War Wizard

War Wizard is a 1941 Willys ProMod driven by RJ Turner. War Wizard is best known for its wild body and paint schemes, most of them constantly changing. War Wizard is also known for it attempts for the speed record.

History

 * 2003 - War Wizard debuts.
 * 2004 - War Wizard takes part in its first televised race in Montreal, Quebec.
 * 2005 - War Wizard sets the speed record for a monster truck.
 * 2006 - A hard landing in Atlanta destroys the original War Wizard chassis, and it is run on the old Little Tiger chassis (at this point renamed Total Chaos) for the rest of the first quarter.
 * 2007 - War Wizard runs the original chassis and original body for January, before A new chassis and scheme debuts for War Wizard later in the season.
 * 2009 - War Wizard competes in Monster Jam World Finals 10.
 * 2013 - War Wizard celebrate its 10th Anniversary and runs yet another new paint scheme. In May, the truck was sold and changes started to take place.
 * 2015 - War Wizard takes part of the Fox Sports 1 Championship Series with Darrin Goin driving, scoring no points.
 * 2016 - War Wizard competes in the second Fox Sports 1 Championship Series with Shane Phreed driving the truck also scoring no points.
 * 2017- The truck competes in the Fox Sports East Series with Shane Phreed once again driving. RJ Turner starts driving during the summer.
 * 2018 - A new design debuts. RJ takes driving duties full time. The team also takes a hiatus from Monster Jam, likely to allow RJ to focus on speedway and smaller arena shows.
 * 2019 - Another new paint scheme debuts, including a white chassis. The team still doesn't return to Monster Jam, likely due to scheduling conflicts.

2006 Bad Luck Season
2006 was a strangely unlucky year for War Wizard. In Atlanta, War Wizard would suffer two separate transmission failures, requiring the full removal and replacement twice. Then in freestyle, the first hit was angled at such a way, that when the truck landed, it ripped off nearly every shock, and destroyed the chassis, putting it out of commission for the rest of the season. The team was able to buy the "Little Tiger" chassis (actually Total Chaos chassis), and would use it for the rest of the year. On the way to Tampa, the teams rig nearly ran out of oil, and even popped one of the tires. At Tampa, TG Short could not compete in Spellcaster due to a back injury, so Derek Evans stepped in to drive for Spellcaster, and when War Wizard (the body now sectioned and taped together on the Little Tiger chassis) came out to qualify, the first car stack he went over popped his rear right tire, causing him to not be able to compete for the rest of the show. At the next show, a small arena show, the truck's throttle stuck during a donut, and it drove into a wall.

2017 Team Transformation
As the team turned around after that season of "bad luck", in 2017, the team brought on a new, young fresh driver as well as new management on board. The combination, according to the team, "has never been done nor heard of before in the monster truck industry". With a long history in motor-sports the team "came out on fire". RJ Turner, 25 years old originally from Central Florida, came from a mud racing background. At a young age RJ started out racing in a class known as “Daily Driver” and as the years went by he was noticed by other truck owners for his ability to drive. Getting chances that many wanted RJ was able to compete in and win several different points championships in different classes including the now popular mega trucks. After a small break from racing in Florida, RJ got a chance to get in the driver seat of the War Wizard. After a few hits the team knew they found the driver they wanted to represent the name in years to come. From June of 2017 to present, RJ has piloted War Wizard through 48 events gaining 27 freestyle wins, 27 wheelie competition wins, 7 donut wins & 4 racing wins, along with “2018 Rookie of the Year” on the Monster Spectacular Canadian tour. Along with the driver change, the management changed as well. The new young driver’s mother stepped in to over see the day to day needs of the team as well as being the crew chief for her son. With over 25 years of motor-sports promotions, racing & a mechanical background, it was very clear to the team owner that he needed to hire Allison Turner and have a never done before mother as the crew chief and son as the driver monster truck team.

Trivia

 * The trucks body style was modeled after a 1941 ProMod Willys. However, at shows, it was playfully refered to as a "2041 Willys".
 * In 2006, a teammate truck debuted, known as Spellcaster, driven by TG Short. However, the truck only appeared in three events, at Pontiac, Atlanta, and Tampa, and it never freestyled. TG would injure his back, and retire from driving. The original team would later sell the truck, becoming the second Sin City Crusher.
 * Since somewhere around late November 2018, the team have been members of this wiki.
 * Trey Myers hosts the team's "War Wizard Wednesday" YouTube videos.
 * Due to legal issues, the original owner cannot be named on this page.