Scott Hartsock and Gun Slinger took on Avenger, Brutus, Equalizer, Rammunition, Tailgator, Raminator, Bad Habit, and hometown hero Randy Moore in War Wizard.

The “World’s Fastest Half-Mile” played host to the monsters that started off with a huge pit party. Head to head racing and freestyle would be the highlights of the Thursday evening event. The Hedman Husler Hedders Gun Slinger would become the fastest qualifier early on, and would go on to be the overall fastest qualifer beating out the Hemi powered Dodge Raminator and Rammunition, two trucks Scott Hartsock goes after every time he’s given the chance.

Round-1 of racing played out with the Hedman Husler Hedders backed Gun Slinger going up against Mark Hall in Rammunition. The large Chicago-style track required both trucks to make two complete laps and finish on the car stack they started at, for a total of 5 hits over the crush cars. Gun Slinger would gain the lead about halfway through and maintain the lead all the way to the finish, advancing into the Semi-Finals. Long time friend Jim Koehler in Avenger met Scott Hartsock and the Hedman Husler Hedders Gun Slinger in the Semi-Finals. Scott started off leading going into the first turn, and continued to lead until the final turn. A little too much horsepower in the final corner caused the truck to oversteer, allowing Avenger to slip past Hartsock for the win.

Avenger and Jim Koehler would go on to take the racing victory against Raminator.

“We had a great truck. My crew helped so much this week to get ready for Bristol. Bristol is a huge track, and tens

of thousands of fans come out on a Thursday night to watch us compete. I put it all out on the line during racing, I really wanted to come home with a racing win, we tried, we were close, but my heavy foot got the better of me. We’re happy to have taken out the Dodge boys in racing, but also qualifying. It’s always a good night when we take them out in some fashion.” said Scott Hartsock.

During freestyle Gun Slinger spent nearly two minutes on the clock ripping the track apart, hitting everything in sight and bringing down the house with every fan on their feet cheering on the Hedman Husler Hedders Gun Slinger. Scott’s run would quickly come to an end after a chunk of steel molding came up through the drive shaft cage and wadded up, damaging the drive shaft and wrapping around the brake assembly. Track crew quickly killed the truck, ending Gun Slinger for the night. Gun Slinger finished 3rd in freestyle out of 8 trucks.

Grave Digger, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, Ground Pounder, War Wizard, and Scott Hartsock in Gun Slinger were all on hand for the two days of action.

Competing well each night in racing, Scott Hartsock dominated the field ending up in the semi-finals or finals each night.

Gun Slinger would set the freestyle bar early on each night leaving the competition to battle it out to take over his top spot.

Gun Slinger Racing would like to thank PST, M30, Hedman Husler Hedders, JE Pistons, Oliver Connecting Rods, KING Off-Road Racing Shocks, FK Rod Ends, Miller, K&N Air Filters, Garner’s Towing Service, Central Florida Machine & Speed, and FTI Competition Converters & Transmissions for all their support.

For a full recap of the event visit MonsterJam.com.

Scott Hartsock and crew arrived to take on Black Knight, Holman’s Beast, and Ironman. The small truck lineup meant Gun Slinger could easily win racing and freestyle versus a larger 8 truck event, and the team was right on the money with their sights.

Holman’s Beast took fast qualifier for racing. Pairing Gun Slinger against Ironman in Round-1, defeating Ironman and advancing to Round-2. Black Knight came to the line against Gun Slinger and was quickly swept under the rug, advancing Gun Slinger into the finals against Holman’s Beast. The battle was quick on the straight-line course, with Gun Slinger also sweeping Holman’s Beast under the rug and clinching another summer racing win.

“We are thrilled about winning tonight. We’ll see several of these trucks throughout the summer season, and we’re stoked to know that if we can beat them here, we should have no problem beating them somewhere else.” quoted Scott Hartsock after grabbing the racing win.

Freestyle the truck ripped it up, soaring higher, farther, and going faster then the competition.

“I put on a kickass freestyle for several minutes. I was the last driver out for freestyle and knew I had to step it up if I wanted to win freestyle. Not only did I step it up, but we literally killed it. The fans loved every minute of my run and crowned me the freestyle champion in Harrisonburg.” continued Hartsock after the show.

Gun Slinger Racing encourages fans to visit Hedman Hedders online at www.hedman.com. They are our top sponsor and because of them our truck outperform the competition. We’re excited to have them as a sponsor know if they can make our truck faster, they can to yours as well.

The team now heads to Mobile, Alabama for the Monster Jam Summer Heat Series. Check back in a few days for our Mobile recap.

The weekend would be a non-stop thrill ride for Scott Hartsock and Gun Slinger, with win after win each night.

