Learn more about our ticket refund policy here. There are no refunds except if your event is cancelled entirely with no rescheduled date. Refunds and Shipping Information for Monster Jam Tickets Learn more about our 100% Buyer Guarantee here. You can rest assured your Monster Jam order will be processed quickly and safely on our secure servers and that all event tickets sold here are 100% guaranteed. And view the entire Monster Jam tour schedule above. See some of the biggest trucks in the world at an event like no other by grabbing your seats here. Shop for tickets to the Monster Jam tour and see your favorite monster trucks live! Watch them crush everything underneath them like toys with their massive wheels. Shop for cheap tickets to the Monster Jam and do a good deed by giving to a cause that means something to you. You can see our charities list and how it works here. "I feel safer in my truck than in my regular vehicle.At GoodDeedSeats, we can donate $5 from the profits of every Monster Jam ticket order to a charity of your choice if you'd like, so be sure to choose. "I wear seven seat belts, and my seat (including a neck restraint) is molded to my body," he says. Trucks attempt plenty of tricks in competition, and, though the rides may look precarious suspended upon those 66-inch wheels, it's rare that anyone gets hurt in competition, Blackwell says. He also earned a Rookie of the Year nomination for his creation of the Gazoo motor. In 2005, Blackwell made his professional debut at the Birmingham, Ala., Monster Jam show. Six months later, after one of the events, Slifko let Blackwell drive Eradicator over a few cars, and that was all it took to hook Blackwell on driving. It was there that he met Slifko and soon began traveling with his Eradicator team. He mounted the first Gazoo on owner/driver Andy Slifko's Eradicator monster truck in 2003, he says, and now 40 of the top Monster Jam trucks in the country are equipped with the motor.īlackwell first got involved in Monster Jam in 1992 when his truck club was asked to coordinate the infield activities at the Bloomsburg (Pa.) Jamboree. He found solace, though, in his career developing specialized parts for monster trucks, including the Gazoo motor, a rear-steer motor that spins 2 1/2 times faster than a typical motor. He was in motocross as a pro rider for 16 years before an injury in 2002 forced him to retire. The Pennsylvania native who moved to Virginia Beach, Va., in 2005 to start his new truck-driving career has always loved all sports involving motorized vehicles. It allows me to fix something whenever one of the trucks has an electrical glitch." And though I don't develop electrical parts for trucks any longer, I do know how to diagnose anything electrical, which comes in handy. But when I started driving in Monster Jam events, it's something I knew I'd want to do forever. "I've always competed in some sort of car sports," says Blackwell, who previously developed electrical parts for trucks. McNeal in Xtermigator Buddy Thompkins in Razin Kane, and a driver still to be determined in Doomsday. Blackwell will be behind the wheel of the 1,500-horsepower, pirate-themed Captain's Curse.Īlso competing will be Randy Brown driving Grave Digger Candice Jolly in Monster Mutt Dalmatian J.R. Monster Jam returns to McKenzie Arena this weekend, April 8-9. Now, Blackwell, 42, drives monster trucks for a living - one of almost 100 men and women who navigate more than 70 of these 12- by 12-feet, 10,000-pound behemoths in the Monster Jam circuit, a series of racing and freestyle competitions sanctioned by the U.S. It was only a test drive, but it catapulted Alex Blackwell into a new career.
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