Pontiac 2006

Pontiac 2006 was the final Monster Jam event at the Pontiac Silverdome. It was special, as 19 trucks competed, compared to the usual 12-16. It was also a strange event in the amount of bad luck that happened to several drivers. This was also the debut of Spellcaster.

Field of Trucks
Avenger-Jim Koehler

Blue Thunder-Tony Farrell

Bob and Tom Show- Guy Wood

Bounty Hunter- Jimmy Creten

The Broker- Jim Leahy

Brutus- Chris Bergeron

Destroyer- Dan Evans

El Toro Loco- Lupe Soza

Grave Digger- Dennis Anderson

Iron Outlaw- Linsey Weenk

Madusa- Madusa

Maximum Destruction- Tom Meents

Predator- Allen Pezo

Prowler- Larry Jarzel

Spellcaster- TG Short

Stone Crusher- Gary Wiggins

Superman- Chad Fortune

Thrasher- Pat Summa

War Wizard- Randy Moore

Qualifying Incident
During Qualifying, Randy Moore in War Wizard suffered a hard landing, which in turn knocked Randy out, and causing the truck to continue forward where it slammed into the wall protection, and climbed up it. The truck was too damaged to compete in Racing, and Freestyle, and Randy was taken to the hospital. War Wizard did not compete for the rest of the show.

Racing Round 1
Due to the strange number of trucks, Round 1 consisted of the slowest 8 competitors.

Bob and Tom vs. Stone Crusher T-Maxx vs BYE

Thrasher vs Destroyer

The Broker vs Spellcaster

Racing Round 2
Bob and Tom (Crash) vs Maximum Destruction

Madusa vs El Toro Loco

Superman vs Avenger

T-Maxx vs Bounty Hunter

Thrasher vs Grave Digger

Iron Outlaw vs Blue Thunder

Brutus vs Predator

The Broker vs Prowler

Racing Round 3
Madusa vs Maximum Destruction

Superman vs Bounty Hunter Iron Outlaw vs Grave Digger (Crash)

Prowler vs Predator

Semi-Finals
Bounty Hunter vs Maximum Destruction (Crash)

Iron Outlaw vs Predator

Finals
Bounty Hunter vs Iron Outlaw

Freestyle
Grave Digger - 30 (Crash)

Maximum Destruction - 29

Bounty Hunter - 24 Avenger - 24 (Crash)

Stone Crusher - 24 (Crash) Thrasher - 21

T-Maxx - 21

Superman - 20 Prowler - 20

El Toro Loco - 20

Madusa - 20

Bob and Tom - 19 (Crash) Blue Thunder- 19 (Crash)

Destroyer - 15

The Broker- 10 (Crash)

Iron Outlaw - DNC

Predator - DNC

SpellCaster - DNC

War Wizard - DNC

Stone Crusher Incident
Gary Wiggins in Stone Crusher was involved in an incident during freestyle. The truck, on it's last jump, performed a skywheelie. The truck over-rotated, and ended up landing directly on the tailgate. Wiggins broke his back on landing, and had to be taken out of the truck via medical help, and was put on a stretcher. He eventually made a full recovery.

Trivia

 * This was the debut show of Spellcaster
 * Img 7186.jpg event had a strange feeling of bad luck to it. Bob and Tom crashed twice during the competition, Grave Digger 20 was involved in a very violent crash, Randy Moore was out of the show after he was injured during qualifying, Spellcaster broke early during racing, Gary Wiggins was seriously injured during freestyle, and four trucks were unable to freestyle.
 * The Broker's freestyle was not shown on T.V.