Friday night Gun Slinger was fastest qualifer. Round-1 the truck paired against Storm Damage, where Scott defeated the truck and advanced into Round-2 against Hurricane Force. A quick start by both trucks thrusted them over the set of cars in straight-line racing at the same time, but the built up momentum Gun Slinger was carrying sent Scott over the finish line first. The truck advanced to the Finals against Storm Damage, a very well built, power truck. However the truck and driver just couldn’t take out the good ole’ cocked, locked, and ready to rock Gun Slinger. Scott continued to victory lane with a racing win.

Saturday night Gun Slinger outperformed all the other trucks in qualifying, putting him in the hot seat and giving the truck lane priority. Scott picked the left lane each race and would defeat Storm Damage, Hurricane Force, and finally Black Knight in the finals, clinching his second racing win for the weekend.

Both nights Gun Slinger put on an awesome freestyle in front of a sold out crowd. The fans loved Gun Slinger and showed their support after the event during autographs. Gun Slinger had everyone standing in Fairmont each night during freestyle, and Scott Hartsock would take the freestyle win each night, sweeping in Virginia.

The 23rd Annual A&A Auto Stores Summer 4-Wheel Jamboree Nationals® returned to Bloomsburg Fairgrounds this past weekend featuring over 2,000 custom 4-wheel drive vehicles including the bad boys of Monster Trucks.

The weekend consisted of a huge Monster Truck lineup including the return of Ms. BIGFOOT, BIGFOOT Retro, Avenger, The Beast, The General, Raminator, and Rammunition going against Scott Hartsock and Gun Slinger.

Each day of Monster Truck events consisted of racing and freestyle. Scott Hartsock was after taking a win or two from the Hall Brothers and their Dodge Rammunition and Raminator Monster Trucks.

During the weekend Gun Slinger was paired against the Hall Brothers trucks and would move on to the next round defeating the Dodge backed trucks. Problems would plague Gun Slinger over the weekend preventing the truck from taking any of the four available racing wins, but the team would make it to the semi-finals multiple occasions and into the finals once.

Saturday night Gun Slinger suffered its biggest blow when it blew out a transmission seal during the racing finals.

“We were doing extremely well. I was very happy with the truck; all of our sponsors have made it possible for us to do so well each weekend. This weekend we’ve had our gremlins, but we’re working them out. The transmission seal is a blow to the team, but we’ll have it fixed for Sunday afternoon.” Stated Scott Hartsock following the Saturday night event.

Gun Slinger outperformed a tough field of trucks in freestyle each event. Getting the biggest air, and traveling the furthest distance in freestyle. Scott Hartsock would even go on to knock out BIGFOOT in an insane power wheelie leaving BIGFOOT in the dust. It wasn’t enough to win the judge’s hearts but Gun Slinger doesn’t roll over for higher scores.

Gun Slinger Racing would like to thank PST, M30, Hedman Husler Hedders, JE Pistons, Oliver Connecting Rods, KING Off-Road Racing Shocks, FK Rod Ends, Miller, K&N Air Filters, Garner’s Towing Service, Central Florida Machine & Speed, and FTI Competition Converters & Transmissions for all their support.

Scott Hartsock and the Gun Slinger team arrived cocked, locked, and ready to rock for three days of monster action on the Virginia Beach Boardwalk. The weekend consisted of four events starting Friday evening and ending Sunday afternoon.

Hartsock and Gun Slinger would be going up a tough field of independent and corporately owned trucks including Grave Digger, Stone Crusher, Mopar Magic, Bad Habit, Crushstation, and Virginia’s own Diehl Wilson in Virginia Giant.

Starting Friday night Scott Hartsock proved he had what it would take to dominate the field in racing. Knocking out each truck round after round, Hartsock put Gun Slinger into the racing finals against Randy Brown and Grave Digger to only take the lead from the starting line and take an easy win over the nationally recognized Grave Digger.

The remainder of the weekend Scott Hartsock put Gun Slinger into the racing finals three more additional times, and clinching two more racing wins, dominating Virginia Beach with three monster wins and making it to the finals each event.

Below are a few photos courtesy of John Roberts of Roberts Performance Media.

Scott Hartsock and crew chief Jeff Sinn made their music video debuts recently on YouTube thanks to Monster Jam and FELD Motor Sports. During World Finals VI the Monster Jam crew created a parody of the Nickleback song “Rockstar.” featuring a plethora of Monster Jam stars including Dennis Anderson, Tom Meents, Lindsey Weenk, Madusa, Candice Jolly, Frank Krmel, and many others. Check it out by hitting the play button above and enjoy!

Grave Digger, Spiderman, Escalade, Advance Auto Parts Grinder, and Destroyer were no competition against the Florida native who received his World Finals XI qualifying flag last weekend in Jacksonville. Scott swept the house in racing claiming all three victories over stiff competition.

We’ll post the results straight from MonsterJamOnline.com, enjoy!

