USA vs AUS on March 27 In Perth Western Australia

Line Up

Samson - Clive
Raptors Rampage - Peter Duffy (switched places with Troy)
Outback Thunda - Troy Wilson (a local footballer guest driving)

vs

Scooby Doo - Kreg
Avenger - Corey Clarke
Taz - David Brown

The Racing Track

A spiral coarse so drivers start together, make a hook turn, over some small dirt bumps, another hook turn, over a car stack, finish.

Qualifying

Peter Duffy took first place in Raptor with a very clean lap for the slippery track which took other drivers by surprise.

Qualifying was split to make match ups in round 1 USA vs AUS.

Aussie order was
Raptors Rampage
Samson
Outback Thunda

US order was
Avenger
Taz
Scooby Doo (Kreg spun)

Racing

Avenger > Raptors Rampage
Samson > Taz
Scooby > Outback Thunda

Scooby > Raptors Rampage (fast looser)
Avenger > Taz (Samson DQ for missing the Car stack last race)

Scooby > Avenger

Exhibition

A special promotional thing saw Local Footballer Troy Wilson get to jump a car stack with a small caravan on the end.
Thunda took some damage and talking with Clive he said Troy skipped across the cars to slowly and as a result smashed the drive train right on the caravan, this was the last for Thunda tonight.

The Freestyle Track

Biggest perth had ever seen, 2 double car stacks with large dirt ramps, a bus stack, the two racing stacks and additional dirt jumps.

Freestyle

David Brown came out swinging first making good use of the two double stacks then the bus stack, a good all round freestyle. I missed a bit of this freestyle so I cant go into to much detail.

Corey then came out in Avenger, took on one of the racing stacks and got immense air I did have my camera at that point so the only way to describe it was the DVD cover of Monster Jam World Finals 7, sideways and all. Avenger came down hard and broke the rear steering, Corey then did some reverse donuts to try and fill some time but the truck had nothing else in it.

Clive was out next in Samson, making good air off the stacks before coming off one all out of shape, Clive was driving 90 degrees at one stage but pulled it right back onto all fours, Samson then was setting up for the finale when the engine noise cut out. Clive said he though it was an RII cutout but strangely nobody had the second controller anymore.

Kreg and scooby were last out, kreg wasted little time going for the double stacks straight away getting the dog nice and airborne, Kreg then cleared the entire bus stack before shocking everybody when he got big air using the Freestyle Motocross's Massive Dirt landing ramp.

Kreg parked it along side the crowd after that fantastic big air freestyle and took his score of 30 out of a possible 30.

Thanks to Fastmotion for his review

Team Australia Troy Wilson, Clive Featherby and Peter Duffy

Team USA Kreg Christensen, Corey Clark and David Brown

More great photos from the show, are in the gallery.

Photos supplied by
Bruce Russell
Flash Fotos & Graphix

For the first time ever, the WORLD SERIES OF MONSTER TRUCKS will thrill fans young and old alike at the Calder Park Raceway on Saturday night, January 16, from 6.30pm.

American superstar Corey Clark (from Big Fork, Montana) will lead a massive line up of SIX (6) Monster Trucks into town.
“I understand this is the first time we’ve had this gala event in town,” admits the quietly spoken American star, “so that means we’re going to come in and tear the place down. We always like to leave a lasting impression.”
Clark will drive the brand new (and amazing) Raptor’s Rampage, which has a 3D body alone on it worth over $40,000.

“These trucks are state of the art and as good as what we race back home,” admits Clark, “and Raptor’s Rampage is the newest in the fleet. Boy she’s a wild bit of gear.” Legendary Australian Championship winning truck Outback Thunda will be steered by the youngest Monster truck pilot in the world – 15 year old Queensland High School Student Jaye Featherby whilst Jaye’s Dad (Wild-driving Queenslander) Clive Featherby will take the reigns of the fully imported from the USA “Samson” truck, officially the worlds most expensive monster truck constructed to date, with all the latest high tech gear and a super fast 1700 horsepowered supercharged fuel injected big block chevy motor capable of hitting speeds of up to 140 kilometres per hour in the Calder amphitheatre.

