Buddy Tompkins (Born September 15th, 1988) is a monster truck driver out of Deltona, Florida. He is best known for driving Razin Kane and formerly drove Ice Cream Man with Roy Pridgeon before that.
Career[]
Before getting into monster trucks, Buddy raced BMX, then later motorcycle drag racing.
In 2014, Buddy began his monster truck career driving Ice Cream Man.
In 2015, Buddy would pilot Razin Kane as the teammate to Ice Cream Man and JR McNeal's The Xtermigator.
In 2017, he competed on the Fox Sports 1 Series, getting the fastest qualifying time in Anaheim, made his only World Finals appearance and drove Gronk in Foxborough, finishing in 2nd place in freestyle behind Ryan Anderson's Son-Uva Digger.
In 2018, Buddy was meant to drive Megalodon, but later announced he would be retiring. Trent Montgomery took his place to drive Megalodon in 2018 (although he would drive the 2Xtreme version on Jekyll & Hyde the following year for an injured Austin Minton as the teammate to Tanner Root's Monster Mutt (on Iron Outlaw). In April, Buddy returned to fill in for Steve Sims in Stone Crusher in Syracuse. He also drove the truck in Foxborough.
In 2019, Buddy would drive Stone Crusher again. On June 25th, he announced he would drive for Bigfoot at certain events. He also drove Pirate's Curse on Storm Damage in the Netherlands.
In 2020, Buddy was supposed to drive Fast Metal as the teammate to John Gordon's Bad Company for Stadium Championship Yellow and Xtermigator for part of Stadium Series Green, but a hard landing during the first freestyle in Tampa resulted in him suffering back injuries and would miss the rest of the tour, but would make his return in the summer, back in Razin Kane.
In 2023, Buddy drove Plane Krazy.
World Finals appearances[]
- 2016 - Razin Kane (YGS)
- 2017 - Razin Kane