Monster Jam World Finals XII (Also written as Monster Jam World Finals 12) was the twelfth-annual Monster Jam World Finals, held on March 25-26th, 2011 at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada. This event featured a twenty-four truck lineup and was broadcasted on both the Speed Channel and CBS after the event took place. Tom Meents in Maximum Destruction earned his ninth world championship by defeating Jimmy Creten in Bounty Hunter in racing. Meanwhile, a tie would occur in the freestyle competition between Cam McQueen in Nitro Circus and Jim Koehler in Avenger. However, Koehler would ultimately win the world freestyle championship via the tiebreaker, earned his second world championship.
The track for World Finals XII featured a step-up ramp in the center. Instead of the traditional car pads, the racing ramps would come in the form of dirt ramps. The left side of the track featured a dirt bus ramp, a car pad plateau, and a container that was used as a backflip ramp. The right side of the track featured a cross-section step-up ramp and a car pad plateau, followed by another step-up obstacle with two box vans that were added later into the event. Meanwhile, the far side of the track featured a three jammer stack obstacles merged into each other, and a single jammer stack was featured on the near side of the track.
Special paint schemes[]
The paint scheme used by Avenger this year was a special candy apple red paint scheme. Other trucks that received special paint schemes were Backdraft, which received a special white paint scheme, and Brutus, which received a new updated paint scheme featuring a slightly darker tone of brown on the fur, an orange collar, bloodshot eyes, and excessive saliva drooling from the mouth. Meanwhile, This World Finals event was notable for featuring the debut appearance of Son-uva Digger with Ryan Anderson behind the wheel.
Red Avenger.
White Backdraft.
New Brutus.
Results[]
Qualifying times[]
Grave Digger - 15.69
Maximum Destruction - 15.70
Lucas Oil Crusader - 16.13
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle - 16.23
Monster Mutt Dalmatian - 16.28
El Toro Loco - 16.34
Monster Mutt - 16.37
Superman - 16.41
Bounty Hunter - 16.44
Spider-Man - 16.45
Advance Auto Parts Grinder - 16.60
Stone Crusher - 16.62
U.S. Air Force Afterburner - 16.63
Nitro Circus - 16.72
Captain's Curse - 16.73
Batman - 16.94
Mohawk Warrior - 17.03
Madusa - 17.50
Backdraft - 17.78
Amsoil Shock Therapy - 18.69
Brutus - 21.50
Iron Man - DNF
Grave Digger The Legend - DNF
Avenger - DNF
Racing[]
Round 1[]
Batman vs. Avenger
Bounty Hunter vs. Mohawk Warrior
Stone Crusher vs. Amsoil Shock Therapy
U.S. Air Force Afterburner vs. Brutus (crashes)
Nitro Circus vs. Iron Man
Advance Auto Parts Grinder vs. Backdraft
Spider-Man vs. Madusa
Captain's Curse vs. Grave Digger The Legend
*Stone Crusher and Amsoil Shock Therapy were unable to return for round 2 due to mechanical issues, resulting in Mohawk Warrior advancing as the fast loser from round 1.
Round 2[]
Grave Digger vs. Batman
Superman vs. Bounty Hunter
Monster Mutt Dalmatian vs. Mohawk Warrior
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle vs. U.S. Air Force Afterburner
Lucas Oil Crusader vs. Nitro Circus
El Toro Loco vs. Advance Auto Parts Grinder (crashes)
Monster Mutt vs. Spider-Man
Maximum Destruction vs. Captain's Curse
Round 3[]
Grave Digger vs. Bounty Hunter
Mohawk Warrior vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
Lucas Oil Crusader vs. El Toro Loco
Spider Man vs. Maximum Destruction
Semi-finals[]
Bounty Hunter vs. Mohawk Warrior
Lucas Oil Crusader (crashes) vs. Maximum Destruction
Championship race[]
Bounty Hunter vs. Maximum Destruction
Freestyle order[]
Nitro Circus
Batman
Spider-Man
Monster Mutt Dalmatian
Iron Man
Backdraft
Superman
Brutus
Amsoil Shock Therapy
Stone Crusher
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
Captain's Curse
Madusa
Avenger
Bounty Hunter
El Toro Loco
Lucas Oil Crusader
Mohawk Warrior
Advance Auto Parts Grinder
Monster Mutt
U.S. Air Force Afterburner
Grave Digger The Legend
Maximum Destruction
Grave Digger
Freestyle[]
Avenger - 32 (Tiebreaker score: 47)
Nitro Circus - 32 (Tiebreaker score: 46)
U.S. Air Force Afterburner - 30
Iron Man - 28
Bounty Hunter - 28
Mohawk Warrior - 28
El Toro Loco - 27
Lucas Oil Crusader - 27
Monster Mutt Dalmatian - 25
Stone Crusher - 24
Madusa - 22
Grave Digger - 21
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle - 20
Superman - 19
Amsoil Shock Therapy - 19
Batman - 18
Maximum Destruction - 16
Brutus - 13
Grave Digger The Legend - 13
Backdraft - 11
Captain's Curse - 10
Monster Mutt - 9
Advance Auto Parts Grinder - 8
Spider-Man - 4
Encore[]
Son Uva Digger's debut run for the encore.
