Friday afternoon, began the first day of monster truck racing at the Charlotte motor speedway. All of the trucks ran the course to gain a qualifying time, which would lead to the race pairings. For the championship class of trucks, they would race head to head that evening. For the Challenge trucks, they would just run their straight course to gain a qualifying time for saturdays racing.
The day started out with a drivers meeting, attended by all of the monster truck drivers. The drivers doing the turning course, where told that the yellow pillars that they would have to go around, where solid concrete, & would do some serious damage to their trucks. Fred Shafer, of the Bear Foot truck was concerned about the length of the track, as there was a long straight, in which the trucks would have to run, with the rear steering unlocked, which could cause the truck to go off of the track if it became loose.

Championship Trucks Round 1

BIGFOOT V Grave Digger = BIGFOOT Wins (Grave Digger disqualified (D.Q's))
Carolina Crusher V Wild Thang = Carolina Crusher Wins
Overkill V Monster Patrol = Monster Patrol Wins (Overkill misses a set of cars & D.Q's)
Predator V Snakebite = Snakebite Wins
Bear Foot V Boogey Van = Bear Foot Wins

Round 2

BIGFOOT V Predator = BIGFOOT Wins
Monster Patrol V Carolina Crusher = Monster Patrol Wins
Wild Thang V Snakebite = Snakebite wins
Grave DiggerV Bear Foot =Bear Foot Wins(Grave Digger D.Q's. But Bear Foot has engine problems, so the Digger goes through to the next round)

Semi-finals

Snakebite V Grave Digger = Grave Digger Wins
BIGFOOT V Monster Patrol = Monster Patrol Wins

Finals

Monster Patrol V Grave Digger = Monster Patrol Wins

Monster Patrol driven by Tom Meents won the first days race, at the first ever Truck Fest.
Between the semi finals & finals, Wild Thang & Snakebite (BIGFOOT 15) did some freestyle crushing on the track. This is where the trucks do what they want in the infield. Eric Meagher in the Snakebite truck, was putting on a show for the crowd, by going over the Ruff Trux course the wrong way. But he soon found out that he shouldn't have, when the truck launched into the air & twisted over. At first, only minor dammage was thought to have been done to the truck, but it turned out to be the end of the Truck Fest for the Snakebite truck, & the truck went home on the saturday.
The other highlight of the evening was straight after the final, when Grave Digger decided to show off to the crowd, by going back over the course, & set his engine on fire. It didn't cause any serious dammage to the engine, & was able to carry on racing the next day.