Adam Anderson (monster truck driver)
Adam Anderson (born December 5, 1985 in Norfolk, VA) is an American professional monster truck driver. He currently drives the monster truck Grave Digger" on the USHRA Monster Jam circuit.
Career
Adam Anderson is the son of monster truck pioneer Dennis Anderson. He worked on the trucks with his father for many years in 1999-2004, before joining him in the USHRA Monster Jam circuit in 2005, driving his own truck, Taz, a truck based on the Looney Tunes character. In 2006 he received the Monster Jam Most Improved Driver honors. In 2011 he rebuilt TAZ to Grave Digger The Legend.
In 2004 When his Father Won The World Racing Championship Beating Pablo Huffaker in Blacksmith
In 2006 His Father Won the World Racing Championship For the Second Time Beating Bounty Hunter
In 2007, when his father broke his right shoulder driving Grave Digger and was forced to sit out the majority of the season, Adam was selected and stepped in to drive the truck in his father's stead Until the World Finals 8 LIVE On SPEED Driving Taz.
On January 13th, 2007 Atlanta GA He Wears a Beanie Cap With a Skull Cross Bone hat on (Backwards)
In February 24th, 2007 Adam Anderson Last Run In His Father's Truck Until The World Finals When His Father Goes to Defend His Two Racing Championships to Go Three-Peat. He Tied for the Win With a 29 With his Arch-Rvial Damon Bradshaw.
On March 24th, 2007 at Monster Jam World Finals 8 Adam Anderson Returns in Taz. And His Father Returns in Grave Digger After He had a Injuries.
On March 24th, 2007 When his Father Lost to John Seasock In The Final Round in Racing
On March 29, 2008, at Monster Jam's World Finals 9 in Las Vegas, Anderson in Taz, became the youngest Monster Jam World Champion by winning the Freestyle competition, the first of his career.
On, March 28, 2009 at Monster Jam World Finals 10 in Las Vegas, Adam Anderson Crashed Into a Tree and Gets Injured in Racing (Just Like His Father Since 2003 Didn't compete Grave Digger) and Was Sent to the Hospital and He Cannot Defend his Freestyle Title, his father is Consered along with his Crew Chief Dustin Brown Checking Adam Anderson in The Hospital. in Freestyle, Dennis Anderson will have to do it alone going Last in Freestyle Since 2001. Without his son to defend the title in 2009 So Chad Tinger Will Filled in For Adam Anderson during the World Freestyle Championship In 2009.
In 2010 Adam Anderson Returns From the Injury last year at the World Finals. He got a New Crew Chief in the Atlanta Georgia Dome is Cole Venard He Qualfying against Captain's Curse He Rolled after a Wild win Over Batman. He Lost in Round 2 Against George Balhan in Esclade When He Spun Out. He Finished Third In Freestyle
On March 23, 2013, Anderson won his second Monster Jam World Finals championship in the racing portion of Monster Jam World Finals 14. He became only the fourth driver in history to win both a racing and freestyle championship at the Monster Jam World Finals. The other three were Tom Meents, his father in 2004, and Debrah Miceli.
On June 14, 2014 at MetLife Stadium East Rutherford NJ He Kicks Off The 2015 Season as the 2 Time Defending Monster Jam World Finals Racing Champion in the path of destruction tour Just. Like his Father Kicks off the 2005 Season In Montreal.
On March 2017 He is Going to Be The Regining Monster Jam World Finals Freestyle Champion like His Father Since 2001 at Monster Jam World Finals 2.
Personal
Anderson currently resides in Currituck, North Carolina, and recently became engaged. At the Monster Jam World Finals in 2012, Dennis Anderson announced that Adam will be making him a grandfather. Adam's child with Brianne is due in August 2012.