“This is the first time I get to drive an American truck,” smiles Clive, “I normally drive the oldest truck in our fleet Outback Thunda but this time I’m going to get some major air in Samson. I can’t wait especially with the promise of double stacks of cars and hi-ace vans and even possibly buses to jump were looking at getting 30 plus feet skywards”

Featherby’s other teenage son Billy (17) will drive the crowd favourite Scooby Doo truck on the night

Victorians will have plenty of reasons to cheer for garden state madmen Sam Xuereb (Traralgon) and his ace sidekick “Joz” in Devil’s Taxi and Tropical Thunda respectively all hoping to take out the illustrious first place prize that will see the winner go on to the finals in the USA

American Clark is enjoying the warmer weather of Australia compared to his home state of Montana where there’s several feet of snow on the ground. “I can’t wait to get after it,” he grins, “crushing cars and beating Australian drivers is high on my priority list.”

A night at the Monster Trucks is an experience that challenges all your senses. The noise of the 17000hp supercharged drag racing engines, the rumble of these 6 ton beasts jumping 30ft into the air and the electric atmosphere of thousands of Victorians will be an impressive concept to take in.

Seeing these trucks airbourne then rolling and at times self destructing causing tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage at times is amazing yet so hard to comprehend its like a night on another planet but a night not to miss its a night that kids primarily love.

“Wherever we go, across Australia, we fill the stadiums both indoors and outdoors,” explains Clive Featherby, “fans on Saturday night at Calder will see us race against each other in knockout situations, see us try and do the best “sky wheelie” and go all out in the freestyle component of the show. There’s a lot going on.”

In addition to the Monster Trucks fans will witness some spine chilling Freestyle Motocross, no less than THREE (3) Jet Vans melting down cars, two cars being dropped from a crane and one of the biggest fireworks show you’ll experience anywhere.

“It’s the best family night’s entertainment you’ll find anywhere,” smiles Featherby. Already many of the trucks and crews have began arriving this to us is our equivalent of Bathurst its a very major event its sanctioned by our governing body so fans are going to see some wild moves out there on the Calder set up. Certainly nothing like this has ever been seen in Victoria before this is our World Series so fans look out and brace yourselves because excitement monster size is here.

It’s a busy life for the Featherby family.
“We do around 40 shows a year,” admits Clive, “and we love it. We love putting on an awesome show and we can’t wait to rock the house at Calder Park on January 16.”

Event information is below, media can phone Wade Aunger on 0428 187 850 for an interview if required with American Corey Clark or Aussies Clive, Billy and Jaye Featherby.

For more information visit www.monstertrucksaustralia.com.au

Saturday, 16 January 2010 - 6:30pm
Calder Park Raceway, VIC
Calder Park Melbourne

6 Monster Trucks: including
Outback Thunda
Scooby Doo
Sampson
Raptors Rampage
Tropical Thunder and Devil's Taxi
Awesome Side-by-Side Racing and Intense Freestyle Insane Obstacles
Freestyle Motocross Great Backflippers
3 x Jet Vans in an awesome car-melting showdown 3 jet vans in a contest to see who can melt a car to a blob of molten steel first
Car Crane Drop Holden v Ford
Massive Fireworks Sky show Genuine $50,000 stadium Skyshow
Stunt Acts
Support Acts

One huge night not to be missed!

Showtime Saturday - 6:30pm

Gates Open 3pm

Pit Party
Meet the drivers and get up close and personal at the FREE pit party - 4 pm till 5.30 pm.
Avoid the queues at the venue purchase early and have tickets mailed out.

Ticket Prices
Adults - $45.00
Teens 12-15 - $40.00
Kids 2 -11 - $35.00
Family Pass - 2 Adults and 2 children 2-11yrs $150.00
Children under 2 are free.
There are no pensioner discounts.
Credit Card Sales on the Monster Hotline 0447 TRUCKS 0447 (878257) (Please Note that a 5% Processing Fee applies to all transactions over the Monster Hotline)
You can also purchase your tickets from TICKETEK www.ticketek.com or 132 849

Other Info:
This is an Alcohol Free Event.
Esky's are allowed, but NO Glass.
No allocated seating.
Show Concludes approximately 9:45pm.
No EFTPOS Facilities on site

To all who attended the South Pacific World Finals, Raptors Rampage looked complete. This infact was not the case, some of the body panels were still made up of the foam that is used for shaping the panels. Now the truck features a full light weight fibreglass body.

