Monster Trucks Behind the Scenes

Saturday 11th July 98

After quite a late night the night before, both John & I where up about 7:30am.

With the Monster Trucks racing twice on the Saturday it was a busy day for the drivers & their crew.

Some drivers where up earlier than others ! When Dan Runte eventually surfaced he was out cleaning & polishing the BIGFOOT truck.

Myself & John got some breakfast before taking a walk around the fairgrounds. We then stopped off to see how Paublo
& Tina Huffaker where getting on, repairing the Grave Digger truck. John gave a helping hand.

"I know that if I needed a hand to fix Sudden Impact at an event, most of these guys when bend over backwards to
help me out. Us Monster Truck drivers are like one big family, always willing to give each other a helping hand"

Quite a number of John's friends stopped by the trailer during the weekend to see him, keeping John busy all of the time.

For Johns & his crew it was time to repair the broken bump stops & check

over the truck to make sure it was ready for the days racing ahead. Before each race session, John

gases up his shock absorbers.

John even puts himself out for the youngest of fans for a photo opportunity.

John has his hands full for this photo oppertunity.

With the racing soon to start, John gets into his fire suit, grabs his helmet & drives the truck into the infield, along with all the other Monster Truck drivers. On John's crash helmet, he has Squirrel painted on it, as that is his nickname.

"The reason my nickname is Squirrel, is for two reasons. One is that squirrels are good climbers,

like myself & they store & eat nuts, & my friends all reckon I'm nuts !"

Mike Vaters, John Seasock, Guy Wood & Dan Runte, discuss the afternoons racing.

With the first Monster Truck racing of saturday underway, the crowd saw some high flying action, including Kirk Dabney crashing the Overkill truck. Click here to see full coverage of Bloomsburg.

For John he was beaten in the first round of racing in the Chicago style racing & straight line racing.

In between the early afternoon racing & the evening racing, the Monster Truck teams had to rush to get their trucks fixed, as they didn't have much time to do it in. Some teams had more repair work to do than others.

Kirk Dabney had the most repair work to do to his truck.

Crowds of onlookers watch the Overkill team fixing the truck. Kirk Dabney not looking to happy about wrecking his truck

Kirk Dabney

The team quickly get down to repairing the truck, for the evening racing.