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Hampton, Virginia-Clear Channel
Entertainment
Thunder Nationals
November 19, 2005
Recap by Dustin
Hart and Trevor Andrews
Trucks in attendance:
Eradicator
(Andy Slifko)
Grave
Digger 18 (Randy Brown)
War
Wizard (Randy Moore)
Wild
Hair (Ray Mowery)
T-Maxx
(John Seasock)
Stone
Crusher (Gary Wiggins)
Track-Straight
drag, five cars, dirt. Saturday 8:00 PM.
Background-Wild
Hair was not originally scheduled for the event, but Ray Mowery was in the area
and came on down for the event. Freestyle motocross and monster trucks were the
main attractions, and the trucks had done a show the previous day. The racing
brackets were determined by the wheelie competition, which Grave Digger won,
although Stone Crusher and War Wizard had nice wheelies also.
RACING
Round
1
T-Maxx
vs. War Wizard-War Wizard
Stone Crusher vs. Eradicator-Stone Crusher
Digger vs. Wild Hair-Digger but in a very good race
Round 2
Stone Crusher vs. War Wizard-Stone Crusher
Grave Digger vs. Eradicator (fast loser)-Grave Digger
Finals
Stone Crusher vs. Grave Digger-Grave Digger by half a tire.
RACING
WINNER-GRAVE DIGGER
FREESTYLE
Wild
Hair-Several hits on the cars, got some decent sky wheelies, but took it
slowly on the van stack, got caught and rolled the truck early.
War Wizard-Hit one jump and then had rear steer problems, didn't want to
risk the chances of damaging the truck anymore so he did not continue.
Stone Crusher-Had a nice sky wheelie to start off, then hit the racing
ramp on next and skied it a little too much, causing the right rear tire to snap
off and flip the truck. The tire rolled off into the lower portion of the arena;
no one was injured.
T-Maxx-Seasock had a spectacular run in T-Maxx. Paying no mind to the
cars, it was all van stack hits for John. He had some impressive hits,
just barely gliding his tires over the van with very nice sky wheelies. He even
pulled a slap wheelie! Finally he got too vertical and the left rear tire came
off, ending his run. It was a very strong run that rivaled Grave Digger's run
later on.
Eradicator-Slifko had a solid run, with several sky wheleies. His truck
didn't sound up to par but still did well for the conditions, and he even
managed a small slap wheelie off the van stack. Solid run for Slifko.
Grave Digger-Brown had some nice sky wheelies off the cars and had some
pretty solid hits off the van stack. After his second hit on the van stack he
went straight into some fast cyclone donuts, eventually rolling and receiving
the win from the judges.
FREESTYLE
WINNER-GRAVE DIGGER
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