What A Weekend of Racing at Digger’s Dungeon R/C Monster Jam World Finals

The results are in for the 2007 Dungeon R/C Monster Jam World Finals from Poplar Branch, North Carolina. There were 91 drivers with 214 trucks from 12 states at the race. Over the 3 days of racing there were over 275 side-by-side races. We would like to first thank Dennis Anderson and his family for providing a great venue to host this event along with all of his staff. This was our second year organizing this event with Dennis and this year’s event grew more than double from what we had last year.

We would like to thank all of our sponsors for this event: HPI, Traxxas , Parma, XXX Main, Venom Racing, R/C Raven, Pro-Line, RC Entertainment, Debbies R/C World Hobby Shop, MonsteRCUSA, Team PRP, Spaz Stix, Challenger Pulling Sleds, HPI Savage Forum, STS Micro Engines, RB Mods, Innovative-RC (England), Superior Hobbies, Savage Shock Covers, Tekin Racing, Nova, Castle Creations, Kyosho, Trinity, Maximizer Products, Tamiya and Racers Edge.

We would also like to thank RC Driver, RC Car Action, and Xtreme RC Cars magazines for coming out and covering the three day event. They not only covered the event but brought trucks and raced!

Lastly, I would like to thank the R/C Monster Motorsports crew and especially my family for spending long hours over the past months and during the event to make this event fun successful for everyone.

Concourse Winners

The Daily Driver winner was Daniel Ball from Virginia with Bounty Hunter. Dan Wyatt from Michigan won the Static Display with his Bronco Body custom Off Road truck. Steve Tash from Florida received special recognition from Dennis Anderson with the "Off the Hook" award for his Byron's Ford Thunder.

Side-by Side Racing Class Winners
Our World Championship winner in Side-by-Side Racing was Justin Heard from Orlando, Florida driving a Small Block Traxxas Revo. Justin went up against Big Block Champion Ryan Anderson in the finals. R/C Monster Truck Side-by-Side race class winners where:

World Champion Finals Standings

Top 5 Side-by-Side Racing Class Winners

The Side-By-Side Racing class winners received the following:

• Ryan Anderson - Rick Brake Mods STS Mircoengines Motor and Maximizer Wheels

• Justin Heard - Racers Edge Prize Pack valued at $150 and a Slap Mo Fro Fighting Gravity Video

• Dan Wyatt - Castle Creations Gift Card Valued at $250.

• David Pack - Creations Gift Card Valued at $250.

• Paul Overares - Tekin Electronic G-11 Speed Control

Freestyle
Bari Musawwir from Altamonte Springs, Florida driving a Team Losi LST 2 was crowned the World Championship in Freestyle. There were over 120 trucks that competed in this year’s freestyle event. Bari won this event last year and is now a two time R/C Monster Motorsports Freestyle World Champion. The judges awarded Bari a perfect score of 30. Bari won the $500 Bounty from Dennis Anderson and a STS Microengines Big Block "Monster Motor".

Long Jump
Over 90 trucks were signed up to compete in the long jump but only 34 decided to go for big air. John Schultz from HPI was the winner of the long jump competition. John won $100 from Dennis Anderson for hitting the fence and the end of the track. His jump was measured at 46 feet. The closest driver to John was Michael Crawford from California with a jump of 37 feet 4 inches. John gave the $100 back to Dennis to be used toward a permanent irrigation system for the track.

John also won the R/C Monster Truck Battle Royal. Since Team HPI took first and second place. John presented the third place winner Charles Beaman from Florida with the prize. Traxxas sponsored the winner of the R/C Monster Truck Battle Royal, the prize for first place was a Team Traxxas truck with all of the goodies valued at $2,500. This truck was driven by Darmon Atkins of Traxxas and Carl Van Horn, driver of the Full sized T-MAXX monster truck. The truck was autographed by Carl Van Horn and Dennis Anderson.

Click on the following links for more event details:

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You can now view all the Elimination Side-By-Side race results for each class. You can view each class round by round results, times, driver, truck manufacturer and models. Click here to view race results.

There were 91 drivers with 214 trucks from 12 states at the race. Over the 3 days of racing there were over 275 side-by-side races.

The photo gallery has now been updated with over 200 pictures of the event. We would like to thank everyone who submitted pictures. Click here to view all the pictures.

Post Race Raffle Winners
Among the many items that were raffled off during the post race ceremony the major winners were:

• Challenger Sled - Joey Gargaro (VA)

• Traxxas Stampede- Robbie Bunting (VA)

• Kyosho Mad Force - Matthew Riley (VA)

• HPI Savage X - Danny Myers (VA)

• Tamiya TXT-1 - Eddie Tipton (NC)

• Associated Monster GT - Kevin Willetts (NC)

• Traxxas Stampede- Mike Hylton (MD)

• HPI Savage X - Heath Bradshaw (VA)

• Traxxas T-Maxx 3.3 - James Knight (NY)

• HPI Savage X - Zeek Heard (FL)

Ethan Wyatt of Maryland won an HPI E-Savage (under 12yrs old). This truck was driven by Fred Reep, President of R/C Monster Motorsports Inc. who took 2nd place in the Side-by-Side Brushed Electric racing class. The truck was topped with a Parma Grave Digger body themed for Diggers Dungeon event.

Early Bird Truck Raffle
On Friday our first day of racing we had over 120 trucks qualifying for Saturday’s Side-by-Side Elimination racing. The winner of the Early Bird Raffle was Justin Heard from Orlando, Florida who won an HPI Savage X provided by HPI Racing.

Spectator Raffles
Throughout the 3 day event numerous items were raffle off to spectators. Shane and Chase Gosney of Virginia won the top spectator prize which was a John Schultz, Team HPI built Savage X monster truck, driven by Dennis Anderson during the event.

Navy Special Warfare Foundation
The Navy Special Warfare Foundation was successful in raising $1,404. The winner of the raffle was Mark Ceja who won a HPI Savage X provided by HPI Racing. This raffle was to Support Navy SEAL families. For more information on the Naval Special Warfare Foundation Scholarship you can go to their website at www.nswfoundation.org.

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