With the South Pacific World Finals completed for another year, the tour has taken a break before the Christmas New Year shows. During this break, the crew has had a chance to put the finishing touches to Avenger, which time didn't allow for before the finals. The truck is now looking alot more like the original Avenger that jim Koehler drives in the USA. The orange chassis remains, but with the logos now on the body, the truck is looking complete.

All of the trucks here in Australia are getting further upgrades all are getting the Chinese lightweight tires, both Taz and Thunda one have new complete Patrick chassis on order from Dan, 30 inch shocks from Pablo for the rear of the trucks basically all the finishing touches to bring them into line with Felds trucks.

We now have our weekly TV shows on pay TV over here on two networks.

Dates will be announced in the very near future for a first ever genuine World Series of Monster trucks, Australia V USA. THe series will feature four Aussie drivers against four very top line USA drivers, the only catch being that Kreg Christensen has applied for a working visa here and Aussies have already adopted him as theres so to give the Series a genuine even contest Kreg will be recruited into the Aussie team.

The Aussies will be Clive (who beat Jim Koehler, Paul Jensen and just lost out by a couple of feet to dan in a 26 year old truck) Kreg, Billy (who recorded the fastest time in this years world finals) and Jaye.

USA will include Jim Koehler, Dan Patrick and others to be approached will be Jimmy Creten and a very top line Feld driver who Clive is talking to Feld about driving in the series. The series will commence After the Vegas world finals so as not to interfere with Feld commitments.

The whole seven show series will be televised and will be on the computer pay per view once again, and will be a lot better quality than last time now we have sorted out the issues experienced with the World Finals stream.

Points for each TEAM will be calculated from racing that will conclude with a FOUR truck racing final and then teams points for Freestyle all combined for a overall score.

By the time this happens Taz and Thunda will be running the new Patricks Chassis so this will have all drivers on a fairly even footing, which will finally determine just whether we can mix it with the USA,s best and over a seven show series this will truly determine a fair victor.

Certainly a WORLD FIRST and a genuine WORLD comp show casing monster trucks as a true international competiton which can only be good for monster trucks in the long term. Clive will also going to hand over a lot of the promotional duties to Lindsay Houston for the shows so he can concentrate on being a driver for once instead of trying to drive and run the shows at the same time.

Finally a world series from two continents.

Well the driver line up has well and truly been finalised for this years World Finals OR HAS IT ?

One huge shock to come out of the Extreme Monster trucks Australia camp when I was reading Clives press releases was the truck line ups.

At Number two in the Freestyle is Corey Clark Driving Raptors Revenge, hey wasn't thats Jim Koehlers truck I thought, panic set in. Wasn't Jim coming down under after all?

Oh no Australia is so looking forward to him coming downunder we will all be so disappointed, then disappointment turned to absolute surprise and jublilation.

Truck number 7 in Freestyle Jim Koehler driving AVENGER!!!!

Thats right Avenger, all along Clive has been working with Jim, he has moulded a body from one of the Drag Racing drivers here Victor Bray, a National Champion who just happens to run a 57 Chevy and Mr Excitement will be seen down under in none other than an Avenger truck instead of a Rabbit or Dinosaur..

Certainly after speaking to Clive the Dinosaur will be released at one of many media days over the next ten days.

It is hoped that Jim will also become a very regular visitor to Australia just like Kreg Christensen and with tours of New Zealand China, Japan and Korea all being planned, Clive is currently trying to form a close relationship with many drivers from the USA. Speaking with Clive he is now planning a big grand Prix series in all the Capital cities here, that will run along the lines of the World Finals show which will commence as soon as Jan 16 at Calder Raceway in Melbourne.

Its hoped Dan Patrick and co will line up for these events. I know Clive is keen to speak to the likes of Jimmy Creten, and the Ramunator team. Big things are certainly happening down under, plus word has it more trucks being purchased.

Kreg and Corey have done a HUGE job getting all the trucks up to Feld standard for next weeks event which has bigger obstacles than Vegas.

The Monsters Tour of Destruction is heading your way and its coming real soon tickets will be on sale BEFORE XMAS and towns will include Auckland, Hamilton, Tauronga, New Plymouth, Napier and Wellington.

Four trucks will invade the land of the long white cloud including Scooby, Taz, Batman and Raptors Rampage and USA driver Corey Clark is already a confirmed starter for the whirlwind tour.

