Linsey Read (born February 7th) is a monster truck driver out of El Paso, Texas. She currently drives Lucas Stabilizer but has driven Wonder Woman, as well as Scooby-Doo! which she would win both the 2019 Showdown and World Finals freestyle championship in.
Career[]
Read actually drove Team Hot Wheels Firestorm in San Antonio back in 2015.
Read made her full time debut, driving Scooby-Doo! In early 2017, Read would go on maternity leave until June, when she debuted Wonder Woman.
In 2018, Read returned to Scooby-Doo!, competing on the 2018 Monster Jam Arena Series. She would end up finishing in third place. She drove Zombie in Santiago, Chile.
In 2019, Read once again competed on the 2019 Monster Jam Arena Series and again finished in third. She would be invited to and then win the Monster Jam World Finals XX Showdown competition. At the same event, she also win the freestyle championship; becoming the second female in Monster Jam World Finals history to do so.
In 2020, Read competed on the 2020 Monster Jam Arena Series and finished 2nd after the tour ended prematurely.
In 2021, Read made her debut in stadiums on the 2021 Monster Jam Stadium Championship Series on January 30 in Houston, Texas. In Arlington, Texas she would debut the new Monster Mutt Dalmatian Galaxy truck.
In 2022, Read would once again suspend her driving duties for the birth of her second child; although she made an appearance at Monster Jam World Finals XXI as one of three professional judges. She would later return to driving in October in Monster Mutt Dalmatian on the stadium fall series.
In 2023, Read was going to continue driving the truck in 2023 on Arena Championship Series East but was switched back to Scooby-Doo! after the contract was renewed. She finished fourth and would later be invited to compete at Monster Jam World Finals XXII.
For 2024, Read was originally scheduled to compete on Arena Championship Series Central in Scooby-Doo!. However, in early October 2023, Cynthia Gauthier announced that she would temporarily step down from her driving duties of Lucas Stabilizer due to her recently-announced pregnancy. Read was then announced to be the fill-in for Gauthier at the Superstar Challenge in Anaheim & on the Stadium Championship Series East, driving the Lucas Stabilizer in her place for 2024. In Houston, Charlie Pauken would drive Lucas Stabilizer, making him the first male to drive the truck. Jamie Sullivan drove in her place in Syracuse because Linsey was attending her daughters go cart race.
Monster Jam World Finals appearances[]
- 2018: Scooby-Doo (DDS)
- 2019: Scooby-Doo (main field & Showdown (won), (won freestyle)
- 2023: Scooby-Doo (main field)
Monster Jam All-Star Challenge/Superstar Challenge appearances[]
- 2019 - Scooby-Doo (Team Fire)
- 2023 - Lucas Stabilizer (Team Neon)
Trivia[]
- Her husband, Jerrad Warhurst was an ATV rider for the Monster Jam arena series.
- Linsey became the first and only driver to drive Wonder Woman on an American stadium tour, driving the truck during the 2017 Path of Destruction tour.
- She is the second driver to win both a YGS/DDS/Showdown title and a freestyle title, the first being Mike Vaters II, who won the YGS title in 2014 and the freestyle title in 2015.
- She is also the first ever driver to win the YGS/DDS/Showdown and win a main field championship in the same weekend.
- She is the first female Showdown winner.
- She is the 2nd driver named Linsey to drive a Lucas Oil sponsored truck. Linsey Weenk was the first, who drove Lucas Oil Crusader from 2011 - 2020.
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