.
James will spend the next two weeks in
the work shop with the K.C's Crew
replacing three of the trucks shocks
with Coombes shocks on one and Pablo
Hauffaker stage three shocks on the
others.
Outback Thunda promotions is also keen
to announce that our version of a
South pacific WORLD FINAL will happen
at the Brisbane Showgrounds with a
record Fourteen trucks, five USA
drivers on Saturday Nov 1st.
Two New Trucks On Their Way
Clive has just purchased two new
trucks from the USA. The first truck
is another from Paul Shafer
Motorsports, which has the name of
Captain USA. The second is the FULL
THROTTLE Rides truck. Both trucks will
arrive in Australia in the near
future. These trucks will bring the
total number of trucks in KC's fleet
to 7.
James Tigue II heading DownUnder
once again
James just can't get enough of
Australia, with plans for him to join
The Monsters Tour of Destruction on
May 1st. James will spend 5 weeks
touring and helping with fine tuning
the trucks.
Scooby Doo continues to disobey his
master.
During Scooby’s first jump at Geelong,
the dog decided to throw a shoe,
loosing the left front wheel, a first
for Australia. 16 year old Billy, not
only stopping another roll over, but
also preventing more damage to the
truck by braking.
When asked what his first thoughts
were when if happened, he answered
“Running from my Dad.”
With the ability to run 100 meters in
10.51 seconds he would take a bit of
catching.
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The Monster Trucks that could be at a shows near
you
SCOOBY-DOO is an all
new 3D concept truck. It is probably the most
advanced and superior Monster Truck to ever
grace Australian shores.
Costing
around $500,000 to construct SCOOBY-DOO is the
latest in Monster Truck
technology.
SCOOBY-DOO is
unique in many ways, not only is it the only
Scooby Truck in the world, it is the only
Monster Truck to be driven by a 15 year old.
Yes, that’s right only Fifteen!
Batman Begins™
is a world first and is the first monster truck
in conjunction with Warner Bros™ in the southern
hemisphere. Batman begins™ is a world first with
the truck being a scale replica of the hugely
popular “Tumbler™” from the newest Batman™
movie. KC’s fireworks took the first step to
bring monster trucks to a new level in Australia
and went into partnership with Warner Bros™ to
bring you “Batman Begins™, which is just the
first of two household names to be the new face
of Monster Trucks in Australia.
Monster
Patrol
is an American icon in motor sports and was the
truck that started the career for five-time
World Monster Truck Champion Tom Meents.
Monster Truck is valued at over $250.000, it has
become one of the most successful in the world
of Monster Trucks. Chicago based owner Paul
Shafer is excited at the prospect of Monster
Patrol joining another of his heavyweight
heroes, Bear Foot USA, already racing in
Australia for the next three years.
Outback
Thunda
is big, he's bright, and to many this great
Monster Truck is both brilliant and beautiful.
He's a favourite with the children and adults
alike, around the world. In 2002 after what was
the only ever Monster Truck Freestyle
Championship Challenge, Outback Thunda was
crowned the Australian Monster Truck Champion,
he again won in 2005 at Brisbane International
Speedway, 2006 at the Brisbane Ekka grounds and
again in 2007.
Outback Thunda is a 7 1/2 tonne car-jumping, car
crashing legend. Outback Thunda has appeared
with distinction in every state in Australia and
several East Coast USA States.
Devils Dodge
The latest truck to join the KC's Outback Thunda
Promotions Team is the highly acclaimed Devils
Dodge, formally owned by Larry Birch from Mays
Landing Florida. The truck is the first non
Chevrolet truck in the fleet, powered by a 570ci
Hemi motor. These motors run a lot different to
the conventional chevs, if it is too hard to
maintain, the motor will be sold and replaced
with another big block Chevy. Devils Dodge is a
very well looked after, almost new truck, having
completed less than 30 shows all up.
Larry Birch is also the owner of the main
business that manufactures the kill radios (Rii,
Remote ignition interrupter), that are used by
law on all Monster trucks. Devils Dodge will
change appearance by mid
year
to become TAZ.
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