Freestyle FMX and Jet vans are just part of the awesome show ready to measure highly on the shaky isles richter scale.

Keep watching for further info.

Welcome to the new look Downunder Monsters. As you can see there has been a big change to the look and some of the content has also changed.

You will still find great information about the trucks running as a part of Extreme Monster Trucks Australia and The Monsters Tour of Destruction. With all of the trucks now listed.

Driver bios have been updated, which now include all drivers that will be a part of the South Pacific World Finals, including Dan Patrick, Jim Koehler and coming soon Kreg Christensen, Paul Jensen and Paul Shafer. Some of the bios are completed, others are waiting for information.

The discussion board and chat room are still active, still at the same address. Join in and discuss your ideas, views and reviews with other fans of Monster Trucks in Australia.

Make sure the event you are attending is an Extreme Monster Trucks Australia event, that way you will know it is the best.

Sunshine Coast is where Extreme Monster Trucks Australia are based so when we get to come "HOME" for our one Annual jaunt to Stockland Park Sports Ground at Kawana here on the Queensland Sunshine Coast you know its always going to be special and this year proved no exception.

With a line up of six trucks Thunda 1 & 2, Monster Patrol, Batman, Scooby and Taz along with the Monster Motorbike, Freestyle FMX, Crane drop, Jetcar and a really huge fireworks spectacle the 9500 crowd were always in for a special night.

Winner of this year's Freestyle event was 15 year old Jaye Featherby driving Taz, Jaye has come along in leaps and bounds and is really going to be a real force in Monster Trucks in the very near future, he was followed closely by 17 year old Billy Featherby in Scooby and Kreg Christensen who was trialing Monster Patrol for the night.

The two Thunda's both experienced mechanical problems during the night but still performed some great jumps.

The date has already been set for OCT 2nd for next years return to Stockland Park where Mowill once again RULE on the Sunshine Coast.

A special Thanks Autobarns Nambour, Kawana, and Gympie for a great effort in Pre Sale tickets to the event.

Probably the only picture there will ever be of "two" Samson's

The Australian version of Samson, a complete Patrick Enterprises chassis, running Racesource stage 3 shock absorbers. Due to arrive in Brisbane Australia mid October, ready to debut at the South Pacific World Finals on the 14th November. Samson is one of the most advanced trucks ever to head to Australia.

Samson will remain in Australia permanently, and will be driven by one of Clive's drivers, however Dan will be coming over on three monthly visits and will drive this truck on all occasions when he comes over to Australia on his regular maintainence program.

When the truck shipped it was also accompanied by compete Patrick housings/diffs for All of the Extreme Monster Trucks Australia trucks, which will make all of their trucks uniform. All trucks also now have Butlerbuilt seats, Birch RII systems, Patricks latest Wheel Tether systems, the remainder being in the container. With the last container shipping from Kreg Christensens next Friday, which again is all full of parts this will bring all of our trucks up to the same standard as Felds, with exception of Chassis. Dan is now working on replacing EVERY chassis to ensure every one of the ten truck fleet is absolutely brand new and identical.

Clive has committed over three quarters of a million dollars in this latest splurge, in truck, updating new logos and new websites. They now have a weekly monster truck TV show on no less than FIVE tv networks starting from September 14, including free to air and the FOX Network, a whole new range of kids and adult clothing and extensive merchandise in all Target and Big W stores (we unfortunately don’t have Wal Mart) right across Australia launching in October.

A full range of DVD's being launched by Warner home video in time for Christmas in the very same stores even the same merchandise on sale at theme parks such as Gold Coast Movie World so yes Samson is just the start of a whole huge new gigantic attack that will also take in New Zealand Japan etc in the next 18 months.

And after speaking with Clive, he has advised me that he has also spoken to no less than 12 other USA drivers about heading down under over the next few months, so Australia is certainly going to move up a gear which is quite a achievement for a total population of just 21 million.

Welcome once again to all the latest news and updates in the world of Monster trucks across Australia.Its certainly been a hectic last few months with another successful top end tour the purchase of three more brand new trucks a whole new direction in Branding and marketing, new direction with our merchandising just some of the latest innovations to hit EXTREME MONSTER TRUCKS AUSTRALIA, yes that's right that's the new name for all branding, the Monsters Tour of Destruction will stay for this years all new and exciting tour but new logos and a new name will accompany all advertising for literally everything we do with this company from here on in.