Friday 7:30

A Star Studded field was on hand ready to do battle in the historical Mississippi Coast Coliseum. Five of the six Trucks that are here tonight have qualified for the World Finals the newest truck to be selected was Spider man. Wit Tarlton accepted the flag on behalf of the Spider man Team.

The night started off with the wheelie contest and George Balhan skied Escalade to the win with a near perfect score of 29. Grinder was second with a 26 followed by Grave Digger with a 20. Gun Slinger was fourth with a solid wheelie and a score of 17 as Spider Man and Destroyer rounded out the field with scores of 17 and 16.

Racing was close all night long as each race had to be revued by the officials. Gun Sling was on his game and the Horse power shows through on that mighty Ford Monster Truck. Hartsock defeated the field in racing to take the racing Trophy and he did it with wins over Escalade in round one Spider man in the semi finals and Grinder in the finals. Lupe Soza was also fast all night as he defeated Spider man in round one and Grave Digger in the semi finals. Grave Digger did have a victory over Destroyer in his round one of racing.

Freestyle was nothing but spectacular! Grave Digger flew the Black and Green Wrecking machine to new heights and a solid score of 27 for the win. Escalade was close behind with some sick doughnuts on the very tacky floor and a score of 23. Spider man was third for the night with a score of 20 followed up by Grinder who scored a 19. Dan Evans in Destroyer was sick all day but with stood the loud noises and smell of fuel to perform for the awesome fans of Biloxi and scored a 17 for his freestyle effort. Gun Slinger had problems in his freestyle as he was unable to fill the clock when he cut a right rear tire that ended his night. Hartsock would score an 11 for last.

I can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings as there is still to more shows to go. See you then!

Saturday 2:00

As you can see the same Monster Trucks won the same events as they did last night. Surprised? For me its yes and no. Escalade has been known for huge wheelies, Gun Slinger has always been known for racing and Grave Digger is known for freestyle. But with this caliber of trucks on hand for these three competitions you would think there would be a different winner. The cool thing about this is that these three trucks did not get these wins with out a fight and that is true competition!

Escalades wheelie win came with a huge skie wheelie that took out the back bummper of the big black beast scoring him a 27. Grinder came in second with a score of 22 that on any given day could of been scorerd just as high as Escaldes score. Grave Digger was next in line with a 20 followed by Spider Man with a 17. Destroyer and Gun Slinger rounded out the field with scores of 17 and 16.

In racing Gunslinger was the truck to beat but no one could knock him out of the hot seat. Hartsock took wins over Destroyer in round one and a photo finish in the semi finals over grinder. In the main event Gunslinger dove across the Ford finish line by inches over Spider Man . Again not an easy task but it shows why after five years that5 Gunslinger is returnin g to the world finals. In other racing action Grave Digger defeated Spider man in round one only to get beat by him in the semi finals as fast looser. Grinder also took a win in round one over Escalade.

Freestyle was again awesome as all six trucks were competitive. The biggest move of the day was the start of Destroyers freestyle as Evans did the biggest and longest ski wheelie of the weekend giving him a 21 for the start. Gun Slinger and Spider Man couldn’t match the score leaving Dan in the hot seat for the first three trucks. Grinder was next and Lupe Soza knew he had to step it up. When the clock expired the fans were on their feet for more as Grinder took the lead with a 23. From there things got bigger and better. Escalade would jump into the hot seat with some sick air moves and score of 25 before Grave Digger would match the score for a tie. The tie breaker point went to Grave Digger and The crowd erupted sending us into tonights competition.

In the quad war competition team Texas surprised the Mississippi crowd and won the second and final heats of racing to take home this afternoons trophy. See you tonight.

Saturday 7:30

Wow! What a night it was in Biloxi Mississippi. The fans were awesome and again the same Monster Trucks were your winners. Escalade stole the show in wheelies and Hartsock was on his game in racing. Grave Digger again had the fans on there feet in freestyle as he three peated for the weekend. Watch out though for Grinder and Spiderman at the world finals because they weree also tremendous tonight.

Here are the results for wheelis, Racing and Freestyle

Racing round one: Grave Digger def. Destroyer, Grinder def. Spiderman Gun Slinger bye run (Escalade broke)

Semi finals. Gunslinger def. Grave Digger, Grinder def Spiderman (fast looser)

Finals: Gun Slinger def. Grinder

Photo courtesy of: David Kranak / MonsterTruckCollectors.com

Scott Hartsock and the Gun Slinger monster truck will be competing at Monster Jam World Finals XI (that’s 11 for some of you folks) on March 26th and 27th in beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada at Sam Boyd Stadium.

Scott received his qualifying flag during the pre-show ceremonies at this past weekends Monster Jam event inside Jacksonville Municipal Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida.

