Minneapolis 1998

Minneapolis 1998 was the first event of the 1999 Monster Jam season. This would be the final Motor Madness/Monster Jam event and the only non USA Motorsports event commentated by Mike Galloway and Ralph Sheheen, as Mike Hogwood and Scott Douglass would take the commentary for the next event through the remainder of Monster Jam on TNN

Field of Trucks
Little Tiger- Brian Barthel

Executioner- Mark Hall

Equalizer- David Morris

Monster Patrol- Tom Meents

Bulldozer- Guy Wood

Samson- Dan Patrick

Predator- Allen Pezo

Bear Foot- Todd Frolik

Grave Digger- Dennis Anderson

Round 1 Racing
Little Tiger v. BYE

The hometown favorite would get a bye run in to the next round

Winner- Little Tiger

Predator vs. Samson

A dead heat for an opening race, as Predator seemed to be in the lead until Samson came back in the final jump

Winner- Samson

Monster Patrol vs. Equalizer

Meents almost lost this race, getting close to missing the second jump and then hit the dirt hill in the middle but still saved the truck and the win

Winner- Monster Patrol

Executioner vs. Grave Digger

Hall couldn't keep up with the Panel Van as Digger would get an easy win

Winner- Grave Digger

Bulldozer vs. Bear Foot

Bulldozer appeared a bit under powered, giving Bear Foot an easy win

Winner- Bear Foot

Round 2 Racing
Samson vs. Little Tiger

Barthel wouldn't get lucky in this as Samson was too powerful for the cat

Winner- Samson

Predator vs. Monster Patrol

Pezo in another close race, but this time it was able to tell that Monster Patrol would get the win

Winner- Monster Patrol

Grave Digger vs. Bear Foot

This one would also be another close race, but Digger would be able to snag the win over Bear Foot

Winner- Grave Digger

Semi Finals Racing
Samson vs. Monster Patrol

Samson looked to have a slight advantage, but the truck seemed to brake and pogo over the cars

Winner- Monster Patrol

Bear Foot vs. Grave Digger

Despite a win from Bear Foot, the truck would break a tire on the end meaning his night would end right there

Winner- Bear Foot

Finals Racing
Grave Digger vs. Monster Patrol

Both would get a good holeshot but the win would go to the Digger, the first TNN finals of a pair that would make the show

Winner- Grave Digger