The 2009 South Pacific World finals at the Brisbane international Speedway on November 14 have now gone on sale and what a biggie it's going to be with five drivers from the US already confirmed and ten trucks lining up on a whole new outdoor obstacle course that will have the racing fans in awe. Dan Patrick was recently here again and now has the full shopping list in order to make all the trucks well and truly up to date and uniform, its just part of the painstaking process of ensuring spectator safety and that of the drivers while bringing the trucks ups to a better class of Freestyle like what monster Jam fans are used to watching on TV from the Feld Shows.

I was saddened to hear of the passing of Speedway promoter Brian Healy, he had his detractors but was always a loyal supporter of the monster trucks, funnily enough it was only a few weeks ago that I was introducing Kreg Christiansen and Paul Jensen to him at the annual Speedway promoters conference then just like that he's gone, he had been talking about duplicating our World finals show at Parramatta Raceway obviously that wont happen now.

On a very positive note the so called recession that the world has been going through doesn't seem to have harmed our gates at all numbers are up but we are having to promote a lot harder to ensure they stay that way.

On closing I would like to make one thing very clear to all interested people out there, we are growing at a tremendous rate we have some huge projects in the pipeline this year that are all coming together right now we have separated away from our parent company KC's Fireworks Displays Aust PTY LTD we are not associated with any other monster truck companies whatsoever, we do hire trucks to Phil Christiansen and Peter Attard and Mark Gilbert, but that's about it, we are not involved in any way with the two trucks that we gave to Robert Stevenson or any other truck that may appear in this country we now have a established base of venues we have a good strong reputation that will only continue to grow. Our brand will work along side the likes of Warner Brothers over this next year specifically targeting the kids and family market, a greater emphasis on TV coverage has already began and from September on you will be able to catch all our shows on Fuel TV and the respective Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide 31 TV shows. So right now we're off to the states to buy more gear for our forthcoming year's shows and until Dapto on September 19 be safe and remember to keep watching our website www.monstertrucksaustralia.com.au for all the latest Australian news. .

Clive Featherby

Here comes the sharp tooth, finally Australia is about to go prehistoric with its own Dinosaur of destruction Raptors Rampage will burst into Dapto Showgrounds on Saturday September 19 in flying force,greeting what is always a huge capacity crowd this all new mighty monster with yet another great 3d body from Lindsay Houston of LDI Kustom Signs and designs will certainly turn heads with its great custom van style back and its gaping moulded tooth lined body,Lindsay certainly has to be one if not the world best when it comes to creating these great monster.

Mr excitement himself is about to unleash a new breed of excitement and monster entertainment onto Australia's unsuspecting monster truck fans when he makes his southern hemisphere debut in this years South Pacific World finals at the Brisbane International Speedway on November 14.
Jim will be a great hit with the Brisbane fans but wont be asked to jump into any pools of water, we really think that's a USA thing lets leave that for Vegas, was the Extreme Monster truck Australia promotion comment just the way Jim livens up the microphone should put most of Brisbane into a tailspin.
It's hoped that Jim will also be making other appearances down under during the next twelve months.

This years line up of drivers is basically complete and what a great field of drivers we have once again.
They are as follows:

1. PAUL SHAFER USA - MONSTER PATROL

2. SHERRI SHAFFER AUS - BEARFOOT (To be Confirmed)

3. DAN PATRICK USA - SAMSON

4. BILLY FEATHERBY AUS - OUTBACK THUNDA 2

5. PAUL JENSEN USA - BATMAN

6. PETER DUFFY AUS - BUGS BUNNY

7. JIM KOEHLER USA - RAPTORS RAMPAGE

8. JAYE FEATHERBY AUS - TAZ

9. CLIVE FEATHERBY AUS - OUTBACK THUNDA

10. KREG CHRISTIANSEN - SCOOBY DOO

This years format will include a all new j course combined with a Chicago style race track that will feature a rock course and dirt jumps Time trials will once again determine racing match ups and to make the time trials that little bit more exciting a purse of a additional $5000 has been put up for the winner.
Freestlye has all the normal buses truck bodies boats and triple stacks of cars making this one hair raising night not to miss.Tickets are now on sale from the monster hotline 0447 trucks or online at www.monstertrucksaustralia.com.au