Truck Bio:
Drivers: Tom Meents, Neil Elliott, Jared Eichelberger & Colton Eichelberger
Corpo: 2000 Futuristic SUV
Corpo: 2000 Futuristic SUV
Motore: 540 CI Merlin
Cavalli: 1500
Trasmissione: Coan 2-Speed
Pneumatici: BKT
Precedenti nomi: Golberg (2000-2001); Team Meents (2002); Maximum Destruction
Precedenti nomi: Golberg (2000-2001); Team Meents (2002); Maximum Destruction
PILOTI
BLAKE GRANGER7 marzo 1990
inizio competizioni in Monster jam
2017
2 marzo 1996
inizio competizioni in Monster jam
2014
30 novembre 1988
inizio competizioni in Monster jam
2016
30 novembre 1975
inizio competizioni in Monster jam
2001
TOM MEENTS
10 luglio 1967
inizio competizioniin Monster jam
1993
The most successful competitor of the Monster Jam World Finals® era, Tom Meents is the sport's only 11-time World Champion. As a further evidence of his dominance at Monster Jam World Finals, Meents' six World Racing Championships and five World Freestyle Championships are tops in both of those categories as well. Rarely does a Monster Jam truck driver dominate Monster Jam® in the manner that Tom Meents has since his entry into the sport some years ago. First making his name behind the wheel of Monster Patrol when his Monster Jam career began in 1993, Meents continued his success in the late 1990's driving Bulldozer, then obliterated the tracks and his competition over the course of the 2000, 2001 and 2002 Monster Jam seasons in the Goldberg and Team Meents Monster Jam trucks. Week after week he managed to stun crowds while drawing them in with his extraordinary driving abilities and wild freestyle antics. In January of 2003, Meents debuted a new Monster Jam truck, Max-DSM. Still the same body style, Max-D came with an awesome new paint job and Meents still brought the wicked fast races and high flying freestyles that most times earned him his expected high scores at various Monster Jam events.
10 luglio 1967
inizio competizioniin Monster jam
1993
The most successful competitor of the Monster Jam World Finals® era, Tom Meents is the sport's only 11-time World Champion. As a further evidence of his dominance at Monster Jam World Finals, Meents' six World Racing Championships and five World Freestyle Championships are tops in both of those categories as well. Rarely does a Monster Jam truck driver dominate Monster Jam® in the manner that Tom Meents has since his entry into the sport some years ago. First making his name behind the wheel of Monster Patrol when his Monster Jam career began in 1993, Meents continued his success in the late 1990's driving Bulldozer, then obliterated the tracks and his competition over the course of the 2000, 2001 and 2002 Monster Jam seasons in the Goldberg and Team Meents Monster Jam trucks. Week after week he managed to stun crowds while drawing them in with his extraordinary driving abilities and wild freestyle antics. In January of 2003, Meents debuted a new Monster Jam truck, Max-DSM. Still the same body style, Max-D came with an awesome new paint job and Meents still brought the wicked fast races and high flying freestyles that most times earned him his expected high scores at various Monster Jam events.
The title that
shows the Tom Meents attitude better than any other came at the Monster
Jam World Finals in Las Vegas, NV in March of 2004, when a broken wheel
hindered him, but definitely did not stop him, "I was disappointed
because I knew that I could have and would have done better. When it
broke, I didn't consider stopping for a second." That desire to keep
going provided an unforgettable Monster Jam World Finals moment and also
earned him a piece of the shared 2004 Monster Jam World Finals
Freestyle Championship title. Tom continued his run until the Monster
Jam truck would go no more. The crowd went crazy as the wild man walked
out of a huge cloud of smoke proving once more that absolutely nothing
will stop him.
Despite his
record setting total of championships Meents is never satisfied and
continues to push Monster Jam trucks to the next level. A motorcycle
enthusiast and a big fan of Supercross and Freestyle Motocross, Meents
has been a forerunner in the thrilling concept of trying to back flip a
Monster Jam trucks, becoming the first driver to even come close to ever
landing a clean back flip in a scored competition during his freestyle
at Gothenburg, Sweden's Ullevi Stadium in 2008. Then Meents became the
first to successfully back flip a Monster Jam truck when he accomplished
the feat as the encore at the 2009 Monster Jam World Finals.
Obviously, once
you're the champion, there is only one thing that can be on top of your
list of goals - win again! That is exactly what's been on Meents’ mind,
and the countless championships have been proof that he is a man of his
word. Even as the field for the Monster Jam World Finals has been
expanded over the years, it didn't have any effect on him, "Makes no
difference to me, I don't think they can bring anyone better than
they've got now. I mean it just brings in more people for me to compete
against. For the fans, it's great but it doesn't scare me, for me it's
all about making it to first place and putting on the best show."
Meents has
always been one of the sport's biggest innovators. Case in point: 2006
at the Monster Jam World Finals. A year of racing frustration did not
sit well with him and he decided to take it out on freestyle, where he
became the first driver ever to bring his own obstacle! Max-D drove out
onto the track, pulled into the fountain, and the motor shut off.
Everyone thought that Tom had a problem with his truck until his
teammate, Neil Elliott, jumped out of the Monster Jam truck, leaving the
back-up Max-D on the course as another obstacle. Tom rolled onto the
floor and began his run by leaping over his own Monster Jam truck and
went on to turn in one of his best performances ever, which landed him
world title number seven, and his racing championship at Monster Jam
World Finals X extended his record of championships to eight, double the
total for any other driver at that time. Meents has continued to extend
that amazing record, adding World Racing Championships at Monster Jam
World Finals XII and XIII to run his stunning total to 11 world titles.
2013 marked the 10th year that Meents and Max-D have been with the
sport of Monster Jam. The decade of destruction was celebrated all
season long and the new Max-D design that Meents was behind the wheel
of, left fans in awe all over the world.
In 2017, Meents will be competing on the Monster Jam FS1 EAST tour.
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