A total of three encores were featured in World Finals XII. The first encore was performed by all three drivers of the Advance Auto Parts Grinder team - Lupe Soza, Frank Krmel, and John Seasock - performing a triple freestyle performance. Following that, all three drivers of the Maximum Destruction team - Tom Meents, Neil Elliott, and Kreg Christensen - also performed a triple freestyle performance, with Elliott and Christensen proceeding to drive over Meents' truck, crashing in the process. The third and final encore for the night featured the debut of Ryan Anderson in Son-uva Digger. Anderson and the truck performed a special freestyle performance, which included the cleanest backflip of the night.
Other awards[]
Stadium Wheelie – George Balhan - Mohawk Warrior - St. Louis
Charles Benns - Monster Mutt Rottweiler - Houston #2
Dennis Anderson - Grave Digger - St. Louis
Tom Meents - Maximum Destruction - Tampa #2
Team - Monster Trucks LTD. (Sims)
Nominees:
Hall Bros. Racing
Grave Digger the Legend/Monster Mutt Rottweiler
Advance Auto Parts Grinder & Iron Man
Central Coast 4WD
Maximum Destruction/El Toro Loco
Grave Digger The Legend/Iron Man
Leadership – Scott Douglass
Trivia[]
This event marked the last of the following occurrences:
The last World Finals to feature feature more than two colors on the track.
The last World Finals, until 2018, in which a majority of the trucks would remove a majority of their bodies for qualifying.
The last World Finals to make both Dennis Anderson and Tom Meents the last 2 competitors come out in freestyle.
Dennis Anderson had to switch to Grave Digger 24 which was Chad Tingler's truck, in freestyle due to his own truck, Grave Digger 20, blowing an engine in racing, as well as the amount of time required to fully replace the engine.
This is the only World Finals to have the exact same racing matchup happen twice in the same year.
This is the only World Finals so far to have a competitor who came out first sit in the hot seat for the whole event, being Cam McQueen in Nitro Circus.
Spider-Man had an almost identical freestyle performance to Iron Outlaw at World Finals 9 in 2008. The first hit was off the right racing jump that caused the right-rear wheel planetary to lock up. The score was also exactly the same, that being a 4, despite lasting longer.
This was the second time, after World Finals 9, at the World Finals were both Adam Anderson and Jim Koehler would get DNF's in qualifying.
This was the second time, after World Finals 11, at the World Finals were George Balhan takes off the steering wheel and raises it through the roof hatch during donuts. The regulation score was also exactly the same, that being a 26.
Coincidentally, these were used both in his preceding truck and the succeeding truck.
Bounty Hunter also had the same regulation score as the former in the previous World Finals and also the latter in this World Finals.
The first two hits on the backflip ramp resulted in chassis damage. Nitro Circus broke a part of the bumper area and Brutus had a partial roof collapse.
Brutus driver Chris Bergeron attempted to drive through/over the backflip ramp. This resulted in a crash leading to the chassis damage mentioned above.
According to Jim Koehler, FELD reportedly wanted Jeremy to run a red body for Backdraft when he asked if he could run a different scheme. Jeremy would run a white body, much to FELD's chagrin.
This is the last World Finals to date where the winning freestyle run would not have a backflip or backflip attempt.
