Kreg Christensen (born May 5th, 1965) is a monster truck driver and team owner from South Willard, Utah most known for driving Dragon Slayer. He is also known for driving a lot of trucks including: Max-D, Iron Outlaw, Wicked and Donkey Kong. He is also the founder and the creator of Team KCM (Kreg Christensen Motorsports).
Career[]
He formed Team KCM in 1995 when he built the team's first truck, Dragon Slayer, which he would drive until 2008. From 1995 to 2008, the team built several other trucks, which was mostly driven by the Christensen's.
In 2008, Kreg was hired to drive 2Xtreme Racing's Iron Outlaw and would win the racing competition in Houston, Show 1. From that point on, Team KCM went on a several year hiatus. Between 2008 and 2009, he began driving in Australia, piloting trucks such as Scooby-Doo! (Australia), Taz (Aussie) and Monster Patrol (Gilbert). At the South Pacific World Finals 1, he drove MotorStorm.
In 2009, he was hired by Tom Meents, the owner of Max-D, to fill-in for Neil Elliott. Kreg would notably struggle the entire year and would often roll over early into his freestyles simply by turning the truck, this most likely being down to Kreg being unfamiliar with the Meents chassis.
In 2010, he drove Donkey Kong up to its retirement on the same year. That same year, he built Extreme and competed in Australia. This was the first KCM truck he built for himself since the Team KCM hiatus began.
In 2011, he went back to driving Maximum Destruction as a full-time driver. This time his Maximum Destruction truck was given a different chassis compared to the Meents one most notable for being a rear-engine Max-D, which Kreg was able to handle better. He built two more trucks for Monster Events (then EMT Events), being Cranky Yankee and the new Scooby-Doo! (Monster Events).
In 2012, Team KCM was officially revived after Wicked, the first truck of the team to debut since the retirement of Dragon Slayer in 2008. The truck exclusively ran in Australia as Kreg was still running Max-D in the US. In 2014, he left Monster Jam to drive Wicked full time (still in Australia).
In 2015, he built two more Wicked trucks, both having red frames. One of these was the American Wicked while the other was the replacement for the first Wicked which in turn became Raptor's Rampage in Australia. Later on, more trucks were added to the fleet such as American Soldier and Vendetta which helped Team KCM's return in the United States.
In 2017, he brought back Dragon Slayer. He stopped driving in Australia after 2018.
Along with driving multiple Australian trucks, he has also built several monster trucks for different Australian companies. These include Extreme, Wicked, Cranky Yankee, Aussie Reaper and Dino Patrol.
In 2022, he drove Demo Derby for the HWMT Live Glow Party in Ontario, Canada. At the end of the year, Kreg would retire from driving. However, his retirement was short-lived as he returned in 2023 and now drives 5 Alarm along with Cody Holman, Joe Cypher & others. This would make 67 trucks that he has driven, which puts him in first place for amount of trucks driven by a single driver.
Net worth[]
Kreg Christensen has a net worth of 20 million dollars.
Family members[]
Throughout his career, Kreg has recruited several of his family members to drive for Team KCM and the Australian companies he's worked with. These drivers include:
Current[]
- Mike Christensen (son, drives Vendetta)
- Payge Johnson (granddaughter, drives Revenge)
- Paul Jensen (stepson, drives Jurassic Attack)
- Ashton Jensen (step-grandson, drives Mud Monkey)
- Zach Jensen (stepcousin, drives Kamikaze and Rockwell R.E.D.)
- Kamdyn Jensen (drives Wrecking Machine)
- Caden Morris (grandson, drives part-time since 2022)
Retired[]
- Julie Christensen (wife, drove Misbehavin', since divorced)
- Kasey Christensen (son, drove various trucks)
- Brian Christensen (son, drove various trucks)
- Ashlee Christensen
- O.D. Christensen (brother, drove Mischievous)
World Finals appearances[]
- 2008 - Iron Outlaw
- 2011 - Maximum Destruction (encore only)
- 2013 - Maximum Destruction (encore only)
Trivia[]
- Kreg Christensen has the unofficial world record for having driven the most monster trucks, with the most recent truck as of 2024, 5 Alarm, being the 67th known truck. Shane Phreed has driven the second most trucks with 50.
- His truck, Dragon Slayer appears in There Goes a Monster Truck.
- He also drove Freak. The year(s) is unknown.
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