A new shock setup that Scott has been testing since the middle of 2009 has resulted in Gun Slinger being able to jump higher, fly further, and land softer. The incredible setup is done wonders and allows for so much more potential, which Scott has showed to his fans throughout the South East this winter Monster Jam season with an incredible performance that started inside the sold out Georgia Dome live on SPEED CHANNEL and in front of 70,000+ fans.

“We are pumped. I’ve been wanting to go to the World Finals for years. Our new shock setup, the support of our sponsors, and my competitive driving ability in racing and freestyle has been great all season. We’re ready for this, my family is ready for this, and my fans are stoked for this. We’re heading to Vegas and showing the wild west how true gun slinger’s roll,” said Scott Hartsock, owner and driver of Gun Slinger.

“To all of our fans, bring your signs to Vegas, because we’ll be cocked, locked, and ready to rock!” continued Scott Hartsock after receiving his qualifying flag Saturday night.

For event results from Jacksonville visit: http://www.monsterjam.com/results/result.2010-02-24.8461801603

Monster truck qualifying opened as Grave Digger posted a solid 19.38 in the first pair to run. Excaliber rolled out and posted a 19.39, getting close to the top spot. Two more trucks slipped below the 20 second mark, but no one could knock Grave Digger from the top spot.

The qualifying set up an unusual pairing for the first round when Maximum Destruction spun during qualifying, ended up with the 12th spot. It put him head to head with fast qualifier Grave Digger and Digger was even faster with a 19.25 pass and eliminating Max D. Other first round winners were Superman (who received his qualifying spot for the Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam NGK Spark Plugs World Finals earlier in the night), Gun Slinger, El Toro Loco, and Excaliber. Shock Therapy beat Predator, who suffered a flat tire during the run.

Grave Digger, Gun Slinger and Exacliber added second round wins, but Excaliber broke a rear sway bar, putting Amsoil Shock Therapy back into action. El Toro Loco received the fast loser provisional. El Toro made the best of it, defeating Grave Digger while 2006 Miami racing champion Gun Slinger put the brakes on Shock Therapy’s run. The finals saw Gun Slinger return to his championship form in his Ford F-150.

Freestyle action just kept getting better and better as crews worked to find the tricks to keep trucks in high competition. Breakage kept the first three trucks from bonus time, but Instigator used the additional 30 seconds to gain the lead. the scores kept climbing when El Toro Loco flipped, landing on his wheels, but breaking off both horns. Driver Chuck Werner delivered the part to a young El Toro fan for a priceless memory. Gun Slinger’s attempt to double down was short lived and Superman annihilated a truck at the conclusion of bonus time. Blue Thunder pushed the score a bit higher until Maximum Destruction hit the floor, shedding body pieces and slamming the truck to the floor in a violent run. The score of 28 put Neil Elliot in position, but there was one more truck to challenge the course. Dennis Anderson brought Grave Digger, closing with a violent flip at the end of bionus time. His effort left him just one point short of victory, giving Max D a memorable Miami.

Patty Jaholkowski won the Democross main. Paul Smith, Jake Coombs, Jake Goodyear and Jadd Knox gave high flying thrills for the crowd in freestyle motocross action.

Monster Jam Qualifying
Grave Digger - 19:38
Excaliber - 19:39
El Toro Loco - 19:87
Gun Slinger - 19.90
Amsoil Shock Therapy - 20.09
Superman - 20.19
Blue Thunder - 20.29
War Wizard - 20.78
Predator - 20.84
Pouncer - 22.34
Instigator - 22.78
Maximum Destruction - 23.19

Monster Jam Racing
Round 1 - Grave Diggerdefeated Maximum Destruction, Superman topped Blue Thunder, Gun Slinger decisioned War Wizard, El Toro Loco beat Pouncer, Amsoil Shock Therapy stopped Predator, Excaliber eliminated Instigator

Round 2 - Grave Digger over Superman, Gun Slinger defeated El Toro Loco, Excaliber bested Amsoil Shock Therapy (El Toro Loco returns as fast loser, Excaliber breaks a rear sway bar and yields spot to Amsoil Shock Therapy

Semi Finals - El Toro Loco edged Grave Digger, Gun Slinger beat Amsoil Shock Therapy

Finals - gun Slinger beat El Toro Loco

Monster Jam Freestyle
Maximum Destruction - 24 + 4 = 28
Grave Digger - 24 + 3 = 27
Blue Thunder - 23 + 3 = 26
Superman - 21 + 4 = 25
Amsoil Shock Therapy - 20 + 3 = 23
Gun Slinger - 19 + 3 = 22
El Toro Loco - 19 + 2 = 21
Instigator - 15 + 3 = 18
Excaliber - 15
Predator - 14
Pouncer - 10
War Wizard - DNC

Results courtesy of MonsterJamOnline.com